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Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī and Ghūrid Self-Fashioning (2022)
Journal Article
Shihadeh, A. (2022). Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī and Ghūrid Self-Fashioning. Afghanistan, 5(2), 253-292. https://doi.org/10.3366/afg.2022.0095

This article investigates the intellectual production of the celebrated scholar Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 606/1210) during the decade or so he spent in the service of the Ghūrid sultans, from ca. 591/1195 to 602/1206. Operating exclusively within reli... Read More about Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī and Ghūrid Self-Fashioning.

Problematising decolonisation in the VAWG Sector (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Istratii, R. (2022, August). Problematising decolonisation in the VAWG Sector. Presented at Practical Perspectives on Decolonisation in the VAWG Sector, Virtual

The Rise of the Military in Myanmar and What Comes Next: The Decline of a Military Machine? (2022)
Journal Article
Charney, M. W. (2022). The Rise of the Military in Myanmar and What Comes Next: The Decline of a Military Machine?. Independent Journal of Burmese Scholarship = Si capʻ mraṅʻ nhaṁʻʹ, 1, 13-43

As a result of the many dated and often partisan takes on the Myanmar military, combined with the lack of access to the institution, and a sustained effort by the military to present itself, unrealistically, as a bearer of precolonial royal and milit... Read More about The Rise of the Military in Myanmar and What Comes Next: The Decline of a Military Machine?.

Military Technology and Mughal Warfare in the South Asian Context (2022)
Book Chapter
Charney, M. W. (2022). Military Technology and Mughal Warfare in the South Asian Context. In R. M. Eaton, & R. Sreenivasan (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Mughal World (c4.s1-c4.n62). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190222642.013.4

This chapter examines the entrance of the Mughal army onto the North Indian plains and the successful military expansion that built the subcontinent’s largest precolonial empire. This success was due to both the early Mughals’ adoption of firearms an... Read More about Military Technology and Mughal Warfare in the South Asian Context.

The Self as Combination of Deities and Yantras: Divinisation Rituals among Contemporary Śrīvidyā Practitioners in India (2022)
Journal Article
Hirmer, M. (2022). The Self as Combination of Deities and Yantras: Divinisation Rituals among Contemporary Śrīvidyā Practitioners in India. Religions, 13(738), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13080738

Divinisation rituals establishing oneness between practitioners and divinities are common across Tantric traditions. While scholars largely argue that divinisation occurs through meditative practices, implying a clear demarcation between contemplativ... Read More about The Self as Combination of Deities and Yantras: Divinisation Rituals among Contemporary Śrīvidyā Practitioners in India.

The Self as Combination of Deities and Yantras: Divinisation Rituals among Contemporary Śrīvidyā Practitioners in India (2022)
Journal Article
Hirmer, M. (2022). The Self as Combination of Deities and Yantras: Divinisation Rituals among Contemporary Śrīvidyā Practitioners in India. Religions, 13(738), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13080738

Divinisation rituals establishing oneness between practitioners and divinities are common across Tantric traditions. While scholars largely argue that divinisation occurs through meditative practices, implying a clear demarcation between contemplativ... Read More about The Self as Combination of Deities and Yantras: Divinisation Rituals among Contemporary Śrīvidyā Practitioners in India.