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Reviews: The Near and Middle East
Charles Tieszen: Cross Veneration in the Medieval Islamic World: Christian Identity and Practice under Muslim Rule. (The Early and Medieval Islamic World.) x, 229 pp. London and New York: I.B Tauris, 2017. £59. ISBN 978 1 78453 662 6.
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- 23 February 2018, pp. 145-147
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Side Emre: Ibrahim-i Gulshani and the Khalwati-Gulshani Order: Power Brokers in Ottoman Egypt. (Studies on Sufism 1.) xiv, 431 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2017. €129. ISBN 978 90 04 34101 2.
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- 23 February 2018, pp. 147-148
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Stefan Winter: A History of the ʿAlawīs: From Medieval Aleppo to the Turkish Republic. xiii, 317 pp. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016. £22.95. ISBN 978 069117389 4.
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- 23 February 2018, pp. 149-150
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Jean Kellens: Cinq cours sur les Yašts de l'Avesta. (Studia Iranica, Cahier 59.) 192 pp. Paris: Association pour l'Avancement des Études Iraniennes, 2016. ISBN 978 2 910640 45 3.
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- 23 February 2018, pp. 150-152
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Reviews: South Asia
F. Grimal, V. Venkataraja Sarma and S. Lakshminarasimham: Pāṇinīyavyākaraṇodāharaṇakośaḥ; La grammaire paninéenne par ses exemples; Paninian Grammar through Its Examples. Vol. IV: Taddhitaprakaraṇam; Le livre des dérivés secondaires; The Book of Secondary Derivatives (prathamabhāgaḥ dvitīyabhāgaḥ ca; première et deuxième parties; first and second parts). (Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha Series, nos 302 and 303; Collection indologie, vols 93.4.1 and 93.2.2.) xvi, 1397 pp. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, 2015. ₹570 each. École française d'Extrême-Orient: ISBN 978 2 85539 219 6; 978 2 85539 222 6. Institut français de Pondichéry: ISBN 978 81 8470 209 5; 978 81 8470 214 9.
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- 23 February 2018, pp. 152-154
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Naama Shalom: Re-ending the Mahābhārata: The Rejection of Dharma in the Sanskrit Epic. (SUNY Series in Hindu Studies.) xvii, 248 pp. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2017. $85. ISBN 978 1 4384 6501 2.
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- 23 February 2018, pp. 154-156
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Johannes Bronkhorst: How the Brahmins Won: From Alexander to the Guptas. (Handbook of Oriental Studies.) xviii, 572 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2016. ISBN 978 90 04 31519 8.
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- 23 February 2018, pp. 156-158
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Shi Huifeng: Old School Emptiness: Hermeneutics, Criticism and Tradition in the Narrative of Śūnyatā. xviii, 326 pp. Kaohsiung: Fo Guang Cultural Enterprise, 2016. ISBN 978 957 457 399 8.
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- 23 February 2018, pp. 158-160
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Catherine B. Asher: Delhi's Qutb Complex: The Minar, Mosque and Mehrauli. Mumbai: The Marg Foundation, 2017. $69.95. ISBN 978 93 83243 19 8.
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- 23 February 2018, pp. 160-161
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Reviews: Central Asia
Anne Burchardi: Catalogue of Tibetan Maṇḍalas and other Images. Texts, Initiation Cards and Prayer Flags in the Royal Library and the National Museum, Copenhagen. (Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts, Xylographs, etc., in Danish Collections, 6.3.) xv, 304 pp. Copenhagen: NIAS Press, Det Kongelige Bibliothek2016. ISBN 978 87 7694 172 7.
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- 23 February 2018, pp. 161-163
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Jens Wilkens: Buddhistische Erzählungen aus dem alten Zentralasien. Edition der altuigurischen Daśakarmapathāvadānamālā. 3 volumes. (Berliner Turfantexte.) xxxvii, 1688 pp. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2016. €200. ISBN 978 2 503 56776 1.
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- 23 February 2018, pp. 163-164
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Reviews: East Asia
James A. Flath: Traces of the Sage: Monument, Materiality, and the First Temple of Confucius. (Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture.) xix, 290 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2016. £50.95. ISBN 978 0 8248 5370 9.
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- 23 February 2018, pp. 165-166
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Ji Hao: The Reception of Du Fu (712–770) and His Poetry in Imperial China. (Sinica Leidensia.) x, 266 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017.€99. ISBN 978 90 04 34104 3.
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- 23 February 2018, pp. 166-168
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Chang Woei Ong: Li Mengyang, the North–South Divide, and Literati Learning in Ming China. (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, 104.) xi, 354 pp. Cambridge MA and London: Harvard University Asia Center, 2016. £39.95. ISBN 978 067497059 5.
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- 23 February 2018, pp. 168-169
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Aina The Layman (ed. Robert Hegel): Idle Talk under the Bean Arbor: A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Story Collection. xxviii, 288 pp. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2017. £32.50. ISBN 978 0 295 99997 5.
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- 23 February 2018, pp. 170-171
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Zhang Yingyu (trans. Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk): The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection. (Translations from the Asian Classics.) xxxvi, 226 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. ISBN 978 0 231 17863 1.
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- 23 February 2018, pp. 171-173
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Zhu Jianqiu 朱鑒秋, Chen Jiarong 陳佳榮, Qian Jiang 錢江 and Tan Guanglian 譚廣濂: Zhongwai jiaotong gu ditu ji 中外交通古地圖集. 14 + 4 + 10 + 335 pp. Shanghai: Zhongxi shuju, 2017. ISBN 978 7 5475 1192 3. 158 RMB.
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- 23 February 2018, pp. 173-174
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Jonathan Markley: Peace and Peril: Sima Qian's Portrayal of Han-Xiongnu Relations. (Silk Road Studies XIII.) xiii, 302 pp. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2016. €65. ISBN 978 2 503 53083 3.
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- 23 February 2018, pp. 174-176
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Rivi Handler-Spitz: Symptoms of an Unruly Age: Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity. xiii, 239 pp. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2017. ISBN 978 0 295 74150 5.
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- 23 February 2018, pp. 176-178
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Barbara Hoster: Konversion zum Christentum in der modernen chinesischen Literatur: Su Xuelins Roman Jixin (Dornenherz, 1929). (Deutsche Ostasienstudien 29.) vi, 322 pp. Gossenberg: OSTASIEN Verlag, 2017. €35.80. ISBN 978 3 946114 30 7.
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- 23 February 2018, pp. 178-180
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