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Authored Books

Behrouzan, Orkideh (2016) Prozak Diaries: Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Birch, Jason (2024) Āsanas of the Yogacintāmaṇi: The Largest Premodern Compilation on Postural Practice. Pondicherry: École française d'Extrême-Orient. (Collection Indologie, no.161 ; Haṭha Yoga Series, no.4)

Flügel, Peter (2021) Jaina Rituals of Death: History, Doctrine and Practice. London: Routledge. (Routledge Advances in Jaina Studies 7) (Forthcoming)

Flügel, Peter and Krümpelmann, Kornelius (2023) Index to the Jaina-Onomasticon of Johannes Klatt. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. (Jaina Studies 2)

Stoyanov, Yuri (2011) Defenders and Enemies of the True Cross: The Sasanian Conquest of Jerusalem in 614 and Byzantine Ideology of Anti-Persian Warfare. Vienna, Austria: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. (Sitzungsberichte der phil.-hist. Klasse 819; Veröffentlichungen zur Iranistik 61)

Stoyanov, Yuri (2000) The Other God: Dualist Religions from Antiquity to the Cathar Heresy. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. (Nota Bene)

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Flügel, Peter and Houtman, Gustaaf, eds. (2008) Asceticism and Power in South and Southeast Asia. London: Routledge. (Royal Asiatic Society Books) (Forthcoming)

Proferes, Theodore N. and Brereton, Joel P., eds. (2018) Creating the Veda, Living the Veda: Selected Papers from the 13th World Sanskrit Conference. Helsinki, Finland: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. (Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian Toimituksia Humaniora 379, Annales Academiae Scientarum Fennae)

Harris, Rachel, Ha, Guangtian and Jaschok, Maria, eds. (2020) Ethnographies of Islam in China. Hawaii: University of Hawai'i Press.

Flügel, Peter, ed. (2021) International Journal of Jaina Studies Volume 10-13 (2014-17). Mumbai: Hindi Granth Karyalay. (International Journal of Jaina Studies)

Flügel, Peter, ed. (2019) Jaina Law and Society. London: Routledge. (Routledge Advances in Jaina Studies 9) (Forthcoming)

Flügel, Peter, ed. (2019) Jaina Narratives. London: Routledge. (Routledge Advances in Jaina Studies 8) (Forthcoming)

Dorfmann, Igor, ed. (2022) Sharing Myths, Texts and Sanctuaries in the South Caucasus: Apocryphal Themes in Literatures, Arts and Cults from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Leuven: Peeters. (Studies on Early Christian Apocrypha; 19)

Book Chapters

Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad (2020) 'Structural Coherence in the Qur’an: How to See the Connections.' In: Klar, Marianna, (ed.), Structural Dividers in the Qur'an. UK: Routledge.

Al-Ali, Nadje (2017) 'Foreword.' In: Öcalan, Abdullah, (ed.), The Political Thought of Abdullah Öcalan: Kurdistan, Women's Revolution and Democratic Confederalism. London: Pluto Press, vii-xvii. (Politics)

Branfoot, Crispin (2022) 'Building Networks: Architecture, Ornament and Place in Early Modern South India.' In: Ambach, Malini, Buchholz, Jonas and Hüsken, Ute, (eds.), Temples, Texts, and Networks: South Indian Perspectives. Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, pp. 265-290.

Flügel, Peter (2021) 'Freedom or Salvation: Jaina Political Activism and Martyrdom under British Rule.' In: Flügel, Peter and Houtman, Gustaaf, (eds.), Asceticism and Power in South and Southeast Asia. London: Routledge. (Royal Asiatic Society Books) (Forthcoming)

Flügel, Peter (2023) 'The Jaina Prosopography Database: A New Tool for the Humanities.' In: van Lit, L. W. Cornelis and Morris, James Harry, (eds.), Digital Humanities and Religions in Asia: An Introduction. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 157-175. (Introductions to Digital Humanities – Religion)

Flügel, Peter (2019) 'Narrative Paradigms for Jaina Mortuary Rituals: Mythologies of the Worship of the Relics of the Jinas by the Gods in Jaina Universal Histories.' In: Flügel, Peter, (ed.), Jaina Narratives. London: Routledge. (Routledge Advances in Jaina Studies 8) (Forthcoming)

Harris, Rachel and Dawut, Rahile (2020) 'Listening in on Uyghur Wedding Videos: Piety, Tradition, and Self-fashioning.' In: Harris, Rachel, Ha, Guangtian and Jaschok, Maria, (eds.), Ethnographies of Islam in China. Hawai'i: University of Hawai'i Press.

Murphy, Stephen A (2022) 'Rituals set in Stone: Tracing the Archaeological Evidence for the Development of the Sīmā Stone tradition in Southeast Asia.' In: Carbine, Jason and Davis, Erik, (eds.), Sīmās: Foundations of Buddhist Religion. Hawaii: University Of Hawai'i Press, pp. 43-65.

Proferes, Theodore N. (2018) 'Fire in the Waters and the Alchemical King.' In: Brereton, Joel P. and Proferes, Theodore N., (eds.), Creating the Veda, Living the Veda. Helsinki, Finland: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, pp. 45-53. (Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian Toimituksia Humaniora 379, Annales Academiae Scientarum Fennae)

Proferes, Theodore N. (2017) 'The Mīmāṃsā Influence on the Formation of the Bhagavad Gītā.' In: Gunsel, D., Katz, J. T., Vine, B. and Weiss, Michael, (eds.), Sahasram Ati Srajas: Indo-Iranian and Indo-European Studies in Honor of Stephanie W. Jamison. Ann Arbor; New York: Beech Stave Press, pp. 345-356.

Shah, Mustafa (2019) 'The Word of God: The Epistemology of Language in Classical Islamic Theological Thought.' In: Yelle, Robert, Handman, Courtney and Lehrich, Christopher, (eds.), Language and Religion. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 158-192. (Language Intersections)

Stoyanov, Yuri (2021) 'The Adoption of the Swedish Rite in Eighteenth-Century Russia – Acculturation, Power Politics and Mysticism.' In: Hartley, Janet M. and Shaw, Denis J. B., (eds.), Magic, texts and travels: homage to a scholar, Will Ryan. London: Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia, pp. 79-99.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2014) 'Apocalypticizing Warfare: From political theology to imperial eschatology in seventh-to early eighth-century Byzantium.' In: La Porta, Sergio and Bardakjian, Kevork, (eds.), The Armenian Apocalyptic Tradition. A Comparative Perspective. Leiden: Brill, pp. 379-433. (Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha, Volume: 25)

Stoyanov, Yuri (2014) 'Eastern Orthodox Christianity: Religion, War and Ethics.' In: Reichberg, Gregory M. and Syse, Henrik, (eds.), Religion, War, and Ethics A Sourcebook of Textual Traditions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 164-234.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2018) 'Esotericism and Visionary Mysticism in Medieval Byzantine and Slavonic Orthodox Pseudepigraphic and Heretical Literature.' In: Radulović, N., (ed.), Esotericism, Literature and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe. Belgrade: University of Belgrade, pp. 13-29. (CEENASWE 2)

Stoyanov, Yuri (2012) 'The Interchange between Religious Heterodoxies in the Balkans and Caucasus: The Case of the Paulicians.' In: Biliarsky, Ivan, Oroveanu, Anca and Cristea, Ovidiu, (eds.), The Balkans and Caucasus: Parallel Processes on the Opposite Sides of the Black Sea. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 106-116.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2019) 'Modern and post-secular Alevi and Bektaşi religiosities and the Slavo-Turkic heretical imaginary.' In: Sosnowska, Danuta and Drzewiecka, Ewelina, (eds.), The Experience of Faith in Slavic Cultures and Literatures in the Context of Postsecular Thought. Warsaw: The University of Warsaw Press, pp. 129-144.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2009) 'Norms of War in Eastern Orthodox Christianity.' In: Popovski, Vesselin, Reichberg, Gregory M. and Turner, Nicholas, (eds.), World Religions and Norms of War. Tokyo: United Nations University Press, pp. 166-220.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2013) 'Question of the Existence of Dualist Layers in Alevi/Bektāşī Syncretism and their Central Asian, Anatolian or Balkan Provenance.' In: Pries, Andreas H., Martzolff, Laetitia, Ambos, Claus and Langer, Robert, (eds.), Rituale als Ausdruck von Kulturkontakt: ‚Synkretismus‘ zwischen Negation und Neudefinition. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 131-151. (Studies in Oriental Religions (67))

Stoyanov, Yuri (2020) 'The Sacred Spaces and Sites of the Mediterranean in Contemporary Theological, Anthropological and Sociological Approaches and Debates.' In: Ferrari, Silvio and Benzo, Andrea, (eds.), Between Cultural Diversity and Common Heritage. Legal and Religious Perspectives on the Sacred Places of the Mediterranean. Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, pp. 25-36. (Cultural Diversity and Law)

Stoyanov, Yuri (2017) 'St. Constantine-Cyril's Mission to the Abbasid Court and Eastern Orthodox Ideology of Warfare.' In: Panov, Mitko B., (ed.), The Byzantine Missionary Activity and Its Legacy in Europe. Skopje, North Macedonia: Euro-Balkan University, pp. 19-28.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2018) 'Subverting Scripture by Parascriptural Works in Medieval Eastern and Western Christian Dualism.' In: Blidstein, Moshe, Ruzer, Serge and Stökl Ben Ezra, Daniel, (eds.), Scriptures, Sacred Traditions, and Strategies of Religious Subversion. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, pp. 203-217. (Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity 112)

Stoyanov, Yuri (2019) 'The role of religious institutions: Peace in Eastern Orthodoxy.' In: Kulnazarova, Aigul and Popovski, Vesselin, (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Global Approaches to Peace. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 461-476. (Palgrave Handbooks)

Thompson, Ashley (2020) 'Anybody: Diasporic Subjectivities and the Figure of the “Historical” Buddha.' In: Flores, Patrick D. and Paracciani, L., (eds.), Interlaced Journeys: Diaspora and the Contemporary in Southeast Asian Art. Hong Kong: Osage Art Foundation, pp. 117-131.

Thompson, Ashley (2021) 'Revenons, Revenants: Mémoires d’Angkor.' In: Thach, J., Bourdonneau, E. and Mikaelian, G., (eds.), Temps et Temporalités khmères : de près, de loin, entre îles et péninsules. Bern: Peter Lang, 345 -375.

Webster, David R (2008) 'Buddhist Approaches : not 'what' but 'how'?' In: Cheetham, David and King, Rolfe, (eds.), Contemporary Practice and Method in the Philosophy of Religion. London: Continuum, pp. 87-100. (Continuum religious studies)

Webster, David R (2007) 'Even Philosophers Get the Blues.' In: Wynn, Neil A., (ed.), Cross the Water Blues African American Music in Europe. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, pp. 39-50. (American made music series)

Journal Article

Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad (2020) 'Sūrat Maryam (Q. 19): Comforting Muḥammad.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 22 (2). pp. 60-85.

Bello, Saheed Adesumbo (2023) 'Ọ̀rúnmìlà and the Yorùbá Intellectual Tradition: Words and Language vis-à-vis Western Modernity.' Culture and Dialogue, 11 (1). pp. 85-103.

Bes, Lennart and Branfoot, Crispin (2024) '‘From all quarters of the Indian world’: The temple at Rameshvaram, Hindu kings and Dutch merchants.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 34 (2). pp. 325-359.

Flügel, Peter (2021) 'Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhyadeśa II.1: Sites of Non-Memory.' Berliner Indologische Studien, 25. pp. 213-308.

Flügel, Peter (2017) 'Johannes Emil Otto Klatt (1852–1903). Forgotten Chronicler of Jainism and Bibliographer of Oriental Literature: Letters to Albrecht Weber 1874–1882, Ernst Kuhn 1881–1889, Charles Rockwell Lanman 1889 and Ehrhardt Karras 1891, with Curricula Vitae, and a Complete Bibliography of Johannes Klatt’s Works.' Berliner Indologische Studien, 23 (1). pp. 1-76.

Flügel, Peter (2024) 'Pure Soul and the Jaina Traditions, Syntax and Experience.' Jaina Studies: Newsletter of the Centre of Jaina Studies, 19. pp. 16-22.

Flügel, Peter (2022) 'A Search for Jaina Bone Relics from Kaṅkālī Ṭīlā at the State Museum of Lucknow.' Jaina Studies: Newsletter of the Centre of Jaina Studies, 17. pp. 22-27.

Flügel, Peter (2018) 'Social-Differentiation and Self-Differentiation The Jaina Concept of the Individual and Sociological Individualisation-Paradigms (Part I).' Max Weber Studies, 18 (2). pp. 212-273.

Flügel, Peter, Balogh, Dániel, Wright, J. Clifford and Mallinson, James (2020) 'Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhyadeśa I: Fragments of Digambara Temples and A New Vaiṣṇava Inscription in Tumain.' Jaina Studies - Newsletter of the Centre of Jaina Studies, 15. pp. 23-30.

Hawthorne, Sian (2019) 'At the Edge of Time: Postcolonial Temporalities in An Intimate Rebuke.' Journal of Africana Religions, 7 (2). pp. 291-299.

Manson, Charles (2024) 'Karma Pakshi - The Second Karmapa, His Life, Teachings and Meditations.' The Middle Way, 98 (1). pp. 29-48.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2021) 'Christian Heretical Participation in the Rebellion of Börklüce Mustafa and Sheikh Bedreddin – Reappraising the Evidence.' Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe, 11. pp. 443-461.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2018) 'The Debate on Medieval Western Christian Dualism through the Prism of Slavonic Pseudepigrapha.' Scrinium, 14 (1). pp. 334-350.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2010) 'Early and recent formulations of theories for a formative Christian heterodox impact on Alevism.' British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 37 (3). pp. 261-272.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2001) 'Islamic and Christian heterodox water cosmogonies from the Ottoman period-parallels and contrasts.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 64 (1). pp. 19-33.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2013) 'Medieval Christian Dualist Perceptions and Conceptions of Biblical Paradise.' Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe, 3. pp. 149-166.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2018) 'Religious Syncretism and Cultural Pluralism along the Central and East Asian Silk Road – New Discoveries and Venues for Research.' The Silk Road, Fourth Conference on Chinese Studies, 4. pp. 291-300.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2024) 'The War in Ukraine: Challenges to Just War Doctrines in Eastern Orthodoxy.' Studies in Christian Ethics, 37 (3). pp. 669-692.

Sultany, Nimer (2019) 'What Good is Abstraction: From Liberal Legitimacy to Social Justice.' Buffalo Law Review, 67 (3). pp. 823-887.

Webster, David R (2005) 'The Weary Buddha Or Why the Buddha Nearly Couldn't Be Bothered.' Buddhist Studies Review, 22 (1). pp. 15-25.

Conference or Workshop Items

Flügel, Peter (2002) The Loṅkāgaccha Revisited. In: Jaina Studies Panel, 12th World Sanskrit Conference, 14 July 2003, Helsinki. (Unpublished)

Monographs and Working Papers

HadziMuhamedovic, Safet (2024) Being with Water Otherwise: Sacred Knowledge and Sustainable Water–human Relations: Conference Report. Cambridge: Cambridge Interfaith Programme.

Safi, Mariam and Rivas, Althea-Maria (2023) The mental health crisis among Afghan women and girls. London: ODI Policy Brief.

Book Reviews

Augspurger, Jens (2020) 'Review of Spirituality without God: A Global History of Thought and Practice, by Peter Heehs.' Bulletin of the British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR) (136). pp. 24-25.

Bruce-Jones, Eddie (2019) 'Review: Avery Gordon, The Hawthorn Archives: Letters from the Utopian Margins (Fordham University Press).' Race and Class, 61 (1). pp. 93-96.

Charney, Michael W. (2018) 'Review of Erik Braun, The Birth of Insight: Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw.' Journal of Global Buddhism, 19 . pp. 21-23.

Flügel, Peter (2019) 'Memoirs of Padmanabh S. Jaini: Book Review.' Jaina Studies - Newsletter of the Centre of Jaina Studies, 14 . pp. 55-56.

Flügel, Peter (2019) 'Review of Luithle-Hardenberg, Andrea: Die Reise zum Ursprung. Die Pilgerschaft der Shvetambara-Jaina zum Berg Shatrunjaya in Gujarat, Indien. München: Manya Verlag 2011.' Orientalische Literaturzeitung, 114 (2). pp. 76-77.

HadžiMuhamedović, Safet (2018) 'Articulation as a Political Act? On a Study of Palestinian Shrines.' Anthropology News, 4 (1). pp. 1-6.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2016) 'Review of: Gideon Avni, 'The Byzantine-Islamic Transition in Palestine: An Archaeological Approach'.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 79 (1). pp. 179-181.

Shows/Exhibitions

Flügel, Peter (2023) Pure Soul: The Jaina Spiritual Traditions. [Shows/Exhibitions]

Theses

Fuentes, Ayesha (2021) On the use of human remains in Tibetan ritual objects. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00036581

Translations

Pagel, Ulrich and Lilljenberg, Karen, trans. (2017) The Great Lion's Roar of Maitreya (Maitreyamahāsiṃhanādasūtra). 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha, Toh67 .

Images

Flügel, Peter, Muzaffar, Ahmad and Rana, Asif Mahmood (2018) Photographs from the Exploratory Survey of the Jaina Heritage in Pakistan (2018). [Images]

Films

HadžiMuhamedović, Safet (2019) Anthropology of Travel, Tourism and Pilgrimage SOAS Summer School 2019. Safet HadžiMuhamedović. Available from https://youtu.be/JkIqBTuijP4.

Datasets

Flügel, Peter and Krümpelmann, Kornelius (editors) (2021) Jaina-Prosopography Database. [Datasets]

Other

HadžiMuhamedović, Safet (2013) 'Bosnianlandscapes.com - online research resource including website content, visual anthropological repository.'