Leiden, Nederland: Brill, 2015. — viii, 241 p. Muslims in Interwar Europe provides a comprehensive overview of the history of Muslims in interwar Europe. Based on personal and official archives, memoirs, press writings and correspondences, the contributors analyse the multiple aspects of the global Muslim religious, political and intellectual affiliations in interwar Europe....
Leiden, Nederland: Brill, 2010. — x, 268 p. — (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, Volume 60). This book offers a comprehensive account of Arabicization in the Middle East and Egypt in the early period of the Arab conquests. Drawing on material from ancient Arabic grammarians as well as modern studies in second language acquisition, it analyzes the linguistic and...
Leiden, Nederland: Brill, 2020. — xviii, 383 p. — (Developments in International Law 72). In this book, I examine how Swiss courts, but also domestic courts in general, do and must interpret international law. For this purpose, I analyze whether they comply with what international law requires from States when they interpret their international legal obligations. I also assess...
Atlanta: Lockwood Press, 2018. — 316 p. — (Resources in Arabic and Islamic Studies 9). The first two editions of the Encyclopaedia of Islam remain the leading resources in the field of Arabic and Islamic Studies. In this volume, Peri Bearman — the only scholar who was both an in-house editor at Brill, the publishing house that for over a century produced the Encyclopaedia, and...
Leiden, Nederland: Brill, 2013. — xiv, 328 p. The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin offers an in-depth ethnographic account of Muslim youth’s religious identity formation and their engagement with Islam in everyday life. Focusing on Muslim women in the organisation MJD in Germany, it provides a deeper understanding of processes related to immigration,...
Leiden, Nederlands: Brill, 2014. — xvi, 340 p. — (Studies in International Minority and Group Rights 8). Globalization and “Minority” Cultures: The Role of “Minor” Cultural Groups in Shaping Our Global Future is a collective work which brings to the forefront of global studies new perspectives on the relationship between globalization and the experiences of cultural minorities...
Leiden, Nederland: Brill, 2019. — xvi, 284 p. — (Digital Biblical Studies 3). Ancient Manuscripts in Digital Culture presents an overview of the digital turn in Ancient Jewish and Christian manuscripts visualisation, data mining and communication. Edited by David Hamidović, Claire Clivaz and Sarah Bowen Savant, it gathers together the contributions of seventeen scholars...
Leiden, Nederland: Brill, 2019. — xxii, 399 p. — (The Early Americas: History and Culture 9). Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas brings together 15 case studies focusing on the early colonial history and archaeology of indigenous cultural persistence and change in the Caribbean and its surrounding mainland(s) after AD 1492. With a...
Leiden, Nederland: Brill, 2007. — x, 308 p. — (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 90). The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World connects the fascinating field of contemporary written Arabic with the central sociolinguistic notions of language ideology and diglossia. Focusing on Egypt and Morocco, the authors combine large-scale survey data on language...
Leiden, Nederland: Brill, 2007. — x, 350 p. — (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies 70). This book offers a critical Arabic edition, annotated English translation, introductory study, and two-way glossaries of the famous dispensatory composed around the middle of the 12th century CE by the Nestorian physician Ibn at-Tilmīḏ. The dispensatory, recognized as...
Leiden, Nederland: Brill, 2015. — xi, 438 p. — (Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics 77). — ISBN: 9789004281622. A Grammar of the Eastern European Hasidic Hebrew Tale provides the first detailed linguistic analysis of the Hebrew narrative literature composed in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Eastern Europe by followers of the Hasidic spiritual movement. It...
Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2009. — x, 310 p. — (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics. Volume 55). This book constitutes the first detailed corpus-based analysis of the verbal morphology and syntax employed in the Eastern European Maskilic (Jewish Enlightenment) Hebrew prose fiction written between 1857 and 1881. This verbal system exhibits biblical, rabbinic and...
Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, 2020. — xvi, 744 p. — (Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures). "These volumes represent the highest level of scholarship on what is arguably the most important tradition of Biblical Hebrew. Written by the leading scholar of the Tiberian Masoretic tradition, they offer a wealth of new data and revised analysis, and constitute a considerable...
Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, 2020. — xi, 352 p. — (Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures). "These volumes represent the highest level of scholarship on what is arguably the most important tradition of Biblical Hebrew. Written by the leading scholar of the Tiberian Masoretic tradition, they offer a wealth of new data and revised analysis, and constitute a considerable...
Heidelberg, Heidelberg University Publishing, 2019. — xii, 274 p. — (Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality, Vol. 5). As linguistic systems comprising a large variety of written and oral registers including derivate “languages” and “dialects,” Latin and Arabic have been of paramount importance for the history of the Euromediterranean since Antiquity. Moreover, due to their...
Leiden, Nederland: Brill, 2011. — viii, 268 p. — (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, Volume 62). This is the first monograph-length volume entirely devoted to the theoretical and empirical issues raised by the definition of ‘word’ and related concepts in Arabic, both at the historical and synchronic level. Some of the best-known scholars in the field of Arabic...
Leiden, Nederland: Brill, 2017. — xii, 354 p. — (The History of Oriental Studies, Volume 3). This volume brings together the leading experts in the history of European Oriental Studies. Their essays present a comprehensive history of the teaching and learning of Arabic in early modern Europe, covering a wide geographical area from southern to northern Europe and discussing the...
Leiden, Nederland: Brill, 2017. — xviii, 497 p. — (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 40). This volume deals with medieval comparative Semitic philology (Hebrew/Aramaic/Arabic) as practised by Hebrew philologists in the Arabic speaking lands, from Iraq to Spain, discussing its development through the generations, its technics and its theoretical basis. This research is...
Leiden, Nederland: Brill, 2007. — xxxii, 762 p — (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, Volume 49). For a lifetime Kees Versteegh played a leading role in Arabic linguistics, dialects (diglossia, creolization, pidginization), the history of Arabic grammar, and other fields related to Arabic. From among his global contacts, colleagues contributed to a Liber Amicorum in...
Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2020. — xiv, 319 p. — (SChristians and Jews in Muslim Societies. Volume 5). Arabic and its Alternatives discusses the complicated relationships between language, religion and communal identities in the Middle East in the period following the First World War. This volume takes its starting point in the non-Arabic and non-Muslim communities, tracing...
Leiden, Nederland: Brill, 2017. — xvi, 392 p. Visions of Justice offers an exploration of legal consciousness among the Muslim communities of Central Asia from the end of the eighteenth century through the fall of the Russian Empire. Paolo Sartori surveys how colonialism affected the way in which Muslims formulated their convictions about entitlements and became exposed to...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2013. — 609 p. This volume aims to examine the history and the impact of Wilhelm Gesenius’s “Concise Hebrew-German Dictionary” in the context of historical research. From the time of its initial publication in 1810 through its most recent 18th edition completed in 2010, the dictionary has been among the most important reference works for scholars in...
Leiden: Brill, 2016. — viii, 288 p. — (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies 95). In Doubts on Avicenna, Ayman Shihadeh brings to light an important new source, which marks a key moment of transition in twelfth-century Arabic philosophy. Sharaf al-Dīn al-Masʿūdī’s al-Mabāḥith wa-l-Shukūk ʿalā l-Ishārāt ( Investigations and Objections on the Pointers)...
Leiden, Nederland: Brill, 2014. — xiv, 313 p. — (Islamic History and Civilization 111). Historians have long lamented the lack of contemporary documentary sources for the Islamic middle ages and the inhibiting effect this has had on our understanding of this critically important period. Although the field is richly served by surviving evidence, much of it is hard to locate,...
Leiden, Nederland: Brill, 2019. — xi, 217 p. — (Radboud Studies in Humanities 9). New Perspectives on Power and Political Representation from Ancient History to the Present Day offers a unique perspective on political communication between rulers and ruled from antiquity to the present day by putting the concept of representation center stage. It explores the dynamic...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Akademie Forschung, 2016. — 611 S. The present volume offers the first critical edition of the medieval Arabic translation of Galen's Commentary on Book 2 of the Hippocratic Epidemics produced by Hunayn ibn Ishaq (d. ca. 870). The edition is based on all extant Arabic textual witnesses, including the Arabic secondary transmission. The Greek original...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Akademie Forschung, 2016. — 541 p. The present volume offers the first critical edition of the medieval Arabic translation of Galen's Commentary on Book 2 of the Hippocratic Epidemics produced by Hunayn ibn Ishaq (d. ca. 870). The edition is based on all extant Arabic textual witnesses, including the Arabic secondary transmission. The Greek original...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Akademie Forschung, 2014. — 736 p. The present volume offers the first critical edition of Book I of the medieval Arabic translation of Galen's Commentary on the Hippocratic Epidemics produced by Hunayn ibn Ishaq (d. ca. 870). The edition is based on all extant Arabic textual witnesses, including the Arabic secondary transmission. The translation of...
Leiden, Nederland: Brill, 2020. — xii, 333 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1. The Near and Middle East 137). Working with manuscripts has become a digital affair. But, are there downsides to digital photos? And how can you take advantage of the incredible computing power you have literally at your fingertips? Cornelis van Lit explains in detail what happens when...
Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2003. — xviii, 278 p. — (SBL - Resources for Biblical Study. Volume 48). Hebrew for Biblical Interpretation teaches elementary Hebrew with a specific focus on the tasks of biblical exegesis. This innovative textbook combines the features of a traditional grammar with exercises in reading and interpreting the Hebrew Bible. Grammatical descriptions...
Leiden, Nederland: Brill, 2001. — xiv, 280 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1. The Near and Middle East 63). This concise bilingual bibliography is a comprehensive list of Classical Arabic texts on grammar, lexicography, adab, balāgha, metrics and poetry, which have been edited from 1960 to 2000. Featuring about 1300 authors and more than 4000 text editions this...
Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2007. — ix, 202 p. — (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics. Volume 50). Parenthesis in Biblical Hebrew has never been examined as an autonomous independent topic. Scholarly references to parenthetical units or parenthetical techniques in Biblical Hebrew are usually scarce and short or entirely absent. This monograph fills this gap by...