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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
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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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
Duncan Poupard: A Pictographic Naxi Origin Myth from Southwest China: An Annotated Translation Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2023. ISBN 978 90 8728 427 5.2
The secret history of Germiyan, or a reassessment of the debates on the origins of the Germiyanids2
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
Lost Turfan fragments from the Nachlass of W.B. Henning2
The non-human mystics of Islam: animals as pious worshippers in early Sufism1
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
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
The derivatives of Barth's Law in the light of modern Arabic dialects1
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
The eropolitical compound: immanence, transcendence and a parasitic operation of patriarchy in Sanskrit literature1
The concept of the creational body in Iranian mythology: transformation and theological reinterpretations in Zoroastrian texts1
The Seventh Dalai Lama's residence in Kham: Gartar Monastery interactions with indigenous chiefs and the Qing court1
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
The Tangut verbal template from a cross-West Gyalrongic perspective1
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
The pragmatics of standardization: document standards and their implementation in Qin administration (late third century bce)1
Shang dynasty's “nine generations chaos” and the reign of Wu Ding: towards a unilineal line of transmission of royal power1
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
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
Using animals as metaphors for current events: the “mutual accusations of the cat and the mouse” in Hokkien oral performance1
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
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 978029571
The addition of syllable-final stops in Ganan0
Stéphane Pradines and Farouk Topan (eds): Muslim Cultures of the Indian Ocean: Diversity and Pluralism, Past and Present (Exploring Muslim Contexts.) x, 356 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University 0
On the question of domestic slaves in late medieval and early modern Zoroastrianism0
The Dhamma wheel from Chainat, Thailand: an epigraphic excerpt from the Pali Dhammacakkappavattana , and related finds0
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
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
ʾinǧīl-in mubīn: A mixed archaic, Quranic, and Middle Arabic translation of the gospels and its implications for the nature of Middle Arabic0
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
Music and musical terms in Bobovius’ Serai Enderum (1665, MS Harley 3409)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
kha-sgaṅ bkra-śis tshe-riṅ: tshig mdzod / btsan povi dus kyi yig rnying skor [A Dictionary: concerning ancient documents from the imperial period]. Beijing: mi rigs dpe skrun khaṅ, 2019. ISBN 90
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
The spread of iron in Central Asia: on the etymology of the word for “iron” in Iranian and Tocharian0
Prasun historical linguistics: new etymologies and the fate of the Indo-Iranian morphemes *-am and *-ka-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
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
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
Adrian C. Heinrich: Die sumerisch-akkadischen Balaĝ-Gebete an Ninurta: Edition und Kommentar . (Heidelberger Emesal-Studien, 6.) xii, 618 pp., Wiesbaden:0
Middle Persian documents and the making of the Islamic fiscal system: problems and prospects0
Khotanese dīñ - “overthink” and Avestan daēnā - “view, vision”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 – ERRATUM0
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
creating is cutting: a conceptual metaphor in Avestan and Pahlavi texts0
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
Motion verbs and the ventive in the correspondence of Samsi-Addu, the king of Upper Mesopotamia (early eighteenth century bc )0
Action nouns in *-i̯a- and a new verbal stem *jsīn- “to kill” in Khotanese0
Nadine Schibille: Islamic Glass in the Making: Chronological and Geographical Dimensions Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2022. ISBN 978 946270319 3.0
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
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
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
The “Black sheep” of the early Daoxue community: the making of Xing Shu's historical image0
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
Gottfried Hagen and Robert Dankoff (eds); Ferenc Csirkés, John Curry, Gary Leiser (translators): An Ottoman Cosmography. Translation of Cihānnümā By Katib Çelebi. (Handbook of Oriental Studies 0
The Southwest Silk Road: artistic exchange and transmission in early China0
Becoming the Muʿallim: how tradition and innovation made a Nahḍa icon0
Alessandro Rizzo: Florence et le sultanat mamelouk: Les documents de la diplomatie (début XV e –déb0
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
Imbued with the essence of the Gods: the intersection between Zoroastrian theology and the Old Avestan possessive adjectives derived from personal pronouns0
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
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
Divinized protection: a set of unique, inscribed shields from Malla, Nepal0
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Ying Wa boys in early colonial Hong Kong0
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
All lines lead to Proto-Arabic: a review article on Jonathan Owens, Arabic and the Case against Linearity in Historical Linguistics (Oxford: Oxford Unive0
Suraiya Faroqhi: Women in the Ottoman Empire: A Social and Political History London: Bloomsbury/I.B. Tauris, 2023. ISBN 978 0 75563826 0.0
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
Apocalypticism and prognostication in early Shiʿi literature0
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
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
Mun'im A. Sirry: The Qur'an with Cross-References ix, 683 pp. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2022. ISBN 978 3 11077915 8.0
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
Chariots, mail coaches and wagons in the Arabic dialect of Qaṭrāyīth (“in Qatari”) in early Islamic eastern Arabia0
Matthew T. Kapstein (ed.): Tibetan Manuscript and Early Printed Books. Volume I: Elements xxxi, 329 pp. Ithaka and London: Cornell University Press, 2024. £39.30. ISBN 978 1 50171621 8.0
Bai and Old Western Chinese0
Farming out judicial offices in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1750–18390
The sound change of oralization in Mewahang0
Las Huelgas: Arabic inscriptions for Christian liturgy0
Revisiting the date of Hiḍimbā Devī temple, Manali, Kulu (Himachal Pradesh): a study of epigraphic evidence0
R.D. McChesney: Four Central Asian Shrines: A Socio-Political History Leiden: Brill, 2021. ISBN 978 90 04 45958 8.0
New origins to vowel tensing in Tangut: internal and comparative evidence0
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
A quote attributed to Udbhaṭabhaṭṭa, which is actually from Arcaṭa0
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Peter Flügel, Renate Söhnen-Thieme and Heleen De Jonckheere (eds): Pure Soul: The Jaina Spiritual Traditions London: Centre of Jaina Studies, 2023. ISBN 978 1 39994686 5.0
A Khotanese loanword in the Tocharian A Maitreyasamiti-Nāṭaka : Tocharian A ṣtākkrukke * “slanderer”, Old 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
On the origins and emergence of the Qaŋlï Turks0
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
ANDREW J. NEWMAN (ed.): Iranian/Persianate Subaltern in the Safavid Period: Their Role and Depiction. Recovering Lost Voices. Berlin: Gerlach Press, 2022. xxiv. 243 pp. £85. ISBN 978 3 95994 152 5.0
Jan De Meyer: Master Incapable 无能子: A Medieval Daoist on the Liberation of the Mind (The Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature.) New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. ISBN 0
Constructing identity through monastic legislation: rules intended to differentiate Buddhists from Jainas and Ājīvikas in Vinaya literature0
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
Jerrold S. Cooper: Enki and the World Order: A Sumerian Myth (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records, 31.) xx, 233 pp. Boston and Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2025. ISBN 978 1 5015 2253 6.0
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
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
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
Early Geez orthography in the ʔAbbā Garimā Gospels and in the Aksumite Epigraphic Geez0
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Salma Samar Damluji and Viola Bertini: Hassan Fathy: Earth & Utopia 368 pp. London: Laurence King, 2018, £68. ISBN 978 1 78627 261 4.0
An ulus within an ulus: the afterlife of Ariq Böke's appanage in the Mongol Empire (1252–1336)0
A cross-cultural archery analogy in Matteo Ricci's Tianzhu shiyi0
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
An oath-letter ( sawgand-nāma ) for the Rum Saljuq sultan and his son. Diplomatics and politics in mid-thirteenth-century Anatolia through the 0
Sharon Kinoshita: Marco Polo and His World (Medieval Lives.) 190 pp. London: Reaktion Books, 2024. ISBN 978 1 78914 937 1.0
From oral charms to written heritage: four Yezidi prayer-incantations from Sinjar, Iraq0
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
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
The “Black sheep” of the early Daoxue community: the making of Xing Shu's historical image – CORRIGENDUM0
“People at the gate”: the menren 門人 in early Chinese texts0
Two priest-brothers: theological argumentation, linguistic expressions and style in the second Epistle of Manuščihr0
Aruna Gamage: Buddhaghosa, His Sources, and the Buddhist Others: Authority and Heterodoxy in Early Mahāvihāra Commentaries .(Studia Indologica Halensis 30
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On the nature of morphological alternations in Archaic Chinese and their relevance to morphosyntax0
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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
Towards the decipherment of Thamudic D: an identification of new glyphs and phoneme values0
Dale Lightfoot: Qanat: Stream of Wells (Bloomsbury Academic.) 853 pp. London: Bloomsbury, 2024. £100. ISBN 978 1 8386 0217 8.0
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
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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Playing the fool: jesters of the Safavid and Zand courts0
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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
Huaiyu Chen: Animals and Plants in Chinese Religions and Science vii, 205 pp. London: Anthem Press, 2023. ISBN 978 1 83998 501 0.0
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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
Marcus Milwright: A Story of Islamic Art xii, 311 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2024. ISBN 978 1 032 44815 2.0
Pashto preverbs, III. Compound verbs with preverb0
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
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
The development of Sanskrit velars into Gāndhārī0
Redeeming the orphaned souls: fragments of a Mongolian translation from Khara-khoto0
Two unpublished Bactrian documents in the al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait0
From sūtra to practice: discovering the liturgy of the seven Tathāgatas including Bhaiṣajyaguru in Old Tibetan manuscripts0
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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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
South Arabian etymology for the Meccan Kaʿbah0
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
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
“He was penetrated like a woman”: the evolution of a Companion report0
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 Avestan ī̆šti- in Middle Persian texts0
Shivan Mahendrarajah: A History of Herat: from Chingiz Khan to Tamerlane Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. ISBN 978 1 47449936 1.0
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
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
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
Apocalypticism and imperial criticism: (re)reading the Dürr-i meknūn (The Hidden Pearl, 1472–73) in the context of Ottoman–Akkoyunlu imperial confrontation0
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
Handsome prince means righteous rule? The Aqquyunlu occupation of Mardin by Ḥamza b. qara ʿUthmān in 835/1432 according to two epigraphic sources0
Another character for the word “rice plant” in Old Chinese0
The origin and evolution of laterals in Proto-Naish0
Sylvie Denoix and Hélène Renel (eds): Atlas des mondes musulmans médiévaux 382 pp. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2022. ISBN 978 2 271 13949 8.0
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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
“Gift” in Gāndhārī epigraphical sources. A comparative analysis of G. dana-, danamuha - and deyadhaṃma-0
The zīndag ruwān ceremony in historical perspective0
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
Newell Ann Van Auken: Spring and Autumn Historiography: Form and Hierarchy in Ancient Chinese Annals (Tang Center Series in Ealy China.) New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. ISBN 978 0 230
Carl F. Petry: The Mamluk Sultanate: A History Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. ISBN 978 1 1084 5699 9.0
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
Daniel K. Gardner (trans.): Zhu Xi: Basic Teachings New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. ISBN 978 0 231 20633 4.0
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
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“Melt” and the labial causative in Gyalrongic0
Progressive constructions in different Balochi dialects from a diachronic and an areal linguistic point of view0
Albert König and Hartmut Walravens: Asiatische Nashornvögel in bildlichen Darstellungen Asiens und Europas (ca. 1600–ca. 1850): Ein Streifzug durch die Kulturgeschichte (Deutsche Ostasienstudie0
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A note on Pahlavi lexicography: Middle Persian hassār, hassārīh0
Ḥamza versus Rustam: Comparing theḤamzanāmawith theShāhnāma0
Mādayān ī Wīrāzagān: a newly discovered Middle Persian text: transliteration, transcription, and translation0
Ear-y fish: shells in two Tocharian B medical prescriptions0
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Barbara Brend: Treasures of Herat. 240 pp. London: Gingko, in association with The British Library, 2022. ISBN 978 1 909942 54 7.0
A “wild man” from the island of Soqotra: a new text in its comparative setting0
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
Nasser Rabbat: Writing Egypt. Al-Maqrizi and His Historical Project Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. ISBN 978 13995 0281 8.0
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
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
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
Stanza permutation in the “Guo feng” 國風 and an examination of the hermeneutical tradition of “orderly progression”0
Sam Mirelman: The Performance of Balaĝ and Eršema Prayers in the Late First Millennium BC .(Heidelberger Emesal-Studien, 4.) Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2020
David Conrad (ed.): Great Sogolon’s House: Mande Epic from the Condé Bards of Fadama (Guinea) (Fontes Historiae Africanae, Sources of African History, 250
The Qarmaṭī/Ismāʿīlī community of north-west Iran during the ah third–fourth/ninth–tenth centuries ce0
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