By Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri, author of Beyond Orientalism: Ahmad ibn Qasim al-Hajari between Europe and North Africa When I first encountered the fascinating Moroccan polymath Ahmad ibn Qâsim al-Hajarî (c. 1569 – …
Read More >Winner of the 2022 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences, Merchants of Virtue explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia. Divya Cherian …
Read More >Below, author Rafael Rachel Neis provides a comic on When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species, a provocative and trailblazing work in the study of …
Read More >In This Place Called Prison offers a vivid account of religious life within an institution designed to punish. Rachel Ellis conducted a year of ethnographic fieldwork inside a U.S. state women’s prison, …
Read More >Many readers may not think of the American West as a particularly religious place. What do we gain by paying attention to the role of religion in its history? It is true …
Read More >Medicine, Health, and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean (500 BCE-600 CE) is a new sourcebook that provides an expansive picture of medical and healing practices in ancient Greece and Rome for students …
Read More >The Bengali stories in this collection are first and foremost tales of survival. Each story in Needle at the Bottom of the Sea underscores the need for people to work together—not just to overcome …
Read More >UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our January 2023 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the …
Read More >UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are some of our recent award winners December 2022. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing …
Read More >A stunning collection of classics from around the world, read around the world. The World Literature in Translation program aims to represent a truly inclusive and expansive view of literature from around …
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