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ITHAKA ASIAN STUDIES FACULTY SURVEY
(Ithaka S&R, 2018-02-19)This report is the result of interviews conducted in the spring and summer of 2017 with the aim of determining the research, networking and publishing habits of Asian Studies faculty at the University of Washington, one ... -
Muslim Militant’s Mindset and Quranic Verses: A Comparison of Narratives from Pakistan
(PUTAJ – Humanities and Social Sciences, 2015-06)Since last decade, the world has been facing Muslim militancy as the most tough challenge and threat. Activities of global Muslim militant groups like Al Qaeda and Taliban have engulfed a large number of human lives have ... -
Pak-India Trade Relations: From Rivalry to Friendship
(2016-12)Pakistan and India are two neighboring countries, whose inhabitants share a long history and have many commonalities, but relations between both the countries have been strained by different activities and issues since ... -
Genghis Khan - Sustaining Existence
(2017)Genghis Khan has fascinated scholars for centuries, and the Mongol empire he initiated had a profound effect on Asia and Europe. His conquests were unique in history, but his motivations were common to all men. The Secret ... -
Vietnamese New Women and the Fashioning of Modernity
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Recent Archaeological Discoveries and Biblical Research, pt. 2
(University of Washington Press, 1985)Discussion of how archaeology today can illuminate the world of the Bible, specifically the Israelite settlement in Canaan, and how it is possible to reconstruct the lost background of the Israelite cults. -
Biblical Politics, pt. 3
(2008)Walzer examines the laws, the histories, the prophecies, and the wisdom of the ancient biblical writers and discusses their views on such central political questions as justice, hierarchy, war, the authority of kings and ... -
“Behind a Best Seller: Kabbalah, Science, and Loving One’s Neighbor in Pinhas Hurwitz’s Sefer ha-Brit”
(University of Washington Press, 2012)This manuscript is a literary history of The Book of Covenant, an encyclopedic work of science, philosophy, and ethics written in the late-eighteenth century by Jewish philosopher and polymath Pinhas Hurwitz. Ruderman ... -
“Behind a Best Seller: Kabbalah, Science, and Loving One’s Neighbor in Pinhas Hurwitz’s Sefer ha-Brit”
(University of Washington Press, 2012)This manuscript is a literary history of The Book of Covenant, an encyclopedic work of science, philosophy, and ethics written in the late-eighteenth century by Jewish philosopher and polymath Pinhas Hurwitz. Ruderman ... -
Speaking in Tongues: Translating Yiddish in the 20th Century, pt. 3
(University of Washington Press, 2006)Writing in Tongues examines the complexities of translating Yiddish literature at a time when the Yiddish language is in decline. After the Holocaust, Soviet repression, and American assimilation, the survival of traditional ... -
Biblical Politics, pt. 2
(2008)Walzer examines the laws, the histories, the prophecies, and the wisdom of the ancient biblical writers and discusses their views on such central political questions as justice, hierarchy, war, the authority of kings and ...