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Stephen L. Herring: Divine Substitution: Humanity as the Manifestation of Deity in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East. (Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments, Volume 247.) 244 pp. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013. €44.99. ISBN 978 3 525 53612 4.
Baruch A. Levine
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29 October 2014, pp. 569-570
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Gerhard Böwering (ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought. xlv, 656 pp. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013. ISBN 978 0 691 13484 0.
R. Stephen Humphreys
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13 June 2014, pp. 376-377
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Sylvie Vanséveren: Nisili. Manuel de langue Hittite. Volume II. Le système verbal hittite. (Lettres Orientales et Classiques 19.) x, 251 pp. Leuven: Peeters, 2014. €34. ISBN 978 90 429 3018 6.
Zsolt Simon
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29 October 2014, pp. 570-572
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Written traces of the Buddhist past: Mantras and Dhāraṇīs in Indonesian inscriptions
Arlo Griffiths
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15 May 2014, pp. 137-194
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This article examines a group of ten Indonesian inscriptions citing a range of gāthās, mantras and dhāraṇīs. The texts, contextualized and in some cases read and identified for the first time, underline the pan-Asian character of Buddhism and the integral place the Indonesian archipelago once held in the ancient Buddhist world. The identification of the sources of several of these texts in known Sanskrit scriptures raises the question whether some of these texts, none of which survives as such in the archipelago, were once transmitted there in manuscript form.

Matthew Neujahr: Predicting the Past in the Ancient Near East: Mantic Historiography in Ancient Mesopotamia, Judah, and the Mediterranean World. (Brown Judaic Studies.) xv, 300 pp. Providence, RI: Brown Judaic Studies, 2012. $64.95. ISBN 978 1 930675 80 3.
Zackary M. Wainer
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15 May 2014, pp. 195-196
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A. J. Droge: The Qur’ān: A New Annotated Translation. lxii, 488 pp. Sheffield and Bristol, CT: Equinox, 2013. £24.99. ISBN 978 1 84553 945 0.
Shawkat M. Toorawa
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13 June 2014, pp. 377-379
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Leif Inge Ree Petersen: Siege Warfare and Military Organization in the Successor States (400–800 ad): Byzantium, the West and Islam. (History of Warfare 91.) xxx, 820 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2013. $282. ISBN 978 90 04 25199 1.
Denis Sullivan
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29 October 2014, pp. 572-574
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Suzanne Herbordt, Daliah Bawanypeck and J. David Hawkins: Die Siegel der Grosskönige und Grossköniginnen auf Tonbullen aus dem Nişantepe-Archiv in Hattusa. (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. Boğazköy-Ḫattuša XXIII.) xv, 308 pp., 60 plates. Darmstadt and Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 2011. ISBN 978 3 8053 4331 2.
Jared L. Miller
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15 May 2014, pp. 197-198
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Birgit Krawietz and Georges Tamer (eds): Islamic Theology, Philosophy and Law: Debating Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya. (Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients.) xxvii, 583 pp. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2013. €129.95. ISBN 978 3 11 028534 5.
Abdelkader Al Ghouz
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13 June 2014, pp. 379-381
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Maaike van Berkel, Nadia Maria el Cheikh, Hugh Kennedy and Letizia Osti: Crisis and Continuity at the Abbasid Court: Formal and Informal Politics in the Caliphate of al-Muqtadir (295–320/908–32). (Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and Texts.) xiii, 262 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013. $141. ISBN 978 90 04 25271 4.
Eric J. Hanne
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29 October 2014, pp. 574-576
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Eran Cohen: Conditional Structures in Mesopotamian Old Babylonian. (Languages of the Ancient Near East 4.) x, 198 pp. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2012. $44.50. ISBN 978 1 57506 222 8.
C.W. Hess
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15 May 2014, pp. 199-200
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Al-Qāḍī Al-Quḍāʿī: A Treasury of Virtues: Sayings, Sermons and Teachings of ʿAlī with the One Hundred Proverbs attributed to Al-Jāḥiẓ (ed. and trans. Tahera Qutbuddin). (Library of Arabic Literature.) xxxviii, 272 pp. New York and London: New York University Press, 2013. $35. ISBN 978 0 8147 2914 4.
Samer Traboulsi
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13 June 2014, pp. 381-383
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Petra M. Sijpesteijn: Shaping a Muslim State: The World of a Mid-Eighth-Century Egyptian Official. (Oxford Studies in Byzantium). xxvii, 524 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £90. ISBN 978 0 19 967390 2.
Matthew S. Gordon
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29 October 2014, pp. 576-577
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Cecilia Martini Bonadeo: ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Bāġdādī's Philosophical Journey: From Aristotle's Metaphysics to the “Metaphysical Science”. (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science, Texts and Studies.) xii, 377 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2013. €161. ISBN 978 90 04 24916 5
Oliver Leaman
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13 June 2014, pp. 383-384
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Patricia Crone: The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran: Rural Revolt and Local Zoroastrianism. xviii, 566 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. £65. ISBN 978 1 107 01879 2.
Sarah Bowen Savant
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15 May 2014, pp. 201-203
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Stephenie Mulder: The Shrines of the ʿAlids in Medieval Syria: Sunnis, Shiʿis and the Architecture of Coexistence. (Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art.) xiv, 297 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014. £75. ISBN 978 07486 4579 4.
Kazuo Morimoto
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29 October 2014, pp. 577-579
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Nahyan Fancy: Science and Religion in Mamluk Egypt: Ibn al-Nafīs, Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection. (Culture and Civilization in the Middle East.) xiii, 186 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2013. £85. ISBN 978 0 415 62200 4.
Housni Alkhateeb Shehada
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13 June 2014, pp. 384-386
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Denis Genequand: Les établissements des élites omeyyades en Palmyrène et au Proche-Orient. (Bibliothèque archéologique et historique.) xviii, 462 pp. Beirut: Institut français du Proche-Orient, 2012. €100. ISBN 978 2 35159 380 6.
Andrew Marsham
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29 October 2014, pp. 579-581
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John P. Turner: Inquisition in Early Islam: The Competition for Political and Religious Authority in the Abbasid Empire. xvi, 228 pp. London: I.B. Tauris, 2013. ISBN 978 178076164 0.
Amira K. Bennison
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15 May 2014, pp. 203-205
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Christian Mauder: Gelehrte Krieger: Die Mamluken als Träger arabischsprachiger Bildung nach al-Ṣafadī, al-Maqrīzī und weiteren Quellen. (Arabistische Texte und Studien.) xviii, 234 pp. Hildesheim, Zurich and New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2012. ISBN 3 487 14852 6.
Bethany J. Walker
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13 June 2014, pp. 386-388
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Stephen L. Herring: Divine Substitution: Humanity as the Manifestation of Deity in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East. (Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments, Volume 247.) 244 pp. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013. €44.99. ISBN 978 3 525 53612 4.

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Gerhard Böwering (ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought. xlv, 656 pp. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013. ISBN 978 0 691 13484 0.

Reviews: The ancient Near East

Sylvie Vanséveren: Nisili. Manuel de langue Hittite. Volume II. Le système verbal hittite. (Lettres Orientales et Classiques 19.) x, 251 pp. Leuven: Peeters, 2014. €34. ISBN 978 90 429 3018 6.

Articles

Written traces of the Buddhist past: Mantras and Dhāraṇīs in Indonesian inscriptions

Reviews: The ancient Near East

Matthew Neujahr: Predicting the Past in the Ancient Near East: Mantic Historiography in Ancient Mesopotamia, Judah, and the Mediterranean World. (Brown Judaic Studies.) xv, 300 pp. Providence, RI: Brown Judaic Studies, 2012. $64.95. ISBN 978 1 930675 80 3.

Reviews: The Near and Middle East

A. J. Droge: The Qur’ān: A New Annotated Translation. lxii, 488 pp. Sheffield and Bristol, CT: Equinox, 2013. £24.99. ISBN 978 1 84553 945 0.

Leif Inge Ree Petersen: Siege Warfare and Military Organization in the Successor States (400–800 ad): Byzantium, the West and Islam. (History of Warfare 91.) xxx, 820 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2013. $282. ISBN 978 90 04 25199 1.

Reviews: The ancient Near East

Reviews: The Near and Middle East

Birgit Krawietz and Georges Tamer (eds): Islamic Theology, Philosophy and Law: Debating Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya. (Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients.) xxvii, 583 pp. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2013. €129.95. ISBN 978 3 11 028534 5.

Reviews: The ancient Near East

Eran Cohen: Conditional Structures in Mesopotamian Old Babylonian. (Languages of the Ancient Near East 4.) x, 198 pp. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2012. $44.50. ISBN 978 1 57506 222 8.

Reviews: The Near and Middle East

Petra M. Sijpesteijn: Shaping a Muslim State: The World of a Mid-Eighth-Century Egyptian Official. (Oxford Studies in Byzantium). xxvii, 524 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £90. ISBN 978 0 19 967390 2.

Cecilia Martini Bonadeo: ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Bāġdādī's Philosophical Journey: From Aristotle's Metaphysics to the “Metaphysical Science”. (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science, Texts and Studies.) xii, 377 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2013. €161. ISBN 978 90 04 24916 5

Patricia Crone: The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran: Rural Revolt and Local Zoroastrianism. xviii, 566 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. £65. ISBN 978 1 107 01879 2.

Stephenie Mulder: The Shrines of the ʿAlids in Medieval Syria: Sunnis, Shiʿis and the Architecture of Coexistence. (Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art.) xiv, 297 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014. £75. ISBN 978 07486 4579 4.

Nahyan Fancy: Science and Religion in Mamluk Egypt: Ibn al-Nafīs, Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection. (Culture and Civilization in the Middle East.) xiii, 186 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2013. £85. ISBN 978 0 415 62200 4.

Denis Genequand: Les établissements des élites omeyyades en Palmyrène et au Proche-Orient. (Bibliothèque archéologique et historique.) xviii, 462 pp. Beirut: Institut français du Proche-Orient, 2012. €100. ISBN 978 2 35159 380 6.

John P. Turner: Inquisition in Early Islam: The Competition for Political and Religious Authority in the Abbasid Empire. xvi, 228 pp. London: I.B. Tauris, 2013. ISBN 978 178076164 0.

Christian Mauder: Gelehrte Krieger: Die Mamluken als Träger arabischsprachiger Bildung nach al-Ṣafadī, al-Maqrīzī und weiteren Quellen. (Arabistische Texte und Studien.) xviii, 234 pp. Hildesheim, Zurich and New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2012. ISBN 3 487 14852 6.

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