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Reviews: The Near and Middle East
Ahmed El Shamsy: The Canonization of Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History. ix, 253 pp. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. £55. ISBN 978 110704148 6.
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- 06 October 2015, pp. 176-178
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Daryoush Mohammad Poor: Authority without Territory: The Aga Khan Development Network and the Ismaili Imamate. (Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World.) xix, 258 pp. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. £56.50. ISBN 978 1 137 42879 0.
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- 07 March 2016, pp. 178-179
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Gideon Avni: The Byzantine–Islamic Transition in Palestine: An Archaeological Approach. (Oxford Studies in Byzantium.) xvi, 424 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN 978 0 19 968433 5.
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- 07 March 2016, pp. 179-181
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Rocco Rante: Rayy: From Its Origins to the Mongol Invasion, an Archaeological and Historiographical Study. (Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World.) xiv, 165 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2015. €107. ISBN 978 90 04 27929 2.
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- 07 March 2016, pp. 181-183
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Rocco Rante (ed.): Greater Khorasan: History, Geography, Archeology and Material Culture. (Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East.) viii, 310 pp. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2015. ₤59.99. ISBN 978 3 11 033155 4.
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- 07 March 2016, pp. 183-184
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Rika Gyselen (ed.): Documents, argenterie et monnaies de tradition sassanide. (Res Orientales XXII.) 189 pp. Bures-sur-Yvette: Groupe pour l’Étude de la Civilisation du Moyen-Orient, 2014. €70. ISBN 978 2 9521376 6 9.
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- 07 March 2016, pp. 185-186
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Aptin Khanbaghi (ed.): Cities as Built and Lived Environments: Scholarship from Muslim Contexts, 1875–2011. (Muslim Civilizations Abstracts.) iv, 497 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press in association with The Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations, 2014. £75. ISBN 978 0 7486 9618 5.
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- 07 March 2016, pp. 186-188
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Nelly Hanna: Ottoman Egypt and the Emergence of the Modern World 1500–1800. vii, 185 pp. Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2014. ISBN 978 977 416 664 8.
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- 07 March 2016, pp. 188-190
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B. Deniz Çaliş-Kural: Şehrengiz: Urban Rituals and Deviant Sufi Mysticism in Ottoman İstanbul. xiii, 276 pp. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. £65. ISBN 978 1 4724 2709 0.
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- 07 March 2016, pp. 190-192
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Reviews: South Asia
Lars Fogelin: An Archaeological History of Indian Buddhism. xii, 250 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. ISBN 978 0 19 994823 9.
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- 07 March 2016, pp. 192-193
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Catherine Becker: Shifting Stones, Shaping the Past: Sculpture from the Buddhist Stūpas of Andhra Pradesh. xxi, 321 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. ISBN 978 0 19 935940 0.
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- 07 March 2016, pp. 194-195
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Brian Collins: The Head Beneath the Altar: Hindu Mythology and the Critique of Sacrifice. (Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture.) x, 230 pp. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2015. $24.95. ISBN 978 1 61186 116 7.
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- 07 March 2016, pp. 195-197
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Ajay K. Rao: Re-Figuring the Rāmāyaṇa as Theology: A History of Reception in Premodern India. (Routledge Hindu Studies Series.) ix, 156 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2015. £48.95. ISBN 978 0 415 68751 5.
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- 07 March 2016, pp. 197-198
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Kiyokazu Okita: Hindu Theology in Early Modern South Asia: The Rise of Devotionalism and the Politics of Genealogy. (Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs.) xv, 284 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN 978 1 107 04213 1.
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- 07 March 2016, pp. 198-200
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Wheeler M. Thackston (ed. and trans.): Abu'l-Fazl. The History of Akbar. Volume I. (Murty Classical Library of India.) xxx, 614 pp. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. ISBN 978 0 674 42775 4.
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- 07 March 2016, pp. 200-201
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Laura E. Parodi (ed.): The Visual World of Muslim India: The Art, Culture and Society of the Deccan in the Early Modern Era. xxxii, 366 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2014. £68. ISBN 978 1 84885 746 9. - Navina Najat Haidar and Marika Sardar (eds): Sultans of Deccan India, 1500–1700: Opulence and Fantasy. xi, 384 pp. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2015. $65. ISBN 978 1 58839 566 5.
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- 07 March 2016, pp. 201-203
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Jean Deloche: Contribution to the History of the Wheeled Vehicle in India. (Collection Indologie 126.) 145 pp. Pondicherry: Institut Français de Pondichéry / École française d'Extrême-Orient, 2014. ISBN 978 81 8470 201 9.
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- 07 March 2016, pp. 203-205
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Purnima Mankekar: Unsettling India: Affect, Temporality, Transnationality. xiv, 301 pp. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. $26.95. ISBN 978 0 8223 5836 7.
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- 07 March 2016, pp. 205-206
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Reviews: Central Asia
Emil Sieg: (ed. Georges-Jean Pinault and Michaël Peyrot): Tocharologica. (Monographien zur Indischen Archaëologie, Kunst und Philologie, 22.) xx, 294 pp. Bremen: Dr. Ute Hempen Verlag, 2014. €64. ISBN 978 3 944312 15 6.
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- 07 March 2016, pp. 207-208
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Christopher I. Beckwith: Greek Buddha: Pyrrho's Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia. xxi, 279 pp. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. £29.95. ISBN 978 0 69116644 5.
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- 07 March 2016, pp. 208-210
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