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Reviews: The Near and Middle East
Farhad Daftary: A History of Shiʿi Islam. (The Institute of Ismaili Studies, Shiʿi Heritage Series.) xx, 315 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2013. ISBN 978 1 78076 841 0.
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- 17 March 2015, pp. 192-193
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Aysha A. Hidayatullah: Feminist Edges of the Qur'an. xiii, 259 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. £16.99. ISBN 978 0 19 935957 8.
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- 17 March 2015, pp. 193-195
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Pinar Emiralioğlu: Geographical Knowledge and Imperial Culture in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire. (Transculturalisms, 1400–1700.) xxii, 184 pp. Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate, 2014. £70. ISBN 978 1 4727 1533 2.
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- 17 March 2015, pp. 195-197
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István Kristó-Nagy: La pensée d'Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ. Un «agent double» dans le monde persan et arabe. (Studia Iranica XIX.) 618 pp. Versailles: Éditions de Paris, 2013. €34. ISBN 978 2 85162 272 3.
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- 17 March 2015, pp. 197-199
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Jean-Claude Garcin: Pour une lecture historique des Mille et une nuits: Essai sur l’édition de Būlāq (1835). 804 pp. Paris: Sindbad / Actes Sud, 2013. ISBN 978 2 330 01319 6.
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- 17 March 2015, pp. 199-200
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Naṣīr Al-Dīn Al-Ṭūsī (ed. and trans. Daniel L. Newman): The Sultan's Sex Potions: Arab Aphrodisiacs in the Middle Ages. 208 pp. (English), 72 pp. (Arabic). London: Saqi Books, 2014. £17.99. ISBN 978 086356 747 6.
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- 17 March 2015, pp. 201-202
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Sarah Stewart (ed.): The Everlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination. xix, 259 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2013. £45. ISBN 978 1 78076 809 0.
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Reviews: South Asia
Ole Holten Pind (ed.): Kaccāyana and Kaccāyanavutti, with an index prepared by S. Kasamatsu and Y. Ousaka. xv, 326 pp. Bristol: The Pali Text Society, 2013. £36. ISBN 978 086013 490 9.
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- 17 March 2015, pp. 204-205
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Amber D. Carpenter: Indian Buddhist Philosophy. (Ancient Philosophies.) xviii, 313 pp. Durham: Acumen Publishing, 2014. £16.99. ISBN 978 1 84465 298 3.
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- 17 March 2015, pp. 205-207
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Romila Thapar: The Past Before Us: Historical Traditions of Early North India. xvii, 758 pp. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2013. €49.50. ISBN 978 06747 2523 2.
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- 17 March 2015, pp. 207-208
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Alice Collett (ed.): Women in Early Indian Buddhism: Comparative Textual Studies. (South Asia Research.) xiii, 274 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. £47.99. ISBN 978 0 19 932604 4.
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- 17 March 2015, pp. 209-210
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Akira Shimada: Early Buddhist Architecture in Context: The Great Stūpa at Amarāvatī (ca. 300 bce–300 ce). (Brill's Indological Library.) xxiii, 265 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2013. €101. ISBN 978 90 04 23283 9.
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- 17 March 2015, pp. 210-212
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István Keul (ed.): “Yoginī” in South Asia: Interdisciplinary Approaches. (Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy 9.) xvi, 237 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2013. £85. ISBN 978 0 415 62522 7.
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- 17 March 2015, pp. 212-214
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Reviews: Central Asia
Andrew Quintman: The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa. (South Asia across the Disciplines.) xi, 314 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. £24. ISBN: 978 0 231 16415 3.
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- 17 March 2015, pp. 214-216
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Chikafumi Watanabe: Asaṅga's Mahāyānasaṃgraha Chapter III. Translation and Tibetan Text. xvi, 165 pp. New Delhi: D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd., 2014. $ 16. ISBN 978 81 246 0719 0.
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- 17 March 2015, pp. 216-218
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Reviews: East Asia
J.D. Schmidt: The Poet Zheng Zhen (1806–1864) and the Rise of Chinese Modernity. (Sinica Leidensia, 111.) xxv, 720 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013. €210. ISBN 978 90 04 24978 3.
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- 17 March 2015, pp. 218-219
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J. Silbergeld and D.C.Y. Ching (eds): The Family Model in Chinese Art and Culture. xiii, 553 pp. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. ISBN 978 0 691 15859 4.
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- 17 March 2015, pp. 219-220
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Douglas R. Reynolds with Carol T. Reynolds: East Meets West: Chinese Discover the Modern World in Japan, 1854–1898. A Window on the Social and Intellectual Transformation of Modern China. (Asia Past and Present.) xviii, 715 pp. Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2014. $38. ISBN 978 0 924304 76 7.
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Daniel T. Reff, Richard K. Danford and Robin D. Gill (ed. and trans.): The First European Description of Japan, 1585: A Critical English-language Edition of Striking Contrasts in the Customs of Europe and Japan by Luis Frois, S.J. (Japan Anthropology Workshop Series.) xi, 299 pp. London: Routledge, 2014. £95. ISBN 978 0415 72757 0.
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- 17 March 2015, pp. 222-224
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Jan C. Leuchtenberger: Conquering Demons: The “Kirishitan”, Japan, and the World in Early Modern Japanese Literature. (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, 75.) xii, 240 pp. Ann Arbor, MI: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 2013. $65. ISBN 978 1 929280 77 3.
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- 17 March 2015, pp. 224-226
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