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Reviews: The Near and Middle East
Mustapha Sheikh : Ottoman Puritanism and Its Discontents: Aḥmad al-Rūmī al-Āqḥiṣārī and the Qāḍīzādelis. (Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs.) ix, 191 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. £65. ISBN 978 0 198 79076 1.
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- 08 November 2017, pp. 592-594
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Asli Niyazioğlu : Dreams and Lives in Ottoman Istanbul: A Seventeenth-Century Biographer's Perspective. (Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies.) xii, 147 pp. New York and London: Routledge, 2017. £95. ISBN 978 1 4724 7229 8.
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- 08 November 2017, pp. 594-596
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Başak Tuğ : Politics of Honor in Ottoman Anatolia: Sexual Violence and Socio-Legal Surveillance in the Eighteenth Century. (The Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage.) x, 290 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017. ISBN 978 90 04 26697 1.
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- 08 November 2017, pp. 596-597
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Beatrice Gruendler (ed. and trans.): Abū Bakr Al-Ṣūlī: The Life and Times of Abū Tammām. (Library of Arabic Literature.) xxx, 424 pp. New York: New York University Press, 2015. $40. ISBN 978 0 814 76040 6.
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- 08 November 2017, pp. 598-599
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Bilal Orfali : The Anthologist's Art: Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī and His Yatīmat al-dahr. (Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures.) xx, 271 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016. ISBN 978 9004 31629 4.
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- 08 November 2017, pp. 599-601
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Richard J. Davey : Coastal Dhofari Arabic, A Sketch Grammar. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics.) xxiii, 311 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016. ISBN 978 90 04 31670 6.
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- 08 November 2017, pp. 601-603
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H. Lyman Stebbins : British Imperialism in Qajar Iran: Consuls, Agents and Influence in the Middle East. xv, 304 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2016. ISBN 978 1784 53502 5.
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- 08 November 2017, pp. 603-604
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Reviews: South Asia
Rajeev Kinra : Writing Self, Writing Empire: Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary. (South Asia Across the Disciplines.) xix, 371 pp. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2015. £27.95. ISBN 978 0 520 28646 7.
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- 08 November 2017, pp. 605-606
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Imma Ramos : Pilgrimage and Politics in Colonial Bengal: The Myth of the Goddess Sati. xi, 126 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2017. £90. ISBN 978 1 4724 8944 9.
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- 08 November 2017, pp. 607-608
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Aditya Malik : Tales of Justice and Rituals of Divine Embodiment: Oral Narratives from the Central Himalayas. xx, 295 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. £64. ISBN 978 0 19 932509 2.
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- 08 November 2017, pp. 608-610
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Hartmut Walravens and Agnes Stache-Weiske : Anton Schiefner (1817–1879) und seine indologischen Freunde. Seine Briefe an die Indologen Albrecht Weber (1825–1901), Rudolf Roth (1821–1895) und William Dwight Whitney (1827–1894) sowie den Indogermanisten Adalbert Kuhn (1812–1881). (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Sitzungsberichte der phil.-hist. Kl., 868. Band, Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens, Nr. 89.) 445 pp. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2015. ISBN 978 3 7001 7799 9.
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- 08 November 2017, pp. 610-612
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Reviews: Central Asia
Donald S. Lopez and Thupten Jinpa : Dispelling the Darkness: A Jesuit's Quest for the Soul of Tibet. viii, 302 pp. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. £23.95. ISBN 978 0674 65970 4.
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- 08 November 2017, pp. 612-613
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Reviews: East Asia
Lothar Ledderose (series editor): Buddhist Stone Sutras in China. Sichuan Province, vol. 3 (edited by Claudia Wenzel and Sun Hua ). xi, 488 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag; Hangzhou: China Academy of Art Press, 2016. ISBN 978 3 447 10588 0.
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- 08 November 2017, pp. 614-615
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Bent Lerbæk Pedersen : Catalogue of Yao Manuscripts. (The Royal Library, Copenhagen: Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts, Xylographs, etc. in Danish Collections [COMDC], vol. 10.3.) xii, 126 pp. Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2016. £100. ISBN 978 87 7694 184 0.
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- 08 November 2017, pp. 616-617
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Richard L. Davis : Fire and Ice: Li Cunxu and the Founding of the Later Tang. xii, 256 pp. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2016. £44. ISBN 978 988 8208 97 5.
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- 08 November 2017, pp. 617-619
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Rebecca Doran : Transgressive Typologies: Constructions of Gender and Power in Early Tang China. (Harvard-Yenching Monographs 103.) 260 pp. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Asia Center, 2016. $39.95. ISBN 978 0674 97058 8.
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- 08 November 2017, pp. 619-621
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Thomas Jülch (ed.): The Middle Kingdom and the Dharma Wheel: Aspects of the Relationship between the Buddhist Saṃgha and the State in Chinese History. (Sinica Leidensia.) x, 418 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2016. €149. ISBN 978 90 04 30965 4.
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- 08 November 2017, pp. 621-623
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Keith McMahon : Celestial Women: Imperial Wives and Concubines in China from Song to Qing. 312 pp. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. £54.95. ISBN 978 1 4422 5501 2.
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- 08 November 2017, pp. 623-624
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Ji-Young Lee : China's Hegemony: Four Hundred Years of East Asian Domination. xii, 286 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. £44. ISBN 978 0 231 17974 4.
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- 08 November 2017, pp. 625-626
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Binbin Yang : Heroines of the Qing: Exemplary Women Tell Their Stories. xiii, 230 pp. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2016. $50. ISBN 978 0 295995 496.
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- 08 November 2017, pp. 626-628
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