Reviews: The Near and Middle East
Robert Gleave and István T. Kristó-Nagy (eds): Violence in Islamic Thought from the Mongols to European Imperialism. (Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Islamic Thought.) viii, 240 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018. ISBN 978 1 47441300 8.
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Jean-Charles Ducène: L'Europe et les géographes arabes du Moyen Âge. 502 pp. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2018. ISBN 978 2 271 08209 1.
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- 30 December 2019, pp. 546-548
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Alireza Doostdar: The Iranian Metaphysicals: Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny. xiv, 295 pp. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. ISBN 978 0 691 16378 9.
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- 30 December 2019, pp. 548-549
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Yana Tchekhanovets: The Caucasian Archaeology of the Holy Land: Armenian, Georgian and Albanian Communities between the Fourth and Eleventh Centuries CE. (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section One: The Near and Middle East, Volume 123.) xxiv, 307 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2018. €150. ISBN 978 90 04 36224 6.
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- 30 December 2019, pp. 550-551
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Vazha Pshavela: Unveiling Vazha Pshavela: A Dozen Poems by Vazha, with Stories and Artworks Inspired by Him. Translated by Donald Rayfield, with illustrations by Manana Antelidze, Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili, Andro Semeiko, and Leonid Semeiko. 173 pp. London: Garnett Press, 2018. ISBN 978 0 9564683 4 5.
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Robert Donceel and Pauline Donceel-Voute: Matériel archéologique de Khirbet Quoumrân et ʿAin Feshkha sur la Mer Morte. Pierre, lampes, verre, matériaux divers. xii, 501 pp. Leuven: Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2017. ISBN 978 2 87558 606 3.
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- 30 December 2019, pp. 553-555
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Behnaz A. Mirzai: A History of Slavery and Emancipation in Iran, 1800/1929. xiii, 324 pp. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017. ISBN 978 1 4773 1186 8.
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Reviews: South Asia
Sebastian R. Prange: Monsoon Islam: Trade and Faith on the Medieval Malabar Coast. (Cambridge Oceanic Histories.) xvi, 344 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. £90. ISBN 978 1 108 42438 7.
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Marc Tiefenauer: Les Enfers indiens: Histoire multiple d'un lieu commun. (Handbook of Oriental Studies Section Two South Asia.) xxxv, 681 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2018, ISBN 978 90 04 35308 4.
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Matthew Clark: The Tawny One: Soma, Haoma, and Ayahuasca. x, 285 pp. London and New York: Muswell Hill Press, 2017. ISBN 978 1 90899 522 3.
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Masato Kobayashi and Bablu Tirkey: The Kurux Language: Grammar, Text and Lexicon. (Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages.) xvii, 791 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017. $203. ISBN 978 90 04 34765 6.
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- 30 December 2019, pp. 563-565
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C.M.M. Shaw and L.S. Cousins (trans.): The Book of Pairs and Its Commentary: A Translation of the Yamaka and Yamakappakaraṇaṭṭhakathā. Vol.1. xvi, 411 pp. Bristol: Pali Text Society, 2018. £35.50. ISBN 978 0 86013 513 5.
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Reviews: Central Asia
Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky and Christopher P. Atwood (Guest editor: Béla Kempf): Philology of the Grasslands. Essays in Mongolic, Turkic, and Tungusic Studies. (The Languages of Asia Series.) xiv, 458 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2018. ISBN 978 90 04 35195 0.
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Reviews: Southeast Asia
Th. C. Van Der Meij: Indonesian Manuscripts from the Islands of Java, Madura, Bali and Lombok. (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 3 Southeast Asia, volume 24.) xliii, 575 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2017. €168. ISBN 978 90 04 34811 0.
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Reviews: East Asia
Fang Litian: Chinese Buddhism and Traditional Culture. (Chinese Perspectives). [vi], 234 pp. Abingdon: Routledge, 2019. £130. ISBN 978 1 138 85519 9.
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- 30 December 2019, pp. 570-572
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Reiko Shinno: The Politics of Chinese Medicine under Mongol Rule. (Needham Research Institute Series.) xxi, 194 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2016. ISBN 978 1 138 09932 6.
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John W. Chaffee: The Muslim Merchants of Premodern China: The History of a Maritime Asian Trade Diaspora, 750–1400. (New Approaches to Asian History.) xiv, 210 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. ISBN 978 1 107 68404 1.
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Wang Yongbo and Claudia Wenzel (eds): Buddhist Stone Sutras in China: Shandong Province. Volume 3. (Buddhist Stone Sutras of China.) xi, 512 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2017. ISBN 978 3 447 10813 3.
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Roel Sterckx, Martina Siebert and Dagmar Schäfer (eds): Animals through Chinese History: Earliest Times to 1911. xiii, 277 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. ISBN 978 1 108 42815 6.
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Ao Wang: Spatial Imaginaries in Mid-Tang China: Geography, Cartography, and Literature. ix, 365 pp. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2019. ISBN 978 0 60497 941 1.
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- 30 December 2019, pp. 580-582
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