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Aptin Khanbaghi (ed.): Cities as Built and Lived Environments: Scholarship from Muslim Contexts, 1875–2011. (Muslim Civilizations Abstracts.) iv, 497 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press in association with The Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations, 2014. £75. ISBN 978 0 7486 9618 5.
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- 07 March 2016, pp. 186-188
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Nelly Hanna: Ottoman Egypt and the Emergence of the Modern World 1500–1800. vii, 185 pp. Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2014. ISBN 978 977 416 664 8.
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Christopher Minkowski , Rosalind O'hanlon and Anand Venkatkrishnan (eds): Scholar Intellectuals in Early Modern India: Discipline, Sect, Lineage and Community. (South Asian History and Culture.) viii, 193 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2015. £90. ISBN 978 1 138 90570 2.
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- 22 June 2016, pp. 434-436
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Seino Van Breugel : A Grammar of Atong. (Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages.) xxxvi, 660 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 2014. €231. ISBN 978 90 04 25892 1.
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- 13 January 2017, pp. 671-673
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Peter Flügel and Olle Qvarnström (eds): Jaina Scriptures and Philosophy. (Routledge Advances in Jaina Studies.) xii, 257 pp. London: Routledge, 2015. £90. ISBN 978 1 138 83989 2.
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- 22 June 2016, pp. 436-438
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B. Deniz Çaliş-Kural: Şehrengiz: Urban Rituals and Deviant Sufi Mysticism in Ottoman İstanbul. xiii, 276 pp. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. £65. ISBN 978 1 4724 2709 0.
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Angela F. Howard and Guiseppe Vignato : Archaeological and Visual Sources of Meditation in the Ancient Monasteries of Kuča. (Studies in Asian Art and Archaeology.) xxii, 214 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015. ISBN: 978 90 04 27857 8.
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Lars Fogelin: An Archaeological History of Indian Buddhism. xii, 250 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. ISBN 978 0 19 994823 9.
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András Róna-Tas : Tibeto-Mongolica Revisited. With a New Introduction and Selected Papers on Tibetan Linguistics. xxviii, 465 pp. Leiden and Boston: Global Oriental, 2014. ISBN 978 90 04 25118 2.
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- 13 January 2017, pp. 675-677
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Jesse Ross Knutson : Into the Twilight of Sanskrit Court Poetry: The Sena Salon of Bengal and Beyond. (South Asia Across the Disciplines.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2014. £41.95. ISBN 978 0 520 28205 6.
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- 22 June 2016, pp. 438-440
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Francesca Orsini and Katherine Butler Schofield (eds): Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India. xix, 543 pp. Cambridge: OpenBook Publishers, 2015. ISBN 978 1 78374 102 1.
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- 22 June 2016, pp. 440-441
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Catherine Becker: Shifting Stones, Shaping the Past: Sculpture from the Buddhist Stūpas of Andhra Pradesh. xxi, 321 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. ISBN 978 0 19 935940 0.
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Alex Mckay : Kailas Histories: Renunciate Traditions and the Construction of Himalayan Sacred Geography. (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library.) xx, 530 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2015. €139. ISBN 978 9 004 30458 1.
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Robert Elgood : Arms and Armour at the Jaipur Court: The Royal Collection. 296 pp. London: Kodansha Europe Limited, 2015. £80. ISBN 978 93 83098 77 4.
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- 22 June 2016, pp. 442-443
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Thomas Karl Alberts : Shamanism, Discourse, Modernity. xiv, 286 pp. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2015. £65. ISBN 978 1 4724 3984 0.
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Brian Collins: The Head Beneath the Altar: Hindu Mythology and the Critique of Sacrifice. (Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture.) x, 230 pp. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2015. $24.95. ISBN 978 1 61186 116 7.
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Artemij Keidan (ed.): The Study of South Asia between Antiquity and Modernity: Parallels and Comparisons. Coffee Break Conference 2. (Rivista degli Studi Orientali. Volume LXXXVII. Supplemento 2.) 263 pp. Pisa: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2014. €225. ISBN 978 8 862 27745 7.
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- 22 June 2016, pp. 443-444
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Ajay K. Rao: Re-Figuring the Rāmāyaṇa as Theology: A History of Reception in Premodern India. (Routledge Hindu Studies Series.) ix, 156 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2015. £48.95. ISBN 978 0 415 68751 5.
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Sarah Allan : Buried Ideas: Legends of Abdication and Ideal Government in Early Chinese Bamboo-Slip Manuscripts. (SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture.) xiv, 372 pp. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2015. $95. ISBN 978 1 4384 5777 2.
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Thomas Michael : In the Shadows of the Dao: Laozi, the Sage, and the Daodejing. (SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture.) xx, 311 pp. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2015. $90. ISBN 978 1 438 45897 7.
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