The Cult of Asherah in Ancient Israel and Judah

Judith M Hadley

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 57
• Judith Hadley deploys recent archaeological discoveries, alongside biblical material and nonbiblical inscriptions, to examine the evidence for the wor... Lees meer

China's Early Empires

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 67
• Recent archaeological discoveries, including manuscripts, have shed new light on China's history, in particular Qin and Han (221 BCE-220 CE), this vol... Lees meer

Naukar, Rajput, and Sepoy

Dirk H a Kolff

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 43
• This is a study of an aspect of the ethnohistory of North Indian peasant society: the importance of its military labor market for state and sect forma... Lees meer

State and Court Ritual in China

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 54
• This broad-ranging examination of Chinese state and court ritual from 1000 BC to AD 1750 represents the first modern account of the subject in any lan... Lees meer

Pulse Diagnosis in Early Chinese Medicine

Elisabeth Hsu

• Paperback | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 68
• This is a study of the earliest extensive account of Chinese pulse diagnosis, or more accurately, the examination of mai. Dr Hsu focuses on a biograph... Lees meer

God's Caliph

Patricia Crone, Martin Hinds

• Paperback | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 37
• This study examines how religious authority was distributed in early Islam. It argues the case that, as in Shi'ism, it was concentrated in the head of... Lees meer

Saladin

Malcolm Cameron Lyons, D E P Jackson

• Paperback | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 30
• Saladin is one of the best known figures of the Middle Ages, and this study makes use of hitherto neglected Arabic sources, including unpublished manu... Lees meer

Seeking Bauls of Bengal

Jeanne Openshaw

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 60
• Bauls have achieved fame as wandering minstrels and mystics in India and Bangladesh. They are recruited from Hindu and Muslim communities and renowned... Lees meer

The Arabian Epic: Volume 2, Analysis

M C Lyons

• Paperback | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 49
• The hero cycles of Arabic belong to the literary tradition of The Arabian Nights and can be seen as the popular epics of their civilization. The Arabi... Lees meer

Land and Sovereignty in India

André Wink

• Paperback | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 36
• This original contribution to Indian history, focusing on contemporary and largely indigenous documents, introduces a set of concepts for the analysis... Lees meer

The Syriac Version of the Old Testament

M P Weitzman

• Paperback | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 56
• While the Syriac version of the Old Testament, known as the Peshitta, was translated from a Hebrew text, it was, surprisingly, preserved by the easter... Lees meer

Pulse Diagnosis in Early Chinese Medicine

Elisabeth Hsu

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 68
• This is a study of the earliest extensive account of Chinese pulse diagnosis, or more accurately, the examination of mai. Dr Hsu focuses on a biograph... Lees meer

The Vīsaladevarāsa

John D Smith

• Paperback | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 26
• The object of the study is to restore to its original form the Vīsaladevarāsa, a poetical work composed in Rājasthān probably in the middle of the fif... Lees meer

Enlightenment Science in the Romantic Era

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 10
• Joseph Berzelius (1779-1848), one of the world's leading scientists in the first half of the nineteenth century, dominated the field of chemistry, ani... Lees meer

The Language of Indrajit of Orcha

R S McGregor

• Paperback | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 13
• For centuries, until the consolidation of modern standard Hindi after 1900, the Hindi dialect known as Braj Bhāsā enjoyed great prestige as the vehicl... Lees meer

Sorrow and Joy Among Muslim Women

Amineh Ahmed

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 63
• The Pukhtuns are numerically and politically one of the most significant ethno-linguistic groups in Pakistan and Afghanistan. This important study of ... Lees meer

Indian Semantic Analysis

Eivind Kahrs

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 55
• Since the time of the Upanishads, the Indian tradition of semantic elucidation known as nirvacana analysis has been a powerful tool in the interpretat... Lees meer

Devotional Literature in South Asia

• Paperback | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 46
• This volume addresses recent research topics within the field of bhakti literature, the devotional poetry and other compositions of devotional charact... Lees meer

State and Locality in Mughal India

Farhat Hasan

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 61
• This examination of the interaction between state and society greatly contributes to our understanding of medieval India. The Mughal empire, one of th... Lees meer

The God of Israel

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 64
• In the ancient Near East the God of Israel stands unique; he is the central character of the Old Testament. The collection of essays in this volume pr... Lees meer

Kingship and Political Practice in Colonial India

Pamela G Price

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 51
• In a cultural history that considers the transformation of southern Indian institutions under British colonial rule, Price focuses on the two former "... Lees meer

Devotional Literature in South Asia

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 46
• This volume addresses recent research topics within the field of bhakti literature, the devotional poetry and other compositions of devotional charact... Lees meer

The Arabian Epic: Volume 3, Texts

M C Lyons

• Paperback | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 49
• The hero cycles of Arabic belong to the literary tradition of The Arabian Nights and can be seen as the popular epics of their civilisation. The Arabi... Lees meer

Divination, Mythology and Monarchy in Han China

Michael Loewe

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications | nr. 48
• The four centuries of the Han dynasties from 206 BC to AD 220 witnessed major developments in the ideas of sovereignty. Michael Loewe traces these cha... Lees meer