Ian Richard Netton 
Golden Roads [PDF ebook] 
Migration, Pilgrimage and Travel in Medieval and Modern Islam

This is the first complete study of China”s most popular eighteenth-century poet in any Western language. The work consists of a detailed biography, a study of Yuan”s revolutionary reinterpretation …

Body Space brings together some of the best known geographers writing on gender and sexuality today. Together they explore the role of space and place in the performance of gender and sexuality. The …

This book takes a clear look at the course of the economic and political developments in Japan since the Second World War and in particular trends in government and politics since the peace treaty of …

This study examines the development of the Syrian state as it has emerged under thirty-five years of military-Ba”thist rule and, particularly, under President Hafiz al-Asad. It analyzes the way in w …

Written by one of the most eminent scholars in the field, Ethnographies of Reason is a unique book in terms of the studies it presents, the perspective it develops and the research techniques it illu …

This book examines the logic behind the shifts and paradigm changes within the scholarship on peacebuilding. In particular, the book is concerned with examining if, and how, these shifts have signifi …

This book examines Hinduism from both a historical and contemporary perspective. It provides some interesting insights into factors that shaped and defined Hinduism in the diaspora. It also examines …

Oswald Garrison Villard (1872–1949) was owner and editor of both the New York Evening Post, and The Nation during the first half of the twentieth century. His career as a pacifist paralleled the buil …

With globalization on the wane in a world fractured by growing great power competition, Hoo and Mc Kinney argue that regionalism is likely to re-emerge as a focal area of significance and interest in …

This volume deals with the history of the ‘common people’ in the Middle East, both villagers and urban dwellers. It investigates some of the characteristic traits of the structure and development of …