Volume 78; Issue 2

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
Volume 78; Issue 2

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Volume 78; Issue 2

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International law for survival: teaching international law in the late Ottoman Empire (1859–1922)

Palabıyık, Mustafa Serdar

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2015

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“No two religions”: Non-Muslims in the early Islamic Ḥijāz

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2015

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english

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Ban Gu: copyist, creator and critic

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2015

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english

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FREDERICK F. ANSCOMBE: State, Faith, and Nation in Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Lands. xix, 323 pp. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. £55. ISBN 978 1 1076 1523 6.

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2015

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ABDULRAHMAN AL-SALIMI and WILFERD MADELUNG: Early Ibāḍī Theology: Six Kalām Texts by ‘Abd Allāh b. Yazīd al-Fazārī. (Islamic History and Civilization.) cvi, 241 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2014. €99. ISBN 978 90 04 27025 1.

Gaiser, Adam R.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2015

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english

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NATHANIEL GREENBERG: The Aesthetic of Revolution in the Film and Literature of Naguib Mahfouz (1952–1967). xxxi, 95 pp. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014. £44.95. ISBN 978 0 7391 8369 4.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2015

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english

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FRANCIS BREYER: Altakkadisches Elementarbuch. (Subsidia et Instrumenta Linguarum Orientis 3.) xiv, 260 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2014. ISBN 978 3 447 06549 8.

Hasselbach-Andee, Rebecca

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2015

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english

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JINAH KIM: Receptacle of the Sacred: Illustrated Manuscripts and the Buddhist Book Cult in South Asia. (South Asia across the Disciplines.) xxv, 377 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2013. $70. ISBN 978 0 520 27386 3.

Kinnard, Jacob N.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2015

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english

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TODD LEWIS: Buddhists: Understanding Buddhism through the Lives of Practitioners. xv, 329 pp. Chichester and Malden, MA: Wiley, 2014. ₤22.99. ISBN 978 0 470 65818 5.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2015

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english

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DAMIAN FLANAGAN: Yukio Mishima. (Critical Lives.) 256 pp. London: Reaktion Books, 2014. £10.95. ISBN 978 1 78023 345 1.

Shores, Matthew W.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2015

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english

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NICOLAS TACKETT: The Destruction of the Medieval Chinese Aristocracy. (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series.) xvi, 282 pp. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2014. £36.95. ISBN 978 0 674 49205 9.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2015

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english

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JOHANNES HACKL, MICHAEL JURSA and MARTINA SCHMIDT: Spätbabylonische Briefe, Herausgegeben von Michael Jursa. Band 1. Spätbabylonische Privatbriefe. (Alter Orient und Altes Testament.) ix, 514 pp. Muenster: Ugarit Verlag, 2014. ISBN 978 3 86835 104 0.

Abraham, Kathleen

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2015

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english

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A. KIRK GRAYSON and JAMIE NOVOTNY: The Royal Inscriptions of Sennacherib, King of Assyria (704–681bc), Part 2. (The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, V3/2.) xxxvii, 394 pp. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2014. ISBN 978 1 57506 242 6.

Zamazalová, Silvie

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2015

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english

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SACHA STERN and CHARLES BURNETT (eds): Time, Astronomy, and Calendars in the Jewish Tradition. (Time, Astronomy, and Calendars: Texts and Studies.) xxi, 365 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2013. €167. ISBN 978 90 04 25965 2.

Johnson, J. Cale

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2015

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english

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BEKIM AGAI, OLCAY AKYILDIZ and CASPAR HILLEBRAND (eds): Venturing Beyond Borders – Reflections on Genre, Function and Boundaries in Middle Eastern Travel Writing. (Istanbuler Texte und Studien.) 264 pp. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag Würzburg in Kommission, 2013. €59. ISBN 978 3 89913 977 8.

Tolmacheva, Marina

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2015

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english

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PETRA MAURER, JOHANNES SCHNEIDER,et al.: Wörterbuch der tibetischen Schriftsprache. Fascicles 1–24. München: Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2005–2014. (Multiple prices and ISBNs)

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2015

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english

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KEN C. KAWASHIMA, FABIAN SCHÄFER and ROBERT STOLZ (eds): Tosaka Jun: A Critical Reader. (Cornell East Asia Series.) xxxv, 313 pp. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University East Asia Program, 2014. $39. ISBN 978 1 933947 68 6.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2015

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english

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What is aṣ̌a-?

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2015

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Archaic and innovative Islamic prayer names around the Sahara

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2015

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english

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JOHN KNOBLOCK and JEFFREY RIEGEL: Mozi. A Study and Translation of the Ethical and Political Writings. (Institute of East Asian Studies China Monograph Series 68.) xvii, 501 pp. Berkeley: University of California Center for Chinese Studies, 2013. ISBN 978 1 55729 103 5.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2015

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english

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NINA MIRNIG, PÉTER-DÁNIEL SZÁNTÓ and MICHAEL WILLIAMS (eds): Puṣpikā. Tracing Ancient India through Texts and Tradition. Contributions to Current Research in Indology. Volume 1. xiii, 474 pp. Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2013. £38. ISBN 978 1 84217 385 5.GIOVANNI CIOTTI, ALASTAIR GORNALL and PAOLO VISIGALLI (eds): Puṣpikā. Tracing Ancient India through Texts and Tradition. Contributions to Current Research in Indology. Volume 2. ix, 219 pp. Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2013. £28. ISBN 978 1 78297 415 4.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2015

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english

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AYESHAH S. CHAUDHRY: Domestic Violence and the Islamic Tradition. xii, 258 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN 978 0 19 964016 4.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2015

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english

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DAVID TOD ROY (trans.): The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei . (Volume Five: The Dissolution.) (Princeton Library of Asian Translations.) lxvi, 556 pp. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013. £37.95. ISBN 978 0 691 15771 9.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2015

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english

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MAURO ZONTA: Saggio di lessicografia filosofica araba. (Philosophica. Testi e studi.) 330 pp. Brescia: Paideia Editrice, 2014. €34. ISBN 978 88 394 0865 5.

Martini Bonadeo, Cecilia

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2015

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english

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DAVID E. POLLARD: Real Life in China at the Height of Empire: Revealed by the Ghosts of Ji Xiaolan. xl, 334 pp. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press, 2014. $45. ISBN 978 962996 601 0.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2015

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english

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ALBERT L. PARK and DAVID K. YOO (eds): Encountering Modernity: Christianity in East Asia and Asian America. (Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies.) xiii, 342 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press in association with UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Los Angeles, 2014. $42. ISBN 978 0 8248 3947 5.

Tiedemann, R.G.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2015

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english

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URSULA TOYKA: The Splendours of Paradise: Murals and Epigraphic Documents of the Early Ming Buddhist Monastery Fahai Si. (Monumenta Serica Monograph Series LXIII.) 2 vols, 577 pp., 578–990 pp. Sankt Augustin: Institut Monumenta Serica, 2014. €150. ISBN 978 3 8050 0617 0.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2015

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english

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DOROTHY C. WONG and GUSTAV HELDT (eds): China and Beyond in the Mediaeval Period: Cultural Crossings and Inter-Regional Connections. 440 pp. New York: Cambria Press, 2014. ISBN 978 1 60497 856 8.

Skaff, Jonathan

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2015

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english

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Textual and philosophical problems in the translation and transmission of tathāgatagarbha texts:

Ruegg, D. Seyfort

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2015

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english

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ALEX MALLETT: Popular Muslim Reactions to the Franks in the Levant, 1097–1291. xi, 176 pp. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2014. £65. ISBN 978 1 4094 5612 4.

Lindsay, James E.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2015

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english

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PAUL M. COBB: The Race for Paradise. An Islamic History of the Crusades. xxii, 335 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. £20. ISBN 978 0 19 953201 8.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2015

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english

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JAMES E. MONTGOMERY: Al-Jāḥiẓ: In Praise of Books. (Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature.) vi, 586 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. £95. ISBN 978 0 7486 8332 1.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2015

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english

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WILLIAM H. BAXTER and LAURENT SAGART: Old Chinese: A New Reconstruction. x, 448 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. £50. ISBN 978 0 19 994537 5.

Goldstein, D.M.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2015

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english

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HANS VAN DE VEN: Breaking with the Past: The Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in China. xiv, 396 pp. New York and Chichester: Columbia University Press, 2014. £34.50. ISBN 978 0 231 13738 6.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2015

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english

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TEZENLO THONG: Progress and its Impact on the Nagas: A Clash of Worldviews. xiv, 198 pp. (Vitality of Indigenous Religions.) Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. $109.95. ISBN 978 1 4094 6820 2.

Goswami, Namrata

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2015

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BSO volume 78 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

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BSO volume 78 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

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