Asian Studies

This book charts and analyses the main trends of Muslim reformist political thought in Bukhara. It is the first to utilize original sources preserved in Soviet archives that were previously inaccessible to western scholars...

This ethnography of Muslim life among the Kazaks of Central Asia describes the sacralisation of land and ethnic identity, local understanding of Islamic purity, the Kazak ancestor cult and domestic spirituality, and pilgrimage to the tombs of Sufi saints...

This book explores issues of cultural tension that affect Muslim and Christian interaction within the Central Asian context. It looks at the ways that Christians have interacted with Central Asian Muslims in the past and discusses possible ways to improve Muslim-Christian relations in the present an..

This book explores issues of cultural tension that affect Muslim and Christian interaction within the Central Asian context. It looks at the ways that Christians have interacted with Central Asian Muslims in the past and discusses possible ways to improve Muslim-Christian relations in the present an..

The Bulletin of SOAS has, from 1917 onwards, published several articles on Medieval Middle Eastern History by leading historians of the region, and this volume reprints an important selection...

This Adelphi Paper examines Myanmar’s foreign policy, which is predicated on state-building and development, as well as on defending the regime’s priority of establishing an enduring constitution over democratization...

This Adelphi Paper examines Myanmar‘s foreign policy, which is predicated on state-building and development, as well as on defending the regime‘s priority of establishing an enduring constitution over democratization...

This text argues that in Japanese popular cinema the 'tragic hero' narrative is an archetypal plot-structure upon which male genres, such as the war-retro and yakuza films are based...

This book contains 175 tales drawn equally from the ancient and modern periods of Korea, plus 16 further tales provided for comparative purposes...

This book contains 175 tales drawn equally from the ancient and modern periods of Korea, plus 16 further tales provided for comparative purposes...

This book brings together new work, by a range of international leading scholars who consider Japanese nationalism in a wide variety of its aspects...

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...