Research Articles

Urban Landscape Development in Twelfth-Century Acre

MICHAEL EHRLICH

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 03, July 2008, pp 257-274

doi:10.1017/S135618630800850X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Jun 2008

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The First Episode of Language Reform in Republican Turkey: The Language Council from 1926 to 1931

İLKER AYTÜRK

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 03, July 2008, pp 275-293

doi:10.1017/S1356186308008511 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Jun 2008

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Zîn-ə Hördemîr: A Lekî Satirical Verse from Lekistan

MUSTAFA DEHQAN

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 03, July 2008, pp 295-309

doi:10.1017/S1356186308008523 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Jun 2008

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The Vedic dṛti as skin float: AVP 2.19

DIPAK BHATTACHARYA

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 03, July 2008, pp 311-326

doi:10.1017/S1356186308008535 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Jun 2008

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The King who would be Man: the Gender Roles of the Warrior King in Early Mughal History

ALI ANOOSHAHR

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 03, July 2008, pp 327-340

doi:10.1017/S1356186308008547 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Jun 2008

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Raffles and the Barometer of Civilisation: Images and Descriptions of Ruined Candis in The History of Java

SARAH TIFFIN

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 03, July 2008, pp 341-360

doi:10.1017/S1356186308008559 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Jun 2008

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Reviews of Books

Esther's Revenge at Susa: From Sennacherib to Ahasuerus. By Stephanie Dalley, pp. xvi, 262. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007.

Karen Radner

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 03, July 2008, pp 361-364

doi:10.1017/S1356186308008316 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Jun 2008

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Les Ottomans en Égypte. Historiens et conquérants au XVIe siècle. By Benjamin Lellouch. pp. xxix, 423. Paris and Louvain, Peeters, 2006.

Kate Fleet

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 03, July 2008, pp 364-366

doi:10.1017/S1356186308008328 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Jun 2008

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Voyageurs occidentaux dans l'Empire ottoman (1600–1644). By Elizabetta Borromeo. 2 Vols pp. 1155. Paris, Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes, Maisonneuve & Larose, 2007.

Kate Fleet

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 03, July 2008, pp 366-368

doi:10.1017/S135618630800833X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Jun 2008

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Islamic Calligraphy from the Wellcome Library. Compiled by F. Abdullaeva, S. Andreyev, H. Ibrahimnejad, A. Peacock, N. Serikoff and B. Wannel. – Edited by Nikolaj Serikoff. pp. 224. Chicago, The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, Serindia Publications, 2007.

Philippe Bora Keskiner

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 03, July 2008, pp 368-369

doi:10.1017/S1356186308008341 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Jun 2008

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The Dispensatory of Ibn at-Tilmīd. By Oliver Kahl. pp. 349. Leiden, Brill, 2007.

Selma Tibi

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 03, July 2008, pp 369-370

doi:10.1017/S1356186308008353 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Jun 2008

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Eagle's Nest: Ismaili Castles in Iran and Syria. By Peter Willey (Ismaili Heritage Series 10). pp. xxvii, 321. London and New York, I. B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, 2005.

Marcus Milwright

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 03, July 2008, pp 370-372

doi:10.1017/S1356186308008365 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Jun 2008

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La Letteratura Pahlavi: Introduzione ai testi con riferimenti alla storia degli studi e alla tradizione manoscritta. By Carlo G. Cereti. pp. 262. Milan, Mimesis, 2001.

Farrokh Vajifdar

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 03, July 2008, pp 372-374

doi:10.1017/S1356186308008377 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Jun 2008

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Violent Order: Religious Warfare, Chivalry, and the ‘Ayyār Phenomenon in the Medieval Islamic World. By D. G. Tor. pp. 318. Würzburg, Orient-Institut Istanbul, Istanbuler Texte und Studien, 11, 2007.

A. C. S. Peacock

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 03, July 2008, pp 374-376

doi:10.1017/S1356186308008389 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Jun 2008

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Timurids in Transition: Turko-Persian Politics and Acculturation in Medieval Iran. By Maria E. Subtelny. (Brill's Inner Asian Library). pp. xv, 411. Leiden, Brill, 2007.

Timothy May

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 03, July 2008, pp 376-377

doi:10.1017/S1356186308008390 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Jun 2008

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Marco Polo's China: A venetian in the realm of Khubilal Khan. By Stephen G. Haw. pp. 214. London, Routledge, 2006.

George Lane

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 03, July 2008, pp 378-381

doi:10.1017/S1356186308008407 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Jun 2008

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Greater Magadha: Studies in the Culture of Early India. By Johannes Bronkhorst (Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section Two, India, Vol. 19). pp. xx, 420, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2007.

Jason Neelis

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 03, July 2008, pp 381-383

doi:10.1017/S1356186308008419 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Jun 2008

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Refiguring Unani Tibb: Plural Healing in Late Colonial India. By Guy Attewell. pp. xvi, 316. Hyderabad (A.P.), Orient Longman, 2007.

Francis Robinson

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 03, July 2008, pp 384-385

doi:10.1017/S1356186308008420 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Jun 2008

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Courtly Culture and Political Life in Early Medieval India. By Daud Ali. pp. xx, 296. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Jonathan S. Walters

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 03, July 2008, pp 385-387

doi:10.1017/S1356186308008432 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Jun 2008

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Since 1947. Partition Narratives among Punjabi Migrants of Delhi. By Ravinder Kaur, pp. 277, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2007.

Antony Copley

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 03, July 2008, pp 387-389

doi:10.1017/S1356186308008444 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Jun 2008

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The Islamist. By Ed Husain. pp. 288. London, Penguin Books, 2007.

George Lane

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 03, July 2008, pp 389-391

doi:10.1017/S1356186308008456 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Jun 2008

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Religions of Korea in Practice (Princeton Readings in Religions). Edited by Robert E. Buswell. pp. 542. Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2007.

Karel Werner

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 03, July 2008, pp 391-395

doi:10.1017/S1356186308008468 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Jun 2008

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Six Dynasties Civilization. By Albert Dien. pp. 614. New Haven, London, and Beijing, Yale University Press, 2007.

Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 03, July 2008, pp 395-397

doi:10.1017/S135618630800847X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Jun 2008

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The Nanking Atrocity 1937–38: Complicating the Picture. Edited by Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi. pp xx, 433. New York and Oxford, Berghahn, 2007.

Rana Mitter

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 03, July 2008, pp 398-399

doi:10.1017/S1356186308008481 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Jun 2008

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Changing Visions of East Asia, 1943–93: Transformations and Continuities. By R.B. Smith, Edited by Chad J. Mitcham. pp. xv, 260. Abingdon, Routledge, 2007.

A. J. Stockwell

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 18, Issue 03, July 2008, pp 399-400

doi:10.1017/S1356186308008493 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Jun 2008

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