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Crossing enemy boundaries: al-Buhturi's ode on the ruins of Ctesiphon re-read in the light of Virgil and Wilfred Owen

STEFAN SPERL

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 365-379
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06000164 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

The revolt of ‘Abdallah b. Mu‘awiya, AH 127–130: a reconsideration through the coinage

TERESA BERNHEIMER

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 381-393
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06000176 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

New documentary texts and the early Islamic state

ROBERT HOYLAND

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 395-416
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06000188 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

The press and the palace: the two-way relationship between Abdülhamid II and the press, 1876–1908

EBRU BOYAR

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 417-432
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0600019X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

Negation and the causative verb shi in Han period Chinese

BARBARA MEISTERERNST

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 433-455
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06000206 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

Reviews

 
 

SUZANNE HERBORDT: Die Prinzen- und Beamtensiegel der hethitischen Großreichszeit auf Tonbullen aus dem Nisantepe-Archiv in Hattusa. Mit Kommentaren zu den Siegelinschriften und Hieroglyphen von J. David Hawkins. (Bo[gcaron]azköy-Hattuša: Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen, 19.) xv, 441 pp., 60 pl., 1 plan. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2005. €92.50.

DANIEL SCHWEMER

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 457-459
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06210218 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

FRANCESCA ROCHBERG: The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture. xxi, 331 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. £45.

MARTIN WORTHINGTON

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 459-460
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06220214 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

VIVIAN NUTTON: Ancient Medicine. (Series of Antiquity.) xiv, 496 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2004. £19.99.

M. J. GELLER

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 460-464
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06230210 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

AARON D. RUBIN: Studies in Semitic Grammaticalization. (Harvard Semitic Studies, 57.) xvii, 177 pp. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2005. $32.95.

GUY DEUTSCHER

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 464-466
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06240217 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

MICHAEL BONNER, MINE ENER and AMY SINGER (eds): Poverty and Charity in Middle Eastern Contexts. vii, 345 pp. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. $71.50.

MICHAEL MORONY

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 466-467
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06250213 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

KUDSI ERGUNER: Journeys of a Sufi Musician. (Translated from the French by Annette Courtenay Mayers.) 142 pp., Compact Disc. London: Saqi, 2005. £14.99.

RICHARD JANKOWSKY

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 467-469
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0626021X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

BERNARD O'KANE (ed.): The Iconography of Islamic Art: Studies in Honour of Robert Hillenbrand. xv, 336 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005. £95.

SHEILA CANBY

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 469-472
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06270216 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

GEORGE HEWITT: Georgian: A Learner's Grammar. (Second edition.) xiv, 482 pp. London: Routledge, 2005. £35.

DONALD RAYFIELD

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 472-473
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06280212 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

JOHN RENARD: Historical Dictionary of Sufism. xliii, 351 pp. (Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements Series.) Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005. $70.

JAWID MOJADDEDI

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 473-474
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06290219 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

CARL W. ERNST: Eternal Garden: Mysticism, History, and Politics at a South Asian Sufi Center. (Second edition with a new preface.) xxxvi, 381 pp. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004. £24.99, Rs 1040.

NILE GREEN

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 474-476
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06300213 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

ELI FRANCO: The Spitzer Manuscript. The Oldest Philosophical Manuscript in Sanskrit. (Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften, 323.) 2 vols, xii, 510 pp. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2004. €139.

ALEXANDRA LEDUC-PAGEL

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 476-478
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0631021X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

LUDWIG ALSDORF (ed. Annegret Bollée): Vom Ganges zum Himalaya: Indologische Lehr- und Wanderjahre 1930–32. 311 pp. Bamberg: Annegret Bollée, Don-Bosco-Str. 2, D-96047 Bamberg, 2005 (privately published).

PETER FLÜGEL

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 478-479
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06320216 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

CHRISTOPHER SHACKLE and ARVIND-PAL SINGH MANDAIR (ed. and trans.): Teachings of the Sikh Gurus: Selections from the Sikh Scriptures. l, 164 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. £16.99.

ELEANOR NESBITT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 479-481
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06330212 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

SUSAN S. WADLEY: Essays in North Indian Folk Traditions. xiii, 256 pp. New Delhi: Chronicle Books, 2005. £26.95.

FABRIZIO M. FERRARI

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 481-483
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06340219 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

SUSHIL MITTAL and GENE THURSBY (eds): Religions of South Asia: An Introduction. xv, 308 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. £65.

FABRIZIO M. FERRARI

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 483-485
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06350215 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

JAN-OLOF SVANTESSON, ANNA TSENDINA, ANASTASIA KARLSSON and VIVAN FRANZÉN: The Phonology of Mongolian. (The Phonology of the World's Languages.) xix, 314 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2005. £65.

ANN DENWOOD

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 485-486
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06360211 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

LILLA RUSSELL-SMITH: Uygur Patronage in Dunhuang: Regional Art Centres on the Northern Silk Road in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries. (Inner Asian Library Series, 14.) xxv, 274 pp., 20 figures, 64 plates. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2005. $199.

JOHAN ELVERSKOG

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 486-488
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06370218 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

L. J. NEWBY: The Empire and the Khanate: A Political History of Qing Relations with Khoqand, c. 1760–1860. (Brill's Inner Asian Library.) xxv, 297 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2005. €69.

JAMES A. MILLWARD

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 488-490
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06380214 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

VICTORIA TIN-BOR HUI: War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe. xiv, 294 pp. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. $24.95.

DAVID A. GRAFF

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 491-492
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06390210 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

KEITH NATHANIEL KNAPP: Selfless Offspring: Filial Children and Social Order in Medieval China. x, 300 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. $52.

ANNE BEHNKE KINNEY

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 492-494
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06400215 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

PETER LORGE: War, Politics and Society in Early Modern China, 900–1795. vii, 188 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. £60.

JOANNA WALEY-COHEN

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 494-495
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06410211 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

ON-CHO NG and Q. EDWARD WANG: Mirroring the Past: The Writing and Use of History in Imperial China. xxiv, 306 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005.

T. H. BARRETT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 496-497
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06420218 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

KEELUNG HONG and STEPHEN O. MURRAY: Looking through Taiwan: American Anthropologists' Collusion with Ethnic Domination. 161 pp. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.

PAUL-FRANÇOIS TREMLETT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 497-499
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06430214 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

ABDULLAH SAEED (ed.): Approaches to the Qur'an in Contemporary Indonesia. (Institute of Ismaili Studies, Qur'anic Studies Series No. 2.) xx, 252 pp. London: Oxford University Press in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2005. £45.

CAROOL KERSTEN

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 499-501
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06440210 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

JAN VANSINA: Antecedents to Modern Rwanda: The Nyiginya Kingdom. xvii, 354 pp. Oxford: James Currey; Kampala: Fountain Publishers, 2005. £15.95.

JOHAN POTTIER

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 501-502
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06450217 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

ROBERT IRWIN: For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and their Enemies. 410 pp. London: Allen Lane, 2006. £25.

GILES TILLOTSON

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 502-504
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06460213 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

ROBERT E. HERZSTEIN: Henry R. Luce, Time, and the American Crusade in Asia. xviii, 346 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. £25.

MICHAEL W. CHARNEY

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 504-506
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0647021X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

GEOFFREY PARKER (ed.): The Cambridge History of Warfare. viii, 515 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. £13.99.

MICHAEL W. CHARNEY

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 506-507
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06480216 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

DAWUD GHOLAMASAD: Selbstbild und Weltsicht islamistischer Selbstmord-Attentäter: Tödliche Implikationen eines theozentrischen Menschenbildes unter selbstwertbedrohenden Bedingungen. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, 270.) 88 pp. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2006. €26.50.

OLIVER SCHARBRODT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 508-509
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06500217 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

MARVINE HOWE: Morocco: The Islamist Awakening and Other Challenges. xi, 428 pp. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. $29.95/£18.50.

AMIRA K. BENNISON

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 508-508
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06490212 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

JOHN KING FAIRBANK and MERLE GOLDMAN: China: A New History. (Second enlarged edition.) xx, 560 pp. Cambridge Massachusetts and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.

T. H. BARRETT

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 509-510
doi:10.1017/S0041977X06510213 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
 

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 69, Issue 03, October 2006, pp 511-515
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0600022X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Sep 2006
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