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Al-Kindi's braid

O. WRIGHT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 1-32
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06000012 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

The history of the industrial and commercial area of ‘Abbasid Al-Raqqa, called Al-Raqqa Al-Muhtariqa

STEFAN HEIDEMANN

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 33-52
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06000024 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

Between Arabs, Turks and Iranians: The town of Basra, 1600–1700

RUDI MATTHEE

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 53-78
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06000036 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

Philology versus linguistics and Aramaic phonology

M. J. GELLER

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 79-89
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06000048 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

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Jainism and society

PETER FLÜGEL

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 91-112
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0600005X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

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The language of the glosses in the Bornu quranic manuscripts

DMITRY BONDAREV

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 113-140
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06000061 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

Reviews

 
 

COLIN TURNER (ed.): The Koran: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies. Volume I: Provenance and Transmission; Volume II: Themes and Doctrines; Volume III: Style and Structure; Volume IV: Translation and Exegesis. xx, 270 pp.; ix, 396 pp.; ix, 470 pp.; x, 401 pp. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. £525.

A. RIPPIN

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 141-142
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06210073 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

MICHAEL G. CARTER: Sibawayhi. (Makers of Islamic Civilization.) viii, 159 pp. London and New York: Oxford University Press, I.B. Tauris, 2004. £9.99.

MUSTAFA SHAH

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 142-145
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0622007X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

ABBAS POYA: Anerkennung des I[gcaron]tihad—Legitimation der Toleranz. Möglichkeiten innerer und äußerer Toleranz im Islam am Beispiel der I[gcaron]tihad-Diskussion. 178 pp. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2003.

ROBERT GLEAVE

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 145-147
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06230076 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

NAVA BERGMAN: The Cambridge Biblical Hebrew Workbook: Introductory Level. xiii, 375 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. £17.99. (Originally published in Swedish, Studentlitteratur, Lund, Sweden, 2000).

FIONA BLUMFIELD

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 147-149
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06240072 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

AMI AYALON: Reading Palestine: Printing and Literacy, 1900–1948. xii, 207 pp. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2004. $21.95.

BENJAMIN C. FORTNA

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 149-151
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06250079 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

ELIZ SANASARIAN: Religious Minorities in Iran. (Cambridge Middle East Studies, 13.) xx, 228 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. £45.

HOVANN H. SIMONIAN

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 151-153
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06260075 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

GEORGE A. BOURNOUTIAN (ed. and trans.): Armenians and Russia (1626–1796): A Documentary Record. (Armenian Studies Series.) xiv, 578 pp. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2001. $45.

HOVANN H. SIMONIAN

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 153-154
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06270071 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

ISTVÁN VÁSÁRY: Cumans and Tatars: Oriental Military in the Pre-Ottoman Balkans, 1185–1365. xvi, 230 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. £48.

GEORGE LANE

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 154-157
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06280078 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

ROBERT ELGOOD: Hindu Arms and Ritual, Arms and Armour from India 1400–1865. 312 pp. 342 figures. Delft: Eburon Academic Publishers, 2004. £55.

GEORGE MICHELL

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 157-158
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06290074 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

SIMONTI SEN: Travels to Europe: Self and Other in Bengali Travel Narratives 1870–1910. (New Perspectives in South Asian History, 9.) viii, 226 pp. New Delhi: Orient Longman Private Limited, 2005. Rs. 490.

WILLIAM RADICE

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 158-160
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06300079 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

MAHENDRA LAWOTI: Towards a Democratic Nepal: Inclusive Political Institutions for a Multicultural Society. 345 pp. New Delhi: Sage Publications/Kathmandu: Mandala Book Point. $64.95.

JOHN WHELPTON

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 160-162
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06310075 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

WILLEM VAN SCHENDEL and ERIK J. ZÜRCHER (eds): Identity Politics in Central Asia and the Muslim World: Nationalism, Ethnicity and Labour in the Twentieth Century. viii, 235 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2001. £42.

HOVANN H. SIMONIAN

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 162-163
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06320071 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

IAIN GARDNER and SAMUEL N. C. LIEU: Manichaean Texts from the Roman Empire. xviii, 312 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. £19.95.

GUNNER MIKKELSEN

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 163-164
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06330078 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

TSUEN-HSUIN TSIEN: Written on Bamboo and Silk: The Beginning of Chinese Books and Inscriptions (Second Edition). xxiv, 323 pp. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. £52.

WANG TAO

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 164-166
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06340074 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

XIAO-BIN JI: Politics and Conservatism in Northern Song China: The Career and Thought of Sima Guang (A.D. 1019–1086). xv, 253 pp. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2005. $35.

MARK STRANGE

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 166-167
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06350070 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

BENJAMIN A. ELMAN: On Their Own Terms: Science in China 1550–1900. xxxviii, 567 pp. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2005. £39.95.

DAVID WRIGHT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 168-169
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06360077 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

JAMES A. MILLWARD, RUTH W. DUNNELL, MARK C. ELLIOTT and PHILIPPE FORÊT (eds): New Qing Imperial History: The Making of Inner Asian Empire at Qing Chengde. xix, 249 pp. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. £70.

PAMELA KYLE CROSSLEY

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 169-171
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06370073 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

XU GUOQI: China and the Great War: China's Pursuit of a New National Identity and Internationalization. (The Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare.) xiv, 316 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. £50.

PAUL BAILEY

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 171-172
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0638007X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

JANET M. THEISS: Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century China. xv, 281 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2005. £32.50.

VALENTINA BORETTI

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 173-175
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06390076 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

JUNE YIP: Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction, Cinema and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary. ix, 356 pp. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. £17.95.

MARK HARRISON

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 175-176
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06400070 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

THOMAS DAVID DUBOIS: The Sacred Village: Social Change and Religious Life in Rural North China. xii, 275 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. $55.

STEPHEN JONES

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 176-178
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06410077 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

KAREN J. LEONG: The China Mystique: Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, Mayling Soong, and the Transformation of American Orientalism. x, 236 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2005.

T. H. BARRETT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 178-179
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06420073 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

HARUO SHIRANE: Classical Japanese: A Grammar. xxvi, 525 pp. New York and Chichester: Columbia University Press, 2005. $49.50, £32.

R. BOWRING

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 179-181
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0643007X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

STEPHEN DODD: Writing Home: Representations of the Native Place in Modern Japanese Literature. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2004. £25.95.

MARK WILLIAMS

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 181-184
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06440076 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

OOKA SHOHEI A Wife in Musashino. (Translated with a Postscript by Dennis Washburn.) (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, 51.) viii, 161 pp. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan, 2004. $28.95.

DAVID C. STAHL

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 184-186
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06450072 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

JANE PORTAL: Art Under Control in North Korea. 190 pp. London: Reaktion Books, 2005. £22.50.

KEITH HOWARD

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 186-188
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06460079 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

SHEILA MIYOSHI JAGER: Narratives of Nation Building in Korea: A Genealogy of Patriotism. xv, 193 pp. Armonk, NY and London: M.E. Sharpe, 2003. $69.50.

MARTINA DEUCHLER

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 188-189
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06470075 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

DAVID PRENDERGAST: From Elder to Ancestor: Old Age, Death and Inheritance in Modern Korea. (Global Oriental Monograph Series (Korea) Vol. 1.) xiv, 185 pp. Folkestone: Global Oriental, 2005.

MARTINA DEUCHLER

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 189-190
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06480071 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

ALAN M. STEVENS and A. ED. SCHMIDGALL-TELLINGS: A Comprehensive Indonesian–English Dictionary. xviii, 1103 pp. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press in association with the American Indonesian Chamber of Commerce, 2004. $65.

BEN MURTAGH

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 191-192
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06490078 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

THIEN DO: Vietnamese Supernaturalism: Views from the Southern Region. xii, 300 pp. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. £70.

SHAWN MCHALE

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 192-193
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06500072 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

KAREL STEENBRINK: Catholics in Indonesia: A Documented History: Volume 1—A Modest Recovery 1808–1903. 528 pp. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2003.

PAUL-FRANÇOIS TREMLETT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 193-195
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06510079 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

ABDOUMALIQ SIMONE: For the City yet to Come: Changing African Life in Four Cities. x, 297 pp. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2004. £16.95.

JOHN R. CAMPBELL

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 195-196
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06520075 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

KAMARI MAXINE CLARKE: Mapping Yorùbá Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities. xxiv, 345 pp. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. £17.50.

J. D. Y. PEEL

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 196-197
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06530071 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

GWYN CAMPBELL (ed): Abolition and its Aftermath in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia. (Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures.) x, 225 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. £75.

EDWARD A. ALPERS

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 197-199
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06540078 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

ROGER. D. WOODARD (ed.): The Cambridge Encylopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. £75.

M. J. GELLER

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 199-200
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06550074 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

ROGER-POL DROIT: The Cult of Nothingness: The Philosophers and the Buddha. (Translated by David Streight and Pamela Vohnson.) xii, 263 pp. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

T. H. BARRETT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 200-202
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06560070 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

DJUN KIL KIM: The History of Korea. (The Greenwood Histories of The Modern Nations.) xxii, 208 pp. Westport. CT and London: Greenwood Press, 2005.

MARTINA DEUCHLER

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 202-203
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06580073 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

JOHN MUKUM MBAKU: Culture and Customs of Cameroon. 236 pp. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 2005.

RICHARD FARDON

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 202-202
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06570077 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
 

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 01, February 2006, pp 205-208
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06000085 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Apr 2006
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