Celebrating a major collection of Islamic art, this volume spans the entire history of Islam to bring together items produced throughout the vast region between Andalusia and Mughal India. The Farjam Collection of Islamic, and Modern and Contempora...

A spectacular study of calligraphy, the most esteemed form of visual and textual expression in the Islamic world, through a storied collection of Qur'an manuscripts. Spanning more than a millennium, from the seventh through the nineteenth century,...

A comparative legal history of Jewish sovereignty and religious freedom, illuminating the surprising ways that collective and individual rights have evolved over the past two centuries. It is a common assumption that in Israel, Jews have sovereignt...

This second volume of the Lucian Freud catalogue raisonne is the first attempt to comprehensively catalogue the artist's oil paintings. Over 500 works in the volume are presented and fully catalogued by Catherine Lampert and Toby Treves, with separat...

Celebrating the cultural significance and clarity of vision evident in Northern European art of the fifteenth through the eighteenth century. This book features Dutch, Flemish, Early Netherlandish, and German paintings and works on paper from the f...

A deep dive into the nature of translation from one of its most acclaimed practitioners. Avoiding theoretical debates and cliched metaphors, award‑winning translator Damion Searls has written a fresh, approachable, and convincing account of what tr...

A groundbreaking scholarly study of crime and punishment in Qajar Iran. Drawing on a rich array of primary sources in multiple languages, Farzin Vejdani argues that in Qajar Iran, the ambiguity in defining the boundaries between private and public...

A counterintuitive proposal for healing the relationship between humans and forests through responsible, sustainable use of local wood in home building. American homes are typically made of lumber and plywood delivered by a global system of ruthles...

From one of the world's leading historians comes the first substantial study of environmentalism set in any country outside the Euro-American world. By the canons of orthodox social science, countries like India are not supposed to have an environm...