Devotional Literature in South Asia

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 46
• This volume addresses recent research topics within the field of bhakti literature, the devotional poetry and other compositions of devotional charact... Lees meer

Love in South Asia

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 62
• Love may be a universal feeling, but culture and language play a crucial role in defining it. Idioms of love have a long history, and within every soc... Lees meer

Devotional Literature in South Asia

• Paperback | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 46
• This volume addresses recent research topics within the field of bhakti literature, the devotional poetry and other compositions of devotional charact... Lees meer

God's Caliph

Patricia Crone, Martin Hinds

• Paperback | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 37
• This study examines how religious authority was distributed in early Islam. It argues the case that, as in Shi'ism, it was concentrated in the head of... Lees meer

The World of the Khanty Epic Hero-Princes

Arthur Hatto

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 69
• In his final book, the late Arthur Hatto analyses the Khanty epic tradition in Siberia on the basis of eighteen texts of Khanty oral heroic epic poems... Lees meer

Science & Poetry in Medieval Persia

Christine Van Ruymbeke

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 65
• Nizami Ganjavi is one of the foremost figures in Persian poetry, living in Azerbaijan in the second half of the twelfth century. One of the oldest Wes... Lees meer

The Vīsaladevarāsa

John D Smith

• Paperback | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 26
• The object of the study is to restore to its original form the Vīsaladevarāsa, a poetical work composed in Rājasthān probably in the middle of the fif... Lees meer

Divination, Mythology and Monarchy in Han China

Michael Loewe

• Paperback | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 48
• The four centuries of the Han dynasties from 206 BC to AD 220 witnessed major developments in the ideas of sovereignty. Michael Loewe traces these cha... Lees meer

Kingship and Political Practice in Colonial India

Pamela G Price

• Paperback | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 51
• In a cultural history that considers the transformation of southern Indian institutions under British colonial rule, Price focuses on the two former "... Lees meer

State and Locality in Mughal India

Farhat Hasan

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 61
• This examination of the interaction between state and society greatly contributes to our understanding of medieval India. The Mughal empire, one of th... Lees meer

Sorrow and Joy Among Muslim Women

Amineh Ahmed

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 63
• The Pukhtuns are numerically and politically one of the most significant ethno-linguistic groups in Pakistan and Afghanistan. This important study of ... Lees meer

Kingship and Conversion in Sixteenth-Century Sri Lanka

Alan Strathern

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 66
• When the Portuguese arrived on the shores of Sri Lanka in 1506, they opened an era in which religious identity became central to struggles for power o... Lees meer

Religion in Japan

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 50
• A remarkable collection of essays written by an international team of contributors explores different aspects of religion in Japan. Subjects discussed... Lees meer

The God of Israel, Part 1

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 64
• In the ancient Near East the God of Israel stands unique; he is the central character of the Old Testament. The collection of essays in this volume pr... Lees meer

The Arabian Epic: Volume 1, Introduction

M C Lyons

• Paperback | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 49
• The hero cycles of Arabic belong to the literary tradition of The Arabian Nights and can be seen as the popular epics of their civilisation. The Arabi... Lees meer

State and Court Ritual in China

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 54
• This broad-ranging examination of Chinese state and court ritual from 1000 BC to AD 1750 represents the first modern account of the subject in any lan... Lees meer

The Avestan Hymn to Mithra

• Paperback | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 4
• The Avestan Hymn to Mithra, written in the fifth century BC, is the one extensive, ancient literary record of the attributes, companions and cult of t... Lees meer

Seeking Bauls of Bengal

Jeanne Openshaw

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 60
• Bauls have achieved fame as wandering minstrels and mystics in India and Bangladesh. They are recruited from Hindu and Muslim communities and renowned... Lees meer

The Language of Indrajit of Orcha

R S McGregor

• Paperback | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 13
• For centuries, until the consolidation of modern standard Hindi after 1900, the Hindi dialect known as Braj Bhāsā enjoyed great prestige as the vehicl... Lees meer

Early Japanese Books in Cambridge University Library

• Paperback | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 40
• This is a complete catalogue, in Japanese with a parallel Japanese/English introduction, of early books acquired by the diplomats W. G. Aston, Ernest ... Lees meer

China's Early Empires

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 67
• Recent archaeological discoveries, including manuscripts, have shed new light on China's history, in particular Qin and Han (221 BCE-220 CE), this vol... Lees meer

Early Muslim Polemic Against Christianity

David Thomas

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 59
• David Thomas edits and translates Ab^D-u ^D-I^D-sa al-Warr^D-aqs Against the Incarnation, the second and last part of his Refutation of the Three Chri... Lees meer

Indian Semantic Analysis

Eivind Kahrs

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 55
• Since the time of the Upanishads, the Indian tradition of semantic elucidation known as nirvacana analysis has been a powerful tool in the interpretat... Lees meer

Sorrow and Joy Among Muslim Women

Amineh Ahmed

• Paperback | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 63
• The Pukhtuns are numerically and politically one of the most significant ethno-linguistic groups in Pakistan and Afghanistan. This important study of ... Lees meer