Reviews: The Near and Middle East
Doris Behrens-Abouseif : Practising Diplomacy in the Mamluk Sultanate: Gifts and Material Culture in the Medieval Islamic World. xxi, 242 pp. London and New York: IB Tauris, 2014. ISBN 978 1 78076 877 9.
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- 22 June 2016, pp. 421-423
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Denis Hermann : Kirmānī Shaykhism and the ijtihād: A Study of Abū al-Qāsim Khān Ibrāhīmī' s Ijtihād wa taqlīd. (Bibliotheca Academica, Reihe Orientalistik, Band 24.) 50 pp. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2015. €12. ISBN 978 3 95650 097 8.
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- 22 June 2016, pp. 423-424
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Sussan Babaie and Talin Grigor (eds): Persian Kingship and Architecture: Strategies of Power in Iran from the Achaemenids to the Pahlavis. xxiv, 260 pp. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2015. £60. ISBN 978 1 84885 751 3.
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- 22 June 2016, pp. 425-426
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Vered Shalev-Hurvitz : Holy Sites Encircled: The Early Byzantine Concentric Churches of Jerusalem. (Oxford Studies in Byzantium.) xviii, 386 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. £90. ISBN 978 0 19 965377 5.
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- 22 June 2016, pp. 426-428
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Alberto Cantera : Vers une édition de la liturgie longue zoroastrienne: pensées et travaux préliminaires. (Studia Iranica. Cahier 51.) 429 pp. Paris: Association pour l'Avancement des Études Iraniennes, 2014. €70. ISBN 978 2 910640 37 8.
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Denise Aigle : The Mongol Empire between Myth and Reality. (Iran Studies.) xiii, 392 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2015. €107. ISBN 978 90 04 27749 6.
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- 22 June 2016, pp. 430-432
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Reviews: South Asia
Robert Leach and Jessie Pons (eds): Puṣpikā: Tracing Ancient India through Texts and Tradition. Contributions to Current Research in Indology. Volume 3. viii, 170 pp. Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2015. £28. ISBN 978 1 78297 939 5.
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- 22 June 2016, pp. 432-434
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Christopher Minkowski , Rosalind O'hanlon and Anand Venkatkrishnan (eds): Scholar Intellectuals in Early Modern India: Discipline, Sect, Lineage and Community. (South Asian History and Culture.) viii, 193 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2015. £90. ISBN 978 1 138 90570 2.
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- 22 June 2016, pp. 434-436
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Peter Flügel and Olle Qvarnström (eds): Jaina Scriptures and Philosophy. (Routledge Advances in Jaina Studies.) xii, 257 pp. London: Routledge, 2015. £90. ISBN 978 1 138 83989 2.
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- 22 June 2016, pp. 436-438
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Jesse Ross Knutson : Into the Twilight of Sanskrit Court Poetry: The Sena Salon of Bengal and Beyond. (South Asia Across the Disciplines.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2014. £41.95. ISBN 978 0 520 28205 6.
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- 22 June 2016, pp. 438-440
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Francesca Orsini and Katherine Butler Schofield (eds): Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India. xix, 543 pp. Cambridge: OpenBook Publishers, 2015. ISBN 978 1 78374 102 1.
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- 22 June 2016, pp. 440-441
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Robert Elgood : Arms and Armour at the Jaipur Court: The Royal Collection. 296 pp. London: Kodansha Europe Limited, 2015. £80. ISBN 978 93 83098 77 4.
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- 22 June 2016, pp. 442-443
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Artemij Keidan (ed.): The Study of South Asia between Antiquity and Modernity: Parallels and Comparisons. Coffee Break Conference 2. (Rivista degli Studi Orientali. Volume LXXXVII. Supplemento 2.) 263 pp. Pisa: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2014. €225. ISBN 978 8 862 27745 7.
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- 22 June 2016, pp. 443-444
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Reviews: Central Asia
Jay L. Garfield and Jan Westerhoff (eds): Madhyamaka and Yogācāra: Allies or Rivals? xi, 280 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. ISBN 978 0 19 023129 3.
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- 22 June 2016, pp. 444-446
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Yudru Tsomu : The Rise of Gönpo Namgyel in Kham: The Blind Warrior of Nyarong. (Studies in Modern Tibetan Culture.) xxxiii, 363 pp. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015. £70. ISBN 978 0 7391 7792 1.
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- 22 June 2016, pp. 446-448
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Janet Gyatso : Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet. xv, 519 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. £30.95. ISBN 978 0 231 16496 2.
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- 22 June 2016, pp. 448-449
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István Keul (ed.): Asian Religions, Technology and Science. (Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy.) xii, 257 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2015. ISBN 978 1 138 77966 2.
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- 22 June 2016, pp. 449-451
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Reviews: East Asia
Edward L. Shaughnessy : Unearthing the Changes: Recently Discovered Manuscripts of the Yi Jing (I Ching) and Related Texts. (Translations from the Asian Classics.) xxii, 355 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. £27.50. ISBN 978 0 231 16184 8.
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- 22 June 2016, pp. 451-453
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Anne Behnke Kinney : Exemplary Women of Early China: The Lienü Zhuan of Liu Xiang. (Translations from the Asian Classics.) li, 323 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. £24. ISBN 978 0 231 16309 5.
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- 22 June 2016, pp. 453-455
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John W. Chaffee and Denis Twitchett (eds): The Cambridge History of China. Volume 5 Part Two, Sung China, 960–1279. xvii, 957 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. £120. ISBN 978 0 521 24330 8.
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- 22 June 2016, pp. 455-457
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