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Jessica Harrison-Hall and Julia Lovell: Creators of Modern China: 100 Lives from Empire to Republic 1796–1912 367 pp. London: The Trustees of the British Museum, Thames & Hudson, 2023. ISBN 978 0 3
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Rape in early China: two case studies3
Replacing a pillar of Tibetan Buddhist historiography: on the redactions of the so-called Pillar Testament (bKa’-chems-ka-khol-ma)3
Uri Gabbay: The Balaĝ Prayer “Oh, My Abzu!”: The God Enki in Sumerian Laments (Heidelberger Emesal-Studien, 5.) x, 188 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag3
M. Antoni J. Ucerler S.J.: The Samurai and the Cross: The Jesuit Enterprise in Early Modern Japan xxii, 445 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. ISBN 978 0 19 5335439.2
By no means doodles or scraps: reading manuscripts IOL Tib J 3 and 218 as bilingual Dunhuang Vinaya works2
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 Literatur2
Robert Hillenbrand: The Great Mongol Shahnama 504 pp. London: Hali Publications Ltd, and Washington: National Museum of Asian Art, 2022. ISBN 978 1 898113 83 6.2
The secret history of Germiyan, or a reassessment of the debates on the origins of the Germiyanids2
Michael A. Cook: A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. ISBN 978 069123657 5.1
Duncan Poupard: A Pictographic Naxi Origin Myth from Southwest China: An Annotated Translation Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2023. ISBN 978 90 8728 427 5.1
Lahcen Daaïf and Yossef Rapoport: The Book of Clear Arabic Expression Regarding the Arab Tribes of Egypt: An Edition, Translation and Study of al-Maqrīzī's al-Bayān wa-l-iʿrāb ʿan mā fī arḍ Miṣ1
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 2.1
The Seventh Dalai Lama's residence in Kham: Gartar Monastery interactions with indigenous chiefs and the Qing court1
Hannah-Lena Hagemann: The Khārijites in Early Islamic Historical Tradition: Heroes and Villains. (Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture.) xii, 328 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univers1
Scepticism as method in the study of Quranic origins: A review article of Stephen J. Shoemaker, Creating the Qur’an: A Historical-Critical Study (Berkele1
Louise Tythacott and Panggah Ardiyansyah (eds): Returning Southeast Asia's Past: Objects, Museums, and Restitution. (Southeast Asian Art Academic Programme, SOAS University of London.) 304 pp. Singapo1
The derivatives of Barth's Law in the light of modern Arabic dialects1
Lost Turfan fragments from the Nachlass of W.B. Henning1
The Tangut verbal template from a cross-West Gyalrongic perspective1
George Warner: The Words of the Imams: Al-Shaykh al-Ṣadūq and the Development of Twelver Shīʿī Hadith Literature. 227 pp. London: I.B. Tauris, 2022. ISBN 978 1 8386 0560 5.1
The non-human mystics of Islam: animals as pious worshippers in early Sufism1
Salam Diab-Duranton and Henri Duranton (eds), with the collaboration of Nicolas Vatin: D'Orient en Occident: la voix/voie des proverbes. Autour du manuscrit Supplément turc 1200 d'Antoine Galland1
Daoism and Ming rulership: on the authenticity of Jiajing's preface to theScripture of the Three Offices1
On the Akkadian adjectival masculine plural -ūtonce again1
S.E. Kile: Towers in the Void: Li Yu and Early Modern Chinese Media New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. ISBN 978 0 231 21005 8.1
Reading across confessional lines in Ayyubid Egypt: a Judaeo-Arabic Geniza fragment with three new poems by Ibn al-Kīzānī (d. 562/1166)1
Volker Grabowsky (ed.): Manuscript Cultures and Epigraphy in the Tai World. v, 418 pp. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2022. $65. ISBN 978 616 215 172 9.1
Khotanese dīñ - “overthink” and Avestan daēnā - “view, vision”0
Adam and the names0
“He was penetrated like a woman”: the evolution of a Companion report0
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A.G. Hopkins: Capitalism in the Colonies: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851–1931 Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2024. £42. ISBN 978 0 69 125994 3.0
Divinized protection: a set of unique, inscribed shields from Malla, Nepal0
Female diaconate in medieval Nubia: evidence from a wall inscription from Faras0
The development of Sanskrit velars into Gāndhārī0
Daniel Perret and Jorge Santos Alves (eds): Patani through Foreign Eyes: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. (Archipel Hors-Série no 2.) 318 pp. Paris: Archipel, 2022. ISBN 978 2 910513 880
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All lines lead to Proto-Arabic: a review article on Jonathan Owens, Arabic and the Case against Linearity in Historical Linguistics (Oxford: Oxford Unive0
Marcus Milwright: A Story of Islamic Art xii, 311 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2024. ISBN 978 1 032 44815 2.0
Mirella Cassarino, Antonella Ghersetti, Letizia Osti and Samuela Pagani (eds): Antologia della letteratura araba. Dalle origini al XVIII secolo 699 pp. Rome: Carocci editore @ Studi Superiori, 0
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Doris Behrens-Abouseif: Dress and Dress Code in Medieval Cairo: A Mamluk Obsession (Handbuch der Orientalistik 176.) Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2023. ISBN 978 90 04 68497 3.0
Manuel Sassmann and Sun Hua (eds), series ed. Lothar Ledderose: Sichuan Province. Volume 5. Wofoyuan Section E–F. (Buddhist Stone Sutras in China.) xi, 557 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz and Hangzhou: Ch0
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 9.0
An extended review of Maura Dykstra, Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine: The Administrative Revolution of the Eighteenth-Century Qing State. (Harvard East Asian Monographs Series.) Cambridge:0
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Shared innovations and the “Tangut-Horpa clade”: a demonstration of Neogrammarian principles in language classification0
Ghazwan Yaghi: Imperial Ideology and Architecture: Damascus under the Mamlūk Sultans (1260–1516 CE) (Leiden Studies in Islam and Society.) xix, 125 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2024. ISBN 978 0
Jérôme Ducor and Henry W. Isler (ed. and trans.): Jizang: Le sens des arcanes des Trois Traités, contribution à l’étude du Mādhyamika dans le bouddhisme d'Extrême-Orient 411 pp. Geneva: Librair0
Las Huelgas: Arabic inscriptions for Christian liturgy0
“All the world at the palm of the hand”: imagining history through the life of an early Afghan saint0
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 Classi0
Patrick H. Hase: Villages and Market Towns in Hong Kong: Settlement and History (Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies Series.) Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2024. ISBN 970
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Christian Mauder: In the Sultan's Salon: Learning, Religion, and Rulership at the Mamluk Court of Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 1501–1516) (2 vols). 1302 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2021. ISBN 978 90 04 44421 8.0
Karl Reichl: The Oral Epic: From Performance to Interpretation (Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture.) xii, 269 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2021. ISBN 978 0 36776131 8. 0
Chariots, mail coaches and wagons in the Arabic dialect of Qaṭrāyīth (“in Qatari”) in early Islamic eastern Arabia0
Suraiya Faroqhi: Women in the Ottoman Empire: A Social and Political History London: Bloomsbury/I.B. Tauris, 2023. ISBN 978 0 75563826 0.0
On the concept of leadership and the office of Leader of the Zoroastrians (hu-dēnān pēšōbāy) in Abbasid Zoroastrianism0
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 5.0
India's epidemics in theRiḥlaof Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: plague, cholera or lexical muddle?0
R.D. McChesney: Four Central Asian Shrines: A Socio-Political History Leiden: Brill, 2021. ISBN 978 90 04 45958 8.0
Sunila S. Kalé and Christian Lee Novetzke: The Yoga of Power. Yoga as Political Thought and Practice in India New York: Columbia University Press, 2025. 0
A “wild man” from the island of Soqotra: a new text in its comparative setting0
Bai and Old Western Chinese0
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The pragmatics of standardization: document standards and their implementation in Qin administration (late third century bce)0
Rival institutions: politics, religion, and the jam ʿiyyāt in mid-nineteenth-century Beirut0
Albert Welter: A Tale of Two Stūpas: Diverging Paths in the Revival of Buddhism in Hangzhou China viii, 228 pp. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2022. ISBN 978 0 19 760663 6.0
Music and musical terms in Bobovius’ Serai Enderum (1665, MS Harley 3409)0
Abdul-Hakim Al-Matroudi: Exonerating the Distinguished Jurists: Ibn Taymiyyah's Rafʿ al-Malām ʿan al-Aʾimma al-Aʿlām in Translation Sheffield: Equinox, 2023. ISBN 978 1 80050 171 3.0
The Greek death of Sībawayhi and the origins of Arabic grammar0
Zev Handel: Chinese Characters across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese xxii, 250 pp. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2025. $35. ISBN 978029570
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 0.0
T. Richard Blurton: India: A History in Objects 320 pp. London: Thames & Hudson and The British Museum, 2022. £30. ISBN 978 0 500 48064 9.0
Towards the decipherment of Thamudic D: an identification of new glyphs and phoneme values0
Stephen Owen: All Mine! Happiness, Ownership, and Naming in Eleventh-Century China. 197 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. $30. ISBN 978 0 231 20311 1.0
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Mark Csikszentmihalyi and Michael Nylan (eds): Technical Arts in the Han Histories: Tables and Treatises in the Shiji and Hanshu (SUNY Series of Chinese Philosophy and Culture.) xi, 414 pp. Alb0
James McHugh: An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian History and Religions. 403 pp. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. £25.99. ISBN 978 0 937594 3.0
Travis Zadeh: Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023. ISBN 978 0 67425845 7.0
On the nature of morphological alternations in Archaic Chinese and their relevance to morphosyntax0
Richard Van Ness Simmons (ed.): Studies in Colloquial Chinese and Its History: Dialect and Text x, 286 pp. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2022. ISBN 978 988 8754 09 0.0
New origins to vowel tensing in Tangut: internal and comparative evidence0
Huaiyu Chen: In the Land of Tigers and Snakes: Living with Animals in Medieval Chinese Religions x, 271 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. ISBN 978 0 231 20261 9.0
Nalini Balbir and Georges-Jean Pinault (eds): Richard Pischel: Kleine Schriften. (Veröffentlichungen der Helmuth von Glasenapp-Stiftung, Bd. 48.) Teil 1: xcii, 613 pp. Teil 2: [v], 614–1269 pp.0
“Gift” in Gāndhārī epigraphical sources. A comparative analysis of G. dana-, danamuha - and deyadhaṃma-0
Amy Matthewson: Cartooning China: Punch, Power, and Politics in the Victorian Era (Global Perspectives in Comic Studies.) xiii, 174 pp. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2022. ISBN 978 1 032 37438 3.0
Andrew B. Liu: Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asia Institute of Columbia University.) xi, 360 pp. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. $0
Alexander Vovin†, José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente and Juha Janhunen (eds.): The Tungusic Languages (Routledge Language Family Series.) xxviii, 543 pp. London: Routledge, 2024. ISBN 9781138845030
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Ayşin Yoltar-Yildirim (ed.): Persian Manuscripts and Paintings from the Berenson Collection. 235 pp. Florence and Rome: I Tatti – The Harvard University Centre for Italian Renaissance Studies and Offi0
Muḥammad Ibn ʿAqīl, Anne-Marie Eddé and Abdallah Cheikh-Moussa (ed. and trans.): Les perles ordonnées: des vertus du sultan Barqūq (784–801/1382–1399): al-Durr al-naḍīd fī manāqib al-Malik al-Ẓāhir0
The “Black sheep” of the early Daoxue community: the making of Xing Shu's historical image0
Timotheus A. Bodt: Proto-Western Kho-Bwa: Reconstructing a Community's Past through Language (Language and Linguistics Monograph Series 67.) Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, 2024.0
David Conrad (ed.): Great Sogolon’s House: Mande Epic from the Condé Bards of Fadama (Guinea) (Fontes Historiae Africanae, Sources of African History, 250
Gül Şen: Making Sense of History. Narrativity and Literariness in the Ottoman Chronicle of Na‘īmā (The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage: Politics, Society and Economy, 74.) xiv, 387 pp. Leiden a0
“Melt” and the labial causative in Gyalrongic0
Daniel K. Gardner (trans.): Zhu Xi: Basic Teachings New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. ISBN 978 0 231 20633 4.0
Alessandro Rizzo: Florence et le sultanat mamelouk: Les documents de la diplomatie (début XV e –déb0
Egophoricity in Central Stau copular clauses0
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Nadine Schibille: Islamic Glass in the Making: Chronological and Geographical Dimensions Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2022. ISBN 978 946270319 3.0
The spread of iron in Central Asia: on the etymology of the word for “iron” in Iranian and Tocharian0
Two priest-brothers: theological argumentation, linguistic expressions and style in the second Epistle of Manuščihr0
Becoming the Muʿallim: how tradition and innovation made a Nahḍa icon0
Ejective stops in Hittite: evidence for a phonemic length distinction0
Vincent Goossaert: Making the Gods Speak: The Ritual Production of Revelation in Chinese Religious History (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series.) xii, 352 pp. Cambridge, Massachusetts: 0
Methodological issues in Rma etymology0
Stanza permutation in the “Guo feng” 國風 and an examination of the hermeneutical tradition of “orderly progression”0
Adam R. Gaiser: Sectarianism in Islam: The Umma Divided (Themes in Islamic History.) xii, 237 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. £70. ISBN 9781009325042.0
From sūtra to practice: discovering the liturgy of the seven Tathāgatas including Bhaiṣajyaguru in Old Tibetan manuscripts0
The “Black sheep” of the early Daoxue community: the making of Xing Shu's historical image – CORRIGENDUM0
Mattias Karlsson: From the Nile to the Tigris: African Individuals and Groups in Texts from the Neo-Assyrian Empire. (State Archives of Assyria Studies 31.) xiv, 282 pp. Helsinki: The Neo-Assyr0
Joshua A. Fogel and Matthew Fraleigh (eds): Sino-Japanese Reflections: Literary and Cultural Interactions between China and Japan in Early Modernity vi, 325pp. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. ISBN 970
Mathieu Tillier: L'invention du cadi: La justice des musulmans, des juifs et des chrétiens aux premiers siècles de l'Islam. 704 pp. Paris: Editions de la Sorbonne, 2017. ISBN 979 1 03510000 1.0
Xiaolu Ma: Transpatial Modernity: Chinese Cultural Encounters with Russia via Japan (1880–1930) Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Asia Center,0
Redeeming the orphaned souls: fragments of a Mongolian translation from Khara-khoto0
Shivan Mahendrarajah: A History of Herat: from Chingiz Khan to Tamerlane Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. ISBN 978 1 47449936 1.0
Center for Unearthed Documents and Ancient Script at Fudan University: Chutu wenxian yu guwenzi jiaocheng 出土文獻與古文字教程 (A Course on Unearthed Documents and Ancient Scripts). Shanghai: Zhon0
Mun'im A. Sirry: The Qur'an with Cross-References ix, 683 pp. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2022. ISBN 978 3 11077915 8.0
An undocumented adverbial use of zaìshì 在勢 in Late Qing and Early Republican literature0
Franz-Xaver Erhard und Thomas Wild: Drumze – Metamorphoses of the Tibetan Carpet Potsdam: Edition Tethys, 2022. ISBN 978 3 942527 16 3.0
Paul Sidwell and Mathias Jenny (eds): The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia (The World of Linguistics, volume 8.) xv, 968 pp. Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2021. ISBN0
Pak Chega: A Korean Scholar's Rude Awakening in Qing China: Pak Chega's Discourse on Northern Learning Translated and annotated by Byonghyon Choi, Seng B. Kye and T.V. Atkinson. (Korean Classic0
The sound change of oralization in Mewahang0
Shadi Bartsch: Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism xv, 279 pp. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2023. ISBN 978 0 691 22959 1.0
Edward L. Shaughnessy: The Tsinghua University Warring States Bamboo Manuscripts: Studies and Translations 1 – The Yi Zhou Shu and Pseudo-Yi Zhou Shu Chapters 355 pp. Beijing: Tsinghua Universi0
Xiaoshan Yang: Wang Anshi and Song Poetic Culture. (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 129.) 360 pp. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2021. £56.95. ISBN 978 0 67426290 4.0
The origin and evolution of laterals in Proto-Naish0
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Peter K. Bol: Localizing Learning: The Literati Enterprise in Wuzhou, 1100–1600 (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series.) xiv, 393 pp. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2022. 0
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Li Bohan 李博寒: A Sanskrit–Chinese Comparative Collation Study of the Larger Sukhāvatīvyūhasūtra Grammar (基于梵汉对勘的《无量寿经》语法研究) Shanghai: Zhongxi Book Company, 2023. ISBN 978 7 5475 2075 8.0
Mark W. Post, Stephen Morey and Toni Huber (eds): Ethnolinguistic Prehistory of the Eastern Himalaya (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library.) lii, 367 pp. Boston: Brill, 2022. £130. ISBN 978 90 04 510
Alain George: The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus: Art, Faith and Empire in Early Islam. 264 pp. London: Gingko, 2021. £60. ISBN 978 1 9099 4245 5.0
Olivia Milburn (trans.): Kingdoms in Peril: A Novel of the Ancient Chinese World at War. x, 332 pp. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022. £13.99. ISBN 978 0 520 38051 6.0
An oath-letter ( sawgand-nāma ) for the Rum Saljuq sultan and his son. Diplomatics and politics in mid-thirteenth-century Anatolia through the 0
Enrico Boccaccini: Reflecting Mirrors, East and West: Transcultural Comparisons of Advice Literature for Rulers (8th–13th Century). (Islamic History and Civilization.) xi, 314 pp0
Adam Bursi: Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam (Advances in the Study of Islam.) ix, 276 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024. £85. ISBN 978 1 3995 2232 0
The circle of the world: the global diplomacy of Caliph al-Manṣūr0
Shang dynasty's “nine generations chaos” and the reign of Wu Ding: towards a unilineal line of transmission of royal power0
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), 2017.0
Revisiting the date of Hiḍimbā Devī temple, Manali, Kulu (Himachal Pradesh): a study of epigraphic evidence0
Richard John Lynn (trans.): Zhuangzi: A New Translation of the Sayings of Master Zhuang as Interpreted by Guo Xiang New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. ISBN 978 0 23112387 7.0
Understanding the theology of natural and divine laws in the cultural and philosophical context of late Ming China0
Shanshan Lü: A Reference Grammar of Caijia: An Unclassified Language of Guizhou (Sinitic Languages of China 8.) xxviii, 600 pp. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton, 2022, ISBN 978 3 11072480 6.0
Said Aljoumani and Konrad Hirschler: Owning Books and Preserving Documents in Medieval Jerusalem: The Library of Burhan al-Din (Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture.) xii,0
South Arabian etymology for the Meccan Kaʿbah0
A cross-cultural archery analogy in Matteo Ricci's Tianzhu shiyi0
Jia Lianxiang 賈連翔: Chutu shuzi gua wenxian jishi 出土數字卦文獻輯釋 [Organization and Interpretation of Unearthed Numerical Divination Symbol Texts]. 305 pp. Shanghai 上海: Zhonghua Book Company 中西書局, 2020. ISBN0
creating is cutting: a conceptual metaphor in Avestan and Pahlavi texts0
bcan pos who were notkhri: Royal titulature and the succession to the throne in the Tibetan Empire0
Handsome prince means righteous rule? The Aqquyunlu occupation of Mardin by Ḥamza b. qara ʿUthmān in 835/1432 according to two epigraphic sources0
Whyprāṇais the most excellent among the vital functions, or: the Shapley value in theUpaniṣads0
Mādayān ī Wīrāzagān: a newly discovered Middle Persian text: transliteration, transcription, and translation0
Annabelle Collinet: Precious Materials, The Arts of Metal in the Medieval Iranian World, 10th–13th Centuries (Edited and translated by Annabelle Collinet and Melanie Gibso0
The Middle Mongol zodiac in Georgian transcription0
Wafi A. Momin (ed.): Texts, Scribes and Transmission: Manuscript Cultures of the Ismaili Communities and Beyond. xv, 481 pp. London: I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 20
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“People at the gate”: the menren 門人 in early Chinese texts0
Anna McSweeney: From Granada to Berlin: the Alhambra Cupola. (Connecting Art Histories in the Museum.) 196 pp. Dortmund: Verlag Kettler, 2020. €34. ISBN 978 3 86206 831 9.0
A quote attributed to Udbhaṭabhaṭṭa, which is actually from Arcaṭa0
Anna Grasskamp: Art and Ocean Objects of Early Modern Eurasia: Shells, Bodies, and Materiality (Connected Histories in the Early Modern World.) 220 pp. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 200
Salma Samar Damluji and Viola Bertini: Hassan Fathy: Earth & Utopia 368 pp. London: Laurence King, 2018, £68. ISBN 978 1 78627 261 4.0
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The Dhamma wheel from Chainat, Thailand: an epigraphic excerpt from the Pali Dhammacakkappavattana , and related finds0
Ḥannā Diyāb: Kitāb al-Siyāḥah (The Book of Travels) (ed. Johannes Stephan, trans. Elias Muhanna) (Library of Arabic Literature.) 2 vols; xlii, 328 pp., vii, 330 pp. £46. New York: New York Univ0
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Tseten Dorje (Tshe brtan rdo rje): Tsong kha rgyal rabs zhib ’jug (A Study of the Royal Genealogy of the Tsongkha Kingdom.) Zi ling: Mtsho sngon mi rigs 0
Farming out judicial offices in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1750–18390
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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 8.0
David J. Chalcraft and Zhodi Angami (eds): Encountering Diversity in Indian Biblical Studies: A Biblical Masala London and New York: Routledge, 2023. ISBN 978 1 03238350 7.0
The addition of syllable-final stops in Ganan0
Jeffrey Kotyk: Sino-Iranian and Sino-Arabian Relations in Late Antiquity. China and the Parthians, Sasanians, and Arabs in the First Millennium (Crossroads – History of Interactions across the 0
Huaiyu Chen: Animals and Plants in Chinese Religions and Science vii, 205 pp. London: Anthem Press, 2023. ISBN 978 1 83998 501 0.0
On the question of domestic slaves in late medieval and early modern Zoroastrianism0
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Jeanette Fincke: An Ancient Mesopotamian Herbal Handbook, the Series URU.AN.NA and MÚD-UR.MAH, Volume 1: The Tablets Leuven: Peters, 2021. ISBN 978 90 42944718.0
Kai Jun Chen: Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing China Seattle: University of Washington Press, Seattle. 2023. ISBN 978 0 29575082 8.0
Pashto preverbs, III. Compound verbs with preverb0
Valkhā chronology revisited: new plates and new questions0
Barbara Brend: Treasures of Herat. 240 pp. London: Gingko, in association with The British Library, 2022. ISBN 978 1 909942 54 7.0
The Southwest Silk Road: artistic exchange and transmission in early China0
Middle Persian documents and the making of the Islamic fiscal system: problems and prospects0
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Ḥamza versus Rustam: Comparing theḤamzanāmawith theShāhnāma0
Wilt L. Idema: A Historical Taxonomy of Talking Birds in Chinese Literature (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series.) Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univers0
Ghulam Shams-ur-Rehman (ed. and trans.): The Foundations of Sufism. An Annotated Translation of Qawāʿid al-Taṣawwuf by Shaykh Aḥmad Zarrūq al-Fāsī (d. 899/1493) (Studies on Sufism 10.) xiv, 2340
Peter Good: The East India Company in Persia: Trade and Cultural Exchange in the Eighteenth Century London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2022. ISBN 978 1 35015227 4.0
Motion verbs and the ventive in the correspondence of Samsi-Addu, the king of Upper Mesopotamia (early eighteenth century bc )0
Lād “law”: a Bactrian loanword in the Nuristani languages0
Maryam Nourzaei, Carina Jahani and Agnes Korn (eds): Oral Narration in Iranian Cultures (Beiträge zur Iranistik 48.) Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2022. 198 pp. ISBN 978 3 7520 0640 7.0
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The Avestan ī̆šti- in Middle Persian texts0
Apocalypticism and prognostication in early Shiʿi literature0
Paul A. Cohen: A Path Twice Traveled: My Journey as a Historian of China xii, 303 pp. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. ISBN 978 0 67423729 2.0
What a discourse unit can teach us about the relationship between the Mishnah and Tosefta: an examination of the parallelism between the compilations in the halakhic give-and-take conversation0
Another character for the word “rice plant” in Old Chinese0
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