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| Norman A. Stillman Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World | Knut A. Jacobsen Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism |
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Encyclopedia of Jews in the
Islamic World
Executive Editor: Norman A. Stillman
Set (4 Volumes + 1 Resource and Index Volume)
• March 2010
• ISBN 978 90 04 17678 2
• Hardback (2750 pp.)
• Set List price EUR 899.-
• Introductory price EUR 799.- until 01-04-2010
The Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World covers an area of Jewish history, religion and culture which until now lacked its own cohesive/discrete reference work. The Encyclopedia aims to fill the gap in academic reference literature on the Jews of Muslim lands particularly in the late medieval, early modern and modern periods.
• The only reference work of its kind
• Up-to-date research and bibliographies make it indispensible for all levels of users
• Over 350 internationally-renowned scholars from the United States, Canada, Uruguay, Israel, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany,
Turkey, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Iran
• Interdisciplinary articles cover a wide range of topics from history, law, music, visual arts, social sciences, philosophy, anthropology, and demography
• Alphabetical order and cross-references enable quick and easy searching
• Over 150 color and black and white illustrations, graphs, and maps
• Over 2200 entries and 1.5 million words
• Expanded online version as of 2010 – including 2000 illustrations in addition to multimedia files for all articles covering music and performers.
• Future updates will include new articles, illustrations and multimedia.
Editorial Board
Executive Editor: Norman A. Stillman
Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey: Avigdor Levy & Yaron Ayalon (Associate Editor)
Persia, Modern Iran, Kurdistan, Caucasus and Central Asia: Vera Basch Moreen
Al-Andalus: Angel Saenz-Badillos
Modern Arabic-Speaking World: Daniel Schroeter & Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman
Medieval Arabic-Speaking World: Meira Polliack
ardback, c. 2000 pp., 2 volumes
Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism
Editor in Chief: Knut A. Jacobsen, University of Bergen
Associate Editors: Helene Basu, University of Münster, Angelika Malinar, University of Zürich and
Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida
• Volume 1 available.
• Set, to be published from
2009 - 2013
• Set, to be published from
2009 - 2013
• ISBN 978 90 04 18047 5
• Hardback, set of 5 volumes
• List price EUR 1195.- (set)
• List price EUR 239.- (per volume)
• Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2, South Asia
Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism is part of the Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section 2: South Asia (HO2), which publishes scholarly reference works, bibliographies, and research tools pertaining to the political, economic, social, linguistic, and religious history of the Indian subcontinent.
The five-volume Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism is a thematic encyclopedia, presenting the latest research on all the main aspects of the Hindu traditions in original essays written by the world’s foremost scholars on Hinduism. The Encyclopedia explicitly adopts an interdisciplinary and pluralistic approach, and in it, the term “Hinduism” is used critically in the knowledge that most of the traditions that today make up Hinduism are much older than the term itself.
The Encyclopedia aims at a balanced and even-handed view of Hinduism, recognizing the tensions inherent in the academic examination of Hinduism. It emphasizes that Hinduism is a conglomerate of regional religious traditions and at the same time a global world religion. Hinduism is also both an ancient historical tradition and a living tradition flourishing in the contemporary world. It is an oral tradition, yet one with a huge number of sacred texts at its basis. Hinduism is both a religious identity and an object of academic scholarship.
Illustrated with maps and photographs, Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism presents the learned philosophical and theological traditions of Hinduism as well as its many folk traditions. Covering the spread of Hinduism over the last two hundred years to all continents, as well as the interaction of Hinduism with other religions, it also portrays the various responses of Hindu traditions to a number of contemporary issues of great relevance today, such as feminism, human rights, egalitarianism and bioethics.
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Now available: Volume 1
Now available: Volume 1 • ISBN-13: 978 90 04 17641 6
• ISBN-10: 90 04 17641 1
• Hardback, 832 pp
• List price: € 239.00
Volume I of the Encyclopedia of Hinduism covers two main thematic fields. First it presents the regional traditions of Hinduism with articles on the Indian states and main regions of India and on historical regions outside of India. Here the reader will also find entries on sacred space and pilgrimage traditions, sacred time and festival traditions. The second thematic field concerns the various gods, goddesses and divine powers of Hinduism past and present.
