This volume examines how the history of the humanities might be written through the prism of scholarly personae, understood as time- and place-specific models o

This book investigates the historical construction of scholarly personae by integrating a spectrum of recent perspectives from the history and cultural studies

Ignaz Goldziher (1850-1921), one of the founders of modern Arabic and Islamic studies, was a Hungarian Jew and a Professor at the University of Budapest. A wund

In this detailed overview of the history of the handmade book, Avrin looks at the development of scripts and styles of illumination, the making of manuscripts,

The essays collected in this volume for the first time foreground the fundamental role Asian actors played in the formation of scholarly knowledge on Buddhism a