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• Alexander the Great and the East: History, Art, Tradition.
• Problems of Han Administration: Ancestral Rites, Weights and Measures, and the Means of Protest.
• Dong [phrase omitted] 'East' and the Chinese 'Indian Circle'.
• The Susa Funerary Texts: A New Edition and Re-Evaluation and the Question of Psychostasia in Ancient Mesopotamia.
• From Singing Ghosts to Docile Concubines: Elite Domestication of the Local in the Wu Songs.
• The Absent Vedas.
• Fei Changfang's Treatment of Sengyou's Anonymous Texts.
• Formen und Funktionen des Layouts in arabischen Manuskripten anhand von Abschriften religioser Texte: Al-Biisiris Burda, al-bazulis Dala'il und die Sifa' von Qadi Hydd.
• Pharaoh and His Council: Great Minds Think Alike.
• Surdas: Sur's Ocean, Poems from the Early Tradition.

Featured documents

• The Absent Vedas.
• Fei Changfang's Treatment of Sengyou's Anonymous Texts.
• Authority and Auspiciousness in Gaurana's Laksanadipika.
• "By the Power of the Perfection of Wisdom": The "Sutra-Rotation" Liturgy of the Mahaprajnaparamita at Dunhuang.
• The Forgotten Meaning of apar in Biblical Hebrew.
• From trivarga to purusartha A Chapter in Indian Moral Philosophy.
• Jadal and Qiyas in the Fifth/Eleventh Century: Two Debates between al-Juwayni and al-Shirazi.
• Half-human and Monstrous Races in Zoroastrian Tradition.
• The Organs of God: Hadith al-Nawafil in Classical Islamic Mysticism.
• Notes on the Semantic Range of "Deliverance" in the Quran.