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Ancient schools of rhetoric taught students how to devise arguments in legal and political disputes, and how to express them. Many scholars believe that these techniques increasingly lost their practical relevance under the Roman Empire. This detailed reassessment of the history and social significance of rhetoric in late antiquity shows how it was...

Without a means of crediting and debiting accounts worldwide and the non-physical        transfer of funds, the rapid global economic integration of the late nineteenth and        early twentieth centuries would have been impossible. It is the globalization of the        banking system, much of which, particularly in Asia, had its roots in the...

The rapid spread of judicially-enforced constitutional rights has been one of the most dramatic developments in modern law. This book argues that there is now a global model for how such rights should function, and develops an original, philosophically grounded, account of their nature and scope....

The first full-length monograph devoted to the Dīwān (collected poems) of Muhyī I-Dīn Ibn `Arabī (1165-1240), a hugely influential figure in the development of Sufism....

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