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Volume 79; Issue 1

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Volume 79; Issue 1

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Ramzi Baalbaki: The Arabic Lexicographical Tradition: From the 2nd/8th to the 12th/18th Century. (Handbook of Oriental Studies.) x, 489 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2014. £138. ISBN 978 90 04 27397 9.

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Daryoush Mohammad Poor: Authority without Territory: The Aga Khan Development Network and the Ismaili Imamate. (Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World.) xix, 258 pp. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. £56.50. ISBN 978 1 137 42879 0.

Robinson, Francis

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Rika Gyselen (ed.): Documents, argenterie et monnaies de tradition sassanide. (Res Orientales XXII.) 189 pp. Bures-sur-Yvette: Groupe pour l’Étude de la Civilisation du Moyen-Orient, 2014. €70. ISBN 978 2 9521376 6 9.

Gariboldi, Andrea

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Nelly Hanna: Ottoman Egypt and the Emergence of the Modern World 1500–1800. vii, 185 pp. Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2014. ISBN 978 977 416 664 8.

Tuchscherer, Michel

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B. Deniz Çaliş-Kural: Şehrengiz: Urban Rituals and Deviant Sufi Mysticism in Ottoman İstanbul. xiii, 276 pp. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. £65. ISBN 978 1 4724 2709 0.

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Wheeler M. Thackston (ed. and trans.): Abu'l-Fazl. The History of Akbar. Volume I. (Murty Classical Library of India.) xxx, 614 pp. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. ISBN 978 0 674 42775 4.

MacLean, Derryl N.

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Ying Liu, Zhongping Chen and Gregory Blue (comp.): Zheng He's Maritime Voyages (1405–1433) and China's Relations with the Indian Ocean World: A Multilingual Bibliography. xxvi, 200 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2014. €98. ISBN 978 90 04 28016 8.

Jost, Alexander

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Janet Poole: When the Future Disappears: The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea. (Studies of the Westhead East Asia Institute, Columbia University.) xiv, 286 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. £41.50. ISBN 978 0 231 16518 1.

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Father, brother, and father-in-law as III-w nouns in Semitic

Wilson-Wright, Aren

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Arménien karmir, sogdien krmʾyr et hébreu karmīl « rouge »

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Paper documents and copper-plates: localization of hegemonic practices

Sohoni, Pushkar

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Misspelling “Buddha”: The officially commissioned Tibetan Aparimitāyur-nāma mahāyāna-sūtras from Dunhuang and the study of Old Tibetan orthography

Dotson, Brandon

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2016

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english

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Markham J. Geller: Melothesia in Babylonia: Medicine, Magic, and Astrology in the Ancient Near East. (Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures, 2.) xii, 100 pp. Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2014. €69.95. ISBN 978 1 614 51775 7.

Reynolds, Frances

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2016

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Laurie E. Pearce and Cornelia Wunsch: Documents of Judean Exiles and West Semites in Babylonia in the Collection of David Sofer. (Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology 28.) xlii, 322 pp. Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 2014. £45. ISBN 978 1 9343 0957 5.

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Uri Gabbay: Pacifying the Hearts of the Gods: Sumerian Emesal Prayers of the First Millenniumbc . (Heidelberger Emesal-Studien 1.) xx, 356 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014. ISBN 978 3 447 06748 5.

Adalı, Selim Ferruh

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Isaac Kalimi and Seth Richardson (eds): Sennacherib at the Gates of Jerusalem: Story, History, and Historiography. (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East.) xii, 548 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2014. €181. ISBN 978 90 04 26561 5.

Baruchi-Unna, Amitai

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Lauren Ristvet: Ritual, Performance, and Politics in the Ancient Near East. xiv, 315 pp. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. £65. ISBN 978 1 1070 6521 5.

Hutter, Manfred

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Niek Veldhuis: History of the Cuneiform Lexical Tradition. (Guides to the Mesopotamian Textual Record 6.) xiv, 524 pp. Münster: Ugarit Verlag, 2014. $98.29. ISBN 978 3 86835 116 3.

Kleinerman, Alexandra

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2016

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Petra Goedegebuure: The Hittite Demonstratives: Studies in Deixis, Topics and Focus. (Studien zu den Boğazköy-Texten.) 56, xv, 610 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2014. €98. ISBN 978 3 447 10228 5.

Yakubovich, Ilya

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2016

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Lidia Napiorkowska: A Grammar of the Christian Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Diyana-Zariwaw. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 81.) xiii, 599 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015. €181. ISBN 978 90 04 29032 7.

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Elisabeth Von Der Osten-Sacken: Untersuchungen zur Geflügelwirtschaft im Alten Orient. (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 272.) xvi, 670 pp. Fribourg: Academic Press, 2015. €174. ISBN 978 3 7278 1768 7.

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Paola Buzi: Coptic Manuscripts 7. The Manuscripts of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Part 4: Homiletic and Liturgical Manuscripts from the White Monastery. With Two Documents from Thebes and Two Old-Nubian Manuscripts. (Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, 21, 7.) Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014. 274 pp. €68. ISBN: 978 3 515 107112.

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Alessandro Bausi (ed.): Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies: An Introduction. xxii, 677 pp. Hamburg: COMSt, 2015. €56.29. ISBN 978 3 7323 1768 4.

Bauden, Frédéric

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Laudan Nooshin: Iranian Classical Music: The Discourses and Practice of Creativity. (SOAS Musicology Series.) xiv, 242 pp. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015. £65. ISBN 978 0 754 60703 8.

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Gideon Avni: The Byzantine–Islamic Transition in Palestine: An Archaeological Approach. (Oxford Studies in Byzantium.) xvi, 424 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN 978 0 19 968433 5.

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Rocco Rante: Rayy: From Its Origins to the Mongol Invasion, an Archaeological and Historiographical Study. (Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World.) xiv, 165 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2015. €107. ISBN 978 90 04 27929 2.

Northedge, Alastair

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2016

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Rocco Rante (ed.): Greater Khorasan: History, Geography, Archeology and Material Culture. (Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East.) viii, 310 pp. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2015. ₤59.99. ISBN 978 3 11 033155 4.

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Aptin Khanbaghi (ed.): Cities as Built and Lived Environments: Scholarship from Muslim Contexts, 1875–2011. (Muslim Civilizations Abstracts.) iv, 497 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press in association with The Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations, 2014. £75. ISBN 978 0 7486 9618 5.

Blessing, Patricia

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Lars Fogelin: An Archaeological History of Indian Buddhism. xii, 250 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. ISBN 978 0 19 994823 9.

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2016

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Catherine Becker: Shifting Stones, Shaping the Past: Sculpture from the Buddhist Stūpas of Andhra Pradesh. xxi, 321 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. ISBN 978 0 19 935940 0.

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Ajay K. Rao: Re-Figuring the Rāmāyaṇa as Theology: A History of Reception in Premodern India. (Routledge Hindu Studies Series.) ix, 156 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2015. £48.95. ISBN 978 0 415 68751 5.

Sathaye, Adheesh A.

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Brian Collins: The Head Beneath the Altar: Hindu Mythology and the Critique of Sacrifice. (Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture.) x, 230 pp. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2015. $24.95. ISBN 978 1 61186 116 7.

Larios, Borayin

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Kiyokazu Okita: Hindu Theology in Early Modern South Asia: The Rise of Devotionalism and the Politics of Genealogy. (Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs.) xv, 284 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN 978 1 107 04213 1.

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Laura E. Parodi (ed.): The Visual World of Muslim India: The Art, Culture and Society of the Deccan in the Early Modern Era. xxxii, 366 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2014. £68. ISBN 978 1 84885 746 9.Navina Najat Haidar and Marika Sardar (eds): Sultans of Deccan India, 1500–1700: Opulence and Fantasy. xi, 384 pp. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2015. $65. ISBN 978 1 58839 566 5.

Simpson, Marianna Shreve

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Jean Deloche: Contribution to the History of the Wheeled Vehicle in India. (Collection Indologie 126.) 145 pp. Pondicherry: Institut Français de Pondichéry / École française d'Extrême-Orient, 2014. ISBN 978 81 8470 201 9.

Ślączka, Anna A.

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Purnima Mankekar: Unsettling India: Affect, Temporality, Transnationality. xiv, 301 pp. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. $26.95. ISBN 978 0 8223 5836 7.

Hindman, Heather

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Emil Sieg: (ed. Georges-Jean Pinault and Michaël Peyrot): Tocharologica. (Monographien zur Indischen Archaëologie, Kunst und Philologie, 22.) xx, 294 pp. Bremen: Dr. Ute Hempen Verlag, 2014. €64. ISBN 978 3 944312 15 6.

Chao-jung, Ching

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Christopher I. Beckwith: Greek Buddha: Pyrrho's Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia. xxi, 279 pp. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. £29.95. ISBN 978 0 69116644 5.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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Johannes Schneider: Eine buddhistische Kritik der indischen Götter. Śaṃkarasvāmins Devātiśayastotra mit Prajñāvarmans Kommentar. Nach dem tibetischen Tanjur herausgegeben und übersetzt. (Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde 81.) x, 195 pp. Vienna: Arbeitskreis für tibetische und buddhistische Studien der Universität Wien, 2014. €18. ISBN 978 3 902501 19 6.

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Theresia Hofer (ed.): Bodies in Balance – The Art of Tibetan Medicine. 360 pp. New York: Rubin Museum of Art, in association with University of Washington Press, 2014. $74.95. ISBN 978 029599359 1.

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Gideon Shelach-Lavi: The Archaeology of Early China: From Prehistory to the Han Dynasty. xviii, 373 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. $39.99. ISBN 978 0 521 14525 1.

Barnes, Gina L.

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Barend J. ter Haar: Practicing Scripture: A Lay Buddhist Movement in Late Imperial China. x, 298 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2014. $50. ISBN 978 0 8248 3927 7.

Scott, Gregory Adam

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Roman Malek: The Chinese Face of Jesus Christ, Volume 4a: Annotated Bibliography. 658 pp. Sankt Augustin: Monumenta Serica Institute; Leeds: Maney Publishing, 2015. £95. ISBN 978 1 90966268 1.

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Manling Luo: Literati Storytelling in Late Medieval China. xvi, 242 pp. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2015. $50. ISBN 978 0 295 99414 7.

Børdahl, Vibeke

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William E. Deal and Brian Ruppert: A Cultural History of Japanese Buddhism. (Wiley Blackwell Guides to Buddhism.) x, 303 pp. Chichester and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. £19.99. ISBN 978 1 4051 6701 7.

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Jeffrey L. Richey (ed): Daoism in Japan: Chinese Traditions and Their Influence on Japanese Religious Culture. (Routledge Studies in Daoism.) xiii, 267 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2015. £90. ISBN 978 1 138 78649 3.

Buckelew, Kevin

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Philip Taylor: The Khmer Lands of Vietnam: Environment, Cosmology, and Sovereignty. (Asian Studies Assocation of Australia.) 316 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2014. £19.43. ISBN 0 824 84673 7.

McCormick, Patrick

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2016

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Jeggan Senghor: The Very Reverend J.C. Faye: His Life Times. A Biography. 380 pp. Bloomington, IN: Author House Publishers, 2014. ISBN 978 149186953 6.

Ceesay, Hassoum

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Living happily ever after: fraternal polyandry, taxes and “the house” in early Islamic Bactria

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Khargāh: an inquiry into the spread of the “Turkish” trellis tent within the ʿAbbāsid world up to the Saljūq conquest (mid second/eighth–early fifth/eleventh centuries)

Durand-Guédy, David

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BSO volume 79 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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BSO volume 79 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

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Deictic motion verbs in Pashto: to whom shall we come?

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Ahmed El Shamsy: The Canonization of Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History. ix, 253 pp. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. £55. ISBN 978 110704148 6.

Lucas, Scott C.

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