The Presence Of Light: Divine Radiance And Religious Experience

By Hossein Ziai, Sarah Iles JOHNSTON, Catherine B. Asher, Matthew Kapstein, Elliot R Wolfson, Raoul Birnbaum, Andrew Louth, Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan, Matthew T. Kapstein, Paul E. Muller-Ortega

There is perhaps no greater constant in religious intuition and experience than the presence of light. In spiritual traditions East and West, light is not only ubiquitous but something that assumes...

The Presence Of Light: Divine Radiance And Religious Experience

By Hossein Ziai, Sarah Iles JOHNSTON, Catherine B. Asher, Matthew Kapstein, Elliot R Wolfson, Raoul Birnbaum, Andrew Louth, Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan, Matthew T. Kapstein, Paul E. Muller-Ortega

There is perhaps no greater constant in religious intuition and experience than the presence of light. In spiritual traditions East and West, light is not only ubiquitous but something that assumes...

India Before Europe

By Catherine B. Asher, Catherine Ella Blanshard Asher

India is a land of enormous diversity. Cross-cultural influences are everywhere in evidence, in the food people eat, the clothes they wear, and in the places they worship. This was especially the c...

The Marathas 1600–1818

By David Arnold, J S Grewal, Stewart Gordon, M. N. Pearson, Gordon, Johnson., Geraldine Forbes, Gordon, Om Prakash, P.J. Marshall, Catherine B. Asher, Paul R Brass, Sugata Bose, Burton Stein, David Ludden, Milo Cleveland Beach, Thomas R Metcalf, John F. Richards, C.A BAYLY, B. R. Tomlinson, Mark Zebrowski, Susan Bayly, George Michell

In this book, Dr. Stewart Gordon presents the first comprehensive history of the Maratha polity, which was an important regional kingdom in the seventeenth century and the largest political entity...

Architecture Of Mughal India

By Gordon, Johnson., Catherine B. Asher, Catherine Ella Blanshard Asher

The World Famous Taj Mahal Is But One Of The Many Magnificent Buildings Erected By The Mughal Emperors Who Ruled India From The Early Sixteenth Century Through To The Middle Of The Nineteenth. To D...

India Before Europe

By Catherine B. Asher, Cynthi A Talbt Catherine B Asher

The Mughal Empire

By John Richards, David Arnold, J S Grewal, Stewart Gordon, M. N. Pearson, Gordon, Johnson., Geraldine Forbes, Om Prakash, P.J. Marshall, Catherine B. Asher, Paul R Brass, Sugata Bose, Burton Stein, David Ludden, Milo Cleveland Beach, Thomas R Metcalf, John F. Richards, C.A BAYLY, B. R. Tomlinson, Mark Zebrowski, Susan Bayly, George Michell

The Mughal empire was one of the largest centralized states known in pre-modern world history. It was founded in the early 1500s and by the end of the following century the Mughal emperor ruled alm...

India Before Europe

By Catherine B. Asher, Cynthia Talbot, Catherine Ella Blanshard Asher

India Is A Land Of Enormous Diversity. Cross-cultural Influences Are Everywhere In Evidence, In The Food People Eat, The Clothes They Wear, And In The Places They Worship. This Was Especially The C...

Surprising Bedfellows: Hindus And Muslims In Medieval And Early Modern India

By Stewart Gordon, Peter Gottschalk, Phillip B. Wagoner, Catherine B. Asher, Tony K. Stewart, Sushil; Mittal, James W. Laine

Surprising Bedfellows: Hindus and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern India argues that religious and cultural identities in medieval and early modern India were marked by fluid and constantly shi...

Perceptions Of South Asia'S Visual Past

By Hanna Myer, Catherine B. Asher, Thomas R Metcalf

Seminar papers on art history; chiefly in the Indian context.