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US RIGHTS GUIDE Frankfurt Book Fair 2015

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Table of Contents Table of Contents ...................................................................................................................................................... 3 The Putin Phenomenon: Revealing the Real Face of Modern Russia RICHARD SAKWA ......................................................................................................................................................... 4 The Kingdom of Women: Life, Love and Death in China’s Hidden Mountains CHOO WAI HONG ....................................................................................................................................................... 5 The Jazz War: Radio, Nazism and the Struggle for the Airwaves in World War II WILL STUDDERT .......................................................................................................................................................... 6 The Nile: River of History TERJE TVEDT ............................................................................................................................................................... 7 The Winchester: An American Icon LAURA TREVELYAN .................................................................................................................................................... 8 Zhou Enlai: China’s Good Communist MICHAEL DILLON ....................................................................................................................................................... 9 Unmasked: Corruption in the West LAURENCE COCKCROFT AND ANNE CHRISTINE WEGENER ........................................................................... 10 Peshmerga: On the Frontline in the Middle East FAZEL HAWRAMY...................................................................................................................................................... 11 Radical Prophet: The Mystics, Subversives and Visionaries who Foretold the End of the World CHRISTOPHER ROWLAND ........................................................................................................................................ 12 Sceptics of Islam: Revisionist Religion, Agnosticism and Disbelief in the Modern Arab World RALPH M COURY ....................................................................................................................................................... 13 Religion in the Roman World: Gods, Myth and Magic in Ancient Rome JULIETTE HARRISSON ............................................................................................................................................... 14 Ancient Iran: A Concise History TOURAJ DARYAEE ..................................................................................................................................................... 15 Prostitution in the Eastern Mediterranean World: The Economics of Sex in the Late Antique and Medieval Middle East GARY LEISER.............................................................................................................................................................. 16 Hinduism and the Divine: A New Introduction to Hindu Theology RITA D SHERMA......................................................................................................................................................... 17

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The Putin Phenomenon Revealing the Real Face of Modern Russia

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Author Richard Sakwa is Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent, an associate fellow of the Russia and Eurasia programme at Chatham House, and a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. His main research interests are Russian domestic and international politics, European international relations and comparative democratization. His recent books include The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism and the Medvedev Succession; Putin Redux: Power and Contradiction in Contemporary Russia, Putin and the Oligarch: The Khodorkovsky-Yukos Affair (I.B.Tauris) and Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands.

Arguably, Russia’s President has emerged as one of the most accomplished political leaders of the twenty-first century, but he is also one of the most divisive. Abroad, there are sharply contrasting – and critical – perspectives on his role in Russian and international politics. Whilst he strives to pursue and protect Russia’s interests as a great power, his critique of the westerndominated international system has brought him into conflict with the Atlantic powers. As well as driving a series of ambitious foreign policy projects - including the Eurasian Economic Union, the BRICS grouping of states and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation - Putin has also led major developments in domestic affairs overseeing an unprecedented rise in living standards and national income. In spite of international criticism, in domestic affairs Putin remains enormously popular enjoying a run of favourable opinion polls. What is the key to Putin’s success?

Acclaimed Russia expert, Richard Sakwa, uncovers Putin’s personal and political development during his time in power providing essential reading for those seeking the complete picture of Putin’s Russia and the world at large.

Praise for author’s recent book Frontline Ukraine ‘At last, a balanced assessment of the Ukrainian conflict – the problems go far beyond Vladimir Putin’ Jonathan Steele, the former Guardian Moscow correspondent, and author of ‘Eternal Russia: Yeltsin, Gorbachev and the Mirage of Democracy’ ‘an intelligent, well-researched and thoughtful attempt to explain the major crisis of our time’ Peter Hitchens

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New book from acclaimed Russia expert Richard Sakwa Unveils the true face of Putin’s presidency Based on extensive research

The Kingdom of Women Life, Love and Death in China’s Hidden Mountains

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The first and only book on the Mosuo tribe A truly fascinating account of one of the world's last matrilineal societies Multiple saleable elements, written beautifully, highly promotable story

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The Mosuo tribe is one of the last matriarchal societies in the world. In a valley on the border of Yunnan and Sichuan, in a place known as the 'Kingdom of Women', 40,000 Mosuo people live in a series of villages. In this community, it is the women who make major decisions, control household finances, have rightful ownership of land and property as well as full rights to the children born. Most notably, the Mosuo practice something called 'walking marriage' where, from the age of 13, women can choose to take lovers - as many or as few as they wish - from men within the tribe.

Choo Waihong discovered the Mosuo several years ago and lived with them for six years, becoming part of a Mosuo family and of the wider community - the only non-Mosuo to have ever done so. The story of her time in the remote mountains of China is both poignant and compelling: a vibrant glimpse into a way of life that teeters on the knifeedge of extinction.

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Choo Waihong was a lawyer with top law firms in Singapore and California before she took early retirement in 2006 and began writing travel pieces for publications such as China Daily.

She lived for six years with the Mosuo tribe and now spends half the year with them in Yunnan, China.

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The Jazz War Radio, Nazism and the Struggle for the Airwaves in World War II

WILL STUDDERT Key Selling Points  MANUSCRIPT: DECEMBER 2015

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An original contribution to a popular and vibrant debate Will have a wide appeal, including to the general WWII history reader

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During World War II, one kind of music embodied everything that was appealing about a democratic society as envisioned by the Allied powers – Jazz. Labelled ‘degenerate’ by Hitler himself, used by his Minister for Propaganda, Josef Goebbels, to deliver a message of Nazi cultural superiority and adopted by the Allies to win the hearts and minds of the German public, jazz took centerstage in the propaganda war that accompanied the real war on the ground.

The Jazz War is based on the largely unheard oral testimony of the musicians who played on German and British wartime radio broadcasts, and chronicles the evolving relationship between jazz music and the Axis and Allied war efforts. Studdert shows how jazz simultaneously helped and hindered the Allied cause as Nazi soldiers secretly tuned in to British radio shows and London partygoers listened to European stations, leading them to be branded a ‘fifth column’ by the British press. This book will appeal to students of the history of jazz, broadcasting, cultural studies and historians.

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Will Studdert completed his PhD at the University of Kent, where he was supervised by Professor David Welch and Professor Ulf Schmidt and externally examined by Jeffrey Richards.

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The Nile

River of History

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Author Terje Tvedt is Professor of Geography at the University of Bergen and Professor of Political Science and Global History at the University of Oslo. He is one of the world’s leading experts on the River Nile and the Nile region. He wrote and presented two award winning television documentaries on the history and future of water in society, water shown in more than 140 countries around the world, and most recently presented a highly successful television documentary on the River Nile. His books include The River Nile in the Age of the British and Water and Society and he is the editor of the pioneering History of Water Series.

The Nile – river of empires and emperors. Caesar, Cleopatra, Napoleon, all felt its allure and acknowledged its power. From ancient times to the modern day, the Nile has determined the lives of those along its banks and influenced the development of nations many far from it course. Ancient cities bear witness to its many histories and many lives but first and foremost they demonstrate that the Nile has its own history, that the Nile is truly the River of History.

Terje Tvedt offers both a celebration of this most famous of rivers and a detailed understanding of its global influence down the ages. Beginning at the mouth of this mighty river, he takes the reader on a 5000 mile journey to its sources in the heart of Africa, revealing its secrets and its magic. He details the immense cultural, political and economic impact it has had across 5000 years of history, from the ancient pharoahs and Alexander the Great to Churchill, Mussollini and the present day, when the river is undergoing the most revolutionary change in its entire story. Even more so today, what happens to the Nile now and in the years ahead will have immense consequences for the region and for the world. Richly illustrated and reflecting a lifetime of personal and professional interest in the Nile region, The Nile: River of History offers the most comprehensive biography yet published of the world’s greatest river.

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The story of the Nile – the world’s most famous river Author is a world authority on the River Nile Nothing as comprehensive to cover all aspects of river – ancient & modern history, geography, international relations, modern day politics, religion

The Winchester An American Icon

LAURA TREVELYAN Key Selling Points   

A weapon with an iconic status - plenty of enthusiasts Human interest High profile author at the BBC with plenty of connections

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TRADE HISTORY MILITARY HISTORY AMERICAN HISTORY

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The Winchester Rifle, the iconic gun made in New Haven, Connecticut, and sold in its hundreds of thousands around the world, mirrors American expansion at a key period in the young country's history. The lethal repeating rifle became the defining image of America's frontier – and was known amongst Native Americans as “the spirit gun”. It represented both the pioneering vigour and the brutal force which conquered the West.

Laura Trevelyan explores the history of, and the family behind, this renowned representation of American power.

The entrepreneurial drive of Oliver Winchester led the rifle to rapidly assume legendary status not long after its release in 1866, gaining endorsements from the likes of Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley and President Teddy Roosevelt. This engaging history sheds light on the story and myth of an American legend.

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Laura Trevelyan is the New York Correspondent of the BBC. She has worked for the BBC since 1993, reporting for many radio and television programmes including Newsnight, The Today Programme and the Ten O’Clock News. She lives with her husband and children in New York. She is the author of A Very British Family: The Trevelyans and Their World (I.B.Tauris, 2006).

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Zhou Enlai

China’s Good Communist

MICHAEL DILLON Key Selling Points   

Hugely important figure in modern China and central to China’s superpower status No other competing biography of Zhou Enlai Brand new insight into the man using original Chinese sources

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Urbane, enigmatic, Èminence grise, the ‘man behind the scenes’ sums up Zhou Enlai’s long and vital political career in the Chinese Communist Party from the 1920s to 1970s and his close connections with both Chiang Kai-Shek and Mao Zedong. He was a major influence on Deng Xiaoping – a source, for example, of major influence on Xiaoping’s ‘Four Modernizations’ in agriculture, industry, science and technology, and the military. Enlai was thus the prime architect of China’s drive towards superpower status. An interesting, attractive and intellectual figure whom Dillon regards as ‘a genuine statesman rather than just a political operator’.

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Author Praise for the Author ‘[Michael Dillion] is able to describe treacherously complex events . . . with commendable brevity and clarity’ Times Higher Education (review of China: A Modern History)

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Michael Dillon was founding Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Durham, where he taught modern Chinese history.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society and was Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing in 2009. He is the author of China: A Modern History (I.B.Tauris).

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Unmasked

Corruption in the West

LAURENCE COCKCROFT AND ANNE CHRISTINE WEGENER MANUSCRIPT: NOVEMBER 2015

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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CURRENT AFFAIRS

Author Laurence Cockcroft is a Development Economist. He is a Founder of Transparency International, the global civil society organization against corruption, and was formerly Chairman of its UK chapter. He is the author of Global Corruption: Money, Power and Ethics in the Modern World and Africa’s Way: A Journey from the Past (both I.B.Tauris).

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Original case studies and investigation Detailed analysis of political and corporate corruption Considers methods proposed to tackle corruption in the West

Description How corrupt is the West? Europe and North America’s formal self-perception is one of high standards in public life. And yet, corruption is receiving ever greater attention in the European, American and Canadian press, with high-profile cases affecting both the corporate and political worlds. This book identifies the driving forces behind such cases, particularly the role of political finance, lobbying, the banking system and organised crime. It analyses the sectors which are particularly prone to corruption, including sport, defence and pharmaceuticals. In the course of their investigation, the authors consider why anticorruption legislation has not been more effective and why there is an increasing discrepancy between regulation and commercial and cultural practice.

Are Europe and the US genuinely serious about fighting corruption and if so what measures will be taken to roll it back?

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‘Laurence Cockcroft brings a wealth of experience to the subject and makes us reconsider the extent of the problem today’ Zoe Cormack, Times Literary Supplement (review of Global Corruption)

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Peshmerga

On the Frontline in the Middle East

FAZEL HAWRAMY MANUSCRIPT: NOVEMBER 2015

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The first and only book on the Peshmerga Essential reading for those interested and involved in current events in Syria and Iraq Author is an authority on the subject with unprecedented access to all the key figures

Description In the year since Islamic State tore through Iraq and proclaimed a caliphate straddling the border with Syria, the Kurds have emerged as a lead actor in the global war against the extremist group and an important partner in the campaign to “degrade and destroy” it. However, the story of the Kurdish fighters known as peshmerga -- literally “those who confront death” -- is yet to be told. This book seeks to establish who these men are, and what has motivated them to lay down their lives in one abortive revolt after another over the past century. It will trace the peshmerga’s ongoing and far from complete evolution from a rag-tag guerrilla force into a regular army. From their early beginnings in the short-lived Kurdish Republic of Mahabad to the current standoff with Islamic State, the peshmerga have come to embody the Kurdish nationalist struggle in Iraq and beyond.

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Fazel Hawramy obtained his MSc in Middle East Politics at SOAS and is a journalist based in Erbil. He reports from all the front lines across Iraqi Kurdistan and has interviewed many of the peshmerga leaders, gaining firsthand experience of many of the events described in this book. His dispatches are published in the Guardian, AlMonitor and Hawlati, an independent daily in Iraqi Kurdistan, among others.

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Radical Prophet

The Mystics, Subversives and Visionaries who Foretold the End of the World

CHRISTOPHER ROWLAND Key Selling Points   MANUSCRIPT: NOVEMBER 2015

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Christopher Rowland holds the top biblical studies Chair in the world interdisciplinary and cross-market appeal to readers in religion, politics and history a book with an argument: strong, highly reviewable, ideas book

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Christianity began with the conviction that the old order was finished. The mysterious, elusive and charismatic figure of Jesus proclaimed that a new era, the Kingdom of God, was dawning. Yet despite its success, and the conversion of the empire which had executed its founder, the religion he inspired was soon domesticated, its counter-cultural radicalism tamed, as the Church attempted to control both its doctrines and its followers. Christopher Rowland here shows that this was never the whole story. At the margins, around the edges, sometimes off the religious map, the apocalyptic flame of the New Testament continued to burn.

In 1649 the Diggers occupied St George’s Hill to put the egalitarianism of Christ into practice. ‘You must break these men or they will break you’, Oliver Cromwell declared of the ‘lunaticks’. This book argues that such revolutionaries had divined the true intent of the enigma who threw over the tables of the money-changers: to summon a new epoch – strange, iconoclastic, uncomfortable and otherworldly. It gives full weight to a remarkable strain of radical religion that simply refuses to die.

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Christopher Rowland is Dean Ireland’s Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture in the University of Oxford. His many books include Blake and the Bible, Revelation (with Judith Kovacs), The Cambridge Companion to Liberation Theology, Christian Origins: The Setting and Character of the Most Important Messianic Sect of Judaism, and Radical Christian Writings: A Reader (with Andrew Bradstock).

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Sceptics of Islam Revisionist Religion, Agnosticism and Disbelief in the Modern Arab World

RALPH M COURY Key Selling Points   MANUSCRIPT: JANUARY 2016

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Unique: first book to give proper attention to the venerable atheistic tradition of the Arab world Topical: relates that tradition to recent unrest across the Arab world Essential: vital reference tool for scholars of Islam, Middle Eastern history & comparative literature

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RELIGION POLITICS INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS HISTORY OF IDEAS

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Arab debates about the critical relationship between religion and modernity began in the early nineteenth century. Such debates are now integral to the struggle for power between a variety of political groups and their opponents, and are vital to understanding the modern Middle East. This unique volume introduces the writings of the Muslim and Arab Christian revisionist ‘free-thinkers’ who have tried to redefine the relationship. It challenges the deeply entrenched idea that the contemporary Islamic world has been impermeable to a critique of religious ideas and practices. Authors from the nineteenth century to the present are included. Some are avowed believers, even if they adopt positions many might regard as heretical; others are openly agnostic and atheistic.

Despite their differences, all have been united in disputing the fundamentalist idea that life should conform to a system of values and law based on the Quran. They have also rejected the religious ‘liberalism’ that has been the chief opposition to traditionalism. The book’s originality lies in its evaluation of the social and cultural impact of these radical thinkers.

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Ralph M Coury is Emeritus Professor of History at Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut. R Kevin Lacey is Associate Professor and Director of Arabic and Near Eastern Studies at Binghamton University, New York.

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Religion in the Roman World Gods, Myth and Magic in Ancient Rome MANUSCRIPT: NOVEMBER 2015

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Up-to-date: the widest-ranging and most accessible treatment of Roman religion in print Course-driven: written by an experienced pedagogue and teacher Considerable general plus interdisciplinary student appeal: classics, religion, ancient history

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Juliette Harrisson is Lecturer in History at Newman University, Birmingham. She is the author of Dreams and Dreaming in the Roman Empire: Cultural Memory and Imagination (2013).

The Romans had a persisting and voracious appetite for myth, magic and ritual. They invoked the local gods to rain down punishment on adulterers or thieves. They burned fragrant resin for the protecting deities of hearth and home. They sacrificed at temples to bring glory to the divine person of the emperor. And they conducted secret rites of initiation into cults like those devoted to Isis, Cybele, Dionysus and Mithras. Juliette Harrisson shows ancient Rome to have been a hive of religious experimentation. In her new and comprehensive survey, she takes her readers from the turmoil of the Late Republic to the high point of imperial rule (133 BC-AD 235), thereby exploring the many facets of religiosity in the Roman world. She examines, among other topics, worship of the state-sanctioned Olympian gods and the role of religion in Roman politics; the impact of ‘mystery cults’ focused on Greek, Near Eastern and Egyptian deities; attitudes towards witchcraft, superstition and the early monotheists; and evidence for ancient atheism. An epilogue discusses the rise of Christianity in the third and fourth centuries.

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Ancient Iran

A Concise History

TOURAJ DARYAEE Key Selling Points   

Fascinating topic, prize-winning author Large gap in the market for a popular and concise history like this Combined general and specialist sales

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Author Touraj Daryaee is Howard C Baskerville Professor in the History of Iran and the Persianate World at the University of California, Irvine.

His books include Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire (I.B.Tauris) and The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History.

Praise for the author “avowedly an attempt ‘to provide the basic outlines of the history of the Sasanian civilization, where its history, society, religion, economy, administration, languages and literature are reviewed’. It is a very successful attempt.” (review of Sasanian Persia) David Morgan, Professor Emeritus, University Of Wisconsin Madison

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One of the most influential civilizations in antiquity was that of the Iranian world. The disparate peoples of ancient Iran were remarkable in that their imperial histories proved to be of enduring significance not only for the region from the Oxus to the Euphrates, but also for the Eurasian sphere, and briefly even for that of north Africa.

Iran is often encountered through the prism of the classical and biblical worlds, where Cyrus and Darius the Great loom large as rulers of many lands and peoples. But as Touraj Daryaee shows, neither these great kings, nor Xerxes’ military expeditions to Greece, nor Sasanian encounters with the Romans centuries later, are the sum total of ancient Iran. Rather than focusing on the traditional Persian triple empires – Achaemenids, Arsacids/Parthians and Sasanians (550 BCE-330 CE) – the author explores the much larger expanse of tribes and traditions that culminated in the formation of these great empires of antiquity. The result is a survey that fully reveals ancient Iran to student and non-specialist alike.

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Prostitution in the Eastern Mediterranean World

The Economics of Sex in the Late Antique and Medieval Middle East

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What did commercialized sex really amount to in the ancient and medieval Eastern Mediterranean? This groundbreaking book challenges many stereotypical views about the historical practice of prostitution. Based on twenty years’ research, and organized by region, it charts the history of sex for sale in those chief centres of the late antique and medieval East, whether in Arabia, Egypt, Syria or Anatolia. Ranging extensively from 300 CE to 1500 (or from the reign of Theodosius to the early Ottoman period), Gary Leiser meticulously examines the available sources and argues for a reappraisal of the so-called oldest profession. He suggests that it was never prohibited; that there was remarkable continuity between Christian and Muslim rule; and that prostitution was institutionalized as a ‘service industry’ at various times. Indicating that sex work in the East had its own distinctive character and meanings (for example, that it was taxed from the time of Caligula onwards and that prostitutes were expected to retain tax receipts), the book brings continually fresh insights to a controversial subject.

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Author Gary Leiser is the author of many scholarly articles and several books on Islamic and medieval topics. These include Questions and Answers for Physicians: A Medieval Arabic Study Manual (2004) and Turkish Language, Literature and History: Travellers’ Tales, Sultans and Scholars since the Eighth Century (edited with Bill Hickman, 2015).

He gained a PhD in Middle Eastern History from the University of Pennsylvania.

Praise for the book ‘Gary Leiser’s book is based on an exhaustive examination and interrogation of primary texts and secondary studies...There is nothing comparable in the field at present, and the sheer scope of this book means it is unlikely to be superseded any time soon.’

- Carl F Petry, Professor of Middle East Studies and Professor of Teaching Excellence, Northwestern University, author of The Criminal Underworld in a Medieval Islamic Society

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unique: first book to give concerted attention to a fascinating topic authoritative: treats the subject in definitive detail attractive: cross-disciplinary (history, ME studies, religion, gender) appeal and also to generalists

Hinduism and the Divine A New Introduction to Hindu Theology

RITA D SHERMA Key Selling Points   

Unique: first introductory textbook specifically to address the growing subfield of Hindu theology Authoritative: author with exceptionally high profile and multiple connections in the discipline Adoptable: well organised textbook for courses in several disciplines, plus some general appeal

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Author Rita D Sherma is Director of the Hindu Studies Initiative and Associate Professor of Dharma Studies at Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. Her previous publications include Hermeneutics and Hindu Thought: Toward a Fusion of Horizons (edited with Arvind Sharma, 2008) and Woman and Goddess in Hinduism: Reinterpretations and Re-envisionings (edited with Tracy Pintchman, 2011).

With no fixed boundaries between theology and philosophy, or the sacred and the secular, Hinduism arguably has more theological oppositions and self-contradictions than any other religious tradition. Navigating such complexity is challenging. A book that explores the multi-faceted character of Hindu theology is much needed, and in her authoritative introduction Rita Sherma explores these nuances and elusive dichotomies in depth, thereby doing full justice to the great richness of Hinduism’s cultural legacy. She outlines the general features of Hindu theology and discusses the various characteristics of the divine, whether in the persons of Shiva, Vishnu or Mahadevi (the feminine manifestation of God). Central theological categories and ideas like yoga, karma, moksha and bhakti are clearly and coherently explained. The volume includes a concise overview of nineteenth- and twentieth-century constructive theological thinkers, as well as a glossary of Sanskrit terms.

Designed for undergraduates in religious and South Asian studies, this book will appeal also to students of gender, culture and comparative philosophy.

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