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Volume 73; Issue 1

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Volume 73; Issue 1

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The poetic forms and two longer poems in the Manju gisun i yobo maktara sarkiyan

Toh, Hoong Teik

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2010

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Robert Hillenbrand and Sylvia Auld (eds): Ayyubid Jerusalem: The Holy City in Context 1187–1250. x, 517 pp. London: Altajir Trust, 2009. £110. ISBN 978 1 901435 06 1.

Hirschler, Konrad

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2010

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english

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Julia A. B. Hegewald: Jaina Temple Architecture in India: The Development of a Distinct Language in Space and Ritual. (Monographien zur Indischen Archäologie, Kunst und Philologie, Band 19.) 693 pp. Berlin: G+H Verlag, 2009. €128. ISBN 978 3 940939 09 8.

Michell, George

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2010

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english

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BSO volume 73 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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2010

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Feras Hamza and Sajjad Rizvi (with Farhana Mayer) (eds): An Anthology of Qur'anic Commentaries, Volume I: On the Nature of the Divine. (The Institute of Ismaili Studies. Qur'anic Studies Series, 5.) xvii, 670 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 978 0 19 720000 1.

Saleh, Walid A.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2010

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english

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Vincent Durand-Dastès: La Conversion de l'Orient: une pérégrination didactique de Bodhidharma. (Mélanges chinois et bouddhiques XXIX.) ix, 437 pp. Brussels: Institut Belge des Hautes Études Chinoises, 2008. ISBN 978 2 9600076 1 9.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2010

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english

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Christopher I. Beckwith: Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present. xxvii, 472 pp. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009. £19.95. ISBN 978 0 691 13589 2.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2010

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english

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Finbarr B. Flood: Objects of Translation: Material Culture and Medieval “Hindu–Muslim” Encounter. xv, 366 pp. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2009. £30.95. ISBN 978 0 691 12594 7.

Michell, George

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2010

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english

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Chua Beng Huat and Koichi Iwabuchi (eds): East Asian Pop Culture: Analysing the Korean Wave. (TransAsia: Screen Cultures.) xi, 307 pp. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008. ISBN 978 962 209 893 0.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2010

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english

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Mark Edward Lewis: China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty. viii, 356 pp. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. £25.95. ISBN 978 0 674 03306 1.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2010

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english

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Frances Wood: The Lure of China: Writers from Marco Polo to J. G. Ballard. iv, 283 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. £19.99. ISBN 978 0 300 15436 8.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2010

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english

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Jana Fortier: Kings of the Forest: The Cultural Resilience of Himalayan Hunter-Gatherers. xii, 215 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2009. $24. ISBN 978 0 8248 3356 5

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2010

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english

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Kurtis R. Schaeffer: The Culture of the Book in Tibet. xiii, 244 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. £31. ISBN 978 0 231 14716 3.

Dotson, Brandon

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2010

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english

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Daniel M. Friedenberg: Sasanian Jewry and Its Culture: A Lexicon of Jewish and Related Seals. xiv, 74 pp. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2009. $40. ISBN 978 0 252 03367 4.

Hezser, Catherine

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2010

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english

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Lawrence C. H. Yim: The Poet-Historian Qian Qianyi. (Academia Sinica on East Asia.) 222 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. £75. ISBN 0 415 49460 5.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2010

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english

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William Wayne Farris: Daily Life and Demographics in Ancient Japan. (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies.) x, 137 pp. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 2009. $50. ISBN 978 1 929280 49 0.

Barnes, Gina L.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2010

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english

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Madawi Al-Rasheed: Kingdom without Borders: Saudi Arabia's Political, Religious and Media Frontiers. xii, 383 pp. London: Hurst, 2008. £20. ISBN 978 18506 5942 6.

Hertog, Steffen

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2010

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english

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Beata Grant: Eminent Nuns, Women Chan Masters of Seventeenth-Century China. xiii, 241 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2008. £46. ISBN 978 0 8248 3202 5.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2010

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english

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Ninian Smart: World Philosophies. (2nd edition. Edited by Oliver Leaman.) xi, 564 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2008. £80. ISBN 978 0 415 41188 2.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2010

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english

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Dieter Kuhn: The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China. (History of Imperial China.) ix, 356 pp. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. £25.95. ISBN 978 0 674 03146 3.

De Weerdt, Hilde

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2010

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english

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Khargūshī, Tahdhīb al-asrār

Melchert, Christopher

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2010

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english

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William Radice (trans.): The Post Office. (Rabindranath Tagore's Dakghar). 153 pp. Kolkata: Visva-Bharati Publishing Department, 2008. ISBN 978 81 7522 433 9.William Radice (trans.): Card Country. (Rabindranath Tagore's Taser Desh). 179 pp. Kolkata: Visva-Bharati Publishing Department, 2008. Rs. 750. ISBN 978 81 7522 453 7.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2010

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english

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A petition to a woman at the Fatimid court (413–414 a.h./1022–23 c.e.)

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2010

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english

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Nicola Di Cosmo (ed.): Military Culture in Imperial China. x, 445 pp. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2009. £33.95. ISBN 978 0 674 03109 8.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2010

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english

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Revisiting the language factor in Zionism: The Hebrew Language Council from 1904 to 1914

Aytürk, İlker

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2010

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english

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The Meroitic script and the understanding of alpha-syllabic writing

de Voogt, Alexander J.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2010

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english

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BOOKS RECEIVED FOR REVIEW

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2010

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Michael L. Walter: Buddhism and Empire: The Political and Religious Culture of Early Tibet. (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library.) xxvii, 311 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009. €125. ISBN 978 90 04 17584 6.

Dotson, Brandon

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2010

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english

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Stephen Jones: Ritual and Music of North China, Volume 2: Shaanbei. (SOAS Musicology Series.) xxviii, 243 pp. DVD. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. £55. ISBN 978 0 7546 6590 8.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2010

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english

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BSO volume 73 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2010

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english

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