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• Gender and Salvation: Jaina Debates on the Spiritual Liberation of Women (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Padmanabh S. Jaini (HTML at UC Press)

• Gender and Salvation: Jaina Debates on the Spiritual Liberation of Women (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Padmanabh S. Jaini (HTML at UC Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Kalpa Sutra, and Nava Tatva: Two Works Illustrative of the Jain Religion and Philosophy (London: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain, 1848), ed. by J. Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Absent Lord: Ascetics and Kings in a Jain Ritual Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), by Lawrence A. Babb (HTML at UC Press)

• Absent Lord: Ascetics and Kings in a Jain Ritual Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), by Lawrence A. Babb (HTML at UC Press)

• Gender and Salvation: Jaina Debates on the Spiritual Liberation of Women (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Padmanabh S. Jaini (HTML at UC Press)

• Les Religions: Histoire, Dogmes, Critique (in French; Algiers: J. Torrent, 1910), by L. Chachoin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• God Passes By, by Shoghi Effendi (HTML at bahai-library.org)
• Traces That Remain: A Pictorial History of the Early Days of the Baha'i Faith Among the Japanese, ed. by Barbara R. Sims (illustrated HTML at bahai-library.org)

• Traces That Remain: A Pictorial History of the Early Days of the Baha'i Faith Among the Japanese, ed. by Barbara R. Sims (illustrated HTML at bahai-library.org)

• Buddhism in Tibet, Illustrated by Literary Documents and Objects of Religious Worship, With an Account of the Buddhist systems Preceding it in India (1863), by Emil Schlagintweit (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Creed of Half Japan: Historical Sketches of Japanese Buddhism (London: John Murray, 1911), by Arthur Lloyd (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• The Zen Experience, by Thomas Hoover (Gutenberg multiple formats)

• Buddhism in Myanmar: A Short History, by Roger Bischoff (HTML at Access to Insight)

• Buddhism in Myanmar: A Short History, by Roger Bischoff (HTML at Access to Insight)

• The Women Who Ruled China: Buddhism, Multiculturalism, and Governance in the Sixth Century (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2024), by Stephanie Balkwill (multiple formats with commentary at luminosoa.org)

• Buddhism in a Nutshell, by Narada Maha Thera (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Everyman's Ethics: Four Discourses of the Buddha, trans. by Narada Maha Thera (HTML at Access to Insight)
• The Gospel of Buddha, According to Old Records (Chicago: Open Court, 1898), ed. by Paul Carus (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Gospel of Buddha, Compiled From Ancient Records (Chicago and London: Open Court, 1917), ed. by Paul Carus, illust. by O. Kopetzky (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lalita Vistara: Leben und Lehre des Çâkya-Buddha (2 volumes; text in Sanskrit and commentary in German; Halle a.S.: Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, 1902-1908), ed. by Salomon Lefmann
  • Volume 1: page images at Hamburg
  • Volume 2: page images at Hamburg
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Udana, or, The Solemn Utterances of the Buddha, Translated from the Pali, trans. by Dawsonne Melanchthon Strong (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia: Comparative Perspectives (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2018), ed. by R. Michael Feener and Anne M. Blackburn
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii
  • HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE

• Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia: Comparative Perspectives (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2018), ed. by R. Michael Feener and Anne M. Blackburn
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii
  • HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE

• The Autobiography of Phra Ajaan Lee, by Phra Sutthithammarangsīkhamphīramēthačhān (Lī), trans. by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (PDF at Access to Insight)

• An Account of King Kirti Sri's Embassy to Siam in Saka 1672 (1750 A.D.) (Bangkok: Siam Observer Office, 1908), trans. by P. E. Pieris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• How Did Islam Spread? By Sword or by Conversion?, by Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• A Restatement of the History of Islam and Muslims, CE 570 to 661, by Ali Asgher Razwy (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Imamate and Leadership: Lessons on Islamic Doctrine, by Mujtaba Musavi Lari, trans. by Hamid Algar (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• The Life of Muhammad the Prophet, by Akhtar Rizvi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Muhammad, the Messenger of God: A Brief Biographical Sketch, by Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Nafasul Mahmum Relating to the Heart Rending Tragedy of Karbala, by 'Abbas ibn Muhammad Rida Qummi (HTML at al-islam.org)

• Muḥammad and His Followers in Context: The Religious Map of Late Antique Arabia (Islamic History and Civilization, v209; Leiden and Boston: Brill, c2024), by Ilkka Lindstedt
  • PDF with commentary at Brill
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN

• Jewish-Muslim Intellectual History Entangled: Textual Materials from the Firkovitch Collection, Saint Petersburg (includes Arabic texts; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Camilla Adang, Bruno Chiesa, Omar Hamdan, Wilferd Madelung, Sabine Schmidtke, and Jan Thiele (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• How the Khilafah Was Destroyed (2000), by 'Abd al-Qadīm Zallūm (PDF at hizb-ut-tahrir.org)

• Biographien Muhammeds, Seiner Gefährten und der Späteren Träger des Islams, Bis zum Jahre 230 der Flucht (9 volumes (some in multiple parts, but omitting a 1940 late index part), in Arabic and German; Leiden: Brill, 1905-1928), by Muḥammad Ibn Sa'd, ed. by Eduard Sachau, Eugen Mittwoch, Josef Horovitz, Friedrich Schwally, Julius Lippert, K. V. Zetterstéen, Bruno Meissner, and Carl Brockelmann
  • all volumes (except 1940 index part): page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume I part I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume I part II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II part I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II part II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IX part I: multiple formats at archive.org

• Islam, Politics and Change: The Indonesian Experience After the Fall of Suharto (Leiden: Leiden University Press, c2016), ed. by C. van Dijk and N. J. G. Kaptein
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Discrimination and Intolerance in Iran's Textbooks (2008), by Saeed Paivandi (HTML at unhcr.org)

• A Nation of Empire: The Ottoman Legacy of Turkish Modernity, by Michael E. Meeker (HTML at UC Press)

• Discrimination and Intolerance in Iran's Textbooks (2008), by Saeed Paivandi (HTML at unhcr.org)

• The Occultation of the Twelfth Imam: A Historical Background (1982), by Jassim M. Hussain (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• A Brief History of the Fourteen Infallibles (Tehran: World Organization for Islamic Services, 1984) (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• Essai sur le Chéïkhisme (4 parts in 1 volume, in French; Paris: P. Geuthner, 1910-1914), by A. L. M. Nicolas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Roots of North Indian Shi'ism in Iran and Iraq: Religion and State in Awadh, 1722-1859 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by Juan Ricardo Cole (HTML at UC Press)

• Afghanistan's Islam: From Conversion to the Taliban (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2017), ed. by Nile Green (multiple formats with commentary at Luminos)

• Development of Muslim Theology, Jurisprudence and Constitutional Theory (1903), by Duncan Black Macdonald (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia: Conversion, Apostasy, and Literacy (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2014), by Agnès Kefeli (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Introduction to Judaism (1961), by Lee Archer Belford (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Festschrift zu Israel Lewy's Siebzigstem Geburtstag (in German; Breslau: M. und H. Marcus, 1911), ed. by M. Brann and Ismar Elbogen
  • page images in Germany
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Hebrew Union College Jubilee Volume (1875-1925) (Cincinnati, 1925), ed. by David Philipson, H. G. Enelow, Kaufmann Kohler, Jacob Zallel Lauterbach, Jacob Mann, Julian Morgenstern, and William Rosenau (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Old Diary Leaves: The True Story of the Theosophical Society (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons; Chennai: "The Theosophist", 1895), by Henry Steel Olcott
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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