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Volume 80; Issue 1

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Volume 80; Issue 1

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ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr and the Mahdī: Between propaganda and historical memory in the Second Civil War

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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The court as a battlefield: the art of war and the art of politics in the Han Feizi

Galvany, Albert

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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Carl Wurtzel (trans.), Robert G. Hoyland (ed.): Khalifa ibn Khayyat's History on the Umayyad Dynasty (660–750). (Translated Texts for Historians.) xiii, 332 pp. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2015. £25. ISBN 978 1 78138 175 5.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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Elisa Roßberger: Schmuck für Lebende und Tote: Form und Funktion des Schmuckinventars der Königsgruft von Qatna in seinem soziokulturellen Umfeld. (Qatna Studien 4.) xxxvi, 482 pp., 44 plates. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015. £117.22. ISBN 987 3 447 10439 5.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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Audrey Truschke: Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court. xiii, 362 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. £44. ISBN 978 0231173629.

Talbot, Cynthia

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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Haeree Park: The Writing System of Scribe Zhou: Evidence from Late Pre-imperial Chinese Manuscripts and Inscriptions (5th–3rd centuriesbce). (Studies in Manuscript Cultures.) xiv, 328 pp. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016. £82.99. ISBN 978 3 11 044944 0.

Krijgsman, Rens

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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Annick Payne and Jorit Wintjes: Lords of Asia Minor: An Introduction to the Lydians. (PHILIPPIKA. Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen / Contributions to the Study of Ancient World Cultures.) x, 145 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016. €29.80. ISBN 978 3 447 10568 2.

Oreshko, Rostislav

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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Adam Kryszeń: A Historical Geography of the Hittite Heartland. (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 437.) xx, 423 pp. Münster: Ugarit Verlag, 2016. ISBN 978 3 86835 199 6.

Gavaz, Özlem Sir

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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Sophia Vasalou: Ibn Taymiyya's Theological Ethics. ix, 342 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. £47.99. ISBN 978 0 19 939783 9.

Rapoport, Yossef

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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Richard Foltz: Iran in World History. (The New Oxford World History.) xiv, 151 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. £12.99. ISBN 978 0 19 933549 7.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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Ilan Peled: Masculinities and Third Gender. The Origins and Nature of an Institutionalized Gender Otherness in the Ancient Near East. (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 435.) 333 pp. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2016. €109. ISBN 978 3 86835 195 8.

Garcia-Ventura, Agnès

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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Oliver Kahl: The Sanskrit, Syriac and Persian Sources in the Comprehensive Book of Rhazes. (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies.) xiv, 487 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2015. €146. ISBN 978 90 04 29025 9.

Richter-Bernburg, Lutz

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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Tian Yuan Tan, Paul Edmondson and Shih-Pe Wang (eds): 1616. Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China. (The Arden Shakespeare.) xxii, 326 pp. London: Bloomsbury, 2016. $29.95. ISBN 978 1 4725 8341 3.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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An Oroch word-list lost and rediscovered: a critical edition of Tronson's 1859 pseudo-Nivkh vocabulary

Alonso de la Fuente, José Andrés

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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On the margins of minority life: Zoroastrians and the state in Safavid Iran

Ghereghlou, Kioumars

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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Sabine Schmidtke (ed.): The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology. xi, 815 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. ₤95. ISBN 978 0 19 969670 3.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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Hasan Çolak: The Orthodox Church in the Early Modern Middle East: Relations between the Ottoman Central Administration and the Patriarchates of Antioch, Jerusalem and Alexandria. (Dil ve Tarih Yüksek Kurumu.) xii, 282 pp. Ankara: Atatürk Kültür, 2015. ISBN 978 975 16 3007 0.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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Arthur Millner: Damascus Tiles: Mamluk and Ottoman Architectural Ceramics from Syria. 320 pp. Munich, London and New York: Prestel Verlag, 2015. £60. ISBN 978 3 7913 8147 3.

Denny, Walter B.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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Farouk Yahya: Magic and Divination in Malay Illustrated Manuscripts. cxviii, 349 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016. ISBN 978 9004 30164 1.

Burnett, Charles

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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On the identity of the Syrian abdāl

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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Kirsten Thomson: Politics and Power in Late Fatimid Egypt: The Reign of Caliph al-Mustansir. (Library of Middle East History.) 240 pp. London: I.B. Tauris, 2016. £69. ISBN 978 17807 6167 1.

Walker, Paul E.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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Angela Greco: Garden Administration in the Ĝirsu Province during the Neo-Sumerian Period. (Biblioteca del Próximo Oriente Antiguo 12.) 369 pp. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2015. €24. ISBN 978 84 00 09941 1.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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Gérard Fussman (ed. Denis Matringe, Éric Ollivier and Isabelle Szelagowski): Choix d'articles. (Réimpressions.) 598 pp. Paris: École française d'Extrême-Orient, 2014. €40. ISBN 978 2 85539 277 6.

Tournier, Vincent

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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Beate Pongratz-Leisten: Religion and Ideology in Assyria. (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records 6.) xiv, 553 pp. Boston and Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2015. €109.95. ISBN 978 1 61451 482 4.

Shibata, Daisuke

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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Shawkat M. Toorawa (ed.): Ibn al-Sāʿī, Consorts of the Caliphs. Women and the Court of Baghdad. Translated by the Editors of the Library of Arabic Literature. (Library of Arabic Literature.) xlv, 226 pp. New York: New York University Press, 2015. $30. ISBN: 978 1 47985098 3.

Kilpatrick, Hilary

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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Roger Allen (ed. and trans.): Muḥammad al-Muwayliḥī: What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us or, A Period of Time, Volume One. (Library of Arabic Literature.) xxxvi, 484 pp. New York and London: New York University Press, 2015. $80. ISBN 978 1 4798 1388 9.Roger Allen (ed. and trans.): Muḥammad al-Muwayliḥī: What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us or, A Period of Time, Volume Two. (Library of Arabic Literature.) viii, 404 pp. New York and London: New York University Press, 2015. ISBN 978 1 4798 6225 2.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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Aurelia Martín Casares: Juan Latino: Talento y destino. Un afroespañol en tiempos de Carlos V y Felipe II. 219 pp. Granada: Editorial Universidad de Granada, 2016. €24. ISBN 978 84 338 5929 7.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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Miri Shefer-Mossensohn: Science among the Ottomans: The Cultural Creation and Exchange of Knowledge. xiv, 246 pp. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2015. ISBN 978 1 4773 0359 7.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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Trevor P. Hall (ed. and trans.): Before Middle Passage: Translated Portuguese Documents of Atlantic Slave Trading from West Africa to Iberian Territories, 1513–1526. xvi, 300 pp. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. £70. ISBN 978 1 472 46372 2.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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Nadia Maria El Cheikh: Women, Islam and Abbasid Identity. vii, 160 pp. Cambridge MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2015. £33.95. ISBN 978 0 674 73636 8.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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Patrick Wing: The Jalayirids: Dynastic State Formation in the Mongol Middle East. xii, 228 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016. £75. ISBN 978 1 4744 0225 5.

Brack, Jonathan

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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Christine Isom-Verhaaren and Kent F. Schull (eds): Living in the Ottoman Realm: Empire and Identity 13th to 20th Centuries. xvi, 367 pp. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2016. ISBN 978 0 253 01943 1.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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Sherry Sayed Gadelrab: Medicine and Morality in Egypt: Gender and Sexuality in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. x, 204 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2016. ISBN 978 1 78076 751 2.

Chacko Jacob, Wilson

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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Helmut Freydank: Assyrische Jahresbeamte des 12. Jh. v. Chr.: Eponymen von Tukultī-Ninurta I bis Tukultī-apil-ešarra I. (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 429.) xiv, 251 pp. Münster: Ugarit Verlag, 2016. ISBN 978 3 86835 179 8.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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Michael Nylan and Griet Vankeerberghen (eds): Chang'an 26bce. An Augustan Age in China. xiv, 642 pp. Seattle and Washington: University of Washington Press, 2015. ISBN 978 0 295 99405 5.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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Justin m. Jacobs: Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State. (Studies on Ethnic Groups in China.) xvi, 297 pp. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2016. $50. ISBN 978 0 29599 565 6.

Bellér-Hann, Ildikó

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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Veysel Donbaz: Middle Assyrian Texts from Assur at the Eski Şark Eserli Müzesi in Istanbul. (Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 146. Keilschrifttexte aus mittelassyrischer Zeit 11.) x, 28 pp., 74 plates. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2016. ISBN 978 3 447 10538 5.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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Konrad Hirschler: Medieval Damascus. Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library: The Ashrafīya Library Catalogue. (Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture.) x, 525 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016. ₤85. ISBN 978 1 4744 0877 6.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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Ismail E. Erünsal: Osmanlılarda Kütüphaneler ve Kütüphanecilik. 728 pp. Istanbul: TİMAŞ, 2015 (2nd ed.) ISBN 978 605 08 1943 4.Ismail E. Erünsal: Osmanlılarda Sahaflık ve Sahaflar. 581 pp. Istanbul: TİMAŞ, 2013. ISBN 978 605 08 1180 3.

Sievert, Henning

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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Minjie Chen: The Sino-Japanese War and Youth Literature: Friends and Foes on the Battlefield. (Routledge Studies in Education and Society in Asia.) xiv, 226 pp. New York and London: Routledge, 2016. ISBN 978 1 138 85969 2.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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Benjamin A. Elman (ed.): Antiquarianism, Language, and Medical Philology: From Early Modern to Modern Sino-Japanese Medical Discourses. (Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series.) viii, 232 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2015. ISBN 978 90 04 28544 6.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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Charles C. Stewart (comp.): Arabic Literature of Africa, Volume 5. The Writings of Mauritania and the Western Sahara, Parts 1 and 2. xxx, 827pp.; xxx, 829–2054 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2016. €480. ISBN 978 90 04 26038 2.

Olalekan Sanni, Amidu

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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BSO volume 80 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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BSO volume 80 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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BSO volume 80 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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BSO volume 80 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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Xu Jing : A Chinese Traveler in Medieval Korea: Xu Jing's Illustrated Account of the Xuanhe Embassy to Koryŏ. (Translated, annotated and with an introduction by Sem Vermeersch .) (Korean Classics Library: Historical Materials.) xi, xiii, xviii, 367 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2016. $65. ISBN 978 0 824 85644 1.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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2017

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english

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