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A Brief History of Islam in Europe

thirteen centuries of creed, conflict and coexistence

2014 || Paperback || Maurits S. Berger || Leiden University Press

This book gives an overall presentation and discussion of the interaction between Europe and Islam ever since Islam appeared on the European stage thirteen centuries ago. The events and stories presented are to serve the understanding of present debates on, and notions of, Islam and Muslims in Europe.

The leading questions in discussing the role of Islam in Europe are: how and in what ways did Europeans and Muslims interact and, for those Europeans who had never met a Muslim, what was their ...

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Manuscripts of the Latin Classics 800-1200 (Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Book Culture)

2015 || Paperback || Erik Kwakkel || Leiden University Press

This volume explores the production and use of medieval manuscripts that contain classical Latin texts. Six experts in the field address a range of topics related to these manuscripts, including how classical texts were disseminated throughout medieval society, how readers used and interacted with specific texts, and what these books look like from a material standpoint. This collection of essays also considers the value of studying classical manuscripts as a distinct group, and demonstrates ...

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The Persian Whitman

Beyond a Literary Reception

2019 || Paperback || Behnam M. Fomeshi || Leiden University Press

Walt Whitman, a world poet and the father of American free verse, has been read by diverse audiences from around the world. Literary and cultural scholars have studied Whitman’s interaction with social, political and literary movements of different countries. Despite his continuing presence in Iran, Whitman’s reception in this country has remained unexplored. Additionally, Iranian reception of Western literature is a field still in its infancy and under-researched, particularly due to con...

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Big Books in Times of Big Data

2019 || Paperback || Inge van de Ven || Leiden University Press

This book explores the aesthetics, medial affordances, and cultural economics of monumental literary works of the present. Using a wide-ranging international archive of hefty tomes by authors such as Mark Z. Danielewski, Roberto Bolaño, Elena Ferrante, and Karl Ove Knausgård, George R.R. Martin, Jonathan Franzen, and William T. Vollmann, van de Ven recuperates multiple strands of bigness that speak to the tenuous position of print literature in the present but also to the robust stature of ...

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Pearls of Meanings

Studies on Persian Art, Poetry, Ṣūfīsm and History of Iranian Studies in Europe

2020 || Paperback || Hans de Bruijn || Leiden University Press

Pearls of Meaning offers a collection of essays by J.T.P. (Hans) de Bruijn, a leading scholar in the field of Persian Studies, in which essential domains of Persian culture such as poetry and Sufism are analyzed in an exemplary fashion. While poetry plays a pivotal position in these essays, the reception of the Persian literary tradition in Europe is another focus of the volume. De Bruijn evaluates the works of a generation of scholars such as A. Reland (1676-1718), C.H. Ethé (1844-1917), J....

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The Heirs of Vijayanagara

Court Politics in Early Modern South India

2021 || Paperback || Lennart Bes || Leiden University Press || met inkijkexemplaar

This comparative study investigates court politics in four kingdoms that succeeded the south Indian Vijayanagara empire during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries: Ikkeri, Tanjavur, Madurai, and Ramnad. Building on a unique combination of unexplored Indian texts and Dutch archival records, this research offers a captivating new analysis of political culture, power relations, and dynastic developments.

In great detail, this monograph provides both new facts and fresh insights that contest exi...

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Humanitarian Protection for Prisoners of War and Refugees in the Long Aftermath of the First World War

2024 || Hardcover || Francesca Piana || Leiden University Press

At the end of WWI, millions of military and civilians were displaced across Europe, the South Caucasus, and the Eastern Mediterranean. While many made their way home, genocide, revolution, and post-war instabilities complicated the repatriation of prisoners of war from Russia and the Central Powers and pushed Russian and Armenian refugees into exile. In response, an array of international organizations intervene: three of them, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the League of Natio...

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East Asia beyond the Archives

Missing Sources & Marginal Voices

2023 || Hardcover || Catherine Chan e.a. || Leiden University Press

For a long time, silk, tea, sinocentrism, and eurocentrism made up a big patch of East Asian history. Simultaneously deviating from and complicating these tags, this edited volume reconstructs narratives from the periphery and considers marginal voices located beyond official archives as the centre of East Asian history. The lives of the Japanese Buddhist monks, Eastern Han local governors, Confucian scholars, Chinese coolies, Shanghainese tailors, Macau joss-stick makers, Hong Kong locals, a...

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Beyond Orientalism

Sir William Jones (1746-1794), A Journey of Understanding

2025 || Hardcover || Hadi Baghaei-Abchooyeh || Leiden University Press

'Beyond Orientalism: Sir William Jones (1746-1794), A Journey of Understanding' reconfigures our understanding of Orientalism, the formation of British Romanticism, colonialism, and late eighteenth-century British India. This volume examines the enduring legacy of Sir William Jones, a seminal figure in the intellectual exchange between East and West during the Enlightenment. Through a rigorous analysis of Jones's translations, annotations, and original compositions, the book elucidates his pr...

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Slavery & the Dutch State

Dutch Colonial Slavery and Its Afterlives

2025 || Paperback || Esther Captain e.a. || Leiden University Press

It is the paradox at the heart of the Dutch Republic: how could a state emerge from resistance to political slavery and subjugation by a foreign power, only to become a colonial empire that promoted slavery all over the world? Slavery and the Dutch State shows how the modern Dutch state and its predecessors were complicit in colonial slavery. It describes the roles of various actors, such as enslaved people, administrators and merchants in the Netherlands and the colonized societies. More tha...

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A Brief History of Islam in Europe

Manuscripts of the Latin Classics 800-1200 (Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Book Culture)

The Persian Whitman

Big Books in Times of Big Data

Pearls of Meanings

The Heirs of Vijayanagara

Humanitarian Protection for Prisoners of War and Refugees in the Long Aftermath of the First World War

East Asia beyond the Archives

Beyond Orientalism

Slavery & the Dutch State

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