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Luke Habberstad
"Notes on the Note (Ji 記) in Early Administrative Texts." Early China 45 (2022): 135-65.
“Forms and Narratives of Sovereignty in Early Imperial China: Beyond Heaven's Mandate, All-Under-Heaven, and So Forth." In Sovereignty: A Global Perspective (Proceedings of the British Academy, 253). Edited by Christopher Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 99-119.
"Water Control and Policy-Making in the Shiji and Hanshu." In Technical Arts in the Han Histories: Tables and Treatises in the Shiji and Hanshu. Edited by Michael Nylan and Mark Csikszentmihlayi. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2021. 101-34.
"A Government in Verse: Bureaucratic Aesthetics and Voice in Han and post-Han Admonitions (zhen 箴)." Oriens Extremus 58 (2018-2019) [in print, 2020], 231-66.
David Hollenberg
“Anta ana wa-ana minka (“You are me, and I am from you”): A quasi-Nuṣayrī fragment on the intellect in the early Ismā⁽īlī treatise Kitāb ta⁾wīl ḥurūf al-mu⁽jam,” in Mind, Body and Soul, a Festschrift honoring our doktorvater, Everett Rowson, (Brill, 2017),
“Manuscripts destruction and looting in Yemen: A status report,” Co-written with Anne Regourde, in Chroniques yéménites, Sanaa/Paris (June 2016),
Beyond the Qur'an; Ismaili ta'wil and the Secrets of the Prophets (University of South Carolina Press, 2016).
Stephen Shoemaker
Creating the Qur’an: A Historical-Critical Study. California: University of California Press, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.128
A Prophet Has Appeared: The Rise of Islam through Christian and Jewish Eyes (Univ. of California Press, 2021). This volume contains an anthology of contemporary non-Islamic sources vital for understanding the rise of Islam. Prof. Shoemaker has translated these sources from Greek, Latin, Coptic, Syriac, Georgian, Armenian, Ethiopic, Arabic, and Hebrew and has provided extensive historical commentary for each source.
The Apocalypse of Empire: Imperial Eschatology in Late Antiquity and Early Islam (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), a study arguing that earliest Islam was a movement driven by urgent eschatological belief that focused on the conquest, or liberation, of the biblical Holy Land and situates this belief within a broader cultural context of apocalyptic anticipation that includes early Byzantine Christianity, Judaism, and Sasanian Zoroastrianism. situates this belief within a broader cultural context of apocalyptic anticipation that includes early Byzantine Christianity, Judaism, and Sasanian Zoroastrianism.