SEA/Pacific general A heritage of ruins : the ancient sites of Southeast Asia and their conservation / William Chapman. Gender and Islam in Southeast Asia : women’s rights movements, religious resurgence and local traditions / edited by Susanne Schröter. Southeast Asian cinema / ouvrage publié sous la direction/edited by Gaëtan Margirier & Jean-Pierre Gimenez = Le cinéma d’Asie du Sud-Est. Performance, popular culture, and piety in Muslim Southeast Asia /
To celebrate 1 year since the launch of the Palgrave Pivot format, Palgrave Macmillan are offering free access to the first 100 titles for free for 100 hours. Titles cover topics in Humanities, Social Sciences and Business. From 9am (GMT) on 28th October to 1pm (GMT) on 1st November you can access the first 100 Palgrave Pivot titles FREE on Palgrave Connect. For more details on the Palgrave Pivot publication model,
A new and useful research tool has recently been published on the blog “Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources” (AMIR). This blog now features a list of historical newspapers and other periodicals freely available on the Web. It is organized by countries. Alphabetical List of Open Access Historical Newspapers and Other Periodicals in MiddleEast & Islamic Studies This list is open and will grow by way of crowd-sourcing: please report
Islamic Manuscript Studies : Research Guide The guide published by Evyn Kropf at University of Michigan offers resources for the study of the manuscripts and manuscript cultures of the Islamic world. Welcome Identifying and Locating Manuscripts Collections and Catalogues Online Collection Research Guides Islamic Manuscripts in North America Arabic Script Palaeography Manuscript Description Bibliographical Resources Reading Lists Associations, Institutes and Research Initiatives Other Online Research Guides For more information about
Hebrew square book script. Iraq. 11th century (from Schoyen Collection Manuscript) MS206: image from WikiMedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Targum.jpg) Gregorio del Olmo Lete’s (University of Barcelona) A bibliography of Semitic linguistics (1940-2010) is a digitized PDF version of a traditional print bibliography, covering a wide range of Semitic languages from ancient Akkadian and Ugaritic, through Ethiopic to modern Hebrew and South Arabic. The site allows users to navigate easily between the different
To celebrate the launch of a new platform, the World Bank eLibrary is being made available to us from 30th October 2013 until 31st December 2103. The access is free of charge and the only requirement from the World Bank is that a number of users will give feedback through a questionnaire when the access has concluded. This database provides access to the complete collection of research and information from the
The social movement in Turkey has engendered some remarkable music that can be sampled on this website: capulcular.bandcamp.com It is called “Capulcular Sarkisi” of the “Songs of the Capulcus”. Prime Minister Erdoğan called the protestors “çapulcu” which means vandals or marauders. The demonstrators and online activists in this movement quickly reappropriated this term, anglicizing it (chapuller) and verbifying it (capuling/chapulling), giving it the meaning of “fighting for your rights (in
Holy Koran cover (16th century) from the Topkapi Palace Collections Image from Ahmet Karahisari on Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ahmet_Karahisari_001.jpg HAZINE is a new website “dedicated to helping scholars conduct research in the Middle East and beyond”. It focuses on practical advice on how to access and use archives, manuscript libraries and other relevant collections in the “greater Islamic world”. The site is launched with features on four major archives in Istanbul – the
Islam Les deux routes syrienne et égyptienne de pèlerinage au nord-ouest de l’Arabie Saoudite / Alî Ibrâhîm al-Ghabbân. Maṭāliʻ al-nūr al-sanī al-munbiʼ ʻan ṭahāraẗ nasab al-Nabiyy al-ʻarabī / ʻan ʻAbdī Afandī al-Būsnawī taḥqīq Josef Dreher.;”مطالع النو السنّي المنبيء عن طهارة نسب النب العربي / عن عبدي أفندي البوسنوي تحقيق يوسف دريهر” Family planning in the legacy of Islam / Abdel Rahim Omran Rock the Casbah : rage and rebellion across the
Accented futures : language activism and the ending of apartheid / Carli Coetzee. The African presence : representations of Africa in the construction of Britishness / Graham Harrison. Americanah : a novel / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The economics of ethnic conflict : the case of Burkina Faso / Andreas Dafinger. Food security, safety nets and social protection in Ethiopia / edited by Dessalegn Rahmato, Alula Pankhurst and Jan-Gerrit van Uffelen.
