1112, 2014

Want to compare your Aristotle to your al-Farabi? Here’s the place…

By Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb|December 11, 2014|Linguistics, Literature, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Philosophy, Religions|0 comments

The Digital Corpus for Graeco-Arabic Studies is the result of a collaborative project at Harvard and Tufts University, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. It assembles a wide range of Greek texts and their Arabic counterparts. It also includes a number of Arabic commentaries and important secondary sources. The texts in the corpus can be consulted individually or side by side with their translation. The majority of texts can

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0912, 2014

Digital Commons Network – easy free access to 1000s of full-text scholarly articles

By David Pearson|December 9, 2014|Unknown|0 comments

Digital Commons Network The Digital Commons Network provides free access to full-text scholarly articles and other research from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, this dynamic research tool includes peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work. Clicking “Explore” anywhere on the multicolored Discipline Wheel opens a Commons page for a particular academic discipline. From

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0812, 2014

Korea – August to October 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 8, 2014|Korea|0 comments

The state, religion, and thinkers in Korean Buddhism / Robert M. Gimello … [et al.]. Global history of Korean Buddhism / Kim Yong-tae. Eastern learning and the heavenly way : the Tonghak and Ch’ŏndogyo movements and the twilight of Korean independence / Carl F. Young. The trust-building process and Korean unification / edited by Choi Jinwook. Claims to territory between Japan and Korea in international law / Pilkyu Kim. India

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0512, 2014

Japan – August to October 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 5, 2014|Japan|0 comments

Toshihiko Izutsu and the philosophy of word : in search of the spiritual Orient / by Eisuke Wakamatsu translated by Jean Connell Hoff. Gender, nation and state in modern Japan / edited by Andrea Germer, Vera Mackie and Ulrike Wöhr.  Japanese women and the transnational feminist movement before World War II / Taeko Shibahara. Claims to territory between Japan and Korea in international law / Pilkyu Kim. Lessons in sustainable

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0512, 2014

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – October 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 5, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations The ark before Noah: decoding the story of the flood / Irving Finkel. Legend, history and the ancient city: Babylon / Michael Seymour. Die babylonischen Kudurru-Inschriften von der kassitischen bis zur frühneubabylonischen Zeit : untersucht unter besonderer Berücksichtigung gesellschafts- und rechtshistorischer Fragestellungen / Susanne Paulus.  Le droit de la vente a Emar / Lena Fijalkowska.  Orient und Okzident in hellenistischer Zeit : Beiträge zur Tagung “Orient

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0412, 2014

Religions – October 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 4, 2014|Religions|0 comments

Comparative and thematic Material culture and Asian religions: text, image, object / edited by Benjamin J. Fleming and Richard D. Mann. Objects of worship in South Asian religions: forms, practices and meanings / edited by Knut A. Jacobsen, Mikael Aktor, Kristina Myrvold The family of Abraham: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim interpretations / Carol Bakhos Unbelievable: why we believe and why we don’t / Graham Ward. Religion in development: rewriting the

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0412, 2014

New online content from British Institute for the Study of Iraq

By Mary Fisk|December 4, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology|0 comments

The British Institute for the Study of Iraq continues to make complimentary copies of selected publications available to individuals, libraries and institutions as PDF downloads (single copy for personal use only) 36 documents are now freely available. Click here to access the lists The freely available works are: The Old Babylonian tablets from Tell al-Rimah / Dalley et al. (1978) Fifty years of Mesopotamian discovery: the work of the British

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