Asian Studies

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Adopts a fresh approach and criticises the theoretical adaptation of the feudalism concept to nomadic culture while treating the history of Mongolia in view of the structural and developmental particularities of nomadic society...

Lessing's monumental dictionary is now back in print in its original 1960 format...

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Explores issues in Indian, Chinese, Japanese and Islamic philosophical traditions, both ancient and modern...

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This book relates the Muslim understanding of Moses in the Qur'an to the Epic of Gilgamesh, Alexander Romances, Aramaic Targums, Rabbinic Bible exegesis, and folklore from the ancient and medieval Mediterranean...

Moses Maimonides (1135--1204) is recognized both as a leading Jewish thinker and as one of the most radical philosophers of the Islamic world. The study reveals the significance of Maimonides to contemporary philosophical and theological problems...

Introduces to researchers the content of the Chinese Communist Party's first official newspaper, the Liberation daily, and examines its role in the acceptance and implementation of the party's goals during its span from May 1941 to March 1947. Includes chronological and topical outlines of the paper..

This book studies issues relating to minority religions' place within a multicultural society. Analyzing the particular case study of the Bhaktivedanta Manor campaign by ISKCON (the ‘Hare Krishnas’) alongside wider debates, it makes an important contribution to our understanding of the politics of c..

Comparative discussions of Islam as lived religion in areas close to its heartland as well in distant parts where Islam meets and interacts with other religious and cultural traditions, moving beyond Orientalist notions of an unchanging world of Islam to a focus on the diversity of Muslim experience..

This book concentrates on the Brethren's writings, analyzing the impact on them of thinkers such as Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle and the Neoplatonists and tracing the influences of Judaism and Christianity...