This guide to Islamic finance clearly delineates the all-important distinctions between Islamic practices and conventional procedures based on interest.

This is the first comprehensive literary-historical commentary on the works of Flavius Josephus in English. Steve Mason, York University, Toronto, edits the scheduled 10 volumes.

In addressing that question, this book critically explores various approaches to the problem of conceptualizing religion for scholarly purposes, particularly with respect to certain disciplinary interests of anthropologists.

This book shows you how to evaluate these complex factors, and how each affects your work throughout the building.

Alongside theoretical and practical development of Gadamer s philosophy, the book deals with the following New Testament topics: assumptions concerning the background story of the letter to Philemon, the foundation of the Colossian church ...

For the first time, a linguistic description of Old Turkic (7th to 13th centuries) is presented, dealing with phonology, morphophonology and subphonemic phenomena as reflected in numerous scripts, derivational and inflectional morphology, ...

The period of the Babylonian Exile (597/587-520 B.C.E.) is one of the most enthralling eras of biblical history, and includes a wealth of literary works examined here.

This pioneering study wrestles with the perpetual problem of chronology in the Books of Kings.

This volume presents the transformation of the Greek-speaking Jewish community of Byzantine Constantinople into an Ottoman, ethnically diversified immigrant community.