Adam Smith

radical and egalitarian. An interpretation for the 121st century

Julian the Apostate

This new study provides remarkable insights into the life and times of the last pagan Roman Emperor. The figure of Julian demands the attention of historians. As the last pagan Roman Emperor, he provides a focus for studying the religious transformations that were taking place ...

Islamic political radicalism

a european perspective

Islamic political radicalism in Europe has seen dramatic growth in recent times. This book offers a sociological, anthropological, psychological and political science analysis of the causes and consequences of this phenomenon. Authors explore the motivations behind such radicalism, focusing on an array of different factors ...

Medieval islamic medicine

The medical tradition that developed in the lands of Islam during the medieval period (c. 650-1500) has, like few others, influenced the fates and fortunes of countless human beings. It is the story of contact and cultural exchange across countries and creeds, affecting caliphs, kings ...

Philosophy of science A-Z

While philosophy of science has always been an integral part of philosophy, since the beginning of the twentieth century, it has developed its own structure and its fair share of technical vocabulary and problems. Current debates revolve around deep conceptual and methodological issues in the ...

A glossary of Islam

This concise, accessible glossary of key Islamic terms is written by two of France's most eminent scholars of Islam. It offers brief explanations of the core background elements required by those beginning the study of Islam and covers the following: famous historical figures; theological ...

Sufism

the formative period

This book offers a comprehensive survey of the formative period of Sufism - the main mystical tradition in Islam - from the ninth to the eleventh century. Both the literature in the area and issues and questions that await further study are explored within an interpretive framework ...

Islamic philosophy A-Z

"Islamic Philosophy A-Z" comprises over a hundred concise entries, alphabetically ordered and cross-referenced for easy access. All the essential aspects of Islamic philosophy are covered here: key figures, schools, concepts, topics, and issues. Articles on the Peripatetics, Isma'ilis, Illuminationists, Sufis, kalam theologians and later ...

The modern State

theories and ideologies

This broad ranging book covers the liberal democratic state and other, non-democratic state formations and offers chapters on each of the core theories of the modern state. Each chapter is structured in the same way to allow for ease of cross-referencing and for comparisons to ...

Women, feminism and media

This is a study of the key areas of issue and debate in feminist media studies over the past twenty years. Over the past few decades, feminist media scholarship has flourished, to become a major influence on the fields of media, film and cultural studies ...

Propaganda, consorship and Irish neutratity in the Second World War

Allied propaganda and Eire censorship were a vital part of the conflict over Irish neutrality in the Second World War. Based upon original research in archives in Ireland, Great Britain, the United States and Canada, this study opens a new page in the history of ...

Ancient tyranny

This book examines the autocratic rulers and dynasties of classical Greece and Rome and the changing concepts of tyranny in political thought and culture. It brings together historians, political theorists and philosophers, all offering new perspectives on the autocratic governments of the ancient world. The ...

Ancient Greece

from the mycenaean palaces to the age of Homer

The authors of this volume take issue with the idea of a Greek Dark Age and everything it implies for the understanding of Greek history, culture and society. They argue that the period is characterised as much by continuity as disruption and that the evidence ...

Archaeology and the emergence of Greece

Classical archaeology has changed beyond recognition in the past generation, in its aims, its choice of subject-matter and the methods it uses. This book brings together 25 papers by A. M. Snodgrass, some of them previously published only in rather inaccessible places, which have contributed ...

Islamic calligraphy

The extensive use of writing is one of the hallmarks of Islamic civilization. Calligraphy, the art of writing beautifully, became one of the main methods of artistic expression from the 7th century, in almost all regions from the far Maghrib, or Islamic West, to the ...

The myth of Evil

'Evil is something to be feared, and historically, we shall see, it is the enemy within who has been seen as representing the most intense evil of all - the enemy who looks just like us, talks like us, and is just like us.' The Myth ...

The idea of continental philosophy

a philosophical chronicle

The idea of Continental Philosophy has never been properly explained in philosophical terms. In this short and engaging book Simon Glendinning attempts finally to succeed where others have failed # although not by giving an account of its internal unity but by showing instead why no ...

Theories of religion

a reader

The aim of this new book is to provide the student with an anthology of key texts on the broad range of social scientific theories of religion. The texts included come from a wide range of approaches to religion - unified both by the questions that ...

Christian philosophy A-Z

This volume covers a broad historical sweep and takes into account those non-Christian philosophers that have had a great impact on the Christian tradition. However, it concentrates on the issues that perplex Christian philosophers as they seek to think through their faith in a philosophical ...

The Edinburg companion to Ancient Greece and Rome

A comprehensive reference work for both students and academics. The "Edinburgh Companion" is a gateway to the fascinating worlds of ancient Greece and Rome. Wide-ranging in its approach and pragmatic in its method, it reveals the multifaceted nature of the classical enterprise and shows something ...