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Christian Müller: Recht und historische Entwicklung der Scharia im Islam (Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East.) xii, 544 pp. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. ISBN 978 3 11 076577 9.
Tobias Scheunchen
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11 September 2024, pp. 378-380
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A cross-cultural archery analogy in Matteo Ricci's Tianzhu shiyi
Paul K. Hosle
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10 January 2024, pp. 201-207
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In the sixth chapter of his Tianzhu shiyi (天主實義, “The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven”), Matteo Ricci offers a critique of the anti-intentionalistic thread that he detects in the Chinese philosophical tradition. In this brief essay, I offer an analysis of a noteworthy archery analogy that Ricci employs to describe the nature of ethical action as an intentional process with a conscious aim. I trace how Ricci skilfully combines Western and Chinese images and categories to craft this simile. Before that, I set the stage by offering some preliminary comments that contextualize Ricci's interest in the question of intentional vs. non-intentional conduct.

Hala Auji, Raphael Cormack and Alaaeldin Mahmoud (eds): The Arab Nahda as Popular Entertainment: Mass Culture and Modernity in the Middle East London: I.B. Tauris, 2024. ISBN 978 075564740 8.
Marilyn Booth
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12 September 2024, pp. 380-382
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Hakan Özkan and Nefeli Papoutsakis (eds): Doing Justice to a Wronged Literature. Essays on Arabic Literature and Rhetoric of the 12th–18th Centuries in Honour of Thomas Bauer (Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and Texts 194.) Leiden: Brill, 2022. ISBN 978 90 04 52177 3.
Hilary Kilpatrick
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01 March 2024, pp. 209-211
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Peter Flügel, Renate Söhnen-Thieme and Heleen De Jonckheere (eds): Pure Soul: The Jaina Spiritual Traditions London: Centre of Jaina Studies, 2023. ISBN 978 1 39994686 5.
Seema K. Chauhan
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12 September 2024, pp. 382-384
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James White: Persian and Arabic Literary Communities in the Seventeenth Century: Migrant Poets between Arabia, Iran and India (I.B. Tauris Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Persian Literature.) xvi, 255 pp. London: I.B. Tauris, 2023. £85. ISBN 978 0 755 64456 8.
Meia Walravens
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19 February 2024, pp. 212-213
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Duncan Poupard: A Pictographic Naxi Origin Myth from Southwest China: An Annotated Translation Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2023. ISBN 978 90 8728 427 5.
Mark Bender
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12 September 2024, pp. 384-386
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Deniz Türker: The Accidental Palace. The Making of Yıldız in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul xix, 251 pp. Pennysylvania: The Pennsylvania University Press, 2023. ISBN 978 027109391 8.
Caroline Finkel
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19 February 2024, pp. 213-215
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Mun'im A. Sirry: The Qur'an with Cross-References ix, 683 pp. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2022. ISBN 978 3 11077915 8.
Walid A. Saleh
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28 February 2024, pp. 215-217
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Franz-Xaver Erhard und Thomas Wild: Drumze – Metamorphoses of the Tibetan Carpet Potsdam: Edition Tethys, 2022. ISBN 978 3 942527 16 3.
Petra Maurer
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12 September 2024, pp. 386-388
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Li Jin: Jiawu he Gyarong shehui jiegou [Houses and social structure of Jiarong (Gyarong) Tibetans]. Beijing: Zhongguo shehui kexue wenxian chubanshe (Social Science Academic Press), 2017.
Yudru Tsomu
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09 October 2024, pp. 388-389
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Stuart Robson and Hadi Sidomulyo (trans.): Kidung Pañji Margasmara: A Middle Javanese Romance, by Kěmuling Rat Dyah Atapêng Raje Leiden: Brill, 2023. ISBN 978 90 04 52369 2.
Verena Meyer
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15 February 2024, pp. 218-219
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Livia Kohn: The Daode jing: A Guide New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019. ISBN 978 0 19 068982 7.
T.H. Barrett
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11 September 2024, pp. 390-391
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Michael Hunter: The Poetics of Early Chinese Thought: How the Shijing Shaped the Chinese Philosophical Tradition 240 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. ISBN 978 0 231 20123 0.
Martin Svensson Ekström
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28 February 2024, pp. 220-221
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Samuel N.C. Lieu and Glen L. Thompson (eds): The Church of the East in Central Asia and China (China and the Mediterranean World.) i, 260 pp. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2020. €75. ISBN 978 2 503 58664 9.
Li Tang
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19 February 2024, pp. 222-223
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Michelle Gilbert and Paul Jenkins (eds): The Reports of Theophilus Opoku: A 19th-Century Gold Coast Pastor (Fontes Historiae Africanae/Sources of African History 24.) xli, 516 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press for The British Academy, 2024. ISBN 978 0 19 726761 5.
John Parker
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12 September 2024, pp. 391-393
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時建 Shi Jian: 陇川阿昌语参考语法 A Reference Grammar of Longchuan Achang 社会科学文献出版社 Beijing: Social Science Literature Publishing House, 2021. ISBN 978 752018838 8.
Ruiyao Li
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28 February 2024, pp. 223-225
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BSO volume 87 issue 2 Cover and Front matter
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Fuhai Zhang 張富海: Essays on Chinese Palaeography and Old Chinese Phonology古文字與上古音論稿 (Excavated Documents and Studies on Ancient Chinese Scripts Series.) 320 pp. Shanghai: Shanghai Chinese Classics Publishing House, 2021. ISBN 978 7 5732 0072 3.
Jinqi Ying
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Christian Müller: Recht und historische Entwicklung der Scharia im Islam (Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East.) xii, 544 pp. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. ISBN 978 3 11 076577 9.

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A cross-cultural archery analogy in Matteo Ricci's Tianzhu shiyi

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Hala Auji, Raphael Cormack and Alaaeldin Mahmoud (eds): The Arab Nahda as Popular Entertainment: Mass Culture and Modernity in the Middle East London: I.B. Tauris, 2024. ISBN 978 075564740 8.

Hakan Özkan and Nefeli Papoutsakis (eds): Doing Justice to a Wronged Literature. Essays on Arabic Literature and Rhetoric of the 12th–18th Centuries in Honour of Thomas Bauer (Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and Texts 194.) Leiden: Brill, 2022. ISBN 978 90 04 52177 3.

Peter Flügel, Renate Söhnen-Thieme and Heleen De Jonckheere (eds): Pure Soul: The Jaina Spiritual Traditions London: Centre of Jaina Studies, 2023. ISBN 978 1 39994686 5.

James White: Persian and Arabic Literary Communities in the Seventeenth Century: Migrant Poets between Arabia, Iran and India (I.B. Tauris Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Persian Literature.) xvi, 255 pp. London: I.B. Tauris, 2023. £85. ISBN 978 0 755 64456 8.

Duncan Poupard: A Pictographic Naxi Origin Myth from Southwest China: An Annotated Translation Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2023. ISBN 978 90 8728 427 5.

Deniz Türker: The Accidental Palace. The Making of Yıldız in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul xix, 251 pp. Pennysylvania: The Pennsylvania University Press, 2023. ISBN 978 027109391 8.

Mun'im A. Sirry: The Qur'an with Cross-References ix, 683 pp. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2022. ISBN 978 3 11077915 8.

Franz-Xaver Erhard und Thomas Wild: Drumze – Metamorphoses of the Tibetan Carpet Potsdam: Edition Tethys, 2022. ISBN 978 3 942527 16 3.

Li Jin: Jiawu he Gyarong shehui jiegou [Houses and social structure of Jiarong (Gyarong) Tibetans]. Beijing: Zhongguo shehui kexue wenxian chubanshe (Social Science Academic Press), 2017.

Stuart Robson and Hadi Sidomulyo (trans.): Kidung Pañji Margasmara: A Middle Javanese Romance, by Kěmuling Rat Dyah Atapêng Raje Leiden: Brill, 2023. ISBN 978 90 04 52369 2.

Livia Kohn: The Daode jing: A Guide New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019. ISBN 978 0 19 068982 7.

Michael Hunter: The Poetics of Early Chinese Thought: How the Shijing Shaped the Chinese Philosophical Tradition 240 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. ISBN 978 0 231 20123 0.

Samuel N.C. Lieu and Glen L. Thompson (eds): The Church of the East in Central Asia and China (China and the Mediterranean World.) i, 260 pp. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2020. €75. ISBN 978 2 503 58664 9.

Michelle Gilbert and Paul Jenkins (eds): The Reports of Theophilus Opoku: A 19th-Century Gold Coast Pastor (Fontes Historiae Africanae/Sources of African History 24.) xli, 516 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press for The British Academy, 2024. ISBN 978 0 19 726761 5.

時建 Shi Jian: 陇川阿昌语参考语法 A Reference Grammar of Longchuan Achang 社会科学文献出版社 Beijing: Social Science Literature Publishing House, 2021. ISBN 978 752018838 8.

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