Research Articles

On Lunatics and Loving Sons: A textual study of the Mamlūk treatment of al-Ḥākim

NAJAM HAIDER

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 02, April 2008, pp 109-139

doi:10.1017/S1356186307008012 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Mar 2008

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A trip down the Red Sea with Reynald of Châtillon

ALEX MALLETT

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 02, April 2008, pp 141-153

doi:10.1017/S1356186307008024 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Mar 2008

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Zoroastrian motifs in non-Zoroastrian traditions

WERNER SUNDERMANN

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 02, April 2008, pp 155-165

doi:10.1017/S1356186307008036 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Mar 2008

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Radio and the Raj: broadcasting in British India (1920–1940)

ALASDAIR PINKERTON

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 02, April 2008, pp 167-191

doi:10.1017/S1356186307008048 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Mar 2008

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Reading the ‘Inner Biography of the Perfected Person of Purple Solarity’: Religion and Society in an Early Daoist Hagiography WINNER OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY'S PROFESSOR MARY BOYCE AWARD

JULIUS N. TSAI

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 02, April 2008, pp 193-220

doi:10.1017/S135618630700805X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Mar 2008

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Reviews of Books

Grievance Administration (Şikayet) in an Ottoman Province: the Kaymakam of Rumelia's ‘Record Book of Complaints’ of 1781–1783. By Michael Ursinus. (Royal Asiatic Society Books: Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt Series) pp. xi, 190, 46. London/New York, RoutledgeCurzon, 2005.

Jan Goldberg

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 02, April 2008, pp 221-223

doi:10.1017/S1356186307008061 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Mar 2008

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Demetrius Cantemir, The Collection of Notations. Part II: Commentary. By Owen Wright. (SOAS Musicology Series. Vol: 2.). pp. 607. London, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2000.

Philippe Bora Keskiner

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 02, April 2008, pp 223-225

doi:10.1017/S1356186307008073 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Mar 2008

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Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey. By Esra Özyürek. pp. xi, 227. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2006.

Amit Bein

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 02, April 2008, pp 225-226

doi:10.1017/S1356186307008085 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Mar 2008

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Ghazālī and The Poetics of Imagination. By Moosa Ebrahim. pp.x, 349. Chapel Hill, Univeristy of North Carolina Press, 2005

Yazeed Said

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 02, April 2008, pp 226-228

doi:10.1017/S1356186307008097 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Mar 2008

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Ibn Abī Ṭāhir Ṭayfūr and Arabic Writerly Culture. By Shawkat Toorawa. pp.232. London, RoutledgeCurzon, 2007.

Miriam Goldstein

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 02, April 2008, pp 228-230

doi:10.1017/S1356186307008103 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Mar 2008

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Chinggis Khan. By Michal Biran. pp. x, 182. Oneworld, Oxford, 2007.

George Lane

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 02, April 2008, pp 230-233

doi:10.1017/S1356186307008115 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Mar 2008

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Tocqueville in India. By Jean Alphonse Bernard. pp. xvii, 247. Paris, Les Editions d'en Face, 2006.

Francis Robinson

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 02, April 2008, pp 233-234

doi:10.1017/S1356186307008127 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Mar 2008

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Religion And Society In South India: Hindus, Muslims And Christians (Institute for Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Meshar, Series-18). By J. B. P More. With a foreword by Francis Robinson. pp. xi, 277. Midas Press, Kuthuparamba, 2006.

Lionel Knight

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 02, April 2008, pp 234-235

doi:10.1017/S1356186307008139 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Mar 2008

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The Shadow Of The Great Game: The Untold Story Of India's Partition. By Narendra Singh Sarila. pp. 432. London, Constable and Robinson, 2007.

Antony Copley

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 02, April 2008, pp 235-238

doi:10.1017/S1356186307008140 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Mar 2008

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Trade and Society in The Straits of Melaka: Dutch Melaka and English Penang, 1780–1830. By Nordin Hussin. (NIAS Monographs, 100) pp. xxvii, 388. Copenhagen, NIASXX Press, 2007.

A.V.M. Horton

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 02, April 2008, pp 238-240

doi:10.1017/S1356186307008152 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Mar 2008

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Aden and the Indian Ocean Trade: 150 Years in the Life of a Medieval Arabian Port. By Roxani Eleni Margariti. pp. xiii, 343. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

Sebastian R. Prange

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 02, April 2008, pp 240-242

doi:10.1017/S1356186307008164 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Mar 2008

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Life, Transmissions, and Works of A-mes-zhabs Ngag-dbang-kun-dga'-bsod-nams, The Great 17th Century Sa-skya-pa Bibliophile. By Jan-Ulrich Sobisch. (Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland (VOHD), Supplementband 38.) pp. 607. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007.

Cathy Cantwell

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 02, April 2008, pp 242-244

doi:10.1017/S1356186307008176 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Mar 2008

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Imperial Decision-Making and Communication in Early China: A Study of Cai Yong's Duduan. By Giele Enno. pp. x, 367. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2006

Barbara Meisterernst

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 02, April 2008, pp 244-246

doi:10.1017/S1356186307008188 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Mar 2008

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Portrait of a Community: Society, Culture, and the Structures of Kinship in the Mulan River Valley (Fujian) from the Late Tang through the Song. By Hugh R. Clark. pp. x. Hong Kong, The Chinese University Press, 2007.

Göran Aijmer

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 02, April 2008, pp 246-247

doi:10.1017/S135618630700819X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Mar 2008

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Chinese Theories of Fiction: A Non-Western Narrative System. By Ming Dong Gu. pp. 286. Albany, State University of New York Press, 2006.

Liang Shi

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 02, April 2008, pp 247-248

doi:10.1017/S1356186307008231 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Mar 2008

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Things Modern: Material Culture and Everyday Life in China. By Frank Dikötter. pp. xv, 382. London, Hurst, 2007.

Verity Wilson

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 02, April 2008, pp 248-250

doi:10.1017/S1356186307008206 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Mar 2008

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The Second World War Volume 111: The Japanese War 1941–1945. Edited by Jeremy Black. pp. 562. Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007

Philip Towle

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 02, April 2008, pp 251-252

doi:10.1017/S1356186307008218 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Mar 2008

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Sexual Cultures in East Asia: The Social Construction of Sexuality and Sexual Risk in a Time of AIDS. Edited by Evelyne Micollier London, RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. ISBN 0-415-30871-2

Sabine Frühstück

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 02, April 2008, pp 252-255

doi:10.1017/S135618630700822X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Mar 2008

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