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Al-Ma'mūn's alleged apocalyptic beliefs: a reconsideration of the evidence

Tamima Bayhom-Daou

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 1-24
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000013 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

Adjectival ša syntagms and adjectives in Old Babylonian

Eran Cohen

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 25-52
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000025 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

The beginning and the end of the Šahrestānīhā ī Ērānšahr

Albert De Jong

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 53-58
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000037 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

Three languages on one leaf: on IOL Toch 81 with special regard to the Turkic part

Dieter Maue

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 59-73
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000049 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

Blaming the messenger: a controversy in late Sanskrit poetics and its implications

Yigal Bronner and Gary A Tubb

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 75-91
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000050 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

“In the Power of God Christ”: Greek inscriptional evidence for the anti-Arian theology of Ethiopia's first Christian king

Stephanie L Black

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 93-110
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000062 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

Book Reviews

 
 

Clelia Mora and Mauro Giorgieri: Le Lettere tra i re ittiti e i re assiri ritrovate a Hattuša. (History of the Ancient Near East/Monographs, VII.) xii, 270 pp. Padova: S.A.R.G.O.N. Editrice e Libreria, 2004. $60.

Daniel Schwemer

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 111-112
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000116 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

Ann K. Guinan, Maria DEJ. Ellis, A. J. Ferrara, Sally M. Freedman, Matthew T. Rutz, Leonhard Sassmannshausen, Steve Tinney and M. W. Waters (eds): If a Man Builds a Joyful House: Assyriological Studies in Honour of Erle Verdun Leichty. (Cuneiform Monographs.) xxvii, 529 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2006. €159. ISBN 90 04 146326.

Alasdair Livingstone

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 113-115
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000128 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

Marlies Heinz and Marian H. Feldman (eds): Representations of Political Power: Case Histories from Times of Change and Dissolving Order in the Ancient Near East. xii, 210 pp. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2007. $39.50. ISBN 978 1 57506 135 1.

Karen Radner

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 115-116
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0800013X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

Richard M. Frank: Early Islamic Theology: The Mu‘tazilites and al-Ash‘arī. Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalām, Vol. II.. Edited by Dimitri Gutas. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, CS834.) xii, 400 pp. Burlington and Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. £65. ISBN 978 0 86078 978 9.

Suleiman A. Mourad

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 116-117
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000141 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

Liyakat N. Takim: The Heirs of the Prophet: Charisma and Religious Authority in Shi‘ite Islam. xiv, 236 pp. Albany: SUNY Press, 2006. $65. ISBN 0 7914 6737 6.

Robert Gleave

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 118-119
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000153 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

Aaron D. Rubin: Samuel David Luzzatto. Prolegomena to a Grammar of the Hebrew Language. 232 pp. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2005. $59. ISBN 1 59333 334 X.

Clive Fierstone

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 119-121
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000165 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

Yamuna Kachru: Hindi. xxi, 309 pp. (London Oriental and African Language Library, 12.) Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2006. €125. ISBN 90 272 3812.

Rupert Snell

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 121-123
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000177 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

Imtiaz Ahmad and Helmut Reifeld (eds): Lived Islam in South Asia: Adaptation, Accommodation and Conflict. xxv, 308 pp. New York and Delhi: Berghahn Books and Social Science Press, 2006. £55. ISBN 81 87358 15 7.

Nile Green

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 123-125
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000189 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

David Arnold and Stuart Blackburn (eds): Telling Lives in India: Biography, Autobiography, and Life History. x, 323 pp. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004. $24.95. ISBN 0 253 21727 X.

Sutanuka Ghosh

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 125-127
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000190 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

Antony Copley: A Spiritual Bloomsbury: Hinduism and Homosexuality in the Lives and Writing of Edward Carpenter, E. M. Forster, and Christopher Isherwood. xi, 397 pp. Lanham MD and Oxford: Lexington Books, 2006. $30.95. ISBN 978 0 7391 1465 0.

William Radice

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 127-128
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000207 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

Édith Parlier-Renault: Temples de l’Inde méridionale (vie–viiie siècles): La mise en scène des mythes. 413 pp. Paris: Presses Universitaires de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2006. €45. ISBN 978 2 84050 464 1.

George Michell

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 129-130
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000219 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

Martin Gaenszle and Jörg Gengnagel (eds): Visualizing Space in Banaras: Images, Maps, and the Practice of Representation. 358 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2006. €48. ISBN 3 447 05187 6. Niels Gutschow: Benares, The Sacred Landscape of Vārānasī. 498 pp. Stuttgart: Edition Axel Menges, 2006. £89. ISBN 393668104X.

George Michell

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 130-133
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000220 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

Ebba Koch: The Complete Taj Mahal and the Riverfront Gardens of Agra. 288 pp. London: Thames and Hudson, 2006. £39.95. ISBN 0 500 342091.

Crispin Branfoot

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 133-134
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000232 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

Soonil Hwang: Metaphor and Literalism in Buddhism: The Doctrinal History of Nirvana. (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism.) xv, 160 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. £60. ISBN 978 0 7546 53691.

Tadeusz Skorupski

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 134-136
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000244 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

K. R. Norman: Collected Papers (Vol. VIII.). xviii, 383 pp. Lancaster: The Pali Text Society, 2007. £32. ISBN 978 086013 431 2.

J. C. Wright

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 136-139
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000256 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

George Lane: Daily Life in the Mongol Empire. (Daily Life through History.) xxiv, 315 pp. Westport, CT: The Greenwood Press, 2006. ISBN 978 0313332265.

Bruno De Nicola

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 139-141
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000268 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

Judith Pfeiffer and Sholeh A. Quinn (eds), In Collaboration With Ernest Tucker: History and Historiography of Post-Mongol Central Asia and the Middle East. Studies in Honor of John E. Woods. xx, 604 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2006. €128.

D. O. Morgan

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 141-143
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0800027X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

Daniel Prior: The Semetey of Kenje Kara: A Kirghiz Epic Performance on Phonograph. (Turcologica.) xviii, 155 pp., CD. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2006. €68. ISBN 3 447 05138 8.

Keith Howard

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 143-145
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000281 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

Bryan J. Cuevas and Kurtis T. Schaeffer (eds): Power, Politics, and the Reinvention of Tradition: Tibet in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Oxford, 2003, vol. 3. vi, 215 pp. (Brills Tibetan Studies Library.) Leiden: Brill, 2006. €69. ISBN 9004153519.

A. C. Mckay

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 145-146
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000293 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

Lars Peter Laamann: Christian Heretics in Late Imperial China. Christian Inculturation and State Control, 1720–1850. (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia.) xiv, 204 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. £65. ISBN 0 415 29779 6.

Eugenio Menegon

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 146-148
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0800030X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

Lily Xiao Hong Lee and A. D. Stefanowska (eds): Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: Antiquity through Sui, 1600 B.C.E.–618 C.E. xxx, 410 pp. Armonk and London: M.E. Sharpe, 2007. $99.95. ISBN 978 0 7656 1750 7.

Valentina Boretti

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 148-149
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000311 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

Frances Wood: The First Emperor of China. ix, 209 pp. London: Profile Books, 2007. £15.99. ISBN 978 1 84668 032 8.

Oliver Weingarten

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 149-151
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000323 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

Patricia Buckley Ebrey and Maggie Bickford (eds): Emperor Huizong and Late Northern Song China: The Politics of Culture and the Culture of Politics. (Harvard East Asian Monographs.) xx, 625 pp. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University East Asia Center, 2006. £38.95. ISBN 978 0 674 02127 3.

Mark Halperin

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 151-153
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000335 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

Mikael Adolphson, Edward Kamens and Stacie Matsumoto (eds): Heian Japan, Centers and Peripheries. x, 450 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2007. £32.50. ISBN 0 8248 3013 7.

Gina Barnes

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 153-155
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000347 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

Rachael Hutchinson and Mark Williams (eds): Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature: A Critical Approach.(Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series.) xv, 345 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. £21.99. ISBN 978 0 415 36185 9.

Angela Coutts

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 155-156
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000359 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

Robert E. Buswell Jr (ed): Religions of Korea in Practice. (Princeton Readings in Religions.) xx, 542 pp. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. £14.95. ISBN 0 691 11347 5.

Martina Deuchler

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 156-158
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000360 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

Jae Jung Song: The Korean Language: Structure, Use and Context. xv, 185 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. £65. ISBN 0 415 32802 0.

Jaehoon Yeon

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 158-159
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000372 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

John N. Miksic: Historical Dictionary of Ancient Southeast Asia. (Historical Dictionaries of Ancient Civilizations and Historical Eras.) xlix, 497 pp. Lanham, MD, Toronto and Plymouth: Scarecrow Press, 2007. £76. ISBN 0 810 855 244.

Elizabeth Moore

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 160-161
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000384 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

Richard Fardon: Lela in Bali: History through Ceremony in Cameroon. (Cameroon Studies.) xiv, 162 pp. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2006. £37.50. ISBN 1 84545 215 1.

Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 161-163
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000396 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

Saheed A. Adejumobi: The History of Ethiopia. (The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations.) xx, 219 pp. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007. £25.95. ISBN 0 313 32273 2.

Richard Reid

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 163-165
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000402 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

Angelika C. Messner and Konrad Hirschler (eds): Heilige Orte in Asien und Afrika: Räume göttlicher Macht und menschlicher Verehrung. (Beiträge des Zentrums für asiatische und afrikanische Studien der Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel.) xv, 280 pp. Hamburg: EB-Verlag, 2006. €23. ISBN 3 936912 19X.

Gebhard Fartacek

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 165-168
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000414 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

Piotr Michalowski and Niek Veldhuis (eds): Approaches to Sumerian Literature. Studies in Honour of Stip (H. L. J. Vanstiphout). (Cuneiform Monographs.) vi, 247 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006. €90. ISBN 9004 15325 X.

A. R. George

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 168-169
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000426 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

Hilmi Yavuz: Seasons of the Word: Selected Poems. (Middle East Literature in Translation.) xiv, 118 pp. New York: Syracuse University Press, 2007. £11.50. ISBN 0 8156 0879 9.

Laurent Mignon

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 169-169
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000438 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

T. Rhys Davids and J. Estlin Carpenter (eds): The Digha-Nikāya, Vol. I. viii, 259 pp. Lancaster: The Pali Text Society, 2007. £19.25. ISBN 9780 86013 096 3. Helmer Smith (ed): The Commentary on the Dhammapada (Dhammapadatthakathā). (New edition, Vol. I, Part I.) xv, 134 pp. Lancaster: The Pali Text Society, 2007. £22. ISBN 9780 086013 432 9.

J. C. Wright

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 170-170
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0800044X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
 

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 171-178
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000086 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2008
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