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Adoption, acknowledgement of paternity and false genealogical claims in Arabian and Islamic societies

ELLA LANDAU-TASSERON

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 169-192
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03000107 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

The balsam of Matariyya: an exploration of a medieval panacea

MARCUS MILWRIGHT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 193-209
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03000119 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

Kuru kings, Tura Kavaseya, and the -tvaya gerund

THEODORE PROFERES

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 210-219
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03000120 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

A new copper-plate grant of Harsavardhana from the Punjab, year 8

ASHVINI AGRAWAL

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 220-228
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03000132 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

On the reconstruction of the Shenxian zhuan

T. H. BARRETT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 229-235
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03000144 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

Reviews

 
 

JOHN DAVID HAWKINS: Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions: Volume I. Inscriptions of the Iron Age. (Untersuchungen zur indogermanischen Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft, 8.1.) xxx, 639 pp; 333 plates; 1 map. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2000. €998.

ELISABETH RIEKEN

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 236-238
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03210156 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

SALLY M. FREEDMAN: If a city is set on a height: the Akkadian omen series Šumma Alu ina melê sak. (Occasional Publications of the Samuel Noah Kramer Fund, 17.) viii, 361 pp. Philadelphia, PA: The Samuel Noah Kramer Fund, The University of Pennsylvania Museum, 1998.

M. J. GELLER

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 238-240
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03220152 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

CHRISTOPHER WALKER and MICHAEL DICK: The induction of the cult image in ancient Mesopotamia. The Mesopotamian Mis Pî ritual. (State Archives of Assyria Literary Texts, 1.) vii, 267 pp., CD. Helsinki: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, Institute for Asian and African Studies, University of Helsinki, 2001. $75.

BARBARA BÖCK

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 241-242
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03230159 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

BARBARA BÖCK: Die babylonisch-assyrische Morphoskopie. (Archiv für Orientforschung, Beiheft 27.) vii, 348 pp., 32 pls. Vienna: Institut für Orientalistik der Universität Wien, 2000.

A. R. GEORGE

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 242-246
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03240155 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

ALEXANDRA MERLE (ed.): Voyage au Levant: les observations de Pierre Belon du Mans de plusieurs singularités et choses mémorables, trouvées en Grèce, Turquie, Judée, Égypte, Arabie et autres pays étrangers (1553). 607 pp. Paris: Éditions Chandeigne, 2001. €37.50.

H. T. NORRIS

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 246-249
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03250151 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

WILLIAM M. BRINNER (translator and annotator): ‘Ara'is al-majalis fi qisas al-anbiya’ or ‘Lives of the Prophets’ as recounted by Abu Ishaq Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Tha‘labi. (Studies in Arabic Literature, Supplements to the Journal of Arabic Literature edited by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, XXIV.) xxxiii, 772 pp. Leiden, Boston and Cologne: E. J. Brill, 2002. €176.

A. RIPPIN

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 249-251
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03260158 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

YASIR SULEIMAN: The Arabic language and national identity. viii, 280 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003. £17.99.

ALAN S. KAYE

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 251-253
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03270154 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

DIONISIUS A. AGIUS: In the wake of the Dhow. xx, 253 pp. Reading: Ithaca Press, 2002.

ALAN S. KAYE

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 253-254
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03280150 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

BENNY MORRIS: The road to Jerusalem: Glubb Pasha, Palestine and the Jews. x, 297 pp. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2002. £27.50.

M. E. YAPP

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 254-256
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03290157 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

TUDOR PARFITT and EMANUELA TREVISAN SEMI: Judaising movements: studies in the margins of Judaism. (SOAS Centre for Near and Middle East Studies.) xv, 159 pp. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2002. £45.

NORMAN A. STILLMAN

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 256-258
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03300151 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

TUDOR PARFITT: The Lost Tribes of Israel: the history of a myth. ix, 227 pp. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002. £18.99.

NATHAN KATZ

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 258-260
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03310158 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

COLIN HEYWOOD: Writing Ottoman history: documents and interpretations. (Variorum Collected Studies Series.) xiv, 356 pp. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate-Variorum, 2002. £59.50.

CAROLINE FINKEL

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 260-262
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03320154 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

BENJAMIN C. FORTNA: Imperial classroom. Islam, the state, and education in the late Ottoman Empire. xvii, 280 pp. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. £48.

NELIDA FUCCARO

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 262-264
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03330150 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

MEHMET ÇETIN: Tanzimattan günümüze Türk siiri antolojisi. 4 Volumes, 2064 pp. Ankara: Akça[gcaron] Yayinlari, 2002. £20.

LAURENT MIGNON

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 264-266
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03340157 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

GEOFFREY KHAN: The neo-Aramaic dialect of Qaraqosh. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, XXXVI.) xxiv, 750 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2002. €179.

EDWARD ULLENDORFF

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 266-268
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03350153 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

NADIA EBOO JAMAL: Surviving the Mongols: Nizari Quhistani and the continuity of Ismaili tradition in Persia. (The Institute of Ismaili Studies, Ismaili Heritage Series, 8.) xvi, 190 pp. London: I. B. Tauris, 2002. £25.

GEORGE LANE

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 268-270
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0336015X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

MICHAEL E. STONE, DICKRAN KOUYMJIAN and HENNING LEHMANN: Album of Armenian paleography. 554 pp. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2002. £126.75.

JAMES CLACKSON

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 270-271
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03370156 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

RAMENDRA NATH NANDI: Aryans revisited. xiv, 142 pp. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, 2001. Rs. 350.

THEODORE PROFERES

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 271-273
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03380152 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

RODERICK CAVALIERO: Strangers in the land: the rise and decline of the British Indian Empire. xvi, 280 pp. London: I. B. Tauris, 2002. £25.

DAVID ARNOLD

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 273-275
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03390159 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

CORINNA WESSELS-MEVISSEN: The gods of the directions in ancient India: origin and early development in art and literature (until c. 1000 A.D.). xxi, 233 pp. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 2001.

GOURISWAR BHATTACHARYA

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 275-277
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03400153 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

PETER SKILLING and SANTI PAKDEEKHAM: Pali literature transmitted in central Siam: a catalogue based on the Sap Songkhro, Materials for the Study of the Tripitaka, Volume 1. Bangkok: Fragile Palm Leaves Foundation, Lumbini International Research Institute, 2002, 361 pp.

ULRICH PAGEL

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 277-278
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0341015X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

CHRISTOPH BAUMER: Bön: Tibet's ancient religion. 200 pp. Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 2002.

ULRICH PAGEL

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 278-279
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03420156 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

GYURME DORJE: Tibetan elemental divination paintings: illuminated manuscripts from The White Beryl of Sangs-rgyas rGya-mtsho with the Moonbeams treatise of Lo-chen Dharmasri. 432 pp. London: John Eskenazi in association with Sam Fogg, 2001.

ULRICH PAGEL

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 279-282
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03430152 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

GRAHAM THURGOOD and RANDY J. LAPOLLA (ed.): The Sino-Tibetan languages. (Routledge Language Family Series.) xxii, 727 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. £125.

GEORGE VAN DRIEM

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 282-284
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03440159 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

THE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL EURASIAN STUDIES: Studies on the Inner Asian Languages, XVII: Papers in honour of Professor Masahiro Shogaito on his 60th birthday. iv, 249 pp., 7 plates. Osaka: The Society for Central Eurasian Studies, 2002.

T. H. BARRETT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 284-285
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03450155 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

ALASTAIR LAMB: Bhutan and Tibet: the travels of George Bogle and Alexander Hamilton 1774–1777; Vol. 1: Letters, journals and memoranda. 479 pp. Hertingfordbury, UK: Roxford Books, 2002. £50.00.

A. C. MCKAY

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 285-287
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03460151 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

JONATHAN NEALE: The American War in Vietnam 1960–1975. xv, 235 pp. London, Chicago and Sydney: Bookmarks Press, 2001.

A. C. MCKAY

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 287-288
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03470158 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

DAVID SCHABERG: A patterned past: form and thought in Chinese historiography. (Harvard East Asian Monographs, 205.) xviii, 503 pp. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Asia Center, 2001.

PAUL R. GOLDIN

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 288-290
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03480154 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

BENT NIELSEN: A comparison to Yi jing numerology and cosmology: Chinese studies of images and numbers from Han (202 BCE–220 CE) to Song (960–1279 CE). xix, 391 pp. London: Routledge Curzon, 2003.

T. H. BARRETT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 290-291
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03490150 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

CHARLES HOLCOMBE: The Genesis of East Asia, 221 B.C.–A.D. 907. (Asian Interactions and Comparisons.) xii, 332 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2001. $24.95.

T. H. BARRETT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 291-292
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03500155 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

ROBERT HYMES: Way and byway: Taoism, local religion, and models of divinity in Sung and modern China. xvii, 364 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2002. £17.95.

ANNE GERRITSEN

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 293-294
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03510151 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

PASCALE GIRARD: Les religieux occidentaux en Chine à l'époque moderne: essai d'analyse textuelle comparée. (Collection Publications du Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian.) 619 pp. Lisbon and Paris: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and Commission Nationale pour les Commémorations des Découvertes Portugaises, 2000.

LARS PETER LAAMANN

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 294-296
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03520158 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

MARK C. ELLIOTT: The Manchu way: the eight banners and ethnic identity in Late Imperial China. xxii, 580 pp. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. $29.95.

LAURA HOSTETLER

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 296-297
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03530154 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

DAVID A. GRAFF and ROBIN HIGHAM (ed.): A military history of China. xi, 316 pp. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2002. £21.99.

DIANA LARY

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 298-299
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03540150 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

JONATHAN GOLDSTEIN (ed.): The Jews of China. Volume 2. A sourcebook and research guide. xiii, 203 pp. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2000.

CHIARA BETTA

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 299-301
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03550157 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

TINA LU: Persons, roles, and minds: identity in Peony pavilion and Peach blossom fan. x, 358 pp. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. £17.95.

ANDREW LO

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 301-302
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03560153 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

MARCIA REYNDERS RISTAINO: Port of last resort: the diaspora communities of Shanghai. xxi, 369 pp. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001.

CHIARA BETTA

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 302-304
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0357015X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

YE WEILI: Seeking modernity in China's name: Chinese students in the United States, 1900–1927. xii, 330 pp. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. £35.

FRANK DIKÖTTER

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 304-305
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03580156 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

GREGORY B. LEE: Chinas unlimited: making the imaginaries of China and Chineseness. (Chinese Worlds.) xi, 121 pp. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. £55.

T. H. BARRETT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 305-306
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03590152 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

FABIO RAMBELLI: Vegetal Buddhas: ideological effects of Japanese Buddhist doctrines on the salvation of inanimate beings. (Occasional Papers, 9.) v, 119 pp. Kyoto: Scuola Italiana di Studi sull'Asia Orientale, 2001.

RICHARD BOWRING

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 307-308
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03600157 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

ANTONETTA LUCIA BRUNO: The gate of words: language in the rituals of Korean shamans. (CNWS Publications, 117.) ix, 208 pp. Leiden: Research School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies, Leiden University, 2002. €25.

KEITH HOWARD

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 308-310
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03610153 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

LEILA TARAZI FAWAZ and C. A. BAYLY (ed.): Modernity and culture: from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean. xvi, 410 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. $49.50 (cloth), $22.50 (paper).

ULRIKE FREITAG

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 310-311
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0362015X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

STANLEY J. TAMBIAH: Edmund Leach: an anthropological life. xvii, 517 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2002. £20.95.

RAY ABRAHAMS

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 311-313
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03630156 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

ANNPING CHIN: Four sisters of Hofei. xxi, 311 pp. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2003. £16.99.

T. H. BARRETT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 313-314
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03640152 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

JUSTUS DOOLITTLE: Social life of the Chinese: daily life in China. xxxii, 633 pp. London, New York: Kegan Paul, 2002. $127.50.

T. H. BARRETT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 315-316
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03660155 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

WILLIAM H. NIENHAUSER, JR (ed.), WEIGUO CAO, SCOTT W. GALER, WILLIAM H. NEINHAUSER, JR and DAVID W. PANKENIER (trans.): The Grand Scribe's records: Volume II. The basic annals of Han China. lxv, 347 pp. Bloomington, IN: University of Indiana Press, 2002.

T. H. BARRETT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 315-315
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03650159 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
 

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 66, Issue 02, June 2003, pp 317-320
doi:10.1017/S0041977X03000168 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2003
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