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Institutions and events of the eleventh century mirrored in Geniza letters (Part I)

MOSHE GIL

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 151-167
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04000114 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

Institutions and events of the eleventh century mirrored in Geniza letters (part II)

MOSHE GIL

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 168-184
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04000126 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

The head of the Jews (ra'is al-yahud) in Fatimid Egypt: a re-evaluation

ELINOAR BAREKET

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 185-197
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04000138 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

Abraham Tal: A Dictionary of Samaritan Aramaic—a review article

MOSHE FLORENTIN

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 198-206
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0400014X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

Geography, empire and sainthood in the eighteenth-century Muslim Deccan

NILE GREEN

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 207-225
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04000151 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

Reviews

 
 

JEAN BOTTÉRO (with contributions from ANDRÉ FINET, BERTRAND LAFONT and GEORGES ROUX): Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia. (Translated by Antonia Nevill.) xii, 276 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2001. £45.

A. R. GEORGE

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 226-227
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04210163 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

HANS HIRSCH: Gilgamesch-Epos und Erra-Lied: zu einem Aspekt des Verbalsystems. iv, 257 pp. Vienna: Institut für Orientalistik der Universität Wien, 2002. €62.

A. R. GEORGE

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 227-229
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0422016X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

PIERRE BRIANT: From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire. xx, 1,196 pp. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2002. $69.50.

JOHN CURTIS

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 229-230
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04230166 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

STEFAN HEIDEMANN and ANDREA BECKER: Raqqa II: die islamische Stadt. vii, 318 pp., 60 plates. 3 fold-out maps. Mainz-am-Rhein: Philipp von Zabern for Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, 2003.

A. D. H. BIVAR

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 230-232
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04240162 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

JEREMY JOHNS: Arabic Administration in Norman Sicily: The Royal Diwan. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) xviii, 390 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. £50.

AMIRA K. BENNISON

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 232-234
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04250169 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

JANE DAMMEN MCAULIFFE (ed.): Encyclopaedia of the Qur'a¯n, Volume Two, E–I. xxiii, 572 pp. Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, 2002. €186.

MUSTAFA SHAH

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 234-237
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04260165 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

GEORGE LANE: Early Mongol Rule in Thirteenth-Century Iran: A Persian Renaissance. (Studies in the History of Iran and Turkey.) xiii, 330 pp. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. £55.

CHARLES MELVILLE

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 238-240
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04270161 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

JANE HATHAWAY: A Tale of Two Factions: Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen. xvi, 295 pp. New York: State University of New York Press, 2003. $22.95.

P. M. HOLT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 240-242
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04280168 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

GABRIEL WARBURG: Islam, Sectarianism and Politics in Sudan since the Mahdiyya. xvii, 252 pp. London: Hurst & Co., 2003. Cloth £45. Paperback £19.95.

P. M. HOLT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 242-243
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04290164 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

YOUSSEF CHAITANI: Dissension among Allies: Ernest Bevin's Palestine Policy between Whitehall and the White House. 1945–47. 156 pp. London: Saqi Books, 2002. £25.

M. E. YAPP

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 244-245
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04300169 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

THOMAS OBERLIES: A Grammar of Epic Sanskrit. (Indian Philology and South Asian Studies, 5.) lvi, 632 pp. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2003. €148.

JOHN D. SMITH

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 245-247
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04310165 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

SONJA FRITZ: The Dhivehi Language: Descriptive and Historical Grammar of Maldivian and Its Dialects. (Beiträge zur Südasienforschung, Südasien-Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Band 191.) 2 vols. xv, 270; vii, 280 pp. Würzburg: Ergon-Verlag, 2003. €75.

CHRISTOPHER REYNOLDS

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 247-249
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04320161 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

CHRISTOPHER REYNOLDS: A Maldivian Dictionary. xii, 412 pp. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. £55.

LEONID KULIKOV

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 249-251
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04330168 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

TORKEL BREKKE: Makers of Modern Indian Religion in the Late Nineteenth Century. (Oxford Oriental Monographs; New Series, 1.) ix, 179 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. £40.

DERMOT KILLINGLEY

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 251-253
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04340164 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

GWILYM BECKERLEGGE: The Ramakrishna Mission: The Making of a Modern Hindu Movement. xiii, 219 pp. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001. £15.95.

DERMOT KILLINGLEY

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 253-254
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04350160 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

DAVID SMITH: Hinduism and Modernity. (Religion in the Modern World.) xii, 250 pp. Malden and Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. £15.99.

STEPHEN JACOBS

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 254-256
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04360167 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

ENAMUL HAQUE: Studies in Bengal Art Series: No. 4, Chandraketugarh: A Treasure-House of Bengal Terracottas. 416 pp., 678 plates. Dhaka: The International Centre for Study of Bengal Art, 2001. US $50.

GEORGE MICHELL

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 256-258
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04370163 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

HUGH B. URBAN: Songs of Ecstasy: Tantric and Devotional Songs from Colonial Bengal. xi, 187 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. £35. HUGH B. URBAN: The Economics of Ecstasy: Tantra, Secrecy and Power in Colonial Bengal. xvii, 286 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. £45.

KATHLEEN TAYLOR

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 258-260
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0438016X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

SVEN BRETFELD: Das Singhalesische Nationalepos von König Dutthaga¯mani¯ Abhaya: Textkritische Bearbeitung und Übersetzung der Kapitel VII.3–VIII.3 der Rasava¯hini¯ des Vedeha Thera und Vergleich mit den Paralleltexten Sahassavatthuppakarana und Saddharma¯lanka¯raya. (Monographien zur indischen Archäologie, Kunst und Philologie.) cxxviii, 276 pp. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 2001. €96.12.

KATE CROSBY

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 260-262
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04390166 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

TOM EVERETT-HEATH (ed.): Central Asia: Aspects of Transition. ix, 290 pp. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. £21.99.

FUMITAKA OKUBO

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 262-264
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04400160 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

TADEUSZ SKORUPSKI: Kriya¯samgraha: Compendium of Buddhist Rituals—An Abridged Version. xii, 193 pp. Tring: The Institute of Buddhist Studies, 2002.

DYLAN ESLER

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 264-266
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04410167 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

TADEUSZ SKORUPSKI: The Buddhist Forum, Volume VI. ix, 269 pp. Tring: The Institute of Buddhist Studies, 2001.

MATTHEW T. KAPSTEIN

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 266-266
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04420163 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

ALEX MCKAY (ed.): The History of Tibet. (3 vols.) xxix, 624 pp., viii, 789 pp., xiv, 737 pp. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. £450.

ULRICH PAGEL

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 267-270
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0443016X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

URADYN E. BULAG: The Mongols at China's Edge: History and the Politics of National Unity. vii, 271 pp. Lanham and Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. £26.95.

JUDITH NORDBY

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 270-272
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04440166 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

YIP PO-CHING and DON RIMMINGTON: Chinese: A Comprehensive Grammar. (Comprehensive Grammars.) xviii, 418 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2004. £29.99.

LIANYI SONG

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 272-273
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04450162 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

DANIEL K. GARDNER: Zhu Xi's Reading of the Analects: Canon, Commentary and the Classical Tradition. xii, 226 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. £13.50 paper, £36.50 cloth. JOSEPH A. ADLER: Introduction to the Study of the Classic of Change (I-hsüeh ch'i-meng). xv, 74, + 47 pp. [in Chinese], 32 figures. Provo, Utah: Global Scholarly Publications, 2002.

T. H. BARRETT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 273-275
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04460169 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

HAROLD D. ROTH: A Companion to Angus C. Graham's Chuang Tzu. xi, 243 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2003. $18.

T. H. BARRETT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 275-276
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04470165 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

CHUNG-YING CHENG and NICHOLAS BUNNIN (eds): Contemporary Chinese Philosophy. xiv, 429 pp. Malden and Oxford: Blackwell, 2002. £17.99.

XINZHONG YAO

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 277-278
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04480161 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

HUAICHUAN MOU: Rediscovering Wen Tingyun: A Historical Key to a Poetic Labyrinth. x, 292 pp. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. $21.95 paper, $65.50 cloth.

T. H. BARRETT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 279-280
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04490168 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

BETTINE BIRGE: Women, Property, and Confucian Reaction in Sung and Yüan China (960–1368). xxi, 345 pp. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. £30.

JOSEPH P. MCDERMOTT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 280-282
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04500162 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

JOSEPH TSE-HEI LEE: The Bible and the Gun: Christianity in South China, 1860–1900. xxxvi, 207 pp. New York and London: Routledge, 2003. £55.

LARS PETER LAAMANN

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 282-283
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04510169 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

YE XIAOQING: The Dianshizhai Pictorial: Shanghai Urban Life 1884–1898. (Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies, 98.) viii, 249 pp. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, The University of Michigan, 2003. £31.

CRAIG CLUNAS

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 284-285
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04520165 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

SCOTT SIMON: Sweet and Sour: Life-Worlds of Taipei Women Entrepreneurs. (Asian Voices.) xviii, 246 pp. Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto and Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003. £19.95.

FANG-LONG SHIH

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 285-287
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04530161 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

ENDO¯ SHU¯SAKU (trans. Teruyo Shimizu): Song of Sadness. (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies.) v, 223 pp. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2003. $45.

MARK WILLIAMS

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 287-289
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04540168 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

MARCIA YONEMOTO: Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period (1603–1868). (Asia: Local Studies/Global Themes.) xv, 234 pp. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. $49.95.

P. F. KORNICKI

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 289-290
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04550164 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

JILLY TREGANOU: The Tokaido Road: Traveling and Representation in Edo and Meiji Japan. xix, 270 pp. New York and London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. £60.

TIMON SCREECH

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 290-292
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04560160 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

MATTHEW ALLEN: Identity and Resistance in Okinawa. (Asian Voices.) x, 265 pp. Lanham, Maryland and Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. £22.95.

RICHARD SIDDLE

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 292-294
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04570167 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

CHUNG-SHIN PARK: Protestantism and Politics in Korea. xii, 316 pp. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2003. $50.

JAMES H. GRAYSON

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 294-295
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04580163 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

JOONG-SEOP KIM: The Korean Paekjo[caron]ng under Japanese Rule: The Quest for Equality and Human Rights. xi, 212 pp. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. £60.

MARTINA DEUCHLER

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 296-297
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0459016X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

ERIK CORNELL (trans. Rodney Bradbury): North Korea under Communism: Report of an Envoy to Paradise. vi, 169 pp. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2002. £16.99.

MARTINA DEUCHLER

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 297-298
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04600164 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

CHONGHO KIM: Korean Shamanism: The Cultural Paradox. xxii, 248 pp. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003.

KEITH HOWARD

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 298-301
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04610160 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

SALLY HOVEY WRIGGINS: The Silk Road Journey with Xuanzang. xviii, 326 pp. Boulder, Colorado and Oxford: Westview Press, 2004. £18.99 paper.

T. H. BARRETT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 301-302
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04630163 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

KARL FRIEDRICH GELDNER (trans.): Der Rig-Veda, aus dem Sanskrit ins Deutsche übersetzt und mit einem laufenden Kommentar versehen. (Harvard Oriental Series, v. 63.) vii, xix, 490 pp., iv 435 pp., iv, 404, 21 pp. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University (distributed by Harvard University Press), 2003. £32.95.

T. N. PROFERES

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 301-301
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04620167 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

WILLIAM EDWARD SOOTHILL and LEWIS HODOUS: A Dictionary of Buddhist Terms, with Sanskrit and English Equivalents and a Sanskrit–Pali Index. xix, 510 pp. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. £25.00 paper. STEFAN WINTER: Zen: Bibliographie nach Sachgebieten. Frankfurt-am-Main: Peter Lang, 2003. 265 pp. €28.

T. H. BARRETT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 302-303
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0464016X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
 

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, June 2004, pp 304-305
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04000175 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jul 2004
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