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Table of Contents - Volume 72 - Issue 02  

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Front Cover (OFC, IFC) and matter

 
 

BSO volume 72 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 02, June 2009, pp f1-f4
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09009975 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 28 May 2009
 

Back Cover (IBC, OBC) and matter

 
 

BSO volume 72 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 02, June 2009, pp b1-b5
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09009963 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 28 May 2009
 

Articles

 
 

The Muslim Jesus: Dead or alive?

Gabriel Said Reynolds

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 237-258
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09000500 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 28 May 2009
 

Egypt under Muʿāwiya Part II: Middle Egypt, Fusṭāṭ and Alexandria

Clive Foss

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 259-278
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09000512 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 28 May 2009
 

The Islamization of Central Asia in the Sāmānid era and the reshaping of the Muslim world

D. G. Tor

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 279-299
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09000524 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 28 May 2009
 

The sanctuary of Shaykh ʿAdī at Lalish: Centre of pilgrimage of the Yezidis

Birgül Açıkyıldız

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 301-333
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09000536 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 28 May 2009
 

Homer's Iliad and the Meghanādbadha Kābya of Michael Madhusūdan Datta

Alexander Riddiford

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 335-356
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09000548 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 28 May 2009
 

Zhuangzi and the search for coherence in Ise monogatari

Lone Takeuchi

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 357-388
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0900055X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 28 May 2009
 

Reviews: The Ancient World

 
 

John M. Steele (ed.): Calendars and Years: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient Near East. vii, 167 pp. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2007. £25. ISBN 978 1 84217 302 2.

A. R. George

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 389-390
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09000561 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 28 May 2009
 

Douglas R. Frayne: Presargonic Period (2700–2350 bc). (Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia, Early Periods 1.) lvi, 464 pp. Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 2008. £150. ISBN 978 0 8020 3586 8.

A. R. George

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 390-392
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09000573 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 28 May 2009
 

Reviews: The Near and Middle East

 
 

Konrad Hirschler: Medieval Arabic Historiography: Authors as Actors. (SOAS/Routledge Series on the Middle East.) x, 181 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. £65. ISBN 0 415 38377 3.

Daniella Talmon-Heller: Islamic Piety in Medieval Syria. Mosques, Cemeteries and Sermons under the Zangids and Ayyubids (1146–1260). (Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture.) xv, 306 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2007. €109. ISBN 978 90 04 15809 2.

Sami G. Massoud: The Chronicles and Annalistic Sources of the Early Mamluk Circassian Period. (Islamic History and Civilization.) xiii, 477 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2007. €137. ISBN 978 90 04 15626 5.

Yehoshua Frenkel

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 392-395
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09000585 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 28 May 2009
 

Rüdiger Lohlker: Islam: Eine Ideengeschichte. 282 pp. Vienna: Facultas Verlags- und Buchhandels AG, 2008. €18.90. ISBN 978 3 8252 3078 4.

Oliver Scharbrodt

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 395-396
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09000597 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 28 May 2009
 

Youssef M. Choueiri (ed.): A Companion to the History of the Middle East. (Blackwell Companions to World History.) xvii, 602 pp. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. £85. ISBN 1405106816.

Nelida Fuccaro

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 396-397
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09000603 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 28 May 2009
 

Dawn Chatty (ed.): Nomadic Societies in the Middle East and North Africa: Entering the 21st Century. (Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section One, The Near and Middle East.) xliii, 1060 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006. €185. ISBN 90 04 14792 6.

Nancy Lindisfarne

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 397-399
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09000615 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 28 May 2009
 

Clara Bargellini (trans.), Anthony Welch (ed.): The Travels and Journal of Ambrosio Bembo. xii, 451 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2007. £14.95. ISBN 978 0 520 24939 4.

Kate Fleet

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 399-401
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09000627 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 28 May 2009
 

Farhad Daftary and Zulfikar Hirji: The Ismailis: An Illustrated History. 262 pp. London: Azimuth Editions and The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2008. £39. ISBN 978 1 898592 26 6.

J. M. Rogers

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 401-401
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09000639 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 28 May 2009
 

Marcus Milwright: The Fortress of the Raven: Karak in the Middle Islamic Period (1100–1650). (Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and Texts 72.) xvii, 445 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008. €134. ISBN 9789004165199.

Konrad Hirschler

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 401-403
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09000640 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 28 May 2009
 

Reviews: South Asia

 
 

Nalini Balbir, Kanhaiyalal V. Sheth, Kalpana K. Sheth and Candrabhal Bh. Tripathi (eds): Catalogue of the Jain Manuscripts of the British Library: Including the Holdings of the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Vol. I. Introduction, Bibliography, Appendices, Indexes, Plates. Vol. II. Catalogue (Nos. 1–687). Vol. III. Catalogue (Nos. 688–1425). xx, 254 pp., 16 plates, 1 CD; 491 pp.; 532 pp. London: The British Library and The Institute of Jainology, 2006. £125. ISBN 0 7123 4711 9.

J. C. Wright

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 403-405
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09000652 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 28 May 2009
 

Reviews: Central and Inner Asia

 
 

Paul Bergne: The Birth of Tajikistan: National Identity and the Origins of the Republic. xiv, 178 pp. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2007. £45. ISBN 978 1 84511 283 7.

Shirin Akiner

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 405-407
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09000664 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 28 May 2009
 

Olivier Roy: The New Central Asia: Geopolitics and the Birth of Nations. xxiii, 222 pp. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2007. £16.99. ISBN 978 1 84511 552 4.

Shirin Akiner

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 407-408
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09000676 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 28 May 2009
 

Reviews: East Asia

 
 

Chen Jinhua: Philosopher, Practitioner, Politician: The Many Lives of Fazang (643–712). (Sinica Leidensia.) xviii, 542 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2007. €139. ISBN 978 90 0415613 5.

Imre Hamar

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 408-410
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09000688 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 28 May 2009
 

Graham Peck: Two Kinds of Time. xxvi, 725 pp. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. £16.99. ISBN 978 0 295 98852 8.

T. H. Barrett

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 410-410
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0900069X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 28 May 2009
 

Reviews: Africa

 
 

W. B. Carnochan: Golden Legends: Images of Abyssinia, Samuel Johnson to Bob Marley. 184 pp. Stanford, CA: Stanford General Books (an imprint of Stanford University Press), 2008. $29.95. ISBN 978 0 8047 6098 0.

Richard Reid

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 411-412
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09000706 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 28 May 2009
 

Frans Wijsen: Seeds of Conflict in a Haven of Peace: From Religious Studies to Interreligious Studies in Africa. (Studies in World Christianity and Interreligious Relations.) 282 pp. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007. ISBN 978 90 420 2188 4.

Paul Gifford

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 412-413
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09000718 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 28 May 2009
 

Books Received for Review

 
 

BOOKS RECEIVED FOR REVIEW

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 415-423
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0900072X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 28 May 2009
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