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Introduction (2017)
Book Chapter
Weeden, M., & Ullmann, L. Z. (2017). Introduction. In M. Weeden, & L. Z. Ullmann (Eds.), Hittite Landscape and Geography (1-13). Brill

Baghdad as a Center of Learning and Book Production (2017)
Book Chapter
Kennedy, H. (2017). Baghdad as a Center of Learning and Book Production. In S. Blair, & J. Bloom (Eds.), By the Pen and What They Write: Writing in Islamic Art and Culture (91-103). Yale University Press

The lexicography of Tibetan (2017)
Book Chapter
Hill, N. W., & Garrett, E. The lexicography of Tibetan. In P. Hanks, & G.-M. de Schryver (Eds.), International Handbook of Modern Lexis and Lexicography (1-11). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45369-4_109-1

This chapter provides an overview of Tibetan lexicography, from the ninth century to today. While most Tibetan dictionaries were compiled in an ad hoc manner, some used citation collections. Electronic corpora have been built for Tibetan, but they ha... Read More about The lexicography of Tibetan.

The significance of unruly politics in Bangladesh (2017)
Book Chapter
Hossain, N. (2017). The significance of unruly politics in Bangladesh. In I. Basu, J. Devine, & G. Wood (Eds.), Politics and Governance in Bangladesh: Uncertain Landscapes. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315201337

This chapter looks at both elite and mass modes of politics. Unruliness - framed variously as informality, fragility - is the substantive governance issue in Bangladesh, and political unruliness is at its nucleus. It explains why Bangladeshi politica... Read More about The significance of unruly politics in Bangladesh.

Muʾnis al-Muẓaffar: An exceptional eunuch (2017)
Book Chapter
Kennedy, H. (2017). Muʾnis al-Muẓaffar: An exceptional eunuch. In A. Höfert, M. M. Mesley, & S. Tolino (Eds.), Celibate and Childless Men in Power Ruling Eunuchs and Bishops in the Pre-Modern World (79-91). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315566658-4

The emergence of eunuchs as a major political and social presence in Islamic courts is a development of the third/ninth century. 1 For the first two centuries of Muslim political life, they were almost unknown, and their role, if they had one, would... Read More about Muʾnis al-Muẓaffar: An exceptional eunuch.

Origin Myths and Temporal Orders (2017)
Book Chapter
Hawthorne, S. (2017). Origin Myths and Temporal Orders. In S. Hawthorne (Ed.), Gender: God (247-262). Macmillan Reference USA

Central West: Archaeology (2017)
Book Chapter
Matsumura, K., & Weeden, M. (2017). Central West: Archaeology. In M. Weeden, & L. Z. Ullmann (Eds.), Hittite Landscape and Geography (106-118). Brill

Central East: Philology (2017)
Book Chapter
Süel, A., & Weeden, M. (2017). Central East: Philology. In M. Weeden, & L. Z. Ullmann (Eds.), Hittite Landscape and Geography (200-208). Brill

Armed Rural Folk: Elements of Pre-colonial Warfare in the Artistic Representations and Written Accounts of the Pacification Campaign (1886-1889) in Burma (2017)
Book Chapter
Charney, M. W. (2017). Armed Rural Folk: Elements of Pre-colonial Warfare in the Artistic Representations and Written Accounts of the Pacification Campaign (1886-1889) in Burma. In M. W. Charney, & K. Wellen (Eds.), Warring Societies of Pre-colonial Southeast Asia: Local Cultures of Conflict Within a Regional Context (155-181). NIAS Press

Introduction (2017)
Book Chapter
Charney, M. W., & Wellen, K. (2017). Introduction. In M. W. Charney, & K. Wellen (Eds.), Warring Societies of Pre-Colonial Southeast Asia: Local Cultures of Conflict Within a Regional Context (1-19). NIAS Press

‘Travelling Light’: Images (via Wicomb) from the Gifberge to Glasgow (2017)
Book Chapter
Easton, K. (2017). ‘Travelling Light’: Images (via Wicomb) from the Gifberge to Glasgow. In K. Easton, & D. Attridge (Eds.), Zoë Wicomb and the Translocal: Writing Scotland and South Africa. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315283418-5

On the crest of the last hill, the new Griqua trekkers saw before them the land of Beeswater rolling down from low hills in the west, hemmed in by the Soutrivier in the east, and in the distant south the gleam of Varsrivier's white rocks. Beeswater i... Read More about ‘Travelling Light’: Images (via Wicomb) from the Gifberge to Glasgow.

Transculturation in the Eastern Mediterranean (1050-1250) (2017)
Book Chapter
Hoffman, E., & Redford, S. (2017). Transculturation in the Eastern Mediterranean (1050-1250). In F. B. Flood, & G. Necipoğlu (Eds.), A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture (2 vols) (405-430). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119069218.ch16

This chapter aims both to expand and to question traditional fixed categorizations of works of art and the medieval cultures around the central and eastern Mediterranean that produced them. Like the Serce Limani glassware, many works of art crossed p... Read More about Transculturation in the Eastern Mediterranean (1050-1250).