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bcan pos who were notkhri: 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
Establishing the text of theOdes: the Anhui University bamboo manuscript2
Whyprāṇais the most excellent among the vital functions, or: the Shapley value in theUpaniṣads2
Bhakti versus rīti? The Sants’ perspective2
The pragmatics of standardization: document standards and their implementation in Qin administration (late third century bce)1
The Sogdian epitaph of Shi Jun and his wife1
Ying Wa boys in early colonial Hong Kong1
Ebiharo Shiho: A Grammar of Amdo Tibetan. xxiv, 375 pp. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo, 2019. ISBN 978 89476 951 9.1
(Northwest) Semitic sg. *CVCC-, pl. *CVCaC-ū-: Broken plural or regular reflex?1
Laughter in early China: The Zhuangzi and beyond1
On the nature of morphological alternations in Archaic Chinese and their relevance to morphosyntax1
The Southwest Silk Road: artistic exchange and transmission in early China1
On the concept of leadership and the office of Leader of the Zoroastrians (hu-dēnān pēšōbāy) in Abbasid Zoroastrianism1
Reading across confessional lines in Ayyubid Egypt: a Judaeo-Arabic Geniza fragment with three new poems by Ibn al-Kīzānī (d. 562/1166)1
“The Time of Lament”: A Momand drama of 1711 through the eyes of Pashtun litterateurs1
Monetary reform under the Sufyanids: the papyrological evidence1
Materia Medica Tocharo-Hvatanica1
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
A note on Pahlavi lexicography: Middle Persian hassār, hassārīh1
Divine procreation of the world in Zoroastrian Pahlavi texts1
The Alan capital *Magas: A preliminary identification of its location1
The derivatives of Barth's Law in the light of modern Arabic dialects1
India's epidemics in theRiḥlaof Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: plague, cholera or lexical muddle?1
Stele for Magistrate Jing Yun 景雲: An Eastern Han memorial stele from the south-west with reference to the Chuci 楚辭1
On the terminology designating the Zoroastrians of Iran and their language1
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 Univers0
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
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
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
Las Huelgas: Arabic inscriptions for Christian liturgy0
Daniel K. Gardner (trans.): Zhu Xi: Basic Teachings New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. ISBN 978 0 231 20633 4.0
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Warwick Ball: The Eurasian Steppe: People, Movement and Ideas. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. ISBN 978 1 4744 8806 8.0
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
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
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
Shang dynasty's “nine generations chaos” and the reign of Wu Ding: towards a unilineal line of transmission of royal power0
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
A pre-Mongol New Persian legal document from Islamic Khurāsān dated ah 608/1212 ce0
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
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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
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
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
Shivan Mahendrarajah: A History of Herat: from Chingiz Khan to Tamerlane Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. ISBN 978 1 47449936 1.0
Enrico Boccaccini: Reflecting Mirrors, East and West: Transcultural Comparisons of Advice Literature for Rulers (8th–13th Century). (Islamic History and Civilization.) xi, 314 pp0
Apocalypticism and imperial criticism: (re)reading the Dürr-i meknūn (The Hidden Pearl, 1472–73) in the context of Ottoman–Akkoyunlu imperial confrontation0
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
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
A seal of Solomon son of Azariah, “son of the exilarch of all Israel”0
The Greek death of Sībawayhi and the origins of Arabic grammar0
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
Progressive constructions in different Balochi dialects from a diachronic and an areal linguistic point of view0
On the Akkadian adjectival masculine plural -ūtonce again0
Michele Cammarosano, Elena Devecchi and Maurizio Viano (eds): talugaeš witteš. Ancient Near Eastern Studies Presented to Stefano de Martino on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday. (Kasion Pub0
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
The afterlives of Yi Gwangsu: Narrating the trauma of colonial collaboration0
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
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
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 9.0
By no means doodles or scraps: reading manuscripts IOL Tib J 3 and 218 as bilingual Dunhuang Vinaya works0
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
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
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
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
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
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
Alexander Ahrens: Aegyptiaca in der nördlichen Levante. Eine Studie zur Kontextualisierung und Rezeption ägyptischer und ägyptisierender Objekte in der Bronzezeit. (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis. Serie0
Barbara Brend: Treasures of Herat. 240 pp. London: Gingko, in association with The British Library, 2022. ISBN 978 1 909942 54 7.0
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
The Seventh Dalai Lama's residence in Kham: Gartar Monastery interactions with indigenous chiefs and the Qing court0
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
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
Huaiyu Chen: Animals and Plants in Chinese Religions and Science vii, 205 pp. London: Anthem Press, 2023. ISBN 978 1 83998 501 0.0
Valentina Laviola: Islamic Metalwork from Afghanistan (9th–13th century): The Documentation of the IsMEO Italian Archaeological Mission. (Università degli Studi di Napoli “l'Orie0
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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
Bai and Old Western Chinese0
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
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
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
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
Geoffrey Sampson: Voices from Early China: The Odes Demystified. 445 pp. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars’ Press, 2020. £67.99. ISBN 978 1 5275 5212 8.0
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
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
Hubei sheng wenwu kaogu yanjiu yuan 湖北省文物考古研究院 and Wuhan daxue jianbo yanjiu zhongxin 武漢大學簡帛研究中心 (ed. in Chief Chen Wei 陳偉 and Xiong Beisheng 熊北生, ed. Cai Dan 蔡丹, Huang Haobo 黃浩波, Lei Hailong 雷海龍, and0
Livia Kohn: The Daode jing: A Guide New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019. ISBN 978 0 19 068982 7.0
Zoroastrian ritual and exegetical traditions: the case of the Iranian Pahlavi Yasna0
Gabriel Rabo: Dionysius Bar Ṣalibi. Syrischer Kommentar zum Römerbrief. Einleitung, Edition und Übersetzung, mit einem Verzeichnis der syrischen Handschriften zu seinen sämtlichen Werken. (Göttinger O0
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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Redeeming the orphaned souls: fragments of a Mongolian translation from Khara-khoto0
“You and me against the world”: Direct-inverse morphology in Rma (Qiang)0
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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
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
The origin and evolution of laterals in Proto-Naish0
Carl F. Petry: The Mamluk Sultanate: A History Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. ISBN 978 1 1084 5699 9.0
Christin Möllenbeck: Institutionelle Sklaverei in Tempel und Palast in Südmesopotamien während der altbabylonischen Zeit (2000–1500 v. Chr.). (Altorientalische Publikationen / Publications on the Anci0
Nathan Wasserman and Elyze Zomer: Akkadian Magic Literature, Old Babylonian and Old Assyrian Incantations: Corpus–Context–Praxis. (Leipziger Altorientalistische Studien 12.) Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 20
Nadine Schibille: Islamic Glass in the Making: Chronological and Geographical Dimensions Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2022. ISBN 978 946270319 3.0
Diminutive names in Peninsular Arabic0
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
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
Becoming the Muʿallim: how tradition and innovation made a Nahḍa icon0
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
Methodological issues in Rma etymology0
Alan Richard Sweeten: China's Old Churches: The History, Architecture, and Legacy of Catholic Sacred Structures in Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei Province. (Studies in the History of Christianity in East0
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
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
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
Blending style and theme: grammar and rhetoric in Han Yu's “Miscellaneous Discourses”0
“All the world at the palm of the hand”: imagining history through the life of an early Afghan saint0
Mādayān ī Wīrāzagān: a newly discovered Middle Persian text: transliteration, transcription, and translation0
Lād “law”: a Bactrian loanword in the Nuristani languages0
Central Tibetan famines 1280–1400: when premodern climate change and bad governance starved Tibet0
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 conversions of ʿAbdallāh ibn Salām (d. 43/633): A legendary moment in the biography of Muḥammad's Jewish companion0
The spread of iron in Central Asia: on the etymology of the word for “iron” in Iranian and Tocharian0
Edward Mcdonald: Grammar West to East: The Investigation of Linguistic Meaning in European and Chinese Traditions. xx, 275 pp. (The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series.) New York: Sp0
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
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
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
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
The eropolitical compound: immanence, transcendence and a parasitic operation of patriarchy in Sanskrit literature0
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
Beyond the “wonders of India” (‘ajā’ib al-hind): Yogis in Persian medico-alchemical writings in South Asia0
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: Oxfor0
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
The addition of syllable-final stops in Ganan0
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
Harold Roth: The Contemplative Foundations of Classical Daoism. (Chinese Philosophy and Culture Series.) xiii, 558 pp. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2021. ISBN 978 1 43848271 2.0
The classification of nouns (nāma) in Buddhaghosa0
ʾinǧīl-in mubīn: A mixed archaic, Quranic, and Middle Arabic translation of the gospels and its implications for the nature of Middle Arabic0
The “Black sheep” of the early Daoxue community: the making of Xing Shu's historical image0
Replacing a pillar of Tibetan Buddhist historiography: on the redactions of the so-called Pillar Testament (bKa’-chems-ka-khol-ma)0
The secret history of Germiyan, or a reassessment of the debates on the origins of the Germiyanids0
Three curious dogs in a Dunhuang manuscript: re-evaluating the identification of “yaks” in Pelliot chinois 25980
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
Chen Hao: A History of the Second Türk Empire (ca. 682–745 ad). (Brill's Inner Asian Library.) 316 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2021. €110. ISBN 978 90 04 46432 2.0
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
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
Marcus Milwright: A Story of Islamic Art xii, 311 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2024. ISBN 978 1 032 44815 2.0
Franz-Xaver Erhard und Thomas Wild: Drumze – Metamorphoses of the Tibetan Carpet Potsdam: Edition Tethys, 2022. ISBN 978 3 942527 16 3.0
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
Ian Rutherford: Hittite Texts and Greek Religion: Contact, Interaction, and Comparison. xviii, 385 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. £80. ISBN 978 0 19 959327 9.0
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
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The antiquity of verb agreement in Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan)0
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
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
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
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
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
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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
Toni Huber: Source of Life: Revitalisation Rites and Bon Shamans in Bhutan and the Eastern Himalayas. (Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Klasse, Band 518. Veröffentlichungen zur Sozialanthr0
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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
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
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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
Playing the fool: jesters of the Safavid and Zand courts0
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
Revisiting jīng 椋 on the ancient Korean Peninsula0
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
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
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
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
Teresa Ciapparoni La Rocca: Mishima Monogatari: Un Samurai Delle Arti. 416 pp. Turin: Lindau, 2020. €32. ISBN 978 88 3353 466 4.0
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
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
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
Bene Pareza: A new talmudic lexeme0
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
Female diaconate in medieval Nubia: evidence from a wall inscription from Faras0
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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 5.0
Ejective stops in Hittite: evidence for a phonemic length distinction0
Daoism and Ming rulership: on the authenticity of Jiajing's preface to theScripture of the Three Offices0
Sylvie Denoix and Hélène Renel (eds): Atlas des mondes musulmans médiévaux 382 pp. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2022. ISBN 978 2 271 13949 8.0
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
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
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
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
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
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
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Bleda S. Düring: The Imperialisation of Assyria: An Archaeological Approach. xvii, 185 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £85. ISBN 978 1 10847874 8.0
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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
Salma Samar Damluji and Viola Bertini: Hassan Fathy: Earth & Utopia 368 pp. London: Laurence King, 2018, £68. ISBN 978 1 78627 261 4.0
Felix Otter: A Course in Reading Classical Newari: Selections from the Vetālapañcaviṃśati. xiii, 162 pp. Heidelberg and Berlin: CrossAsia-eBooks, 2021. ISBN 978 3 946742 94 4 (pdf). ISBN 978 3 946742 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
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
Anja Heidenreich (ed.): Cuatrovitas (Bollullos de la Mitación, Prov. of Seville, Spain). New Investigations into the Almohad Mosque and Abandoned Village (Studies in Islamic Art and Archaeology0
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
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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
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
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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
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
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
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
Duncan Poupard: A Pictographic Naxi Origin Myth from Southwest China: An Annotated Translation Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2023. ISBN 978 90 8728 427 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
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
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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
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
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
Lost Turfan fragments from the Nachlass of W.B. Henning0
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
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
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