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Introduction to ‘Islamic politics and the imaginative: intangibility and critique’ (2025)
Journal Article
Sehlikoglu, S., Caron, J., & Polat, A. (online). Introduction to ‘Islamic politics and the imaginative: intangibility and critique’. History and Anthropology, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2025.2460787

This introduction examines the theoretical and methodological challenges of studying imaginative elements in Islamic politics while proposing new frameworks for understanding intangible realms in political formation. Moving beyond traditional approac... Read More about Introduction to ‘Islamic politics and the imaginative: intangibility and critique’.

Representation of Aphrodite and Eros on Sasanian Clay Bullae: Evidence from the Firetemple of Ādur Gušnasp at Takht-e Solaymān (2025)
Journal Article
Moradi, Y., & Hintze, A. (in press). Representation of Aphrodite and Eros on Sasanian Clay Bullae: Evidence from the Firetemple of Ādur Gušnasp at Takht-e Solaymān. Iranian Studies, 58(1), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1017/irn.2024.54

This article examines five Sasanian bullae from the fire temple of Ādur Gušnasp with seal impressions depicting Aphrodite and Eros, and Aphrodite Anadyomene, from the fire temple of Ādur Gušnasp. The original seal with Aphrodite and Eros likely dates... Read More about Representation of Aphrodite and Eros on Sasanian Clay Bullae: Evidence from the Firetemple of Ādur Gušnasp at Takht-e Solaymān.

Kārwān’s Talking Forest: Materiality, Poetic Imagination, and the Metaphysics of War Violence (2024)
Journal Article
Caron, J. (online). Kārwān’s Talking Forest: Materiality, Poetic Imagination, and the Metaphysics of War Violence. History and Anthropology, https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2024.2435662

Pir Muhammad Karwan’s 2000 poetry collection Da Xāperey Werghowey traces a history of materiality, emotion, and imagination across human-environmental systems as they are militarized over twenty years in Afghanistan. At the same as it is a unique nar... Read More about Kārwān’s Talking Forest: Materiality, Poetic Imagination, and the Metaphysics of War Violence.

Embodying ‘Thainess’ and the post-2006 coup crisis in Buppesannivas (Love Destiny) (2024)
Journal Article
Boonhok, S. (2024). Embodying ‘Thainess’ and the post-2006 coup crisis in Buppesannivas (Love Destiny). South East Asia Research, 32(3), 304-323. https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2024.2436519

First televised in 2018, Buppesannivas (Love Destiny) was among the most popular and influential dramas in Thailand that represented images of Thainess (khwam-pen-Thai). Based on a novel by Rompaeng, it tells the story of a twenty-first-century woman... Read More about Embodying ‘Thainess’ and the post-2006 coup crisis in Buppesannivas (Love Destiny).

What is Zoroastrian Esotericism? Towards an Ontological Approach (2024)
Journal Article
Errichiello, M. (2024). What is Zoroastrian Esotericism? Towards an Ontological Approach. Religiographies, 3(1), 56-74

Between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, different interpretations of Zoroastrianism began to emerge among the Parsis of India. Some of these interpretations were based on ideas that Parsis defined as “esoteric.” This article examines the part... Read More about What is Zoroastrian Esotericism? Towards an Ontological Approach.

Coffee as connection--tradition, controversy and literary representations (2024)
Digital Artefact
Ouyang, W.-C. Coffee as connection--tradition, controversy and literary representations. [YouTube]

Traversing the history of coffee through several literary examples, Professor Wen-chin Ouyang FBA explores coffee as not only a drink, but as tradition, commodity, and source of controversy. From the works of Mahmoud Darwish to Haruki Murakami, coffe... Read More about Coffee as connection--tradition, controversy and literary representations.

Erecting the submerged tree trunk: Mak Yong theatre and practices of traditionalisation in the Riau Islands, Indonesia (2024)
Journal Article
Darmawan, A. (in press). Erecting the submerged tree trunk: Mak Yong theatre and practices of traditionalisation in the Riau Islands, Indonesia. Indonesia and the Malay World, 52(152), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2024.2294612

This article discusses the efforts of constructing the narrative of continuity that connects the Indonesian province of Riau Islands with the former Malay kingdoms, Riau-Lingga-Johor-Pahang, and supports the claims to be the heir of the originator of... Read More about Erecting the submerged tree trunk: Mak Yong theatre and practices of traditionalisation in the Riau Islands, Indonesia.

Osiris Reborn: The Arabic Epic of Sirat Sayf Ibn Dhi Yazan and the Prophetic Königsnovelle (2024)
Book Chapter
Blatherwick, H. (2024). Osiris Reborn: The Arabic Epic of Sirat Sayf Ibn Dhi Yazan and the Prophetic Königsnovelle. In P. Lothspeich (Ed.), The Epic World (189-200). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429286698-17

This chapter explores the intertextual relationship between Sīrat al-Malik Sayf ibn Dhī Yazan (The Adventures of King Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan), a medieval Egyptian popular epic, and the “Prophetic Königsnovelle” (Prophetic “Kings novel”), an Egyptian “dis... Read More about Osiris Reborn: The Arabic Epic of Sirat Sayf Ibn Dhi Yazan and the Prophetic Königsnovelle.

The Jaina Prosopography Database: A New Tool for the Humanities (2023)
Book Chapter
Flügel, P. The Jaina Prosopography Database: A New Tool for the Humanities. In L. W. C. van Lit, & J. H. Morris (Eds.), Digital Humanities and Religions in Asia: An Introduction (157-175). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110747607-008

How can the blind spots in Jaina social and intellectual history be investigated in a systematic fashion given the fragmentary nature of the evidence? The idea of a prosopographical database with a sociological focus emerged organically from a SOAS C... Read More about The Jaina Prosopography Database: A New Tool for the Humanities.

East of Delhi: Multilingual Literary culture and world literature (2023)
Book
Orsini, F. (2023). East of Delhi: Multilingual Literary culture and world literature. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197658291.001.0001

East of Delhi is a history of the multilingual literary culture of northern India. It takes a longue durée approach, from the beginnings of recorded vernacular literature in the late fourteenth century to its codification into separate, monolingual h... Read More about East of Delhi: Multilingual Literary culture and world literature.

Mahsati Ganjavi (2023)
Other
Hammond, M. Mahsati Ganjavi. Cham

Mahsati Ganjavi was a pioneer of the Persian quatrain (rubaʿi) who flourished in the eleventh or, as is more likely, the twelfth century CE. Her surname suggests she hailed from the city of Ganja, in modern-day Azerbaijan. After her fourteenth-centur... Read More about Mahsati Ganjavi.

The Discursive Construction of a Sense of Community within Hashtag Communities - A Case Study of #Kpop Tweets - (2023)
Journal Article
Lee, S., & Ju, Y.-K. (2023). The Discursive Construction of a Sense of Community within Hashtag Communities - A Case Study of #Kpop Tweets -. *Journal not in list, 45(7), 421-434. https://doi.org/10.33645/cnc.2023.07.45.07.421

This article examines the discursive construction of a sense of community within hashtag communities on Twitter, using a case study of tweets containing the hashtag ‘#Kpop’. Hashtags enable users to form loosely connected communities with others who... Read More about The Discursive Construction of a Sense of Community within Hashtag Communities - A Case Study of #Kpop Tweets -.

The Trimandiras of the Akrama Vijñāna Mārga (2023)
Book Chapter
Flügel, P. (2023). The Trimandiras of the Akrama Vijñāna Mārga. In P. Flügel, H. De Jonckheere, & R. Söhnen-Thieme (Eds.), Pure Soul: The Jaina Spiritual Traditions (172-193). Centre of Jaina Studies, SOAS

The analysis of the standard practice of image-veneration in
the Akram Vijñan Mārg enables us to answer the question about the differences between the spiritual (adhyātmika) discourses of A.M. Paṭel, his elder contemporary Kanajī Svāmī, and of Śrīma... Read More about The Trimandiras of the Akrama Vijñāna Mārga.

Six Jaina Bronzes (2023)
Book Chapter
Flügel, P., Krüger, P., & Shah, P. (2023). Six Jaina Bronzes. In P. Flügel, H. De Jonckheere, & R. Söhnen-Thieme (Eds.), Pure Soul: The Jaina Spiritual Traditions (96-103). Centre of Jaina Studies, SOAS

Jain metal altars can be found in numerous museums and
collections outside India. Most of these objects come from
western India and were produced between the 11th and 19th
century. Although large numbers of these altar pieces exist, an
in-depth s... Read More about Six Jaina Bronzes.

Pure Soul: Conceptions and Representations (2023)
Book Chapter
Flügel, P. (2023). Pure Soul: Conceptions and Representations. In P. Flügel, H. De Jonckheere, & R. Söhnen-Thieme (Eds.), Pure Soul: The Jaina Spiritual Traditions (4-14). Centre of Jaina Studies, SOAS

The history of the Jaina philosophical discourse on the soul
is yet to be written. It will inevitably focus on the ways in which
the relationship between soul and body is conceived, and what
practical implications the various stances carry. For Ja... Read More about Pure Soul: Conceptions and Representations.

Discourse (2023)
Book Chapter
Pizziconi, B. Discourse. In M. Derivry-Plard, A. J. Liddicoat, & R. N. ReN-AILA (Eds.), La Médiation interculturelle en didactique des langues et des cultures / Intercultural mediation in teaching and learning languages and cultures (39-43). Editions des archives contemporaines