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Reviews: The Near and Middle East
Kristen Stilt: Islamic Law in Action: Authority, Discretion, and Everyday Experiences in Mamluk Egypt. xvi, 238 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £55. ISBN 978 0 19 960243 8.
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- 15 May 2014, pp. 217-220
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Eve M. Troutt Powell: Tell This in My Memory: Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan and the Ottoman Empire. xvii, 246 pp. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. $40. ISBN 978 0 8047 8233 3.
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- 15 May 2014, pp. 221-222
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Rudi Matthee, Willem Floor and Patrick Clawson: The Monetary History of Iran: From the Safavids to the Qajars. (Iran and the Persianate World Series.) xxi, 290 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2013. £45. ISBN 978 1 78076 079 7.
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- 15 May 2014, pp. 222-224
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Sabine Dorpmueller (ed.): Fictionalizing the Past: Historical Characters in Arabic Popular Epic. (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta.) xiii, 149 pp. Leuven: Peeters, 2012. €84. ISBN 978 90 429 2491 8.
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- 15 May 2014, pp. 224-225
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Wen-Chin Ouyang: Poetics of Love in the Arabic Novel. v, 298 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. £70. ISBN 978 0 7486 4273 1.
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- 15 May 2014, pp. 226-227
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Wen-Chin Ouyang: Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel. x, 246 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. £70. ISBN 978 0 7486 5569 4.
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- 15 May 2014, pp. 227-229
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Sarra Tlili: Animals in the Qur'an. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) xiv, 279 pp. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. £60. ISBN 978 1 107 02370 3.
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- 15 May 2014, pp. 229-230
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Margaret Cormack (ed.): Muslims and Others in Sacred Space. (AAR Religion, Culture, and History.) xviii, 232 pp. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. $35. ISBN 978 0 19 992 506 3.
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- 15 May 2014, pp. 231-232
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Aminah Beverly McCloud, Scott W. Hibbard and Laith Saud (eds): An Introduction to Islam in the 21st Century. xvii, 328 pp. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. £22. ISBN 978 1 4051 9360 3.
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- 15 May 2014, pp. 233-234
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Reviews: South Asia
Gérard Colas: Penser l'icône en Inde ancienne. (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études. Sciences Religieuses.) 213 pp. Turnhout: Brepols, 2012. €45. ISBN 978 2 503 54538 7.
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- 15 May 2014, pp. 234-236
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Chikafumi Watanabe, Michele Desmarais and Yoshichika Honda (eds): Saṃskṛta-sādhutā / Goodness of Sanskrit: Studies in Honour of Professor Ashok Aklujkar. xxiv, 591 pp. New Delhi: D.K. Printworld, 2012. $72. ISBN 978 81 246 0631 5.
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- 15 May 2014, pp. 236-238
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Klaus Wille: Sanskrithandschriften aus den Turfanfunden, Teil 11, die Katalognummern 4363–5799. (Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, Band X.11.) xi, 479 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012. €82. ISBN 978 3 515 10277 3.
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- 15 May 2014, pp. 238-239
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Niels Gutschow: Architecture of the Newars: A History of Building Typologies and Details in Nepal. 3 volumes, 1,042 pp. Chicago: Serindia Publications, 2011. $450. ISBN 978 1 932476 54 5.
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- 15 May 2014, pp. 240-241
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James McHugh: Sandalwood and Carrion: Smell in Indian Religion and Culture. xix, 322 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN: 978 0 19 991632 0.
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- 15 May 2014, pp. 241-243
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Aditya Behl: Love's Subtle Magic: An Indian Islamic Literary Tradition, 1379–1545, edited by Wendy Doniger. x, 403 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. £45. ISBN 978 0 19 514670 7.
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Reviews: Central Asia
Virgil Ciocîltan: The Mongols and the Black Sea Trade in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, translated by Samuel Willcocks. (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450.) ix, 321 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012. ISBN 978 90 04 22666 1.
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- 15 May 2014, pp. 244-246
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Gray Tuttle and Kurtis R. Schaeffer (eds): The Tibetan History Reader. xxvi, 720 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. £27.50. ISBN 978 0 231 14469 8.
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- 15 May 2014, pp. 246-248
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Kurtis R. Schaeffer, Matthew T. Kapstein and Gray Tuttle (eds): Sources of Tibetan Tradition. (Introduction to Asian Civilizations.) xl, 814 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. £27.50. ISBN 978 0 231 13599 3.
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- 15 May 2014, pp. 248-249
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Reviews: East Asia
Fabio Rambelli and Eric Reinders: Buddhism and Iconoclasm in East Asia: A History. xvi, 247 pp. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2012. ISBN 978 1 4411 4509 3.
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- 15 May 2014, pp. 250-251
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Thierry Meynard (ed. and trans.), Matteo Ricci (Li Madou): Le Sens réel de «Seigneur du Ciel». (Bibliothèque chinoise.) 626 pp. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2013. €39. ISBN 978 2 251 10013 5.
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- 15 May 2014, pp. 251-252
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