Reviews: The Near and Middle East
Dietrich Jung: Orientalists, Islamists and the Global Public Sphere: A Genealogy of the Modern Essentialist Image of Islam. (Comparative Islamic Series.) 323 pp. Sheffield and Oakville, CT: Equinox, 2011. £19.99. ISBN 978 1 84553 900 9.
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- 23 October 2012, pp. 585-587
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Doris Behrens-Abouseif (with contributions by Nicholas Warner; photographs by Bernard O'Kane): The Minarets of Cairo: Islamic Architecture from the Arab Conquest to the End of the Ottoman Empire. xvi, 352 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2010. ISBN 978 1 84885 539 7.
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- 22 February 2012, pp. 171-174
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Michael A. Reynolds: Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires, 1908–1918. xx, 303 pp. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. £19.99. ISBN 978 0 521 14916 7.
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- 11 July 2012, pp. 391-393
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Farida Shaheed with Aisha Lee Shaheed: Great Ancestors: Women Claiming Rights in Muslim Contexts. xxxvii, 220 pp. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2011. £13.99. ISBN 978 0 19 547636 1.
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- 23 October 2012, pp. 587-588
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Sarah D. Shields: Fezzes in the River: Identity Politics and European Diplomacy in the Middle East on the Eve of World War II. xi, 306 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. £27.50. ISBN 978 0 19 539331 6.
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- 22 February 2012, pp. 174-175
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Benjamin C. Fortna: Learning to Read in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic. xiv, 247 pp. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. £55. ISBN 978 0 230 23296 9.
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- 11 July 2012, pp. 393-395
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Gérard Fussman and Anna Maria Quagliotti: The Early Iconography of Avalokiteśvara. (Publications de l'Institut de Civilisation Indienne, fasc. 80.) 152 pp. Paris: Collège de France, 2012. ISBN 978 286803080 1.
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- 23 October 2012, pp. 589-590
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Terence Walz and Kenneth M. Cuno (eds): Race and Slavery in the Middle East: Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean. xiv, 264 pp. Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2010. ISBN 978 977 416 398 2.
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- 22 February 2012, pp. 175-177
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Lawrence G. Potter (ed): The Persian Gulf in History. viii, 326 pp. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. £19. ISBN 978 0 230 61282 2.
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- 11 July 2012, pp. 395-396
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Jenny Rose: Zoroastrianism: An Introduction. xxiv, 303 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2011. £14.99. ISBN 978 1 84885 088 0.
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- 22 February 2012, pp. 177-179
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S. Sayyid and Abdoolkarim Vakil (eds): Thinking through Islamophobia: Global Perspectives. x, 319 pp. London: C. Hurst & Co., 2010. £15.99. ISBN 978 1 85065 990 7. - Chris Allen: Islamophobia. vii, 210 pp: Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. £16.99. ISBN 978 0 7546 5140 6.
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- 11 July 2012, pp. 397-399
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Vesna A. Wallace: The Kālacakra Tantra, The Chapter on Sādhanā, Together with the Vimalaprabhā Commentary. Translated from Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Mongolian, Introduced and Annotated. xv, 379 pp. New York: The American Institute of Buddhist Studies, distributed by Columbia University Press, 2011. £38. ISBN 978 0 9753734 4 6.
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- 23 October 2012, pp. 590-592
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Jennifer Howes: Illustrating India: The Early Colonial Investigations of Colin Mackenzie (1784–1821). xiv, 269 pp. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010. £75. ISBN 978 0 19 806441 1.
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- 22 February 2012, pp. 179-181
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Danièle Masset: Stances des Thera (Theragāthā). (Pali Text Society Translation Series No. 55.) 488 pp. Bristol: Pali Text Society, 2011. £55. ISBN 978 086013 486 2.
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- 11 July 2012, pp. 399-401
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Pia Brancaccio: The Buddhist Caves at Aurangabad: Transformations in Art and Religion. (Brill's Indological Library.) xxii, 332 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2011. €108. ISBN 978 90 04 18525 8.
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- 23 October 2012, pp. 592-593
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Oskar von Hinüber: A Critical Pali Dictionary. Begun by Vilhelm Trenckner. Vol. III: Fascicle 8 kāmadhātu–kāreti. Bristol and Copenhagen: The Pali Text Society and The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2011. xv–xxxvii, 15–37, 387–474 pp. ISBN 978 086013 483 1.
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- 11 July 2012, pp. 401-402
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Jean Deloche: A Study in Nayaka-Period Social Life: Tiruppudaimarudur Paintings and Carvings. (Collection Indologie 116.) 136 pp. Pondicherry: Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole Française d'Extreme-Orient, 2011. ISBN 978 285539 108 3.
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- 23 October 2012, pp. 594-595
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Avril A. Powell: Scottish Orientalists and India: The Muir Brothers, Religion, Education and Empire. (Worlds of the East India Company.) xvi, 318 pp. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 2010. ISBN 978 1 84383 579 0.
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- 22 February 2012, pp. 181-183
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Robert A.F. Thurman (trans.): Brilliant Illumination of the Lamp of the Five Stages (Rim lnga rab tu gsal ba'i sgron me), Practical Instruction in the King of Tantras, The Glorious Esoteric Community by Tsong Khapa Losang Drakpa. Introduction and Translation. (Treasury of Buddhist Sciences.) xviii, 723 pp. New York: The American Institute of Buddhist Studies, distributed by Columbia University Press, 2011. $62. ISBN 978 1 935011 00 2.
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- 23 October 2012, pp. 596-597
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Naomi Appleton: Jātaka Stories in Theravāda Buddhism: Narrating the Bodhisatta Path. ix, 176 pp. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. £45. ISBN 978 140941092 8.
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- 11 July 2012, pp. 402-404
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