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Interjections in Tjwao5
The historical development of inverse marking in Khroskyabs: evidence from two modern varieties – Siyuewu and Wobzi3
bcan pos who were not khri: Royal titulature and the succession to the throne in the Tibetan Empire2
Zoroastrian law and the spread of Islam in Iranian society (ninth–tenth century)2
Bhakti versus rīti? The Sants’ perspective2
The Sogdian epitaph of Shi Jun and his wife2
On the terminology designating the Zoroastrians of Iran and their language1
Voicing alternation and sigmatic causative prefixation in Tibetan1
“The Time of Lament”: A Momand drama of 1711 through the eyes of Pashtun litterateurs1
Establishing the text of theOdes: the Anhui University bamboo manuscript1
The exchange of letters in early Sufism: A preliminary study1
India's epidemics in the Riḥla of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: plague, cholera or lexical muddle?1
Whyprāṇais the most excellent among the vital functions, or: the Shapley value in theUpaniṣads1
Divine procreation of the world in Zoroastrian Pahlavi texts1
Edward Slingerland:Mind and Body in Early China: Beyond Orientalism and the Myth of Holism. xiv, 385 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. £22.99. ISBN 978 0 19 084230 7. - Jordan Paper:Chinese1
The derivatives of Barth's Law in the light of modern Arabic dialects1
Materia Medica Tocharo-Hvatanica1
(Northwest) Semitic sg. *CVCC-, pl. *CVCaC-ū-: Broken plural or regular reflex?1
Manfred Kropp and Harry Stroomer (eds): Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie des périodes pré-axoumite et axoumite. Tome III – Traductions et commentaires. B. Les inscriptions sémitiques par Abraham1
On the concept of leadership and the office of Leader of the Zoroastrians (hu-dēnān pēšōbāy) in Abbasid Zoroastrianism1
Brag-bar kinship system in synchronic and diachronic perspectives1
Monetary reform under the Sufyanids: the papyrological evidence1
Stele for Magistrate Jing Yun 景雲: An Eastern Han memorial stele from the south-west with reference to the Chuci 楚辭1
Laughter in early China: The Zhuangzi and beyond1
Jack W. Chen: Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance: Essays on the Shishuo xinyu. (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series.) xii, 278 pp. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2020
Shi Jinbo: Tangut Language and Manuscripts: An Introduction. (Languages of Asia Series.) xx, 547 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2020. €25. ISBN 978 0 04 41453 2.0
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H. Ekkehard Wolff (ed.):A History of African Linguistics. xxiii, 351 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. ISBN 978 1 108 41797 6.0
Anver M. Emon and Rumee Ahmed (eds): The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law. (Oxford Handbooks in Law.) xv, 985 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. £125. ISBN 978 0 19967901 0.0
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
Raymond Allchin and Norman Hammond (revised and updated by Warwick Ball with Norman Hammond): The Archaeology of Afghanistan from Earliest Times to the Timurid Period. xxxiii, 711 pp. Edinburgh: Edinb0
Dániel Balogh (ed.): Hunnic Peoples in Central and South Asia: Sources for their Origin and History. xxx, 438 pp. Groningen: Barkhuis, 2020. ISBN 978 94 93194 01 4.0
Jean Aubin (ed. Denise Aigle): Études sur l'Iran médiéval: géographie historique et société. (Studia Iranica. Cahier 60.) 365 pp. Paris: Association pour l'avancement des études iraniennes, 2018. ISBN0
Aydogan Kars: Unsaying God: Negative Theology in Medieval Islam.(AAR Academy Series.) xii, 344 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. £64. ISBN 978 0 19 094245 8.0
Thomas Irvine: Listening to China: Sound and the Sino-Western Encounter, 1770–1839. (New Material Histories of Music.) viii, 263 pp. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2020. £42. ISBN 970
Daoism and Ming rulership: on the authenticity of Jiajing's preface to theScripture of the Three Offices0
Geoffrey Turner: The British Museum's Excavations at Nineveh, 1846–1855. (Edited by John Malcolm Russell.) (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, 115.) xxiii, 790 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill,0
Jacob Jan de Ridder: Descriptive Grammar of Middle Assyrian. (Leipziger Altorientalische Studien 8.) xviii, 628 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2018. €98. ISBN 978 3 447 10979 6.0
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“All the world at the palm of the hand”: imagining history through the life of an early Afghan saint0
Leor Halevi: Modern Things on Trial: Islam's Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865–1935. xi, 367 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. $75. ISBN 978 0 23118866 1.0
Ahmed El Shamsy: Rediscovery of the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. 312 pp. ISBN 978 0 69117456 3.0
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
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Carl Sharif El-Tobgui: Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation: A Study of Darʾ taʿāruḍ al-ʿaql wa-l-naql. (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies, 111.) xiii, 444 pp. Leiden: Brill0
Pierre-Étienne Will: Handbooks and Anthologies for Officials in Imperial China: A Descriptive and Critical Bibliography. 2 Vols. (Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section 4 China, Volume 36.) lxxxii, vii0
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<0
Abū L-Muṭahhar Al-Azdī, Emily Selove and Geert Jan van Gelder (ed. and trans.): The Portrait of Abū l-Qāsim al-Baghdādī al-Tamīmī. 486 pp. London: The E.J.W. Gibb Memorial Trust, 2021. £90. ISBN 978 10
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Leonid Kogan and Manfred Krebernik: Etymological Dictionary of Akkadian, Volume 1: Roots Beginning with P and B. v, 537 pp., vii, 539–767 pp. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020.0
Becoming the Muʿallim: how tradition and innovation made a Nahḍa icon0
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
Aurélie Névot: Masters of Psalmody (bimo): Scriptural Shamanism in Southwestern China. (Religion in Chinese Societies.) xv, 264 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2019. ISBN 978 90 04 41483 9.0
Daniel K. Gardner (trans.): Zhu Xi: Basic Teachings New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. ISBN 978 0 231 20633 4.0
The spread of iron in Central Asia: on the etymology of the word for “iron” in Iranian and Tocharian0
Naman Ahuja: Art and Archaeology of Ancient India: Earliest Times to the Sixth Century. 360 pp. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2018. £40. ISBN 978 19 1080717 0.0
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
Peter Behnstedt and Aharon Geva-Kleinberger: Atlas of the Arabic Dialects of Galilee (Israel): With some Data for Adjacent Areas. (Handbook of Oriental Studies 135.) 452 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2019. ISBN 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
The afterlives of Yi Gwangsu: Narrating the trauma of colonial collaboration0
Sarah Stroumsa: Andalus and Sefarad: On Philosophy and Its History in Islamic Spain. (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World.) xxi, 220 pp. Princeton: Princeton University 0
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 6.0
Ryosuke Furui: Land and Society in Early South Asia: Eastern India 400–1250 AD. xv, 307 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2020. ISBN 978 1 138 49843 3.0
Robert Ford Campany: The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE–800 CE. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Asia Center, 2020, 260 pp. ISBN 978 0 674 24780 2.0
Jonathan A. Silk (editor-in-chief); Richard Bowring, Vincent Eltschinger and Michael Radich (eds): Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Volume II: Lives. (Handbook of Oriental Studies.) xlvi, 1307 pp. Le0
Revisiting jīng 椋 on the ancient Korean Peninsula0
Barry Wood: The Adventures of Shāh Esmāʿil, a Seventeenth-Century Persian Popular Romance. (Studies on Performing Arts and Literature of the Islamicate World 8.) xxiii, 485 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2018. €10
Dániel Balogh:Inscriptions of the Aulikaras and their Associates. (Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State, 4.) xxi, 272 pp. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. €64.95. ISBN 978 30
Matteo Nicolini-Zani (translated by William Skudlarek): The Luminous Way to the East. Texts and History of the First Encounter of Christianity with China xviii, 399 pp. Oxford: Oxford Universit0
Fumiko Miyazaki, Kate Wildman Nakai and Mark Teeuwen (trans.): Christian Sorcerers on Trial: Records of the 1827 Osaka Incident. xliv, 364 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. £30. ISBN 978 0
Ryan J. Lynch: Arab Conquests and Early Islamic Historiography. The Futuh al-Buldan of al-Baladhuri. (The Early and Medieval Islamic World.) xiv, 254 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2019. ISBN 90
Backgammon and cosmology at the Sasanian court0
Philipp Wirtz: Depicting the Late Ottoman Empire in Turkish Autobiographies: Images of a Past World. (Life Narratives of the Ottoman Realm: Individual and Empire in the Near East.) ix, 175 pp. London 0
Mårten Söderblom Saarela: The Early Modern Travels of Manchu: A Script and Its Study in East Asia and Europe. (Encounters with Asia.) x, 301 pp. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. £0
Three curious dogs in a Dunhuang manuscript: re-evaluating the identification of “yaks” in Pelliot chinois 25980
Umberto Bongianino: The Manuscript Tradition of the Islamic West: Maghribi Round Scripts and the Andalusi Identity (Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art.) 528 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Pr0
Ebiharo Shiho: A Grammar of Amdo Tibetan. xxiv, 375 pp. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo, 2019. ISBN 978 89476 951 9.0
The conversions of ʿAbdallāh ibn Salām (d. 43/633): A legendary moment in the biography of Muḥammad's Jewish companion0
Yuka Hiruma Kishida: Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism: Education in the Japanese Empire. (SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan.) xvi, 266 pp. London and New York: Bloomsb0
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
Nadine Schibille: Islamic Glass in the Making: Chronological and Geographical Dimensions Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2022. ISBN 978 946270319 3.0
Nathan Wasserman and Elyze Zomer: Akkadian Magic Literature, Old Babylonian and Old Assyrian Incantations: Corpus–Context–Praxis. (Leipziger Altorientalistische Studien 12.) Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 20
Giovanni Maria Martini: ʿAlāʾ al-Dawla al-Simnānī between Spiritual Authority and Political Power: A Persian Lord and Intellectual in the Heart of the Ilkhanate. (Islamicate Intellectual History, 4.) 0
Apocalypticism and imperial criticism: (re)reading the Dürr-i meknūn (The Hidden Pearl, 1472–73) in the context of Ottoman–Akkoyunlu imperial confrontation0
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
Yasuhiko Nagano (長野 泰彦): 嘉戎語文法研究 (A Reference Grammar of the rGyalrong Language – Bhola Dialect). xxviii, 508 pp. Tokyo: 汲古書院 (Kyuko Shoin), 2018. ISBN 978 4 7629 1227 6.0
Birgit Kellner (ed.): Buddhism and the Dynamics of Transculturality, New Approaches. (Religion and Society.) vi, 264 pp. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. ISBN 978 3 11 041153 9.0
BM 30617: An astronomical diary from the reign of Antiochus and his son Antiochus0
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
On the origins and emergence of the Qaŋlï Turks0
The classification of nouns (nāma) in Buddhaghosa0
Moritz Huber: Lives of Sogdians in Medieval China. (Asiatische Forschungen 160.) xvi, 350 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2020. €78. ISBN 978 3 447 11380 9.0
Agnès Garcia-Ventura and Lorenzo Verderame (eds): Perspectives on the History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies. x, 340 pp. University Park, Pennsylvania: Eisenbrauns, 2020. $129.95. ISBN 978 1 57506 830
Chen Fei: Study on the Synchronistic King List from Ashur. (Cuneiform Monographs 51.) xviii, 249 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2020. €143. ISBN 978 90 04 43091 4.0
Tonio Andrade: The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China. 424 pp. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. ISBN 978 069117711 3.0
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
Kevin L. Schwartz:Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700–1900. (Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World.) 248 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. £75. ISBN 978 1474450
S. Herbordt, R. Mattila, B. Parker (†), J.N. Postgate and D.J. Wiseman (†): Documents from the Nabu Temple and from Private Houses on the Citadel. (Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud VI.) viii, 340 pp., plat0
V.L. Ménage (edited with additions by Colın Imber): Ottoman Historical Documents: The Institutions of an Empire. xix, 207 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. ISBN 978 1 4744 7936 3.0
Enrico Boccaccini: Reflecting Mirrors, East and West: Transcultural Comparisons of Advice Literature for Rulers (8th–13th Century). (Islamic History and Civilization.) xi, 314 pp0
Shivan Mahendrarajah: A History of Herat: from Chingiz Khan to Tamerlane Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. ISBN 978 1 47449936 1.0
Oludamini Ogunnaike: Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions. (Africana Religions.) x, 470 pp. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State Universit0
Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet (eds): Making a Living in Ottoman Anatolia. 227 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2021. ISBN 978 90 04 46697 5.0
Farid Suleiman: Ibn Taymiyya und die Attribute Gottes. (Welten des Islams – Worlds of Islam – Mondes de l'Islam.) xi, 388 pp. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. €109.95. ISBN 978 3 11 062322 2.0
The Alan capital *Magas: A preliminary identification of its location0
Nile Green (ed.): The Persianate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca. 368 pp. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019. £27. ISBN 978 0 52030092 7.0
Bernard O'Kane, A.C.S. Peacock and Mark Muehlhaeusler (eds): Inscriptions of the Medieval Islamic World Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. ISBN 978 1 4744 8944 7.0
Emilie Aussant and Gerard Colas (eds): Les scolastiques indiennes. Genèses, développements, interactions. (Études thématiques 32.) 326 pp. Paris: École française d'Extrême Orient, 2020. €40. ISBN 978 0
Matteo Compareti: Samarkand: The Center of the World, Proposals for the Identification of the Afrāsyāb Paintings. Coast Mesa: Mazda Publishers, 2016. 429 pp. $55. ISBN 978 1 56859305 0.0
Carlos A. Segovia (ed.): Remapping Emergent Islam: Texts, Social Settings, and Ideological Trajectories. 245 pp. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. ISBN 978 90 485 4010 5.0
Roy S. Fischel: Local States in an Imperial World: Identity, Society and Politics in the Early Modern Deccan. x, 299 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. ISBN 978 147443607 6.0
Michael Lackner (ed.): Coping with the Future: Theories and Practices of Divination in East Asia. (Sinica Leidensia, 138.) xv, 586 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2018. €149. ISBN 978 90 04 34653 6.0
Mādayān ī Wīrāzagān: a newly discovered Middle Persian text: transliteration, transcription, and translation0
Giuseppe Labisi:Dwelling Models of Umayyad Madā’in and Quṣūr in Greater Syria. (BAR International Series 3004.) xviii, 337 pp. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2020. £65. ISBN 978 1 4073 5722 5 p0
Kaira Boddy: The Composition and Tradition of Erimḫuš. (Cuneiform Monographs 52.) xv, 468 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2021. ISBN 978 90 04 43816 3.0
Jokha Alharthi: The Body in Arabic Love Poetry: The ʿUdhri Tradition. xvi, 270 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. £80. ISBN 978 1 4744 8633 0.0
Ballaghanā ʿan an-Nabī: early Basran and Omani Ibāḍī understandings of sunna and siyar, āthār and nasab0
Richard Van Leeuwen:The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction: Intertextual Readings. (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section One: The Near and Middle East.) ix, 832 pp. Leiden: Brill, 0
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
Song Gang: Giulio Aleni, Koudou richao, and Christian–Confucian Dialogism in Late Ming Fujian. (Monumenta Serica Monograph Series LXIX.) xvi, 419 pp. Sankt Augustin: Monumenta Serica Institute; Abingd0
Rape in early China: two case studies0
Joanne Tsao: The City of Ye in the Chinese Literary Landscape. (Sinica Leidensia, 145.) x, 210 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020. €85. ISBN 978 90 04 42013 7.0
Ksenia Chizhova: Kinship Novels in Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday. (Premodern East Asia: New Horizons.) xii, 272 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021.0
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Louise Quillien: Histoire des textiles en Babylonie, 626–484 av. J.-C. Production, circulations et usages. (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 126.) xvi, 742 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2022. €139. I0
“You and me against the world”: Direct-inverse morphology in Rma (Qiang)0
Zoroastrian ritual and exegetical traditions: the case of the Iranian Pahlavi Yasna0
Playing the fool: jesters of the Safavid and Zand courts0
Amanda Luyster (ed.): Bringing the Holy Land Home: The Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the Reconstruction of a Medieval Masterpiece 371 pp. London and Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2023. €10
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Sylvain Patri: Phonologie hittite. (Handbook of Oriental Studies, 130.) xiii, 733 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2019. €198. ISBN 978 90 04 39423 0.0
Carl F. Petry: The Mamluk Sultanate: A History Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. ISBN 978 1 1084 5699 9.0
André Lalibertė and Stefania Travagnin (eds): Concepts and Methods for the Study of Chinese Religions I: State of the Field and Disciplinary Approaches. (Religion and Society, 77.) xiii, 260 pp. Berli0
Gary Beckman: The Hittite Gilgamesh. (Journal of Cuneiform Studies Supplementary Series 6.) xv, 95 pp. Atlanta: Lockwood Press on behalf of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 2019. ISBN 978 1 0
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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 8.0
Manjil Hazarika: Prehistory and Archaeology of Northeast India: Multidisciplinary Investigation in an Archaeological Terra Incognita. xxii, 326 pp. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2017. ISBN 978 00
Hartmut Buescher: Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts: The Paṇḍit Collection. (Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts, Xylographs, etc. in Danish Collections, vol 7.2.) xl (Vol 1), xxiii (Vol 2), 805 pp. Cop0
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 Literatur0
Arianna D'Ottone Rambach (ed.): Palaeography between East and West: Proceedings of the Seminars on Arabic Palaeography at Sapienza University of Rome. 191 pp. Rome and Pisa: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 200
Keiji Yamamoto and Charles Burnett (ed. and trans.):The Great Introduction to Astrology by Abū Maʿšar, with an edition of the Greek version by David Pingree.(Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. 0
Christopher Agnew: The Kongs of Qufu: The Descendants of Confucius in Late Imperial China. xi, 241 pp. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. ISBN 978 0 295 74593 0.0
Elyze Zomer: Middle Babylonian Literary Texts from the Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection, Jena. (Texte und Materialien der Hilprecht Collection 12.) ix, 78 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2019. €68. IS0
Yoram Cohen: The Babylonian šumma immeru Omens: Transmission, Reception, and Text Production. (Dubsar 9.) xxiv, 406 pp. Münster: Zaphon, 2020. ISBN 978 3 96327 042 0.0
Venetia Porter with Natasha Morris and Charles Tripp: Reflections. Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa. 256 pp. London: The British Museum Press, 2020. £25. ISBN 978 0 7141 1195 7.0
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
Roman Malek S.V.D. (ed.):The Chinese Face of Jesus Christ Volume 4b. (Monumenta Serica Monograph Series L/4b.) xxii, 354 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2020. £125. ISBN 978 0 367 35697 2. 0
By no means doodles or scraps: reading manuscripts IOL Tib J 3 and 218 as bilingual Dunhuang Vinaya works0
Nanny Kim: Mountain Rivers, Mountain Roads: Transport in Southwest China, 1700–1850. (Monies, Markets and Finance in East Asia, 1600–1900.) xxv, 621 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2020. €149. ISBN 978 90 04 415090
Patrick Olivelle (ed. and trans.): Yajnavalkya: A Treatise on Dharma. (Murty Classical Library of India, 20.) xl, 384 pp. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. £23.95. ISBN 978 0 67427706 9.0
A pre-Mongol New Persian legal document from Islamic Khurāsān dated ah 608/1212 ce0
Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet (eds): Entertainment among the Ottomans. xiv, 294 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2019. ISBN 978 90 04 27366 5.0
Arash Zeini: Zoroastrian Scholasticism in Late Antiquity: The Pahlavi Version of the Yasna Haptaŋhāiti. (Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia.) xxvi, 396 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Pres0
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
Mark Mcclish: The History of the Arthaśāstra: Sovereignty and Sacred Law in Ancient India. xvii, 274 pp. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. $99.99. ISBN 978 110847 6904.0
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Jane Kate Leonard: Stretching the Qing Bureaucracy in the 1826 Sea-Transport Experiment. (Monies, Markets, and Finance in East Asia, 1600–1900.) xii, 193 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2019. €94. ISBN 978 90 04 30
The Greek death of Sībawayhi and the origins of Arabic grammar0
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
Matthew B. Ingalls: The Anonymity of a Commentator: Zakariyyā al-Anṣārī and the Rhetoric of Muslim Commentaries. (SUNY Series in Islam.) xvi, 268 pp. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2021. 0
Consonant dissimilarity in Biblical Hebrew defective nouns0
Blending style and theme: grammar and rhetoric in Han Yu's “Miscellaneous Discourses”0
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
The origin and evolution of laterals in Proto-Naish0
Simon O'meara: The Kaʿba Orientations: Readings in Islam's Ancient House. x, 253 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. £95. ISBN 978 0 7486 9930 8.0
The antiquity of verb agreement in Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan)0
Female diaconate in medieval Nubia: evidence from a wall inscription from Faras0
Diminutive names in Peninsular Arabic0
Yan Liu: Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China. xiv, 261 pp. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. Open Access at https://uw.manifoldapp.org/projects/healing-with-poisons. 0
Emilie Savage-Smith, Simon Swain and Geert Jan Van Gelder (eds) with Ignacio Sánchez, N. Peter Joosse, Alasdair Watson, Bruce Inksetter and Franak Hilloowala: A Literary History of Medicine: The ʿU0
Rocco Rante and Djamal Mirzaakhmedov: The Oasis of Bukhara, Volume I: Population, Depopulation, and Settlement Evolution. (Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World 12.) xiv, 292 pp. Leiden: Brill, 200
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
Oliver Scharbrodt: Muhammad ‘Abduh: Modern Islam and the Culture of Ambiguity xi, 262 pp. London: I.B. Tauris, 2022. £76.50. ISBN 978 1 83860730 2.0
ʾinǧīl-in mubīn: A mixed archaic, Quranic, and Middle Arabic translation of the gospels and its implications for the nature of Middle Arabic0
Li Qiancheng and Robert E. Hegel (trans.): Further Adventures on the Journey to the West. Master of Silent Whistle Studio. xxxvii, 278 pp. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. £30. ISBN 978 0
Alice Collett (ed.):Translating Buddhism: Historical and Contextual Perspectives. x, 292 pp. Albany, New York: SUNY Press, 2021. ISBN 978 1 4384 8293 4.0
Hwisang Cho: The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea. (Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.) xiii, 276 pp. Seattle: University of Washington Pre0
Ali Humayun Akhtar: Philosophers, Sufis, and Caliphs: Politics and Authority from Cordoba to Cairo and Baghdad. xv, 262 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. ISBN 978 1 107 18201 1.0
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
赵莉 Zhao Li and 荣新江 Rong Xinjiang (eds): 龟兹石窟题记 (Cave Inscriptions in Ancient Kucha). Report Volume, 457 pp.; Plate Volume, 403 pp., 1231 plates; Collection of Research Papers, 290 pp., 14 plates. Shan0
David Bramoullé: Les Fatimides et la mer (909–1171). (Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and Texts.) xiii, 762 pp. Leiden, Brill, 2020. €159. ISBN 978 90 04 40290 4.0
C.Z. Chowdhury: A Ṣūfī Apologist of Nīshāpūr: The Life and Thought of Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī. (Monographs in Arab and Islamic Studies.) xii, 228 pp. Sheffield and Bristol: Equinox, 2019. ISBN 970
Fanny Bessard: Caliphs and Merchants: Cities and Economies of Power in the Near East (700–950). (Oxford Studies in Byzantium.) xxviii, 360 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. £90. ISBN 978 0 190
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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
G.G. Rowley: In the Shelter of the Pine: A Memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu and Tokugawa Japan. Ōgimachi Machiko. Translated by G.G. Rowley. 368 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. £28. ISBN 0
Chunmei Du: Gu Hongming's Eccentric Chinese Odyssey. (Encounters with Asia.) 251 pp. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. £60. ISBN 978 0 81225120 3.0
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Beata Sheyhatovitch: The Distinctive Terminology in Šarḥ al-Kāfiya by Raḍī l-Dīn al-ʾAstarābādī. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 96.) ix, 267 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2018. ISBN 0
Sacha Stern: The Jewish Calendar Controversy of 921/2 ce. (Time, Astronomy, and Calendars. Texts and Studies.) xxi, 576 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2019. €169. ISBN 978 90 04 38866 6.0
A.R. George and Junko Taniguchi (eds): Cuneiform Texts from the Folios of W.G. Lambert, Part One. (Mesopotamian Civilizations 24.) xii, 217 pp. University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns/The Pennsylvania State 0
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 2.0
Bartomeu Obrador-Cursach: The Phrygian Language. (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, Vol. 139.) xvi, 681 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2020. ISBN 978 90 04 41998 8 (hardback0
Laura Hassan: Ashʿarism Encounters Avicennism: Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī on Creation. 329 pp. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2020. ISBN 978 1 4632 0719 9.0
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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. Singapo0
István Ormos: Cairo in Chicago: Cairo Street at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. (Institut français d'archéologie orientale, Études urbaines 11.) xiv, 448 pp. Cairo: Institut français d'arché0
Agnès Garcia Ventura and Lorenzo Verderame (eds): Receptions of the Ancient Near East in Popular Culture and Beyond. xii, 319 pp. Atlanta, GA: Lockwood Press, 2020. ISBN 978 1 948488 24 2.0
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
LETIZIA OSTI: History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate: Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature. (Early and Medieval Islamic World.) x, 183 pp. London: I.B. Tauris, 2022. £85. ISBN 978 1 7880
Europe and the Ottoman World: Diplomacy and International Relations.Arcadian Library Online (https://www.arcadianlibraryonline.com/europe-and-the-ottoman-world-diplomacy-and-international-relations)Lo0
Christiane Gruber and Michelle Al-Ferzly, with a foreword by Renata Holod: City in the Desert, Revisited. Oleg Grabar at Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi, 1964–71 (Kelsey Museum Publication 17.) xvii, 160
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Yasin Dutton: Early Islam in Medina. Mālik and His Muwaṭṭa’. viii, 153 pp. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. £85. ISBN 978 1 3502 6186 0.0
Nikolaos Vryzidis (ed): The Hidden Life of Textiles in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean. Contexts and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Islamic, Latinate and Eastern Christian Worlds. (Medie0
Max Oidtmann: Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet. (Studies in the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.) xvii, 330 pp. New York: Columb0
Salma Samar Damluji and Viola Bertini: Hassan Fathy: Earth & Utopia 368 pp. London: Laurence King, 2018, £68. ISBN 978 1 78627 261 4.0
Beyond the “wonders of India” (‘ajā’ib al-hind): Yogis in Persian medico-alchemical writings in South Asia0
Erin Shay (in collaboration with Lazare Wambadang): A Grammar of Pévé. (Grammars and Sketches of the World's Languages. Africa.) ix, 359 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020. €110. ISBN 978 90 04 40915 0
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 5335439.0
Bérénice Bellina (ed.): Khao Sam Kaeo. An Early Port-City between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea. (Mémoires Archéologiques 28.) 675 pp. Paris: École française d'Extrême-Orient, 2017. ISBN 970
Selena Wisnom: Weapons of Words: Intertextual Competition in Babylonian Poetry. A Study of Anzû, Enūma eliš and Erra and Išum. (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East.) x, 280 pp. Leiden: Brill,0
Frances Reynolds: A Babylonian Calendar Treatise: Scholars and Invaders in the Late First Millennium BC. Edited with Introduction, Commentary, and Cuneiform Texts. xxxi, 464 pp. Oxford: Oxford Univers0
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 Galland0
Martin Seeger: Gender and the Path to Awakening: Hidden Histories of Nuns in Modern Thai Buddhism. xviii, 341 pp. Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2018. ISBN 978 87 7694 258 8.0
Omid Ghaemmaghami: Encounters with the Hidden Imam in Early and Pre-Modern Twelver Shīʿī Islam. (Islamic History and Civilization: Studies and Texts.) xii, 276 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020. ISBN0
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Jonathan E. Brockopp: Muhammad's Heirs: The Rise of Muslim Scholarly Communities, 622–950. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) xi, 232 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. £75. IS0
D.E. Mungello: The Silencing of Jesuit Figurist Joseph de Prémare in Eighteenth Century China. xi, 123 pp. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019. £54.95. ISBN 978 1 4985 9564 3.0
Thomas Jülch: The Zhengzheng lun by Xuanyi: A Buddhist Apologetic Scripture of Tang China. (Monumenta Serica Monograph Series.) lxx, 274 pp. Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2019.0
Peter Van Ham, with Amy Heller and Likir Monastery:Alchi: Treasure of the Himalayas, Ladakh's Buddhist Masterpiece. 424 pp. Munich: Hirmer, 2019. £54. ISBN 978 3 7774 3093 5.0
Hamid Rezaei Yazdi and Arshavez Mozafari (eds): Persian Literature and Modernity: Production and Reception. (Iranian Studies.) viii, 248 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2019. £120. ISBN 978 1 138 0
Martin Bemmann and Sun Hua (eds), Lothar Ledderose (series editor): Buddhist Stone Sutras in China. Sichuan Province, vol. 4. Wofoyuan Section D. xii, 612 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag; and Hangz0
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
Sami Honkasalo: A Grammar of Eastern Geshiza: A Culturally Anchored Description. 889 pp. Helsinki: University of Helsinki, Faculty of Arts, 2019. ISBN 978 951 51 5732 4.0
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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 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
Gerrit Bos: Maimonides: Commentary on Hippocrates’ Aphorisms: A New Parallel Arabic–English Edition and Translation, with Critical Editions of the Medieval Hebrew Translations. Volume 2. (The Medical 0
N.J.C. Kouwenberg: A Grammar of Old Assyrian. (Handbook of Oriental Studies.) lii, 895 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2017. ISBN 978 90 04 34096 1.0
Antonio Almagro (ed.): Arquitectura saʿdí: Marruecos 1554–1659 597 pp. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2022. €60. ISBN 978 84 00 11064 2.0
Barbara Brend: Treasures of Herat. 240 pp. London: Gingko, in association with The British Library, 2022. ISBN 978 1 909942 54 7.0
H. Ekkehard Wolff (ed.): The Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics.(Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics.) xxxi, 803 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. ISBN 978 1 108 4170
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Shi Xiangdong 施向東: Hanzangyu bijiao yanjiu 漢藏語比較研究 [Chinese-Tibetan Comparative Linguistics] iii, 273 pp. Shanghai: Zhongxi shuju 中西書局 [Zhongxi Book Company], 2021. ISBN 978 7 5476 1881 6.0
Warwick Ball: The Eurasian Steppe: People, Movement and Ideas. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. ISBN 978 1 4744 8806 8.0
Hans T. Bakker: The Alkhan. A Hunnic People in South Asia. (Companion to Hunnic Peoples in Central and South Asia. Sources for Their Origin and History.) xiv, 128 pp. Groningen: Barkhuis, 2020. ISBN 90
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
Mary E. Buck: The Amorite Dynasty of Ugarit: Historical Implications of Linguistic and Archaeological Parallels. (Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant.) xiii, 376 pp. Leiden: Brill, 200
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Ludek Vacín: The Unknown Benno Landsberger, A Biographical Sketch of an Assyriological Altmeister's Development, Exile, and Personal Life. (Leipziger Altorientalistische Studien.) xvi, 132 pp. Wiesbad0
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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 50
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William Granara: Ibn Hamdis the Sicilian: Eulogist for a Falling Homeland. (Makers of the Muslim World.) 176 pp. Oxford: Oneworld Academic, 2021. ISBN 978 178607846 9.0
Manfred Hutter and Sylvia Hutter-Braunsar: Economy of Religions in Anatolia: From the Early Second to the Middle of the First Millennium BCE. Proceedings of an International Conference in Bonn (23rd t0
Teresa Ciapparoni La Rocca: Mishima Monogatari: Un Samurai Delle Arti. 416 pp. Turin: Lindau, 2020. €32. ISBN 978 88 3353 466 4.0
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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