Religion and Violence in China (2020)
Book Chapter
Barrett, T. (2020). Religion and Violence in China. In M. S. Gordon, W. Kaeuper, & H. Zurndorfer (Eds.), The Cambridge World History of Violence. Volume II: 500-1500 CE (349-367). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316661291.018

By the middle of the first millennium CE in China the notion that the unseen world, while capable of offering respite from the perils of our world, was itself full of danger was shared both by Daoists drawing on earlier local ways of thinking and by... Read More about Religion and Violence in China.

Modern and post-secular Alevi and Bektaşi religiosities and the Slavo-Turkic heretical imaginary (2019)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2019). Modern and post-secular Alevi and Bektaşi religiosities and the Slavo-Turkic heretical imaginary. In D. Sosnowska, & E. Drzewiecka (Eds.), The Experience of Faith in Slavic Cultures and Literatures in the Context of Postsecular Thought (129-144). The University of Warsaw Press. https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323537175.pp.128-143

The problem of contemporary and post-secular Alevi and Bektāşī religiosities in Turkey, South-East Europe and in diasporic milieux in Western Europe and North America has been attracting some increasing attention since the late 1980s. Following deca... Read More about Modern and post-secular Alevi and Bektaşi religiosities and the Slavo-Turkic heretical imaginary.

'A Renaissance Interrupted? Personhood, “Sodomy” and the Public in 12th Century Christian and Islamic Proto-Civil Legality' (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2018, November). 'A Renaissance Interrupted? Personhood, “Sodomy” and the Public in 12th Century Christian and Islamic Proto-Civil Legality'. Presented at A Reader’s Lecture, Keynote Speaker, The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, London, UK

Recounting Past, Displacing Future (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2014, June). Recounting Past, Displacing Future. Presented at Inauguration of the Centre for Ottoman Studies, SOAS, University of London, London, UK

An introductory paper to the eventful and important past and present of the Ottoman and post-Ottoman Studies at SOAS, presented at the inauguration of the Centre for Ottoman Studies.

Apocalypticizing Warfare: From political theology to imperial eschatology in seventh-to early eighth-century Byzantium (2014)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2014). Apocalypticizing Warfare: From political theology to imperial eschatology in seventh-to early eighth-century Byzantium. In S. La Porta, & K. Bardakjian (Eds.), The Armenian Apocalyptic Tradition. A Comparative Perspective (379-433). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004270268_019

Ann Katharine Swynford Lambton [Nancy] (1912-2008) (2013)
Book Chapter
Waghmar, B. (2013). Ann Katharine Swynford Lambton [Nancy] (1912-2008). In L. Goldman (Ed.), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005-2008 (674-675). Oxford University Press

Defenders and Enemies of the True Cross: The Sasanian Conquest of Jerusalem in 614 and Byzantine Ideology of Anti-Persian Warfare (2011)
Book
Stoyanov, Y. (2011). Defenders and Enemies of the True Cross: The Sasanian Conquest of Jerusalem in 614 and Byzantine Ideology of Anti-Persian Warfare. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1553/0x0028e87e

The Persian conquest of Jerusalem and the Holy Land in 614 represented one of the crucial episodes and high points of the last great war of antiquity between Sasanian Persia and the East Roman/Byzantine empires (603-628). The purpose of this monograp... Read More about Defenders and Enemies of the True Cross: The Sasanian Conquest of Jerusalem in 614 and Byzantine Ideology of Anti-Persian Warfare.

Jewish Legal and Social Construction of Gender (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2007, October). Jewish Legal and Social Construction of Gender. Paper presented at Encouraging Dialogue between LGBTQ and Faith-based Communities, IGLYO / Council of Europe Study Session, Budapest, Hungary

A critical historical analysis of the concept of gender in Jewish legal and social thought.

Ijtihad – Before and Beyond: An Overview of Historic and Contemporary Forms of Ijtihad (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2006, June). Ijtihad – Before and Beyond: An Overview of Historic and Contemporary Forms of Ijtihad. Paper presented at 3rd Inner Circle Annual Retreat, Cape Town, Republic of South Africa

This paper critically examines the role of ijtihad (legal reasoning) in the formative and classical periods of Islamic law, as well as its contemporary emanations.

The Other God: Dualist Religions from Antiquity to the Cathar Heresy (2000)
Book
Stoyanov, Y. (2000). The Other God: Dualist Religions from Antiquity to the Cathar Heresy. Yale University Press. https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300190144

This fascinating book explores the evolution of religious dualism, the doctrine that man and cosmos are constant battlegrounds between forces of good and evil. It traces this evolution from late Egyptian religion and the revelations of Zoroaster and... Read More about The Other God: Dualist Religions from Antiquity to the Cathar Heresy.

'Zoroastrians in the Early Islamic Period,’ trans. of Richard Frye, ‘Zoroastrier in der frühislamischer Zeit,’ Der Islam, 40 (1965): 198-99 (1999)
Journal Article
Waghmar, B., & Frye, R. N. (1999). 'Zoroastrians in the Early Islamic Period,’ trans. of Richard Frye, ‘Zoroastrier in der frühislamischer Zeit,’ Der Islam, 40 (1965): 198-99. Journal of the K.R. Cama Oriental Institute, 63, 94-97