This book explores the possibility of a hermeneutics of the Qur’an. It starts from the presupposition that the Qur’an can be studied as a ...

Supernova: The Knight, The Princess and the Falling Star presents a series of intertwined and unconventional love stories, straight and gay, with a bit ...

Sight is both celebrated and denigrated in religion. In some contexts it is extolled as a source of knowledge and revelation. In others it is demonized ...

It is an enduring theme of humanity that people are concerned about what others think of them. The notion of face has thus become firmly established as ...

FOR MORE THAN THREE DECADES, Soeharto reigned as the most powerful man in Indonesia - President, father figure and infallible leader to millions. That ...

This volume is based in part upon observations made during a six months' visit to Indonesia between August 1956 and January 1957. After an initial ...

The Wilopo Cabinet was something of a watershed in post-revolutionary Indonesian politics. During its fourteen months of existence important changes developed ...

This is the first biography of the jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan (1938-72). He was a prodigy– recruited to Dizzy Gillespie’s big band while still ...

The rebellion of the Indonesian Communist Party in 1926-27 was a significant event which had a considerably greater impact on Indonesia's subsequent ...