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Linguistic notes on magic bowls in the Moussaieff Collection

MATTHEW MORGENSTERN

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 349-367
doi:10.1017/S0041977X05000200 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
 

Enantiodrama: Enantiosemia in Arabic and beyond

JORDAN FINKIN

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 369-386
doi:10.1017/S0041977X05000212 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
 

How did the quranic pagans make a living?

PATRICIA CRONE

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 387-399
doi:10.1017/S0041977X05000224 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
 

From practice to polemic: shared saints and festivals as ‘women's religion’ in the medieval Mediterranean

ALEXANDRA CUFFEL

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 401-419
doi:10.1017/S0041977X05000236 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
 

Irano-Tocharica et Tocharo-Iranica

XAVIER TREMBLAY

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 421-449
doi:10.1017/S0041977X05000248 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
 

Was there an imperial distribution of Buddha relics in ninth-century China?

T. H. BARRETT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 451-454
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0500025X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
 

Religion and the first recorded print run: Luoyang, July, 855

T. H. BARRETT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 455-461
doi:10.1017/S0041977X05000261 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
 

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MARC VAN DE MIEROOP: King Hammurabi of Babylon: A Biography. (Blackwell Ancient Lives.) xii, 171 pp. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. £14.99.

A. R. GEORGE

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 463-463
doi:10.1017/S0041977X05270271 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
 

DAVID T. RUNIA and GREGORY E. STERLING (eds): The Studia Philonica Annual. Studies in Hellenistic Judaism, vol. XIII: In the Spirit of Faith: Studies in Philo and Early Christianity in Honor of David Hay, and vol. XV: Laws Stamped with the Seals of Nature: Law and Nature in Hellenistic Philosophy and Philo of Alexandria. (Brown Judaic Studies, 332 and 337.) 304 pp. (vol. XIII), 199 pp. (vol. XV). Providence: Brown University, 2001 (vol. XIII) and 2003 (vol. XV).

CATHERINE HEZSER

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 464-465
doi:10.1017/S0041977X05280278 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
 

KAYS MUTLU: Ismet Özel: Individualität und Selbstdarstellung eines Türkischen Dichters. (Bibliotheca Academica Orientalistik, 5.) viii, 108 pp. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2004. €24.

LAURENT MIGNON

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 465-467
doi:10.1017/S0041977X05290274 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
 

COLIN IMBER: The Ottoman Empire, 1300–1650: The Structure of Power. xiv, 405 pp., 5 maps. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. £14.99.

CAROLINE FINKEL

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 467-469
doi:10.1017/S0041977X05300279 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
 

DILWORTH B. PARKINSON and ELABBAS BENMAMOUN (eds): Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XIII–XIV. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory.) xiii, 248 pp. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2002. €102. DILWORTH B. PARKINSON and SAMIRA FARWANEH (eds): Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XV. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory.) 214 pp. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2003. €110.

MALCOLM EDWARDS

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 469-471
doi:10.1017/S0041977X05310275 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
 

MUHAMMAD BA¯QIR AS-SADR: Lessons in Islamic Jurisprudence (translated and with an introduction by Roy Parviz Mottahedeh). x, 208 pp. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2003. £14.99.

ANDREW J NEWMAN

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 471-472
doi:10.1017/S0041977X05320271 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
 

CARLO G. CERETI, MAURO MAGGI and ELIO PROVASI (eds): Religious Themes and Texts of Pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia. Studies in Honour of Professor Gherardo Gnoli on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday on 6th December 2002. (Beiträge zur Iranistik 24.) xxxv, 460 pp., 14 plates. Wiesbaden: Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2003. €110.

DESMOND DURKIN-MEISTERERNST

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 473-476
doi:10.1017/S0041977X05330278 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
 

HANS T. BAKKER and HARUNAGA ISAACSON: The Skandapura¯na. Vol. IIA. Adhya¯yas 26–31. 14 The Va¯ra¯nasi¯ Cycle. Critical Edition with an Introduction, English Synopsis and Philological and Historical Commentary. (Supplement to Groningen Oriental Studies.) xvi, 345 pp. Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 2004.

J. C. WRIGHT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 476-478
doi:10.1017/S0041977X05340274 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
 

GREG BAILEY and IAN MABBETT: The Sociology of Early Buddhism. vii, 284 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. $47.50.

RICHARD GOMBRICH

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 478-479
doi:10.1017/S0041977X05350270 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
 

DAUD ALI: Courtly Culture and Political Life in Early Medieval India. xx, 296 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. £50, $75.

RONALD M. DAVIDSON

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 479-481
doi:10.1017/S0041977X05360277 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
 

COSIMO ZENE: The Rishi of Bangladesh: A History of Christian Dialogues. 489 pp. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2002.

PAUL-FRANÇOIS TREMLETT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 481-483
doi:10.1017/S0041977X05370273 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
 

MARGARET A. MILLS, PETER J. CLAUS and SARAH DIAMOND (eds): South Asian Folklore: An Encyclopedia. xxx, 710 pp. New York and London: Routledge, 2003. £120.

MARTIN GAENSZLE

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 483-484
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0538027X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
 

CHRISTOPHER SHACKLE, GURHARPAL SINGH and ARVIND-PAL MANDAIR (eds): Sikh Religion, Culture and Ethnicity. ix, 220 pp. Richmond: Curzon Press, 2001. £65.

BRIAN BOCKING

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 484-485
doi:10.1017/S0041977X05390276 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
 

INGRID KREIDE-DAMANI (ed.): Dating Tibetan Art: Essays on the Possibilities and Impossibilities of Chronology from the Lempertz Symposium, Cologne. (Contributions to Tibetan Studies, 3.) 135 pp. Wiesbaden: Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2003. €35.

PHILIP DENWOOD

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 485-487
doi:10.1017/S0041977X05400270 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
 

ANN HEYLEN: Chronique du Toumet-Ortos: Looking through the Lens of Joseph van Oost, Missionary in Inner Mongolia (1915–1921). (Leuven Chinese Studies XVI.) 409 pp. Leuven/Louvain: Leuven University Press, 2004. €39.

LARS PETER LAAMANN

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 487-489
doi:10.1017/S0041977X05410277 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
 

DRU C. GLADNEY: Dislocating China: Muslims, Minorities and other Subaltern Subjects. xvii, 414 pp. London: Hurst, 2004. £25.

MICHAEL DILLON

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 489-491
doi:10.1017/S0041977X05420273 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
 

JAMES Z. GAO: The Communist Takeover of Hangzhou: The Transformation of City and Cadre, 1949–1954. (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.) x, 339 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004. $50.

BEVERLEY HOOPER

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 491-492
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0543027X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
 

SARAH HANDLER: Ming Furniture in the Light of Chinese Architecture. vi, 233 pp. Berkeley and Toronto: Ten Speed Press, 2005. $50.

ALISON HARDIE

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 492-493
doi:10.1017/S0041977X05440276 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
 

KEITH MCMAHON: The Fall of the God of Money: Opium Smoking in Nineteenth-Century China. xi, 249 pp. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. £18.95.

LARS PETER LAAMANN

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 494-495
doi:10.1017/S0041977X05450272 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
 

GÖRAN AIJMER New Year Celebrations in Central China in Late Imperial Times. viii, 180 pp. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2003. $32.

LARS PETER LAAMANN

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 495-496
doi:10.1017/S0041977X05460279 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
 

RODERICH PTAK: China, the Portuguese, and the Nanyang. Oceans and Routes, Regions and Trade (c. 1000–1600). (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 777.) xii, 304 pp. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. £60.

ANGELA SCHOTTENHAMMER

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 496-498
doi:10.1017/S0041977X05470275 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
 

KATHARINE L. WIEGELE: Investing in Miracles: El Shaddai and the Transformation of Popular Catholicism in the Philippines. (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning and Memory.) xi, 207 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. $21.

PAUL-FRANÇOIS TREMLETT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 498-499
doi:10.1017/S0041977X05480271 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
 

DEREK NURSE AND GÉRARD PHILIPPSON (eds): The Bantu Languages. (Routledge Language Family Series.) London: Routledge, 2003. xvii, 708 pages. £170.

LUTZ MARTEN

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 500-502
doi:10.1017/S0041977X05490278 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
 

RUTH WATSON: ‘Civil Disorder is the Disease of Ibadan’: Chieftaincy and Civic Culture in a Yoruba City. (Western African Studies.) xii, 180 pp. Oxford, Athens, and Ibadan: James Currey, Ohio University Press, and Heinemann Educational Books, 2003. £45.00 (cloth); £16.95 (paper).

JAMES R. BRENNAN

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 502-503
doi:10.1017/S0041977X05500272 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
 

DIANE B. STINTON: Jesus of Africa: Voices of Contemporary African Christology. (Faith and Culture Series.) xiv, 303 pp. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2004. £17.99.

PAUL GIFFORD

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 504-505
doi:10.1017/S0041977X05510279 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
 

ANDREW B. SMITH: African Herders: Emergence of Pastoral Traditions. xvii, 251 pp. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2005. $27.

PAUL SPENCER

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 505-507
doi:10.1017/S0041977X05520275 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
 

SIMON P. JAMES: Zen Buddhism and Environmental Ethics. (Ashgate World Philosophies Series.) viii, 142 pp. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004. £50.

CHRIS H. JONES

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 507-508
doi:10.1017/S0041977X05530271 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
 

MICHAEL PYE: Skilful Means: A Concept in Mahayana Buddhism. (Second Edition.) xi, 209 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. £21.99.

BRIAN BOCKING

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 508-510
doi:10.1017/S0041977X05540278 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
 

HAE-KYUNG UM (ed.): Diasporas and Interculturalism in Asian Performing Arts: Translating Traditions. xi, 235 pp. Abingdon: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005. £65.

KEITH HOWARD

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 510-512
doi:10.1017/S0041977X05550274 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Nov 2005
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