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Amharic as a language of Islam

A. J. Drewes

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 1-62
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000018 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

Quraysh and the Roman army: Making sense of the Meccan leather trade

Patricia Crone

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 63-88
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0700002X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

The Salafiyya and Sufism: Muhammad ‘Abduh and his Risalat al-Waridat (Treatise on Mystical Inspirations)

Oliver Scharbrodt

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 89-115
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000031 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

Financing the tribute to the Kingdom of Jerusalem: An urban tax in Damascus

Stefan Heidemann

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 117-142
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000043 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

Obituary

 
 

Obituary: Nora Elizabeth Mary Boyce

Almut Hintze

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 143-149
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000055 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

Reviews

 
 

TREVOR BRYCE: The Kingdom of the Hittites. (New Edition.) xx, 554 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. £70. 0 19 927908.

Daniel Schwemer

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 151-153
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000067 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

BERND JANOWSKI and GERNOT WILHELM (eds): Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments, Neue Folge Band 1. Texte zum Rechts- und Wirtschaftsleben. xv, 372 pp. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2004. 3 579 05289 6. BERND JANOWSKI and GERNOT WILHELM (eds): Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments, Neue Folge Band 2. Staatsverträge, Herrscherinschriften und andere Dokumente zur politischen Geschichte. xviii, 406 pp. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2005. 3 579 05288 8.

A. R. George

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 153-154
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000079 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

MARC J. H. LINSSEN: The Cults of Uruk and Babylon: The Temple Ritual Texts as Evidence for Hellenistic Cult Practice. (Cuneiform Monographs, 25.) xvi, 343 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill Styx, 2004€106. 90 04 124 2.

A. R. George

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 155-156
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000080 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

JEAN MAURICE FIEY (ed. LAWRENCE I. CONRAD): Saints Syriaques. (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam, 6.) xxi, 224 pp. Princeton: Darwin Press, 2004. $35. 0 87850 111 8.

Alison Salvesen

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 156-157
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000092 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

SULEIMAN ALI MOURAD: Early Islam between Myth and History: Al-Hasan al-Ba[sdotu ]ri (d. 110/728 CE) and the Formation of His Legacy in Classical Islamic Scholarship. (Islamic Philosophy Theology and Science, LXII.) xi, 339 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006. 90 04 14829 9.

W. Madelung

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 157-160
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000109 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

RICHARD M. FRANK: Philosophy, Theology and Mysticism in Medieval Islam: Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalam, Vol. 1. Edited by Dimitri Gutas. (Variorum Collected Studies Series.) x, 392 pp. Burlington and Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. £62.50. 00 86078 977 2.

Suleiman A. Mourad

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 160-161
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000110 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

JOSEF W. MERI: The Cult of Saints among Muslims and Jews in Medieval Syria. (Oxford Oriental Monographs.) xiv, 327 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. £55. 0 19 925078 2.

Paul M. Cobb

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 161-162
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000122 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

RUDOLPH PETERS: Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law: Theory and Practice from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Century. (Themes in Islamic Law, 2.) x, 219 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. £16.99. 0 521 796709.

Colin Imber

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 162-163
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000134 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

ABDULLAH SAEED: Interpreting the Qur'an: Towards a Contemporary Approach. 192 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. £16.99. 0415 36538 4.

Neal Robinson

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 164-166
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000146 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

IBRAHIM MUMAYIZ: Arabesques: Selections of Biography and Poetry from Classical Arabic Literature. (World Arab Translators' Association.) 133 pp. Antwerp and Apeldoorn: Garant, 2006. $28.50.

H. T. Norris

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 166-167
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000158 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

BERND RADTKE: Neue kritische Gänge: Zu Stand und Aufgaben der Sufikforschung/New Critical Essays: On the Present State and Future Tasks of the Study of Sufism. xiv, 330 pp. Utrecht: M. Th. Houtsma Stichtung, 2005. €50.

Sajjad Rizvi

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 167-169
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0700016X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

PAUL AARTS and GERD NONNEMAN (eds): Saudi Arabia in the Balance. Political Economy, Society, Foreign Affairs. (Publications on the Middle East.) xiv, 462 pp. London: Hurst & Company, 2005. 1 85065 803 X.

Jerzy Zdanowski

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 169-171
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000171 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

KJELD VON FOLSACH and JOACHIM MEYER (eds): The Ivories of Muslim Spain. (Journal of the David Collection, volume 2,1–2,2.) 366 pp. Copenhagen: The David Collection, 2005. Dkr. 200, Dkr. 400.

J. M. Rogers

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 171-173
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000183 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

GABRIEL SOULTANIAN: The Pre-History of the Armenians. 2 volumes. 220, 429 pp. London: Bennett and Bloom, 2003, 2004. £45.00 + £45.00. (hardback) 1 898948 259, 1 898948 267.

A. E. Redgate

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 173-175
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000195 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

GÉRARD FUSSMAN, JEAN KELLENS, HENRI-PAUL FRANCFORT and XAVIER TREMBLAY: Aryas, Aryens et Iraniens en Asie Centrale. 346 pp., 29 plates. Paris: Collège de France, Publications de l'Institut de Civilisation indienne, fasc. 72. 2005. 2 86803 072 6.

J. P. Mallory

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 175-177
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000201 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

ROSIE LLEWELLYN-JONES (ed.): Lucknow – City of Illusion: The Alkazi Collection of Photography. 295 pp. Munich and London: Prestel, 2006. £50. 3 7913 3130 2.

Francis Robinson

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 177-179
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000213 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

CHRISTOPHER PINNEY: “Photos of the Gods”: The Printed Image and Political Struggle in India. 320 pp. London: Reaktion Books, 2004. £22.50. 1 86189 184 9.

Patricia Uberoi

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 179-181
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000225 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

NATHAN KATZ and ELLEN S. GOLDBERG: Kashrut, Caste and Kabbalah: The Religious Life of the Jews of Cochin. 181 pp. New Delhi: Manohar, 2005. $42.

Joan Roland

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 181-183
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000237 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

ANASTASIA MUKHANOVA KARLSSON: Rhythm and Intonation in Halh Mongolian. (Travaux de l'Institut de Linguistique de Lund 46.) 184 pp. Lund: Lund University, 2005. 91 974116 9 8.

Ann Denwood

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 183-184
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000249 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

ROBERT L. THORP: China in the Early Bronze Age: Shang Civilization. (Encounters with Asia Series.) xxvii, 292 pp. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. £39. 0 81223910 5.

Wang Tao

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 184-185
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000250 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

IMRE GALAMBOS: Orthography of Early Chinese Writing: Evidence from Early Chinese Manuscripts. (Budapest Monographs in East Asian Studies, 1.) viii, 184 pp. Budapest: Department of East Asian Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, 2006. 963 463 811 2.

T. H. Barrett

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 186-187
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000262 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

ENNO GIELE: Imperial Decision-Making and Communication in Early China: A Study of Cai Yong's Duduan. (Opera Sinologica.) x, 367 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2006. €68. 3 447 05334 8.

Michael Nylan

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 187-189
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000274 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

MARTIN W. HUANG: Negotiating Masculinities in Late Imperial China. vii, 284 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006. $57. 0 8248 2896 8.

Valentina Boretti

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 189-191
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000286 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

NANCY GUY: Peking Opera and Politics in Taiwan. xvii, 230 pp. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2005. $35. 0 252 02973 9.

Hwee-San Tan

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 191-193
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000298 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

ADAM YUET CHAU: Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China. xiv, 317 pp. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. £60. 0 8047 5160 9.

Fang-long Shih

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 193-195
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000304 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

BRUCE L. BATTEN: Gateway to Japan: Hakata in War and Peace, 500–1300. xv, 183 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.

Gina L. Barnes

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 195-197
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000316 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

JOHN R. WALLACE: Objects of Discourse: Memoirs by Women of Heian Japan. (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, Number 54.) xi, 325 pp. Ann Arbor, MI: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 2005. $65.

S. Yumiko Hulvey

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 197-199
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000328 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

IKUMI KAMINISHI: Explaining Pictures: Buddhist Propaganda and Etoki Storytelling in Japan. 246 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2006. $49.

Meri Arichi

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 199-201
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0700033X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

VICTORIA WESTON: Japanese Painting and National Identity: Okakura Tenshin and His Circle. xic, 321 pp. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 2004. $65. 1 929280 17 3.

Timon Screech

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 201-202
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000341 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

MARY ELIZABETH BERRY: Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period. xvii, 325 pp. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2006. £29.95. 0520 237668.

Andrew C. Gerstle

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 202-204
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000353 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

JOHN MOORE and SAOWALAK RODCHUE: Colloquial Thai. (Second Edition.) vi, 394 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. £14.99. 0 415 32959 0.

David Smyth

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 204-205
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000365 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

DOROTHY L. HODGSON: The Church of Women: Gendered Encounters between Maasai and Missionaries. xviii, 357 pp. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2005. £16.95. 0 253 21762 8.

Jane Soothill

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 206-208
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000377 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

MIKKO LUUKKO: Grammatical Variation in Neo-Assyrian. (State Archives of Assyria Studies, 16.) xiv, 276 pp. Helsinki: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2004. 951 45 9059 7.

A. R. George

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 208-209
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000390 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

DOMINIQUE CHARPIN, DIETZ OTTO EDZARD and MARTEN STOL: Mesopotamien. Die altbabylonische Zeit. (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, 160/4.) 1027 pp. Fribourg: Academic Press and Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 2004. ISBN 3 72781488 8, 3 525 53063 3.

A. R. George

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 208-208
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000389 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
 

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70, Issue 01, February 2007, pp 211-222
doi:10.1017/S0041977X07000407 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Mar 2007
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