Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton: 1935-2018, Hardback Book

Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton: 1935-2018 Hardback

Edited by Sabine Schmidtke

Part of the Gorgias Handbooks series

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The history of Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study dates back to 1935, and it is the one area of scholarship that has been continuously represented at the Institute ever since.

The volume opens with a historical sketch of the study of the Near and Middle East at the Institute.

The second part of the volume consists of essays and short studies by IAS scholars, past and present, covering fields such as the ancient Near East and early Islamic history, the Bible and the Qur'an, Islamic intellectual history within and beyond denominational history, Arabic and other Semitic languages and literatures, Islamic religious and legal practices, law and society, the Islamic West, the Ottoman world, Iranian studies, the modern Middle East, and Islam in the West.

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