1905, 2016

Vernacular Scripts of the Indus Valley and Beyond

By Farzana Whitfield|May 19, 2016|Africa, Anthropology and Sociology, Archival collections, History, Literature, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Religions, South Asia|0 comments

The following exciting workshop is taking place at the British Library. Come and be a part of it: Vernacular Scripts of the Indus Valley and Beyond Friday, 20 May 2016 The Eliot Room, British Library Conference Centre London  10:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks – Nur Sobers-Khan (British Library) 10:30 – 11:15 Personal Reflections and Observations on the Indus Valley Scripts Christopher Shackle, SOAS (London) 11:15 – 12:00 An Anthropological Perspective

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1004, 2015

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – March 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 10, 2015|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations A city from the dawn of history: Erbil in the cuneiform sources / by John MacGinnis. Présence et pouvoir hittites à Ougarit : le cas des DUMU.LUGAL / Charlotte Lebrun. Documents of Judean exiles and West Semites in Babylonia in the collection of David Sofer / by Laurie E. Pearce and Cornelia Wunsch. Life, death, and coming of age in Antiquity: individual rites of passage in

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0303, 2014

Religions – December 2013 and January 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 3, 2014|Religions|0 comments

General & Comparative Bible and cinema: an introduction / Adele Reinhartz. Thin description: ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem / John L. Jackson, Jr. First light: a history of creation myths from Gilgamesh to the God particle / G.R. Evans.  Anatheism: returning to God after God / Richard Kearney. The dynamics of coexistence in the Middle East: negotiating boundaries between Christians, Muslims, Jews and Samaritans in Palestine /

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1109, 2013

Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica – July 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 11, 2013|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

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

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0208, 2012

Films and Sound Recordings – July 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 2, 2012|Films and Sound Recordings|0 comments

Films Divine intervention [videorecording] : a chronicle of love and pain / a film by Elia Suleiman starring Elia Suleiman, Manal Khader, Nayef Fahoum Daher, Amer Daher, Jamel Daher, George Ibrahim … Cry, the beloved country Disgrace / Film Finance Corporation Australia presents in association with Newbridge Film Capital … [et al.] a Wild Strawberries/Sherman Pictures production a Steve Jacobs film director, Steve Jacobs writer, Anna-Maria Monticelli producer, Anna-Maria Monticelli,

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0907, 2012

Films and Sound Recordings – June 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 9, 2012|Films and Sound Recordings|0 comments

Films Great African films. Vol. 1 – Faraw!: In Songhai with English subtitles. Haramuya: In Bambara with English subtitles. District 9 / Peter Jackson presents in association with TriStar Pictures and Block/Hanson a Wingnut Films production a film by Neill Blomkamp produced by Peter Jackson, Carolynne Cunningham written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell directed by Neill Blomkamp. Et maintenant, on va où? / Anne-Dominique Toussaint présente ; une co-production Les Films

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1406, 2012

Religions – May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 14, 2012|Religions|0 comments

e-books The Routledge companion to religion and film / edited by John Lyden. [Dawsonera] [Also available in print] Theology and social theory: beyond secular reason / John Milbank. [Dawsonera] Spiritual marketplace: baby boomers and the remaking of American religion / Wade Clark Roof. [Dawsonera] After God / Mark C. Taylor. [Dawsonera] Books The cult of emptiness : the Western discovery of Buddhist thought and the invention of Oriental philosophy / Urs App. Catalogue

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3004, 2012

Linguistics – April 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 30, 2012|Linguistics|0 comments

Meaning and relevance / Deirdre Wilson and Dan Sperber. Middle Arabic and mixed Arabic : diachrony and synchrony / edited by Liesbeth Zack and Arie Schippers.  Linguistic universals and language variation / edited by Peter Siemund. Language : the cultural tool / Daniel Everett.  [a.k.a “Cognitive fire” possibly US title] Minority languages in the linguistic landscape / ed. by Durk Gorter, Heiko F. Marten and Luk Van Mensel. Reciprocals and

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3004, 2012

Middle East and Central Asia – April 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 30, 2012|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Journals Arabica  – Volume 1(1954) onwards. Books International migration and development in the Arab region : challenges and opportunities / Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). Sources for the history of Sasanian and post-Sasanian Iran / edendum curavit Rika Gyselen. Islam, the state, and political authority : medieval issues and modern concerns / edited by Asma Afsaruddin. Angels in Islam : Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyuṭī’s al-Hạbāʼik fī akhbār al-malāʼik /

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