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Scripture and modernity. Editorial preface

Stefan Sperl

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 179-187
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000487 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Jun 2008
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Differing and changing attitudes in the Jewish exegetical tradition to the fulfilment of the biblical land covenant

Jeremy Rosen

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 189-202
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000499 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Jun 2008
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The Bible in Africa: a novel usage in Africa's new churches

Paul Gifford

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 203-219
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000505 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Jun 2008
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Some reflections on the Contextualist approach to ethico-legal texts of the Quran

Abdullah Saeed

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 221-237
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000517 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Jun 2008
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The Muslim Samson: medieval, modern and scholarly interpretations

Andrew Rippin

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 239-253
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000529 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Jun 2008
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Repackaging the ineffable: changing styles of Sikh scriptural commentary

Christopher Shackle

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 255-277
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000530 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Jun 2008
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The Mahābhārata as national history and allegory in modern tales of Abhimanyu

Pamela Lothspeich

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 279-296
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000542 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Jun 2008
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Holy superheroine: a comic book interpretation of the Hindu Devī Māhātmya scripture

Karline McLain

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 297-322
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000554 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Jun 2008
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Lost in translation? The Treatise on the Mahāyāna Awakening of Faith ( Dasheng qixin lun) and its modern readings

Francesca Tarocco

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 323-343
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000566 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Jun 2008
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Gender issues and Confucian scriptures: Is Confucianism incompatible with gender equality in South Korea?

Eunkang Koh

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 345-362
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000578 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Jun 2008
 

Book Reviews

 
  THE NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST  
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Andrew Rippin (ed.): The Blackwell Companion to the Qur’ān. (Blackwell Companions to Religion.) xiii, 560 pp. Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2006. £85. ISBN 1 4051 1752 4.

Oliver Scharbrodt

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 363-364
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000591 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Jun 2008
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Jane Dammen Mcauliffe (ed.): Encyclopaedia of the Qur’ān. (Volume Four, P–Sh), xxiii, 606 pp., 2004. € 265. (Volume Five, Si–Z), xxiii, 576 pp., 2006. € 265. (Indices) ix, 860 pp., 2006. Leiden and Boston: E.J. Brill.. € 265.

Mustafa Shah

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 365-366
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000608 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Jun 2008
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Charles Melville (ed.): Shahnama Studies I. (Pembroke Papers.) xxvi, 300 pp. Cambridge: Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge, 2006. ISBN 0 9516443 2 7.

Sheila Canby

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 366-368
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0800061X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Jun 2008
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A. A. Seyed-Gohrab and S. McGlinn: The Essence of Modernity: Mirza Yusof Khan Mustashar ad-Dowla Tabrizi’s Treatise on Codified Law (Yak Kaleme). [viii], xxviii, 114 pp. Amsterdam, Utrecht and West Lafayette, Indiana: Rozenberg SG and Purdue University Press, 2007. ISBN 978 90 5170 899 8.

Vanessa Martin

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 368-369
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000621 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Jun 2008
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Amira K. Bennison and Alison L. Gascoigne (eds): Cities in the Pre-Modern Islamic World: The Urban Impact of Religion, State and Society. (SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East.) xiii, 231 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. £70. ISBN 978 0 415 42439 4.

Matthew S. Gordon

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 369-371
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000633 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Jun 2008
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D. G. Tor: Violent Order: Religious Warfare, Chivalry, and the ‘Ayyār Phenomenon in the Medieval Islamic World. (Istanbuler Texte und Studien.) 318 pp. Istanbul: Orient-Institut/Würzburg: Ergon Verlag in Kommission, 2007. €58. ISBN 978 3 89913 553 4.

Konrad Hirschler

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 371-372
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000645 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Jun 2008
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Heinz Fähnrich: Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch. (Handbuch der Orientalistik.) 873 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007. €199. ISBN 978 90 04 16109 2.

George Hewitt

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 373-375
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000657 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Jun 2008
  SOUTH ASIA  
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Simon Brodbeck and Brian Black (eds): Gender and Narrative in the Mahābhārata. (Routledge Hindu Studies Series.) xix, 326 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. £95. ISBN 0 415 41540 3.

John Brockington

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 375-377
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000669 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Jun 2008
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K. R. Norman: Elders’ Verses II: Therīgāthā. (Second Edition.) (Pali Text Society Translation Series No. 40.) xci, 242 pp. Lancaster: The Pali Text Society, 2007. £22.50. ISBN 978 086013 436 7.

J. C. Wright

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 377-378
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000670 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Jun 2008
  CENTRAL AND INNER ASIA  
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David Morgan: The Mongols. (Second Edition.) (The Peoples of Europe.) xxii, 246 pp. Oxford and Malden: Blackwell, 2007. £19.99. ISBN 978 1 4051 3539 9.

Reuven Amitai

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 379-380
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000682 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Jun 2008
  EAST ASIA  
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Lothar von Falkenhausen: Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius (1000–250 bc): The Archaeological Evidence. xxiii, 555 pp. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, 2006. $70. ISBN 1 931745 31 5.

Wang Tao

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 381-382
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000694 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Jun 2008
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Kimberly Besio and Constantine Tung (eds): Three Kingdoms and Chinese Culture. (SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture.) xxvi, 193 pp. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2007. $65. ISBN 978 0 7914 7011 4.

Anne E. McLaren

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 383-385
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000700 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Jun 2008
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Xing Ruan: Allegorical Architecture: Living Myth and Architectonics in Southern China. (Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia’s Architecture.) xiii, 219 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2006. $49. ISBN 978 0 8248 2151 7.

Philip Denwood

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 385-386
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000712 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Jun 2008
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Jessica Rawson (ed.): The British Museum Book of Chinese Art. (Second Edition.) 395 pp. London: The British Museum Press, 2007. £16.99. ISBN 978 0 7141 2446 9.

Stacey Pierson

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 387-388
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000724 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Jun 2008
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Endō Orie: A Cultural History of Japanese Women’s Language. (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies.) vii, 139 pp. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2006. $38. ISBN 9781929280391.

Barbara Pizziconi

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 388-390
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000736 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Jun 2008
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Simon Mills: Healing Rhythms: The World of South Korea’s East Coast Hereditary Shamans. (SOAS Musicology Series.) xii, 121 pp. CD. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. £27.50. ISBN 987 0 7546 5845 0.

Roald Maliangkay

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 390-391
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000748 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Jun 2008
  SOUTH-EAST ASIA  
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Penny Edwards: Cambodge: The Cultivation of a Nation, 1860–1945. (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory.) viii, 349 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2007. $62. ISBN 978 0 8248 2923 0.

Michael W. Charney

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 391-393
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0800075X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Jun 2008
  AFRICA  
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Mark Leopold: Inside West Nile: Violence, History and Representation of an African Frontier. (World Anthropology.) x, 180 pp. Oxford, Santa Fe and Kampala: James Currey, School of American Research Press and Fountain Publishers, 2005. £16.95. ISBN 1 930618 65 4.

Johan Pottier

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 393-395
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000761 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Jun 2008
  GENERAL  
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Zhou Xun and Francesca Tarocco: Karaoke: The Global Phenomenon. 207 pp. London: Reaktion Books, 2007. £14.95. ISBN 978 1 86189 300 0.

Keith Howard

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 395-397
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000773 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Jun 2008
  SHORT NOTICES  
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J. N. Postgate (ed.): Languages of Iraq, Ancient and Modern. ix, 187 pp. London: British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 2007. ISBN 978 0 903472 21 0.

Mark Weeden

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 397-399
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000785 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Jun 2008
 

Books Received

 
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BOOKS RECEIVED FOR REVIEW

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 399-407
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0800058X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Jun 2008
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