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Reviews: The Near and Middle East
Dietrich Jung: Orientalists, Islamists and the Global Public Sphere: A Genealogy of the Modern Essentialist Image of Islam. (Comparative Islamic Series.) 323 pp. Sheffield and Oakville, CT: Equinox, 2011. £19.99. ISBN 978 1 84553 900 9.
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- 23 October 2012, pp. 585-587
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Farida Shaheed with Aisha Lee Shaheed: Great Ancestors: Women Claiming Rights in Muslim Contexts. xxxvii, 220 pp. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2011. £13.99. ISBN 978 0 19 547636 1.
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- 23 October 2012, pp. 587-588
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Reviews: South Asia
Gérard Fussman and Anna Maria Quagliotti: The Early Iconography of Avalokiteśvara. (Publications de l'Institut de Civilisation Indienne, fasc. 80.) 152 pp. Paris: Collège de France, 2012. ISBN 978 286803080 1.
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- 23 October 2012, pp. 589-590
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Vesna A. Wallace: The Kālacakra Tantra, The Chapter on Sādhanā, Together with the Vimalaprabhā Commentary. Translated from Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Mongolian, Introduced and Annotated. xv, 379 pp. New York: The American Institute of Buddhist Studies, distributed by Columbia University Press, 2011. £38. ISBN 978 0 9753734 4 6.
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- 23 October 2012, pp. 590-592
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Pia Brancaccio: The Buddhist Caves at Aurangabad: Transformations in Art and Religion. (Brill's Indological Library.) xxii, 332 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2011. €108. ISBN 978 90 04 18525 8.
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- 23 October 2012, pp. 592-593
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Jean Deloche: A Study in Nayaka-Period Social Life: Tiruppudaimarudur Paintings and Carvings. (Collection Indologie 116.) 136 pp. Pondicherry: Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole Française d'Extreme-Orient, 2011. ISBN 978 285539 108 3.
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- 23 October 2012, pp. 594-595
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Robert A.F. Thurman (trans.): Brilliant Illumination of the Lamp of the Five Stages (Rim lnga rab tu gsal ba'i sgron me), Practical Instruction in the King of Tantras, The Glorious Esoteric Community by Tsong Khapa Losang Drakpa. Introduction and Translation. (Treasury of Buddhist Sciences.) xviii, 723 pp. New York: The American Institute of Buddhist Studies, distributed by Columbia University Press, 2011. $62. ISBN 978 1 935011 00 2.
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- 23 October 2012, pp. 596-597
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Jason Neelis: Early Buddhist Transmission and Trade Networks: Mobility and Exchange within and beyond the Northwestern Borderlands of South Asia. (Dynamics in the History of Religion.) xvii, 371 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011. €126. ISBN 978 90 04 18159 5.
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- 23 October 2012, pp. 597-598
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Knut A. Jacobsen (ed.): Yoga Powers: Extraordinary Capacities Attained through Meditation and Concentration. (Brill's Indological Library 37.) 519 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012. €143. ISBN 978 9004 21214 5.
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- 23 October 2012, pp. 599-600
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Vincent Lefèvre: Portraiture in Early India: Between Transience and Eternity. (Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section Two, South Asia.) xix, 219 pp., 58 figs. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011. ISBN 978 90 04 20735 6.
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- 23 October 2012, pp. 600-602
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Daud Ali and Emma J. Flatt (eds): Garden and Landscape Practices in Pre-colonial India: Histories from the Deccan. (Visual and Media Histories.) xxii, 201 pp. New Delhi and London: Routledge, 2012. £75. ISBN 978 0 415 66493 6.
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- 23 October 2012, pp. 602-604
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Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar: Hindu Widow Marriage. A Complete Translation, with an Introduction and Critical Notes by Brian A. Hatcher. xxiv, 242 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. £48.50. ISBN 978 0 231 15633 2.
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- 23 October 2012, pp. 604-606
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Andrea Acri, Helen Creese and Arlo Griffiths (eds): From Laṅka Eastwards: The Ramayana in the Literature and Visual Arts of Indonesia. xvi, 259 pp. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2011. €29.90. ISBN 978 90 6718 384 0.
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Reviews: East Asia
Yuri Pines: The Everlasting Empire: The Political Culture of Ancient China and Its Imperial Legacy. viii, 245 pp. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2012. £27.95. ISBN 978 0 691 13495 6.
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- 23 October 2012, pp. 608-609
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Li Feng and David Prager Branner (eds): Writing and Literacy in Early China: Studies from the Columbia Early China Seminar. viii, 494 pp. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2011. £35. ISBN 978 029599152 8.
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- 23 October 2012, pp. 609-611
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Ronnie Littlejohn and Jeffrey Dippmann (eds): Riding the Wind with Liezi: New Perspectives on the Daoist Classic. (SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture.), vii, 264 pp. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2011. ISBN 978 1 4384 3455 1.
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- 23 October 2012, pp. 611-613
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Peter Lorge (ed.): Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. ix, 252 pp. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2011. $52. ISBN 978 962996418 4.
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- 23 October 2012, pp. 613-614
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Beata Grant and Wilt L. Idema (trans.): Escape from Blood Pond Hell: The Tales of Mulian and Woman Huang. 278 pp. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2011. $35. ISBN 978 0 295 99120 7.
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- 23 October 2012, pp. 615-616
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Tonio Andrade: Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory over the West. xv, 431 pp. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2011. £24.95. ISBN 978 069114455 9.
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- 23 October 2012, pp. 616-618
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Anthony E. Clark: China's Saints: Catholic Martyrdom during the Qing (1644–1911). (Studies in Missionaries and Christianity in China.) xi, 270 pp. Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press, 2011. $75. ISBN 978 1 61146 016 2.
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- 23 October 2012, pp. 618-620
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