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JRA volume 19 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 19, Issue 01, January 2009, pp f1-f4

doi:10.1017/S1356186308009309 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Dec 2008

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JRA volume 19 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 19, Issue 01, January 2009, pp b1-b12

doi:10.1017/S1356186308009310 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Dec 2008

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Research Articles

The Shaykh, the Physical Setting and the Holy Site: the diffusion of the Qādirī path in late medieval Palestine

DAPHNA EPHRAT

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 19, Issue 01, January 2009, pp 1-20

doi:10.1017/S1356186308009036 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Dec 2008

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Ibn al-Nadīm's Ismāʿīlī Contacts

DEVIN J. STEWART

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 19, Issue 01, January 2009, pp 21-40

doi:10.1017/S1356186308009048 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Dec 2008

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The Ra Mo Che Temple, Lhasa, and the Image of Mi bsKyod rDo rJe: The Narrative of Ri ‘Bur sPrul sKu

TSERING GONKATSANG and MICHAEL WILLIS

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 19, Issue 01, January 2009, pp 41-57

doi:10.1017/S1356186308009097 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Dec 2008

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The Divine Word Missionaries in Gansu, Qinghai and Xinjiang, 1922–1953: A Bibliographic Note

BIANCA HORLEMANN

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 19, Issue 01, January 2009, pp 59-82

doi:10.1017/S135618630800905X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Dec 2008

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The Tràng An Project: Late-to-Post-Pleistocene Settlement of the Lower Song Hong Valley, North Vietnam

RYAN RABETT, G. BARKER, C. O. HUNT, T. NARUSE, P. PIPER, E. RADDATZ, T. REYNOLDS, NGUYÊŃ VAN SON, C. STIMPSON, K. SZABÓ, NGUYÊŃ CAO TÂŃ and J. WILSON

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 19, Issue 01, January 2009, pp 83-109

doi:10.1017/S1356186308009061 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Dec 2008

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M. C. A. MacDonald

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 19, Issue 01, January 2009, pp 111-112

doi:10.1017/S1356186308009073 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Dec 2008

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Reviews of Books

Adaptions and innovations: studies on the interaction between Jewish and Islamic thought and literature from the early Middle Ages to the late Twentieth Century, dedicated to Professor Joel L. Kraemer. Edited by Tzvi Langermann and Josef Stern, (Collection de la Revue des Études juives). pp. 441. Leuven, Peeters, 2007.

Ben Outhwaite

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 19, Issue 01, January 2009, pp 113-114

doi:10.1017/S1356186308009103 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Dec 2008

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Postal Systems in the Pre-Modern Islamic World. By Adam J. Silverstein. pp. xii, 214. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Andrew Marsham

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 19, Issue 01, January 2009, pp 114-116

doi:10.1017/S1356186308009115 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Dec 2008

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A Selection from the Millet Manuscript Library, Ali Emiri Efendi and his World. The Catalogue of an Exhibition organised by the Pera Museum. Edited by Ekrem Isin, Compiled by S. Mubahats, Kutukoglu, Ugur Derman, Cicek Derman. pp. 392. Istanbul, The Pera Museum, 2007.

Philippe Bora Keskiner

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 19, Issue 01, January 2009, pp 116-117

doi:10.1017/S1356186308009139 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Dec 2008

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Evreiskie sokrovisha Peterburga (Jewish Treasures from St Petersburg) 1 Vol. By S. M. Iakerson. pp. 264. St Petersburg, Arca Publishers, 2008.

N. Serikoff

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 19, Issue 01, January 2009, pp 117-119

doi:10.1017/S1356186308009140 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Dec 2008

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The Personalities of Mithra in Archaeology and Literature. By A. D. H. Bivar. pp. xii, 140. New York, Bibliotheca Persica, 1998.

David H. Sick

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 19, Issue 01, January 2009, pp 119-121

doi:10.1017/S1356186308009152 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Dec 2008

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Languages of Iran: Past and Present Iranian Studies in memoriam David Neil MacKenzie. Edited by Dieter Weber. pp.xxvii, 307. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005.

J. Elfenbein

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 19, Issue 01, January 2009, pp 121-125

doi:10.1017/S1356186308009176 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Dec 2008

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Einiges zu den Skythen, ihrer Sprache, ihrem Nachleben. By Manfred Mayrhofer. pp. 48x. Wein, Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2006.

J. Elfenbein

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 19, Issue 01, January 2009, pp 125-126

doi:10.1017/S1356186308009188 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Dec 2008

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Cultivating Original Enlightenment. Wŏnhyo's Exposition of the Vajrasamādhi-SūTra (KŭMgang SammaegyŏNg Non), The International Association of Wŏnhyo Studies' Collected Works of Wŏnhyo, Volume I. Translated with an Introduction by Robert E Buswell Jr. pp. xii, 424. Honolulu, University of Hawai'i Press, 2007.

Karel Werner

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 19, Issue 01, January 2009, pp 126-128

doi:10.1017/S135618630800919X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Dec 2008

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The Temple Architecture of India. By Adam Hardy. pp. 256. Chichester, Wiley, 2007.

Giles Tillotson

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 19, Issue 01, January 2009, pp 128-130

doi:10.1017/S1356186308009206 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Dec 2008

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Teachings of the Sikh Gurus: Selections from the Sikh Scriptures. Edited and translated by Christopher Shackle and Arvind-Pal Singh Mandair, pp. l, 164. London and New York, Routledge, 2005.

Hugh Beattie

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 19, Issue 01, January 2009, pp 130-132

doi:10.1017/S1356186308009218 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Dec 2008

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An Anthology of Chinese Discourse on Translation. Volume 1: From Earliest Times to the Buddhist Project. Edited with Annotations and Commentary by Martha P. Y. Cheung. pp. xxix, 268. Manchester, St Jerome Publishing, 2006.

James A. Benn

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 19, Issue 01, January 2009, pp 132-134

doi:10.1017/S135618630800922X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Dec 2008

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Chinese Sculpture, A Great Tradition, By Ann Paludan, pp. 559. Chicago, Serindia Publication, 2007.

Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 19, Issue 01, January 2009, pp 134-136

doi:10.1017/S1356186308009231 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Dec 2008

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Changing Clothes in China: Fashion, History, Nation. By Antonia Finnane. pp. xvii, 359. London, Hurst & Company, 2007.

Verity Wilson

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 19, Issue 01, January 2009, pp 136-138

doi:10.1017/S1356186308009243 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Dec 2008

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The Subtle Revolution: Poets of the “Old Schools” During Late Qing and Early Republican China. By Jon Eugene von Kowallis. pp. viii, 299. Berkeley, University of California, Institute of East Asian Studies, 2006.

Alexander C. Y. Huang

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 19, Issue 01, January 2009, pp 138-139

doi:10.1017/S1356186308009255 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Dec 2008

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From the May Fourth Movement to Communist Revolution: Guo Moruo and the Chinese Path to Communism. By Xiaoming Chen. pp. xi, 156. Albany, State University of New York Press, 2007.

Felix Boecking

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 19, Issue 01, January 2009, pp 139-141

doi:10.1017/S1356186308009267 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Dec 2008

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Remaking Buddhism for Medieval Nepal. The Fifteenth-Century Reformation of Newar Buddhism (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism). By Will Tuladhar-Douglas. pp. xiv, 238. London and New York, Routledge, 2006.

Karel Werner

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 19, Issue 01, January 2009, pp 141-144

doi:10.1017/S1356186308009279 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Dec 2008

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The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95: Perceptions, Power, and Primacy. By S.C.M. Paine. pp. 412 Cambridge, Cambridge Univeristy Press, 2006.

Liu Wei

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 19, Issue 01, January 2009, pp 144-145

doi:10.1017/S1356186308009280 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Dec 2008

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Loan-Words in Indonesian and Malay. Edited by Russel Jones. pp. 360. Leiden, KITLV Press, 2007.

Alan M. Stevens

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), Volume 19, Issue 01, January 2009, pp 145-147

doi:10.1017/S1356186308009292 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Dec 2008

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