Reviews: The Near and Middle East
John Morgan O'Connell: Alaturka: Style in Turkish Music (1923–1938). (SOAS Musicology Series.) xviii, 287 pp. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013. £70. ISBN 978 1 4094 4741 2.
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Helen Lackner (ed.): Why Yemen Matters: A Society in Transition. (SOAS Middle East Studies.) xviii, 334 pp. London: Saqi Books, in association with the British Yemeni Society and London Middle East Institute, SOAS, 2014. £21.99. ISBN 978 0 86356 777 3.
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- 29 October 2014, pp. 596-597
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Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst: Grammatik des Westmitteliranischen (Parthisch und Mittelpersisch). (Sitzungsberichte der phil.-hist. Klasse 850, Veröffentlichungen zur Iranistik 73, Grammatica Iranica, Band 1.) 602 pp. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2014. €98. ISBN 978 3 7001 7556 8.
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- 29 October 2014, pp. 598-600
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Reviews: South Asia
John Siudmak: The Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Ancient Kashmir and Its Influences. (Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 2, South Asia.) xxxi, 514 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2013. £125. ISBN 978 90 04 24315 6.
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Zafar Paiman and Michael Alram: Tepe Narenj à Caboul, ou l'Art Bouddhique à Caboul au Temps des Incursions Musulmanes. The Tepe Narenj Buddhist Monastery at Kabul. Buddhist Art during the First Muslim Raids against the Town. Volume I, Chronologie bâtiments, céramiques et monnaies. (Collège de France. Publications de l'Institut de Civilisations Indienne.) 154 pp., 32 plates. Paris: de Boccard, 2013. ISBN 978 2 86803 082 5.
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John Carswell, Siran Deraniyagala, Alan Graham : Mantai: City by the Sea. 552 pp., 95 plates. Aichwald: Linden Soft Verlag, 2013. £56. ISBN 978 3 929290 39 4.
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- 29 October 2014, pp. 603-605
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Jean Deloche: Ancient Fortifications of the Tamil Country as Recorded in Eighteenth-Century French Plans. (Collection Indologie.) viii, 139 pp. Pondicherry: Institut Français de Pondichéry and École française d'Extrême-Orient, 2013. Rs. 700. ISBN 978 81 8470 193 7.
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- 29 October 2014, pp. 605-607
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Fabrizio M. Ferrari and Thomas Dähnhardt (eds): Charming Beauties and Frightful Beasts: Non-Human Animals in South Asian Myth, Ritual and Folklore. xvii, 272 pp. Sheffield and Bristol, CT: Equinox Publishing, 2013. ISBN 978 1 908049 59 9.
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Cosimo Zene (ed.): The Political Philosophies of Antonio Gramsci and B.R. Ambedkar: Itineraries of Dalits and Subalterns. (Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies.) xxii, 242 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2013. ₤90. ISBN 978 0 415 70446 5.
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Rosane Rocher and Ludo Rocher: Founders of Western Indology: August Wilhelm von Schlegel and Henry Thomas Colebrooke in Correspondence 1820–1837. (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes.), xv, 205 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2013. ISBN 978 3 447 06878 9.
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Gavin Flood: The Truth Within: A History of Inwardness in Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism. xviii, 310 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £65. ISBN 978 0 19 968456 4.
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Reviews: Central Asia
S. Frederick Starr: Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane. xlii, 634 pp. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013. $39.50. ISBN 978 0 691 15773 3.
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Igor de Rachewiltz: The Secret History of the Mongols: A Mongolian Epic Chronicle of the Thirteenth Century. Volume 3. Supplement. (Brill's Inner Asian Library.) xxiii, 226 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013. €101. ISBN 978 90 042 5056 7.
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Nathan W. Hill (ed.): Mediaeval Tibeto-Burman Languages IV. (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library. Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region.) x, 480 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012. €163. ISBN 978 90 04 23202 0.
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Lezlee Brown Halper and Stefan Halper: Tibet: An Unfinished Story. xxii, 367 pp. London: Hurst & Company, 2014. £20. ISBN 978 18490 4359 5.
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John Kenneth Knaus: Beyond Shangri-La: America and Tibet's Move into the 21st Century. (American Encounters / Global Interactions.) xvii, 355 pp. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2012. ISBN 978 0 8223 5234 1.
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Reviews: East Asia
William S.-Y. Wang: Love and War in Ancient China: Voices from the Shijing. xxxiv, 200 pp. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press, 2013. ISBN 978 962 937 215 6.
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Li Feng: Early China: A Social and Cultural History. (New Approaches to Asian History.) xxi, 346 pp. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. £18.99. ISBN 978 0 521 71981 0.
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- 29 October 2014, pp. 625-627
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Matthias L. Richter: The Embodied Text: Establishing Textual Identity in Early Chinese Manuscripts. (Studies in the History of Chinese Texts.) xii, 208 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2013. €96. ISBN 978 90 04 23657 8.
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Ronald Egan: The Burden of Female Talent: The Poet Li Qingzhao and Her History in China. (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series.) ix, 422 pp. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard University Press, 2013. £42.95. ISBN 978 0 674 72669 7.
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