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Trans-Zab Jewish Neo-Aramaic

Hezy Mutzafi

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 409-431
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000815 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
 

Putative Persian perversities: Indian Buddhist condemnations of Zoroastrian close-kin marriage in context

Jonathan A Silk

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 433-464
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000827 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
 

Theragāthā: The Elders' Verses: a review article

J C Wright

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 465-473
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000839 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
 

A note on the history of adjectival verbs in Newar

Carol Genetti

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 475-492
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000840 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
 

Notes on the term “ Dhāra xs1E47ī” in medieval Chinese Buddhist thought

Paul Copp

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 493-508
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000852 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
 

The organs of Han imperial government: zhongdu guan, duguan, xianguan and xiandao guan

Michael Loewe

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 509-528
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000864 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
 

Islam for the indentured Indian: a Muslim missionary in colonial South Africa

Nile Green

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 529-553
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000876 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
 

Obituaries

 
 

Obituary

J C Wright

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 555-556
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000888 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
 

Book Reviews

 
  THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST  
 

Ulla Susanne Koch Secrets of Extispicy: The Chapter Multābiltu of the Babylonian Extispicy Series and Ni xs1E63irti Bārûti Texts Mainly from Aššurbanipal's Library, Mnster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2005. ISBN3 934628 67 2. (Alter Orient und Altes Testament.) x, 630 pp.

A R George

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 557-558
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0800089X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
 

Daniel Schwemer Abwehrzauber und Behexung: Studien zum Schadenzauberglauben im alten Mesopotamien, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2007. xix, 330 pp. ISBN 978 3 447 05640 3. €58

M J Geller

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 558-561
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000906 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
 

John Alan Halloran Sumerian Lexicon: A Dictionary Guide to the Ancient Sumerian Language, Los Angeles: Logogram Publishing, 2006. xiv, 318 pp. ISBN 978 0 9786429 0 7.

Catherine Mittermayer Altbabylonische Zeichenliste der sumerisch-literarischen Texte, Fribourg: Academic Press, 2006. (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis.) xii, 292 pp. ISBN 978 3 7278 1551 5.

M J Geller

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 561-565
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000918 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
  THE NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST  
 

Gabriel Said Reynolds The Qur’ān in Its Historical Context, London and New York: Routledge, 10 2008. (Routledge Studies in the Qur’ān.) xv, 294 pp. ISBN 0 415 42899 8. £75

Jane Dammen McAuliffe

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 565-566
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0800092X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
 

Asma Afsaruddin The First Muslims: History and Memory, Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 10 2008. xx, 254 pp. ISBN 978 1 85168 518 9. £40

Wilferd Madelung

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 567-568
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000931 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
 

Michael Bonner Jihad in Islamic History, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004. xviii, 197 pp. ISBN 0 691 12574 0. £14.95

Jonathan P Berkey

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 568-570
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000943 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
 

Jonathan Brown The Canonization of al-Bukhārī and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunnī xs1E24adīth Canon, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007. (Islam History and Civilization: Studies and Texts.) xxii, 431 pp. ISBN 978 90 04 15839 9. €129

Herbert Berg

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 570-572
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000955 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
 

Iris Shagrir Ronnie Ellenblum Jonathan Riley-Smith In Laudem Hierosolymitani: Studies in Crusades and Medieval Culture in Honour of Benjamin Z. Kedar, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. (Crusades – Subsidia 1.) xxiii, 468 pp. ISBN 978 0 7546 6140 5. £70

Konrad Hirschler

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 572-573
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000967 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
 

Michael Axworthy Empire of the Mind: A History of Iran, London: Hurst & Co., 2007. xvi, 333 pp. ISBN 978 1 85065 8711 9. £25

Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 573-574
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000979 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
 

Dominic Parviz Brookshaw Seena B. Fazel The Baha'is of Iran: Socio-Historical Studies, London and New York: Routledge, 10 2008. (Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies.) xv, 283 pp. ISBN 978 0 415 35673 2. £70

Oliver Scharbrodt

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 574-576
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000980 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
 

Farhad Daftary The Ismāīlīs: Their History and Doctrines. (Second edition.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xxi, 772 pp. ISBN 978 0521 61636 2. £40

Delia Cortese

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 576-577
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000992 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
 

IstvÁn VÁsÁry Turks, Tatars and Russians in the 13th–16th Centuries, Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. (Variorum Collected Studies Series.) x, 352 pp. ISBN 978 0 7546 5929 7. £65

H T Norris

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 578-579
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08001006 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
  South Asia  
 

Nile Green Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century: Saints, Books and Empires in the Muslim Deccan, London and New York: Routledge, 2006. (Routledge Sufi Series.) xxiii, 210 pp. ISBN 0 415 39040 0. £65

Denis Matringe

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 580-581
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08001018 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
 

John R. Hinnells Religious Reconstruction in the South Asian Diasporas: From One Generation to Another, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. ISBN 978 0 333 77401 4. (Migration, Minorities and Citizenship.) ix, 335 pp.

Parvathi Raman

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 581-583
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0800102X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
 

Matthew T. Kapstein Brandon Dotson Contributions to the Cultural History of Early Tibet, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007. (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library.) xiii, 311 pp. ISBN 978 90 04 16064 4. €89

Philip Denwood

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 583-585
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08001031 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
  EAST ASIA  
 

Mark Edward Lewis The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han, Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. (History of Imperial China.) vii, 321 pp. ISBN 978 0 674 02477 9. £19.95

Antje Richter

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 585-587
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08001043 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
 

T. H. Barrett The Woman Who Discovered Printing, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 10 2008. xiv, 176 pp. ISBN 978 0 300 12728 7. £16.99

Jean-Pierre Drège

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 587-588
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08001055 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
 

Jamie Greenbaum Chen Jiru (1558–1639): The Background to, Development and Subsequent Uses of Literary Personae, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007. (Sinica Leidensia.) xliii, 292 pp. ISBN 978 90 04 6358 4. €119

Alison Hardie

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 589-590
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08001067 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
 

Kenneth J. Hammond Pepper Mountain: The Life, Death and Posthumous Career of Yang Jisheng, London, New York and Bahrain: Kegan Paul, 2007. (The Kegan Paul China Library.) xxxii, 172 pp. ISBN 978 0 7103 1280 8. £65

Alison Hardie

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 590-591
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08001079 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
 

Christina Baird Liverpool China Traders, Bern: Peter Lang, 2007. 224 pp. ISBN 978 3 03 910926 5. £30

Jessica Hanser

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 592-593
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08001080 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
 

Peter Chen-Main Wang Contextualization of Christianity in China: An Evaluation in Modern Perspective, Nettetal SteylerSankt Augustin: Institut Monumenta Serica, 2007. (Collectania Serica.) 316 pp. ISBN 978 3 8050 0547 0. €40

Lars Peter Laamann

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 593-595
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08001092 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
 

Rune Svarverud International Law as World Order in Late Imperial China: Translation, Reception and Discourse, 1847–1911, Leiden: Brill, 2007. (Sinica Leidensia.) x, 322 pp. ISBN 978 90 04 16019 4. €71

Michael Palmer

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 595-597
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08001109 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
 

Baruch Hirson Arthur J. Knodel (ed. Gregor Benton) Reporting the Chinese Revolution: The Letters of Rayna Prohme, London and Ann Arbor: Pluto Press, 2007. xiii, 196 pp. ISBN 978 0 7453 2642 9. £19.99

John Gittings

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 597-598
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08001110 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
 

Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi The Nanking Atrocity 1937–38: Complicating the Picture, New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007. (Asia Pacific Studies: Past and Present.) xx, 433 pp. ISBN 1 84545 180 5. £55

Caroline Rose

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 598-600
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08001122 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
 

Bunroku Shishi (translated And With An Afterword By lynne e. riggs) School of Freedom (Jiyū Gakkō) , Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 2006. ISBN 1 929280 40 8. $29.95

Linda Flores

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 600-602
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08001134 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
 

J. Edward Kidder Himiko and Japan's Elusive Chiefdom of Yamatai: Archaeology, History, and Mythology, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007. xiii, 401 pp. ISBN 978 0 8248 3035 9. $65

Mark J Hudson

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 602-603
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08001146 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
 

Hildi Kang (with A Foreword By Gari Ledyard) Family Lineage Records as a Resource for Korean History: A Case Study of Thirty-Nine Generations of the Sinch'o˘n Kang Family (720A.D.–1955), Lewiston, Queenston and Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2007. ISBN 978 0 7734 5339 5. xv, 270 pp.

Martina Deuchler

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 603-605
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08001158 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
 

RÜdiger Frank James E. Hoare Patrick KÖllner Susan Pares Korea Yearbook 2007: Politics, Economy and Society, Leiden: Brill, 10 2008. xiii, 305 pp. ISBN 978 90 04 16440 6. €52.50

Keith Howard

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 605-606
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0800116X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
  AFRICA  
 

John Parker Richard Rathbone African History. A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xi, 165 pp. ISBN 978 0 19 280248 4. £6.99

Terence Ranger

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 607-607
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08001183 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
 

Alamin Mazrui Swahili Beyond the Boundaries: Literature, Language, Identity, Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2007. (Ohio University Research in International Studies, Africa Series.) x, 206 pp. ISBN 978 0 89680 252 0. £15.95

Alena Rettová

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 608-609
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08001195 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
  GENERAL  
 

Martin Clayton Bennett Zon Music and Orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s–1940s: Portrayal of the East, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. (Music in 19th-Century Britain.) xvii, 347 pp. ISBN 978 0 7546 5604 3. £60

Keith Howard

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 609-612
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08001171 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
  SHORT NOTICES  
 

Francesco D'arelli La Cina in Italia: una bibliografia dal 1899 al 1999, Roma: Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente, 2007. (Repertoria ac Bibliographica.) xiv, 394 pp. ISBN 978 88 85320 53 6. €45

Valentina Boretti

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 612-613
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08001201 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
 

Emanuela Trevisan Semi Jacques Faitlovitch and the Jews of Ethiopia, London and Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell, 2007. xx, 204 pp. ISBN 978 0 85303 655 5. £19.50

Edward Ullendorff

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 613-613
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08001213 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
 

Books Received

 
 

BOOKS RECEIVED FOR REVIEW

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 71, Issue 03, October 2008, pp 615-622
doi:10.1017/S0041977X08001250 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008
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