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Jaina-Prosopography Database (2021)
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Flügel, P., & Krümpelmann, K. (. Jaina-Prosopography Database. [Data]

In the last two and a half millennia the itinerant Jaina mendicant tradition exerted an important influence on Indian culture and society. From its region of origin in modern Bihar it spread across most parts of South Asia and beyond. In the process... Read More about Jaina-Prosopography Database.

Researching Islamic Law: an introduction (2009)
Journal Article
Spells, S. (2009). Researching Islamic Law: an introduction. Legal Information Management, 9(3), 191-194. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1472669609990314

This article by Sarah Spells from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, focuses on the sources of Islamic law and provides a simple introduction to finding and researching this area, with suggestions of useful
and notable... Read More about Researching Islamic Law: an introduction.

Collectors, classifiers and researchers of the Malay World: How individuals and institutions in Britain in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries collected, arranged and organised libraries, archives and museums and how that impacts on today’s researchers (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Martland, N. (2004, August). Collectors, classifiers and researchers of the Malay World: How individuals and institutions in Britain in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries collected, arranged and organised libraries, archives and museums and how that impacts on today’s researchers. Paper presented at Libraries and the Construction of Knowledge about the Malay World, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia

This paper briefly examines well-known libraries and archives in Britain with important Malay collections. However, it will highlight those less well-known libraries and other institutions that hold material of interest to researchers of the Malay W... Read More about Collectors, classifiers and researchers of the Malay World: How individuals and institutions in Britain in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries collected, arranged and organised libraries, archives and museums and how that impacts on today’s researchers.