Philosophy of religion

Global Catholicism: Between Disruption and Encounter opens the Studies in Global Catholicism (SGC) series with an examination of a worldwide religious institution that up to now has been more globally extensive than truly globalized.

In The Qumran Manuscripts of Lamentations: A Text-Critical Study, the first large-scale investigation of the topic, Gideon Kotze establishes how the four Lamentations manuscripts from Qumran present the content of the biblical book.

In the history of Islamic literature, the 'Forty Traditions' genre goes back as far as the 3th/9th century at least and exists in all of Islam's major and minor languages.

The history of Islamic philosophy was shaped by many great thinkers over a long period of time.

Rashid al-Din Hamadani's (d.

Rashid al-Din Hamadani's (d.

In the Persianate world, wisdom literature has a long history, dating back to pre-Islamic times.

Born into a family of scholars and literati in Samarqand, Muhammad 'Sultan' Mutribi Samarqandi (d.

Be Sober and Reasonable deals with the theological and medical critique of "e;enthusiasm"e; in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and with the relationship between enthusiasm and the new natural philosophy in that period.

In the Islamic world, the writing of biographical reference works has a very long tradition.

Ibn al-Farid (d.

Travel notebooks have existed almost ever since writing was invented.

In The Beginning of the World in Renaissance Jewish Thought, Brian Ogren offers a deep analysis of late fifteenth century Italian Jewish thought concerning the creation of the world and the beginning of time.

Throughout history, the lands of Central Asia have seen empires come and go.