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Front Cover (OFC, IFC) and matter

 
 

BSO volume 72 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 03, October 2009, pp f1-f4
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09990309 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 21 Oct 2009
 

Back Cover (IBC, OBC) and matter

 
 

BSO volume 72 issue 3 Cover and Back matter

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 03, October 2009, pp b1-b9
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09990310 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 21 Oct 2009
 

Articles

 
 

Polemics and patronage in Safavid Iran: The debate on Friday prayer during the reign of Shah Tahmasb

Devin J. Stewart

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 03, October 2009, pp 425-457
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09990024 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 21 Oct 2009
 

Between authenticity and alienation: The Druzes and Lebanon's history

Yusri Hazran

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 03, October 2009, pp 459-487
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09990036 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 21 Oct 2009
 

The route to the top in the Ottoman ilmiye hierarchy of the sixteenth century

Abdurrahman Atcil

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 03, October 2009, pp 489-512
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09990048 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 21 Oct 2009
 

Grammaticalization of the notion of “passing” in Chinese (aspectual values)

Robert Iljic

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 03, October 2009, pp 513-524
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0999005X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 21 Oct 2009
 

Java's ruined candis and the British picturesque ideal

Sarah Tiffin

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 03, October 2009, pp 525-558
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09990061 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 21 Oct 2009
 

Reviews: The Ancient World

 
 

W. G. Lambert: Babylonian Oracle Questions. (Mesopotamian Civilizations, 13.) xiv, 216 pp., 57 pls. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2007. $49.50. ISBN 978 1 57506 136 8.

Eleanor Robson

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 03, October 2009, pp 559-560
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09990073 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 21 Oct 2009
 

Reviews: The Near and Middle East

 
 

Rudi Paul Lindner: Explorations in Ottoman Prehistory. x, 142 pp. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. $65. ISBN 978 0 472 09507 0.

Christine Woodhead

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 03, October 2009, pp 560-562
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09990085 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 21 Oct 2009
 

Otfried Weintritt: Arabische Geschichtsschreibung in den arabischen Provinzen des Osmanischen Reiches (16.–18. Jahrhundert). (Bonner Islamstudien 14.) 250 pp. Hamburg-Schenefeld: EB-Verlag, 2008. €24.80. ISBN 978 3 936912 74 6.

Konrad Hirschler

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 03, October 2009, pp 562-563
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09990097 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 21 Oct 2009
 

Sophia Vasalou: Moral Agents and Their Deserts: The Character of Muʿtazilite Ethics. xiii, 252 pp. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. £27.95. ISBN 978 0 691 13145 0.

Wilferd Madelung

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 03, October 2009, pp 564-565
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09990103 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 21 Oct 2009
 

James Grehan: Everyday Life and Consumer Culture in 18th-Century Damascus. xvii, 320 pp. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2007. $50. ISBN 978 0 2959 8676 0.

Peter Sluglett

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 03, October 2009, pp 565-567
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09990115 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 21 Oct 2009
 

Elyse Semerdjian: “Off the Straight Path”: Illicit Sex, Law and Community in Ottoman Aleppo. 280 pp. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2008. $29.95. ISBN 978 0 8156 3173 6.

Peter Sluglett

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 03, October 2009, pp 567-569
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09990127 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 21 Oct 2009
 

Reidar Visser and Gareth Stansfield (eds): An Iraq of Its Regions – Cornerstones of a Federal Democracy? xxii, 274 pp. London: Hurst & Co., 2007. £19.99. ISBN 978 1 85065 875 7.

Charles Tripp

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 03, October 2009, pp 569-571
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09990139 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 21 Oct 2009
 

Beate Dignas and Engelbert Winter: Rome and Persia in Late Antiquity: Neighbours and Rivals. xvi, 347 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. ₤17.99. ISBN 978 0521 84925 8.

Maria Kouroumali

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 03, October 2009, pp 571-572
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09990140 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 21 Oct 2009
 

Wheeler M. Thackston (tr.): The Gulistan of Saʿdi: Bilingual English and Persian Edition with Vocabulary. xi, 253 pp. Bethesda, MD: Ibex Publishers, 2008. $60. ISBN 978 1 58814 058 6.

Jawid Mojaddedi

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 03, October 2009, pp 572-574
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09990152 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 21 Oct 2009
 

Reviews: South Asia

 
 

Padmanabh S. Jaini: Jain Sectarian Debates. Eighty-Four Points of Contention (Cauryāṃsi Bol) between Śvetāmbaras and Digambaras (Text and Translation). (Journal of Indian Philosophy Vol. 36.) 246 pp. Springer, 2008.

Paul Dundas

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 03, October 2009, pp 574-575
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09990164 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 21 Oct 2009
 

Brian A. Hatcher: Bourgeois Hinduism, or the Faith of the Modern Vedantists: Rare Discourses from Early Colonial Bengal. xiv, 226 pp. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. $65. ISBN 978 0 19 532608 6.

William Radice

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 03, October 2009, pp 576-577
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09990176 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 21 Oct 2009
 

Theodore Gabriel: Christian Citizens in an Islamic State: The Pakistan Experience. xv, 118 pp. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. £16.99. ISBN 978 0 7546 6036 1.

Markus Daechsel

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 03, October 2009, pp 577-579
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09990188 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 21 Oct 2009
 

Reviews: East Asia

 
 

Melvyn C. Goldstein, Ben Jiao and Tanzen Lhundrub: On the Cultural Revolution in Tibet: The Nyemo Incident of 1969. xx, 236 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2009. £14.95. ISBN 978 0 520 25682 8.

Hildegard Diemberger

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 03, October 2009, pp 579-580
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0999019X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 21 Oct 2009
 

Qingyun Wu: A Dream of Glory (Fanhua meng): A Chuanqi Play by Wang Yun. xxi, 279 pp. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2008. $39. ISBN: 978 962 996 309 5.

Tian Yuan Tan

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 03, October 2009, pp 581-582
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09990206 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 21 Oct 2009
 

Daniel Bryant: The Great Recreation: Ho Ching-ming (1483–1521) and His World. (Sinica Leidensia.) xxxii, 720 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008. €179. ISBN 978 90 04 16817 6.

Tian Yuan Tan

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 03, October 2009, pp 582-584
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09990218 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 21 Oct 2009
 

Maxwell K. Hearn: How to Read Chinese Paintings. 173 pp. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. £18. ISBN 978 0 300 14187 0.

Nixi Cura

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 03, October 2009, pp 584-585
doi:10.1017/S0041977X0999022X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 21 Oct 2009
 

Francesco D'arelli and Beniamino Melasecchi (comp.): Serie Orientale Roma, I-C: A Detailed Catalogue. (Serie Orientale Roma, CI.) 203 pp. Rome: Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente, 2008. €20. ISBN 978 8863232684.

T. H. Barrett

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 03, October 2009, pp 586-586
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09990231 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 21 Oct 2009
 

Francesca Tarocco: The Cultural Practices of Modern Chinese Buddhism: Attuning the Dharma. (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism.) xii, 183 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. £75. ISBN 978 0 415 37503 0.

Hwee-San Tan

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 03, October 2009, pp 586-588
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09990243 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 21 Oct 2009
 

Mark Swislocki: Culinary Nostalgia: Regional Food Culture and the Urban Experience in Shanghai. xvi, 304 pp. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009. $ 55. ISBN 978 0 8047 6012 6.

Jakob A. Klein

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 03, October 2009, pp 588-590
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09990255 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 21 Oct 2009
 

Rüdiger Frank, James E. Hoare, Patrick Köllner and Susan Pares (eds): Korea Yearbook 2008: Politics, Economy and Society. xii, 275 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2009. €55.00/$88.00. ISBN 978 90 04 16979 1.

Keith Howard

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 03, October 2009, pp 590-592
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09990267 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 21 Oct 2009
 

Mike Kim: Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World's Most Repressive Country. xvi, 239 pp. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2008. £15.99. ISBN 978 0 7425 5620 1.

Keith Howard

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 03, October 2009, pp 592-594
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09990279 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 21 Oct 2009
 

Reviews: Africa

 
 

Elena Bertoncini Zúbková, Mikhail D. Gromov, Said A. M. Khamis and Kyallo Wadi Wamitila: Outline of Swahili Literature. Prose Fiction and Drama. (Second edition, extensively revised and enlarged.) xi, 500 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009. €119. ISBN 978 90 04 16818 3.

Alena Rettová

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 03, October 2009, pp 594-596
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09990280 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 21 Oct 2009
 

Books Received for Review

 
 

BOOKS RECEIVED FOR REVIEW

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 03, October 2009, pp 597-606
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09990292 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 21 Oct 2009
 

Corrigendum

 
 

Research Article: The Mahābhārata as national history and allegory in modern tales of Abhimanyu – Corrigendum

Pamela Lothspeich

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 72, Issue 03, October 2009, pp 607-607
doi:10.1017/S0041977X09990012 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 21 Oct 2009
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