Over two millennia scholars produced a huge literature of commentaries to explain how the rules of Sanskrit... Læs mere
This monograph details the phonological evolution of the Tocharian language family. It outlines how a highly distinctive branch of Indo-European transitioned into the unified ancestor of Tocharian A and B.
This study reconstructs Mesopotamian geography based primarily on the third-millennium lists of geographical place names found at Abu Salabikh in Mesopotamian and at Ebla in Syria.
Crucifixion and Death as Spectacle explores how the first caliphal dynasty of early Islam, the Umayyads, employed... Læs mere
Yang Xiong (53 BC-AD 18), the Han philosophical master was supremely aware of longstanding traditions, ascribed both to the sages... Læs mere
This book is the first historical analysis of those parts of Islamic legal theory that deal with the language of... Læs mere