Covering the key achievements of the Muslim intellectual and cultural tradition in history, mysticism, philosophy, and poetry, this unique collection shows the positive role played by Sufi thinkers between 700 and 1300.

The first critical edition of the Hittite laws since 1959, containing much new textual material. Presents manuscripts in the "score" format, distinguishing Old Hittite from later copies, and based upon a fresh collation of the original tablets. The commentary examines the linguistic, jurisprudential and cultural aspects of the laws against the background of the entire Hittite textual corpus, archaeological data, and other Ancient Near Eastern law corpora. In addition the volume contains a concordance of the manuscripts, an analysis of the palaeographic and linguistic criteria used in dating the manuscripts, a glossary of words occurring in the laws, identifying both law number and manuscript where each occurrence is found, indexes of Hittite, Sumerian and Akkadian words, of ancient texts cited, and of topics mentioned. Photographic plates of Old Hittite copies are also included.

安纳托利亚以亚洲为基点欧洲延伸，成了联系两块大陆的桥梁，同时也吸收了二者的影响，并由此创造出了它那别具一格的文化。现在那里的居民多是逊尼派穆斯林人，讲土耳其语，安纳托利亚有着多个层次、多种文化的历史。

《东方文化集成》为季羡林教授所倡导，由中国东方文化研究会和北京大学东方学研究院联合组建的编委会负责组织撰写出版。
这是一项迎接二十一世纪东方文化复兴和再创辉煌的世界性文化工程。
赫梯条约是公元前约1500-前约1200年间小亚半岛强国赫梯国王与古代近东地区其他诸如埃及法老等大小国家统治者和赫梯国王的封侯们之间签订的条约。《赫梯条约研究》一书对赫梯条约进行了比较全面系统的研究。从介绍赫梯人条约的名称和赫梯条约的学术研究，赫梯条约文献的断代和赫梯条约的历史以及翻译赫梯条约文献入手，深入分析和探讨了赫梯条约的类型、它们的基本结构和历时变化、赫梯条约的史学和法的思想价值、赫梯条约与赫梯国王的对外关系和对外政策以及赫梯封侯条约与赫梯王国的封侯政治。