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Reviews: The Near and Middle East
Kaya Şahin: Empire and Power in the Reign of Süleyman: Narrating the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman World. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilisation.) xxii, 288 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. £64.99. ISBN 978 1 107 03442 6.
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- 28 September 2015, pp. 621-622
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JINAH KIM: Receptacle of the Sacred: Illustrated Manuscripts and the Buddhist Book Cult in South Asia. (South Asia across the Disciplines.) xxv, 377 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2013. $70. ISBN 978 0 520 27386 3.
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- 15 June 2015, pp. 402-403
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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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Bedross Der Matossian: Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire. xii, 249 pp. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014. $24.95. ISBN 978 0 8047 9263 9.
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- 28 September 2015, pp. 623-624
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TEZENLO THONG: Progress and its Impact on the Nagas: A Clash of Worldviews. xiv, 198 pp. (Vitality of Indigenous Religions.) Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. $109.95. ISBN 978 1 4094 6820 2.
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- 15 June 2015, pp. 404-405
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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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Reviews: East Asia
PETRA MAURER, JOHANNES SCHNEIDER, : Wörterbuch der tibetischen Schriftsprache. Fascicles 1–24. München: Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2005–2014. (Multiple prices and ISBNs)
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- 15 June 2015, pp. 405-408
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Najam Haider: Shīʿī Islam: An Introduction. (Cambridge Introductions to Religion Series.) xxi, 243 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. $27.99. ISBN 978 1 107 62578 5.
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- 28 September 2015, pp. 624-626
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Elvire Corboz: Guardians of Shiʿism: Sacred Authority and Transnational Family Networks. x, 278 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. £70. ISBN 978 0 7486 9144 9.
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- 28 September 2015, pp. 626-628
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JOHN KNOBLOCK and JEFFREY RIEGEL: Mozi. A Study and Translation of the Ethical and Political Writings. (Institute of East Asian Studies China Monograph Series 68.) xvii, 501 pp. Berkeley: University of California Center for Chinese Studies, 2013. ISBN 978 1 55729 103 5.
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- 15 June 2015, pp. 408-409
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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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NICOLAS TACKETT: The Destruction of the Medieval Chinese Aristocracy. (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series.) xvi, 282 pp. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2014. £36.95. ISBN 978 0 674 49205 9.
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- 15 June 2015, pp. 409-411
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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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Robert Lang: New Tunisian Cinema: Allegories of Resistance. xxii, 380 pp. New York and Chichester: Columbia University Press, 2014. £24. ISBN 978 0 231 16507 5.
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- 28 September 2015, pp. 628-630
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Fatemeh Keshavarz: Lyrics of Life. Saʿdi on Love, Cosmopolitanism and Care of the Self. (Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture.) vii, 217 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. £70. ISBN 978 0 7486 9692 5.
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- 28 September 2015, pp. 630-631
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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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DAVID TOD ROY (trans.): The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei. (Volume Five: The Dissolution.) (Princeton Library of Asian Translations.) lxvi, 556 pp. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013. £37.95. ISBN 978 0 691 15771 9.
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- 15 June 2015, pp. 411-413
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WILLIAM H. BAXTER and LAURENT SAGART: Old Chinese: A New Reconstruction. x, 448 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. £50. ISBN 978 0 19 994537 5.
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- 15 June 2015, pp. 413-414
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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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- 17 March 2015, pp. 202-204
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