Islam Interpreting Avicenna : critical essays / edited by Peter Adamson. In the age of Averroes : Arabic philosophy in the sixth/twelfth century / edited by Peter Adamson. Islamic thought in the dialogue of cultures : a historical and bibliographical survey / By Hans Daiber. Tales of God’s friends : Islamic hagiography in translation / edited by John Renard. Striving in the path of God : Jihād and Martyrdom in
To celebrate the start of the new academic term, Wiley have kindly provided free access to a selection of articles on African Economics from across our social science and humanities journals. All articles are freely available until 31 December 2013. Access the full list of articles are on Wiley’s website. A total of 50 have been made available for use, and can be read online, downloaded, printed and saved. Examples of available
For all non-SOAS staff or students (SOAS staff and students, you do have access to all those already!), a little piece of good news: Brill Publishing offers free individual access to three journals in Middle East Studies, by using an access token: – Journal of Muslims in Europe, using token number JOME4U (valid until 31 December 2013) – Journal of Sufi Studies, using token number JSS4U (valid until 31 December
Students and researchers at SOAS have recently gained access to two new databases of archival documents that are of crucial importance in the studies of Middle East modern history and politics: Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969 http://www.archivesdirect.amdigital.co.uk Archives Direct is a suite of collections sourced from The National Archives, Kew – the UK government’s official archive. The Confidential Print series originated out of a need for the Government to preserve
Photo by Flickr user diwineanddine (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) I don’t usually post science research, but as these pepper corns are so emblematic of Szechuan cuisine, I thought I would this time. While we don’t have a subscription to the most recent copies of Proceedings of the Royal Society B in which this research was published, you can read about it here on the Smithsonian’s blog.
The IMF eLibrary for the UK Data Service is available via Mimas and offers the entire catalogue of IMF publications in several digital formats. It is an indispensable tool for economics research and analysis including over 10,000 periodicals, books and working papers from 1951 onwards containing information and perspective on macroeconomics, globalisation, development, trade and aid, technical assistance, demographics, emerging markets, policy advice, poverty reduction and more. Access from: http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/resources/a-z/data/. It
Image taken from: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/655660 Archive of Indian Music (AIM) is a repository of gramaphone recordings of India. AIM seeks to digitise and preserve for posterity the valuable slices of India’s cultural history and musical heritage. The Archive is a custodian of these treasures and makes these available to all. Listen to some of the best voices and the most divine instruments of this country cutting across various genres- Hindustani classical,
Islam Christian Muslim relations : a bibliographical history / edited by David Thomas, Barbara Roggema and Alexander Mallett with Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala … [et al.]. Studies in medieval Shi’ism / Wilferd Madelung edited by Sabine Schmidtke. Studies on Sufism in Central Asia / Devin DeWeese. The dynamics of Sunni-Shia relationships : doctrine, transnationalism, intellectuals and the media / edited by Brigitte Maréchal and Sami Zemni. Hizbullah’s identity construction / Joseph
The political economy of transnational tax reform : the Shoup mission to Japan in historical context / [edited by] W. Elliot Brownlee… [et al.]. A disability of the soul : an ethnography of schizophrenia and mental illness in contemporary Japan / Karen Nakamura. Fukushima : a political economic analysis of a nuclear disaster / Schreurs Miranda A., Fumikazu yoshida. Liberal education in Japan : Deweyan experiments / by Kyoko Inoue,
Negotiating with North Korea : the six party talks and the nuclear issue / Leszek Buszynski. Chaemi innŭn Han’gugŏ = Fun! Fun! Korean 3 / Koryŏ Taehakkyo Han’gugŏ Munhwa Kyoyuk Sent’ŏ chiŭm. Lee Jang-ho / written by Kim See-moo translated by Colin A. Mouat. Lee Doo-yong / written by Yu Yang-geun translated by Colin A. Mouat. The launch of Seoul as the capital of the Republic of Korea (1945-1961) /
