Reviews: The Near and Middle East
J.E. Peterson (ed.): The Emergence of the Gulf States: Studies in Modern History. xvi, 388 pp. London: Bloomsbury Academic on behalf of Altajir Trust, 2016. £119.99. ISBN 978 1 472587602.
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- 13 January 2017, pp. 659-660
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Reviews: South Asia
R. Sathyanarayanan (ed.) (with an introduction by Dominic Goodall ): Śaiva Rites of Expiation. A First Edition and Translation of Trilocanaśiva's Twelfth-century Prāyaścittasamuccaya. (Collection Indologie 127.) 651 pp. Pondicherry: Institut français de Pondichéry and Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, 2015. ISBN 978 81 8470 203 3.
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- 13 January 2017, pp. 660-662
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Brian Black and Laurie Patton (eds): Dialogue in Early South Asian Religions: Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Traditions. (Dialogues in South Asian Traditions: Religion, Philosophy, Literature and History.) xi, 265 pp. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. ISBN 978 1 4094 4012 3.
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- 13 January 2017, pp. 662-664
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Purushottama Bilimoria and Aleksandra Wenta (eds): Emotions in Indian Thought-Systems. x, 287 pp. New Delhi: Routledge, 2015. ISBN 978 1 138 85935 7.
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- 13 January 2017, pp. 664-666
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George Michell : Late Temple Architecture of India, 15th to 19th Centuries: Continuities, Revivals, Appropriations and Innovations. 351 pp. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2015. Rs. 2,315. ISBN 978 0 19 945467 9.
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- 13 January 2017, pp. 666-667
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Robert DeCaroli : Image Problems: The Origin and Development of the Buddha's Image in Early South Asia. (A McLellan Book.) x, 263 pp. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015. £44. ISBN 978 0 295 99456 7.
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- 13 January 2017, pp. 668-670
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Adil Hussain Khan : From Sufism to Ahmadiyya: A Muslim Minority Movement in South Asia. xi, 237 pp. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2015. £34. ISBN 978 0 253 01523 5.
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- 13 January 2017, pp. 670-671
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Seino Van Breugel : A Grammar of Atong. (Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages.) xxxvi, 660 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 2014. €231. ISBN 978 90 04 25892 1.
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- 13 January 2017, pp. 671-673
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Reviews: Central Asia
Angela F. Howard and Guiseppe Vignato : Archaeological and Visual Sources of Meditation in the Ancient Monasteries of Kuča. (Studies in Asian Art and Archaeology.) xxii, 214 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015. ISBN: 978 90 04 27857 8.
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- 13 January 2017, pp. 673-675
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András Róna-Tas : Tibeto-Mongolica Revisited. With a New Introduction and Selected Papers on Tibetan Linguistics. xxviii, 465 pp. Leiden and Boston: Global Oriental, 2014. ISBN 978 90 04 25118 2.
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- 13 January 2017, pp. 675-677
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Alex Mckay : Kailas Histories: Renunciate Traditions and the Construction of Himalayan Sacred Geography. (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library.) xx, 530 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2015. €139. ISBN 978 9 004 30458 1.
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- 13 January 2017, pp. 677-679
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Thomas Karl Alberts : Shamanism, Discourse, Modernity. xiv, 286 pp. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2015. £65. ISBN 978 1 4724 3984 0.
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- 13 January 2017, pp. 679-681
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Reviews: East Asia
Sarah Allan : Buried Ideas: Legends of Abdication and Ideal Government in Early Chinese Bamboo-Slip Manuscripts. (SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture.) xiv, 372 pp. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2015. $95. ISBN 978 1 4384 5777 2.
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- 13 January 2017, pp. 681-682
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Thomas Michael : In the Shadows of the Dao: Laozi, the Sage, and the Daodejing. (SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture.) xx, 311 pp. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2015. $90. ISBN 978 1 438 45897 7.
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- 13 January 2017, pp. 682-684
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Hans Van Ess , Olga Lomová and Dorothee Schaab-Hanke (eds): Views from Within, Views from Beyond: Approaches to the Shiji as an Early Work of Historiography. (Studien zur Geistesgeschichte und Literatur in China.) vi, 296 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015. ISBN 978 3 447 10476 0.
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- 13 January 2017, pp. 684-686
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Wang Yongbo and Lothar Ledderose (eds): Buddhist Stone Sutras in China. Shandong Province, vol. 1. xxvi, 508 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag; and Hangzhou: China Academy of Art Press, 2014. ISBN 978 3 447 06931 1. - Wang Yongbo and Claudia Wenzel (eds): Buddhist Stone Sutras in China. Shandong Province, vol. 2. xi, 471 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag; and Hangzhou: China Academy of Art Press, 2015. ISBN 978 3 447 10329 9. - Lothar Ledderose and Sun Hua (eds): Buddhist Stone Sutras in China. Sichuan Province, vol. 1. xx, 441 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag; and Hangzhou: China Academy of Art Press, 2014. ISBN 978 3 447 06932 8. - Tsai Suey-Ling and Sun Hua (eds): Buddhist Stone Sutras in China. Sichuan Province, vol. 2. xii, 448 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag; and Hangzhou: China Academy of Art Press, 2014. ISBN 978 3 447 10267 4.
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- 13 January 2017, pp. 686-688
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Imre Galambos : Translating Chinese Tradition and Teaching Tangut Culture: Manuscripts and Printed Books from Khara-Khoto. (Studies in Manuscript Cultures.) 318 pp. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. €109.95. ISBN 978 3 11 044406 3.
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- 13 January 2017, pp. 688-690
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Linda Rui Feng : City of Marvel and Transformation: Chang'an and Narratives of Experience in Tang Dynasty China. x, 197 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2015. $57. ISBN 978 0 8248 4106 5.
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Richard J. Smith : The Qing Dynasty and Traditional Chinese Culture. xii, 612 pp. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015. $40. ISBN 978 1 4422 2193 2.
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- 13 January 2017, pp. 692-693
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Michela Bussotti and Jean-Pierre Drege (eds): Imprimer sans profit? Le livre non commercial dans la Chine impériale / Non-commercial Books in Imperial China. (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. Sciences Historiques et Philologiques.) xii, 770 pp. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2015, ISBN 978 2 600 01376 5.
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- 13 January 2017, pp. 693-695
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