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Population, settlement and economy in Late Roman and Byzantine Palestine (70–641 AD)

DORON BAR

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 307-320
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04000217 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

A new source for the biography of Ibn Taymiyya

CATERINA BORI

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 321-348
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04000229 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

The quasi-genderless heresy: The Dhutaists and Master Jizhao

VALENTINA BORETTI

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 349-368
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04000230 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

The Samavedasamhita: a review article

J. C. WRIGHT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 369-384
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04000242 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

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TREVOR BRYCE: Life and Society in the Hittite World. xiv, 312 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. £45.

FRANCES S. REYNOLDS

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 385-386
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04210254 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

RICHARD GOULET (ed.): Dictionnaire des Philosophes Antiques. II, Babélica d'Argos à Dyscolius; 1018 pp., III, d'Eccélos à Juvenal, 1070 pp. Paris: CNRS Editions, 1996, and 2003. Supplément, 801 pp.

CHARLES BURNETT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 386-387
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04220250 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

B. HALLAQ, R. OSTLE and S. WILD (eds): La Poétique de l'Espace dans la Littérature Arabe moderne. 216 pp. Saint Étienne: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2002. ???19.80.

STEFAN SPERL

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 387-393
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04230257 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

AKIKO MOTOYOSHI SUMI: Description in Classical Arabic Poetry: Wasf, Ekphrasis, and Interarts Theory. (Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, Supplements to the Journal of Arabic Literature, 25.) xvii, 251 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2004. ???75.

GEERT JAN VAN GELDER

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 393-395
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04240253 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

JEAN-CLAUDE GARCIN (ed.): Lectures du Roman de Baybars. (Parcours Méditerranéens.) 320 pp. Marseille: Editions Parenthéses, 2003. ???24.

ROBERT IRWIN

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 395-396
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0425025X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

STEFANO CARBONI (with a contribution by Julian Henderson): Mamluk Enamelled and Gilded Glass in the Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar. English text 71 pages, Arabic translation 39 pages. London: The Islamic Art Society, 2003.

RACHEL WARD

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 397-398
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04260256 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

BARBARA BREND: Perspectives on Persian Painting: Illustration to Ami Khusrau's Khamsah. xxvii, 324 pp. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. £60.

SYLVIA AULD

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 398-400
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04270252 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

NICOLAS VATIN and GILLES VEINSTEIN: Le Sérail Ébranlé: Essais sur les Morts, Dépositions et Avènements des Sultans Ottomans XIVe–XIXe Siècle. 523 pp. Paris: Fayard, 2003. ???26.

KATE FLEET

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 400-402
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04280259 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

HARALD FISCHER-TINÉ and MICHAEL MANN (eds): Colonialism as Civilizing Mission: Cultural Ideology in British India. vi, 360 pp. London: Anthem Press, 2004.

DAVID ARNOLD

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 402-403
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04290255 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

G. JAN MEULENBELD: A History of Indian Medical Literature. (Groningen Oriental Studies Volume XV/I–III.) Groningen: Egbert Forsten (Ia and Ib) 1999; (IIa and IIb) 2000; (III) 2002. Ia: 1 frontispiece, xvii, 699 pp.; Ib: 1 frontispiece, vi, 774 pp.; IIa: 1 frontispiece, viii, 839 pp. (in addition: reprint of 19 pages defective in Ia); IIb: 1 frontispiece, viii, 1018 pp.; III (Indexes): 1 frontispiece, ii, 549 pp. ???600.

DOMINIK WUJASTYK

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 404-407
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0430025X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

RACHEL FELL MCDERMOTT and JEFFREY J. KRIPAL (eds): Encountering Kali—in the Margins, at the Center, in the West. xviii, 321 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2003. £15.95.

WILLIAM RADICE

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 407-408
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04310256 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

PATRICK COLM HOGAN and LALITA PANDIT (eds): Rabindranath Tagore: Universality and Tradition. 297 pp. Madison and Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Cranbury (NJ), Mississauga (Ontario) and London: Associated University Presses, 2003. £42.

WILLIAM RADICE

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 409-410
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04320252 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

IGOR DE RACHEWILTZ: The Secret History of the Mongols. A Mongolian Epic Chronicle of the Thirteenth Century. Translated with a Historical and Philological Commentary. (Brill's Inner Asian Library, 7/1 and 7/2.) 2 volumes with continuous pagination. cxxvii, 1347 pp. 10 plates. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2004. ???179.

D. O. MORGAN

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 410-412
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04330259 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

BRYAN J. CUEVAS: The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. xi, 328 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. £40.

TADEUSZ SKORUPSKI

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 412-414
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04340255 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

PETER MORAN: Buddhism Observed: Travelers, Exiles and Tibetan Dharma in Kathmandu. (Anthropology of Asia Series.) vii, 224 pp. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. £65.

DAVID N. GELLNER

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 414-416
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04350251 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

PRATAPADITYA PAL (with contributions by Amy Heller, Oskar von Hinüber and Gautama V. Vajracharya): Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure. 308 pp. Chicago, Berkeley and Ahmedabad: The Art Institute of Chicago in association with the University of California Press and Mapin Publishing, 2003. £27.95.

PHILIP DENWOOD

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 416-417
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04360258 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

NICOLA DI COSMO: Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History. ix, 369 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. £47.50.

JONATHAN MARKLEY

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 417-419
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04370254 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

THOMAS A. WILSON (ed.): On Sacred Grounds: Culture, Society, Politics, and the Formation of the Cult of Confucius. (Harvard East Asian Monographs, 217.) xiv, 424 pp. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2003. £29.95.

JAMES MCMULLEN

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 419-421
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04380250 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

BERNARD FAURE (ed.): Chan Buddhism in Ritual Context. (Routledge Curzon Studies in Asian Religion.) ix, 320 pp. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. JOHN R. MCRAE: Seeing through Zen: Encounter, Transformation, and Genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism. xx, 204 pp. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003.

T. H. BARRETT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 421-423
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04390257 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

FA-TI FAN: British Naturalists in Qing China: Science, Empire, and Cultural Encounter. xii, 238 pp. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. £32.95.

T. H. BARRETT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 423-424
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04400251 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

REBECCA E. KARL and PETER ZARROW (eds): Rethinking the 1898 Reform Period: Political and Cultural Change in Late Qing China. (Harvard East Asian Monographs.) x, 273 pp. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Asia Center, distributed by Harvard University Press, 2002.

RAMON H. MYERS

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 425-426
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04410258 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

RICHARD E. STRASSBERG (ed. and trans.): A Chinese Bestiary: Strange Creatures from the Guideways through Mountains and Seas. xxii, 314 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2002.

RICCARDO FRACASSO

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 426-427
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04420254 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

JAMES H. COLE: Twentieth Century China: An Annotated Bibliography of Reference Works in Chinese, Japanese, and Western Languages. 2 vols. xxxii, 1427 pp. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2004. £189.

T. H. BARRETT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 427-429
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04430250 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

SIEW-YUE KILLINGLEY: Usage of Pronouns, Address and Relationship Terms in Chinese. (Second Edition.) 54 pp. Newcastle upon Tyne: Grevatt & Grevatt, 2003. £10.

SONG LIANYI

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 429-430
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04440257 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

ANDREA LOUIE: Chineseness across Borders: Renegotiating Chinese Identities in China and the United States. x, 246 pp. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. Cloth £57, paper £16.95.

HUGH D. R. BAKER

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 430-431
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04450253 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

INOUE NOBUTAKA (ed.), ITO SATOSHI, ENDO JUN and MORI MIZUE (trans. Mark Teeuwen and John Breen): Shinto—A Short History. xvi, 223 pp. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.

JAMES H. GRAYSON

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 431-433
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0446025X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

SUSAN L. BURNS: Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan. (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society.) x, 282 pp. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2003.

SARAH THAL

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 433-435
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04470256 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

ANN R. KINNEY Worshiping Siva and Buddha: The Temple Art of East Java. 303 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2003. £60.

ELIZABETH MOORE

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 435-436
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04480252 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

CLAUDINE BAUTZE-PICRON: The Buddhist Murals of Pagan: Timeless Vistas of the Cosmos. xiv, 242 pp. Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2003.

ELIZABETH MOORE

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 437-438
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04490259 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

MICHAEL JACKSON: In Sierra Leone. xiv, 226 pp. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2004. £15.50.

RICHARD RATHBONE

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 438-440
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04500253 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

SIBEL BARUT KUSIMBA: African Foragers: Environment, Technology, Interactions. xxi, 284 pp. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2003. £24.95.

DAVID W. PHILLIPSON

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 440-441
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0451025X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

MICHAEL PEARSON: The Indian Ocean. (Seas in History.) xi, 330 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. £50.

ULRIKE FREITAG

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 441-443
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04520256 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

ULRIKE FREITAG Indian Ocean Migrants and State Formation in Hadhramaut: Reforming the Homeland. (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia, 87.) xv, 589 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2003. ???150.

WILLIAM R. ROFF

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 443-444
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04530252 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

PETER SMITH (ed.): Bahá'ís in the West. (Studies in the Bábí and Bahá'í Religions, 14.) xii, 307 pp. Los Angeles: Kalimát Press, 2004. $32.50.

OLIVER SCHARBRODT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 444-447
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04540259 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

ROZINA VISRAM: Asians in Britain: 400 Years of History. xii, 488 pp. London and Sterling, Virginia: Pluto Press, 2002. £14.99.

WERNER MENSKI

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 447-449
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04550255 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

JÉRÔME LENTIN and ANTOINE LONNET (eds): Mélanges David Cohen: Études sur le langage, les langues, les dialectes, les littératures, offertes par ses élèves, ses collègues, ses amis, présentées a l'occasion de son quatre-vingtieme anniversaire. liii, 764 pp. Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, 2003. ???52.

JANET C. E. WATSON

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 449-450
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04570258 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

MATHIEU TILLIER: Vies des Cadis de Misr 237/851–366/976. Extrait du Raf' al-isr ‘an qudat Misr d'Ibn Hagar al-’Asqalani. (Preface by Thierry Bianquis.) (Cahier des Annales islamologiques 24.) xviii, 212 pp. Cairo: Institut Français d'archéologie orientale, 2002.

CHRISTOPHER MELCHERT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 449-449
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04560251 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

GREGOR BENTON and HONG LIU (eds): Diasporic Chinese Ventures: The Life and Work of Wang Gungwu. (Chinese Worlds.) ix, 246 pp. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. £65.

HUGH D. R. BAKER

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 450-450
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04580254 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

JOUNI FILIP MAHO and BONNY SANDS (eds.): The Languages of Tanzania: A Bibliography, (Orientalia et Africana Gothoburgensia 17.) iv, 428 pp. Gothenburg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2002. SEK 300.

L. MARTEN

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 451-451
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04590250 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
 

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 67, Issue 03, October 2004, pp 452-452
doi:10.1017/S0041977X04000266 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2004
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