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Volume 76; Issue 2

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Volume 76; Issue 2

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Derryl N. MacLean and Sikeena Karmali Ahmed (eds): Cosmopolitanisms in Muslim Contexts: Perspectives from the Past. (Exploring Muslim Contexts.) viii, 190 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press in association with the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, 2012. ISBN 978 0 7486 4456 8.

Robinson, Francis

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Colette Establet and Jean-Paul Pascual: La gent d’état dans la société ottomane damascène. Les ʿaskars à la fin du xviie siècle. 351 pp. Damascus: Institut Français du Proche-Orient, 2011. €30. ISBN 978 2 35159 175 8.

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Caterina Bori and Livnat Holtzman (eds): A Scholar in the Shadow: Essays in the Legal and Theological Thought of Ibn Qayyim al-Ğawziyyah. (Oriente Moderno XC.) ix, 293 pp. Rome: Istituto per l'Oriente C.A. Nallino, 2010. ISBN 977 003054700 4.

Schallenbergh, Gino

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David Stronach and Ali Mousavi (eds): Ancient Iran from the Air. 192 pp., 114 Plates. Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2012. $44.90. ISBN: 978 3 8053 4453 1.

Müller, Sabine

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Tirthankar Roy: India in the World Economy: From Antiquity to the Present. xliii, 276 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. ISBN 978 1 107 40147 1. £18.99.

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Sacha Stern: Calendars in Antiquity: Empires, States, and Societies. vi, 457 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £95. ISBN 978 019958944 9.

Johnson, J. Cale

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Christine Woodhead (ed.): The Ottoman World. (The Routledge Worlds.) xix, 536 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2012. £140. ISBN 978 0 415 44492 7.

Finkel, Caroline

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Christopher I. Beckwith: Warriors of the Cloisters: The Central Asian Origins of Science in the Medieval World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. $29.95. ISBN 978 0 691 15531 9.

Elverskog, Johan

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Gerald MacLean and Nabil Matar: Britain and the Islamic World, 1558–1713. xiii, 335 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. ₤35. ISBN 978 0 19 920318 5.

Wokoeck, Ursula

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Heonik Kwon and Byung-Ho Chung: North Korea: Beyond Charismatic Politics. xii, 218 pp. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2012. ISBN 978 0 7425 5679 9.

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The contiguity between churches and mosques in early Islamic Bilād al-Shām

Guidetti, Mattia

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Ariane KnüSel: Framing China: Media Images and Political Debates in Britain, the USA and Switzerland, 1900–1950. xiv, 316 pp. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2012. ISBN 978 140942559 5.

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Allen J. Frank: Bukhara and the Muslims of Russia: Sufism, Education, and the Paradox of Islamic Prestige (Brill's Inner Asian Library.) 215 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012. ISBN 978 90 04 23288 4.

Kemper, Michael

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Doris Behrens-Abouseif (ed.): The Arts of the Mamluks in Egypt and Syria – Evolution and Impact. (Mamluk Studies.) 351 pp., 150 figures. Goettingen: Bonn University Press at V&R unipress GmbH, 2012. €160. ISBN 978 3 89971 915 4.

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Anne de Coursey Clapp: Commemorative Landscape Painting in China. (Tang Center Lecture Series.) 176 pp. Princeton: P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, Princeton University, 2012. £19.95. ISBN 978 0 691 15476 3.

Karetzky, Patricia Eichenbaum

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P. K. Basant: The City and Country in Early India: A Study of Malwa. xi, 369 pp. Delhi: Primus Books. 2012. ISBN 978 93 80607 15 3.

Willis, Michael

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Sean W. Anthony: The Caliph and the Heretic: Ibn Saba’ and the Origins of Shīʿism. (Islamic History and Civilization: Studies and Texts.) xiii, 352 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012. €128. ISBN 978 90 04 20930 5.

Bayhom-Daou, Tamima

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Benjamin Penny: The Religion of Falun Gong. xiii, 262 pp. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. ₤29. ISBN 978 0 226 65501 7.

ter Haar, Barend J.

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Lo Jung-Pang (ed. Bruce A. Elleman): China as a Sea Power, 1127–1368. A Preliminary Survey of the Maritime Expansion and Naval Exploits of the Chinese People during the Southern Song and Yuan Periods. xxx, 378 pp. Singapore: NUS Press, 2012; Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2012. ISBN 978 9971 69 505 7 (NUS Pr.); ISBN 978 988 8139 80 4 (HK Univ. Pr.).

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Lise Winer: Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad and Tobago. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009. xiv, 1048 pp. $85. ISBN 978 077353406 3.

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Abbas Amanat and Farzin Vejdani (eds): Iran Facing Others. Identity Boundaries in a Historical Perspective. xiii, 292 pp. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. ISBN 978 0 230 10253 8.

Pistor-Hatam, Anja

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Emine Ö. Evered: Empire and Education under the Ottomans: Politics, Reform, and Resistance from the Tanzimat to the Young Turks. xx, 333 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2012. £56.50. ISBN 978 1 78076 109 1.

Somel, Selçuk Akşin

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Sam Van Schaik and Imre Galambos: Manuscripts and Travellers: The Sino-Tibetan Documents of a Tenth-Century Buddhist Pilgrim. (Studies in Manuscript Cultures, Volume 2.) viii, 247 pp. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012. ISBN 978 3 11 022564 8.

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Ali Usman Qasmi: Questioning the Authority of the Past: The Ahl al-Qur'an Movements in the Punjab. xii, 348 pp. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN 978 0 19 547348 3.

Zaman, Muhammad Qasim

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Navina Najat Haidar and Marika Sardar (eds): Sultans of the South: Arts of India's Deccan Courts, 1323–1687. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art Symposia.) xiv, 322 pp. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (distributed by Yale University Press), 2011. $50. ISBN 978 1 58839 438 5.

Parodi, Laura E.

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Johannes Bronkhorst: Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism. viii, 293 pp. (Handbook of Oriental Studies.) Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011. €119. ISBN 978 90 04 20140 8.

Willis, Michael

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On pre-Tibetan semi-vowels

Jacques, Guillaume

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Nile Green: Sufism: A Global History. xxi, 363 pp. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. £19.99. ISBN 978 1 4051 5765 0.

Vikør, Knut S.

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The Quran and the apostles of Jesus

Reynolds, Gabriel Said

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2013

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An Atharvanic hymn to night: text-critical and linguistic remarks on the interpretation of Śaunakīya 19.50 = Paippalāda 14.9

Kulikov, Leonid

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2013

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Kazuo Morimoto (ed.): Sayyids and Sharifs in Muslim Societies: The Living Links to the Prophet. (Routledge New Horizons in Islamic Studies.) xii, 276 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2012. £80. ISBN 978 0 415 51917 5.

Mauriello, Raffaele

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Hyunhee Park: Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Worlds: Cross-Cultural Exchange in Pre-Modern Asia. xxviii, 276 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. £60. ISBN 978 1 107 01868 6.

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Philip B. Yampolsky (trans.), with a new foreword by Morten Schlütter: The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch: The Text of the Tun-huang Manuscript. (Translations from the Asian Classics.) xx, 259 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. £22.50. ISBN 978 023115 956 2.Morten Schlütter and Stephen F. Teiser (eds): Readings of the Platform Sutra. (Columbia Readings of Buddhist Literature.) xii, 220 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. £19. ISBN 978 023115821 3.

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Yan Xuetong (阎学通): Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power. (The Princeton China Series.) ix, 312 pp. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. (Translated by Edmund Ryden.) $32.50. ISBN 978 0 691 14826 7.

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BOOKS RECEIVED FOR REVIEW

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BSO volume 76 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

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BSO volume 76 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

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Nominal possessive constructions in the early modern Hasidic Hebrew tale

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