Although the Islamic archaeology of the UAE has only been investigated in a sustained manner in very recent decades, the amount of information that it provides has been so great that, for the pre-modern period, it is now at least as important a source for the country’s past as the rather sporadic and limited literary evidence. As a result of archaeological survey and excavation, form has been g...

The creation of a literary biography requires an awareness both of how we construct what we believe we ‘know’ about a writer, and how the stories we adopt change our reading of their works. Research into the sources used to construct Marlowe’s and Shakespeare’s biographies supports the conclusion that when writers can no longer create their own stories, those created about them are necessarily ...

In his article "A Comparative Literary History of Resurrection Plants" John Charles Ryan assembles a comparative history of resurrection plants through textual analysis of early botanical commentaries, herbal references, prose, poetry, and other sources. Resurrection plants include a diverse range of botanical species, typically of arid regions, that appear to come back to life after complete d...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore roles of electronic texts (e-texts) in research enquiry in literary and historical studies, and to deepen the understanding of the nature of scholars’ engagement with e-texts as primary materials. The study includes an investigation of references to e-texts and discussions about researchers’ citation practices in interviews. Design/methodology/a...

It has been observed that from the eleventh century onwards one main concern of Tibetan authors to was determine the authenticity of the Buddhist texts received from India and thereby establish different lineages of transmission, by which means they were able to trace back any specifi c teaching either to the historical Buddha or to such representatives of Buddhahood as Vajradhāra or Samantabha...

This definitive history of helminthology concludes with portraits and short biographical sketches of the main authors cited. Were it not ungrateful to ask for more, one might have welcomed a few likenesses of the protagonists, the helminths, in addition to the guinea worm and victim on the cover. Dr Grove himself calls his book a "labour of love". His readers might call it an invaluable work of...