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Replacing a pillar of Tibetan Buddhist historiography: on the redactions of the so-called Pillar Testament (bKa’-chems-ka-khol-ma)3
William Granara: Ibn Hamdis the Sicilian: Eulogist for a Falling Homeland. (Makers of the Muslim World.) 176 pp. Oxford: Oneworld Academic, 2021. ISBN 978 178607846 9.2
Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet (eds): Making a Living in Ottoman Anatolia. 227 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2021. ISBN 978 90 04 46697 5.2
Jacob Jan de Ridder: Descriptive Grammar of Middle Assyrian. (Leipziger Altorientalische Studien 8.) xviii, 628 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2018. €98. ISBN 978 3 447 10979 6.2
By no means doodles or scraps: reading manuscripts IOL Tib J 3 and 218 as bilingual Dunhuang Vinaya works1
Duncan Poupard: A Pictographic Naxi Origin Myth from Southwest China: An Annotated Translation Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2023. ISBN 978 90 8728 427 5.1
Lost Turfan fragments from the Nachlass of W.B. Henning1
Louise Tythacott and Panggah Ardiyansyah (eds): Returning Southeast Asia's Past: Objects, Museums, and Restitution. (Southeast Asian Art Academic Programme, SOAS University of London.) 304 pp. Singapo1
Matthew B. Ingalls: The Anonymity of a Commentator: Zakariyyā al-Anṣārī and the Rhetoric of Muslim Commentaries. (SUNY Series in Islam.) xvi, 268 pp. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2021. 1
The derivatives of Barth's Law in the light of modern Arabic dialects1
István Ormos: Cairo in Chicago: Cairo Street at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. (Institut français d'archéologie orientale, Études urbaines 11.) xiv, 448 pp. Cairo: Institut français d'arché1
Rape in early China: two case studies1
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Tonio Andrade: The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China. 424 pp. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. ISBN 978 069117711 3.1
Daoism and Ming rulership: on the authenticity of Jiajing's preface to theScripture of the Three Offices1
On the Akkadian adjectival masculine plural -ūtonce again1
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 Literatur1
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 5335439.1
赵莉 Zhao Li and 荣新江 Rong Xinjiang (eds): 龟兹石窟题记 (Cave Inscriptions in Ancient Kucha). Report Volume, 457 pp.; Plate Volume, 403 pp., 1231 plates; Collection of Research Papers, 290 pp., 14 plates. Shan1
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 1
Raymond Allchin and Norman Hammond (revised and updated by Warwick Ball with Norman Hammond): The Archaeology of Afghanistan from Earliest Times to the Timurid Period. xxxiii, 711 pp. Edinburgh: Edinb1
The secret history of Germiyan, or a reassessment of the debates on the origins of the Germiyanids1
Jokha Alharthi: The Body in Arabic Love Poetry: The ʿUdhri Tradition. xvi, 270 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. £80. ISBN 978 1 4744 8633 0.1
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
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 6.1
Ying Wa boys in early colonial Hong Kong0
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 Miṣ0
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
Middle Persian documents and the making of the Islamic fiscal system: problems and prospects0
On the question of domestic slaves in late medieval and early modern Zoroastrianism0
António Vasconcelos de Saldanha (ed.): Fontes Históricas sobre Macau no Arquivo Histórico de Goa. Séculos XVI a XIX: Um Catálogo. 304 pp. Macau: Universidade de Macau, 2021. ISBN 978 99965 1 146 2.0
Ayşin Yoltar-Yildirim (ed.): Persian Manuscripts and Paintings from the Berenson Collection. 235 pp. Florence and Rome: I Tatti – The Harvard University Centre for Italian Renaissance Studies and Offi0
Agnès Garcia Ventura and Lorenzo Verderame (eds): Receptions of the Ancient Near East in Popular Culture and Beyond. xii, 319 pp. Atlanta, GA: Lockwood Press, 2020. ISBN 978 1 948488 24 2.0
The Greek death of Sībawayhi and the origins of Arabic grammar0
Laura Hassan: Ashʿarism Encounters Avicennism: Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī on Creation. 329 pp. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2020. ISBN 978 1 4632 0719 9.0
The zīndag ruwān ceremony in historical perspective0
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
Becoming the Muʿallim: how tradition and innovation made a Nahḍa icon0
The significance of feathers in early and medieval China0
Carl Sharif El-Tobgui: Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation: A Study of Darʾ taʿāruḍ al-ʿaql wa-l-naql. (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies, 111.) xiii, 444 pp. Leiden: Brill0
Mihoko Oka: The Namban Trade: Merchants and Missionaries in 16th and 17th Century Japan. (European Expansion and Indigenous Response 34.) 277 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2021. ISBN 978 90 04 46383 70
Franz-Xaver Erhard und Thomas Wild: Drumze – Metamorphoses of the Tibetan Carpet Potsdam: Edition Tethys, 2022. ISBN 978 3 942527 16 3.0
Karl Reichl: The Oral Epic: From Performance to Interpretation (Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture.) xii, 269 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2021. ISBN 978 0 36776131 8. 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
Pak Chega: A Korean Scholar's Rude Awakening in Qing China: Pak Chega's Discourse on Northern Learning Translated and annotated by Byonghyon Choi, Seng B. Kye and T.V. Atkinson. (Korean Classic0
Muhyiddin Ibn ʿArabi (translated by Michael Sells): The Translator of Desires: Poems. (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation.) 323 pp. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. ISBN 978 0 690
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
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
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
Fuhai Zhang 張富海: Essays on Chinese Palaeography and Old Chinese Phonology古文字與上古音論稿 (Excavated Documents and Studies on Ancient Chinese Scripts Series.) 320 pp. Shanghai: Shanghai Chinese Classi0
Chen Hao: A History of the Second Türk Empire (ca. 682–745 ad). (Brill's Inner Asian Library.) 316 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2021. €110. ISBN 978 90 04 46432 2.0
Farewell to the bishop of Hami: locating the thirteenth-century bishop of Kamul0
The “Black sheep” of the early Daoxue community: the making of Xing Shu's historical image0
Suraiya Faroqhi: Women in the Ottoman Empire: A Social and Political History London: Bloomsbury/I.B. Tauris, 2023. ISBN 978 0 75563826 0.0
An extended review of Maura Dykstra, Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine: The Administrative Revolution of the Eighteenth-Century Qing State. (Harvard East Asian Monographs Series.) Cambridge:0
A pre-Mongol New Persian legal document from Islamic Khurāsān dated ah 608/1212 ce0
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
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Geoffrey Turner: The British Museum's Excavations at Nineveh, 1846–1855. (Edited by John Malcolm Russell.) (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, 115.) xxiii, 790 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill,0
Christin Möllenbeck: Institutionelle Sklaverei in Tempel und Palast in Südmesopotamien während der altbabylonischen Zeit (2000–1500 v. Chr.). (Altorientalische Publikationen / Publications on the Anci0
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
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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
T. Richard Blurton: India: A History in Objects 320 pp. London: Thames & Hudson and The British Museum, 2022. £30. ISBN 978 0 500 48064 9.0
Anja Heidenreich (ed.): Cuatrovitas (Bollullos de la Mitación, Prov. of Seville, Spain). New Investigations into the Almohad Mosque and Abandoned Village (Studies in Islamic Art and Archaeology0
Action nouns in *-i̯a- and a new verbal stem *jsīn- “to kill” in Khotanese0
Zhengzhang Shangfang: 华澳语系同源词根研究 Huáo Aò Yŭ xì Tóng yuán Cígēn Yánjiū (Researches on the cognate roots of the Pan-Sino-Austric family) Shanghai: Jiaoyu Chubanshe, 2024. ISBN 978 7 5444 7681 2.0
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
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
The eropolitical compound: immanence, transcendence and a parasitic operation of patriarchy in Sanskrit literature0
Joanne Tsao: The City of Ye in the Chinese Literary Landscape. (Sinica Leidensia, 145.) x, 210 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020. €85. ISBN 978 90 04 42013 7.0
The “Black sheep” of the early Daoxue community: the making of Xing Shu's historical image – CORRIGENDUM0
Teresa Ciapparoni La Rocca: Mishima Monogatari: Un Samurai Delle Arti. 416 pp. Turin: Lindau, 2020. €32. ISBN 978 88 3353 466 4.0
Bai and Old Western Chinese0
Stephen Owen: All Mine! Happiness, Ownership, and Naming in Eleventh-Century China. 197 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. $30. ISBN 978 0 231 20311 1.0
Yan Liu: Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China. xiv, 261 pp. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. Open Access at https://uw.manifoldapp.org/projects/healing-with-poisons. 0
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 5.0
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Revisiting the date of Hiḍimbā Devī temple, Manali, Kulu (Himachal Pradesh): a study of epigraphic evidence0
“Melt” and the labial causative in Gyalrongic0
Whyprāṇais the most excellent among the vital functions, or: the Shapley value in theUpaniṣads0
Abdul-Hakim Al-Matroudi: Exonerating the Distinguished Jurists: Ibn Taymiyyah's Rafʿ al-Malām ʿan al-Aʾimma al-Aʿlām in Translation Sheffield: Equinox, 2023. ISBN 978 1 80050 171 3.0
Nasser Rabbat: Writing Egypt. Al-Maqrizi and His Historical Project Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. ISBN 978 13995 0281 8.0
On the nature of morphological alternations in Archaic Chinese and their relevance to morphosyntax0
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 5.0
New origins to vowel tensing in Tangut: internal and comparative evidence0
Music and musical terms in Bobovius’ Serai Enderum (1665, MS Harley 3409)0
Barbara Brend: Treasures of Herat. 240 pp. London: Gingko, in association with The British Library, 2022. ISBN 978 1 909942 54 7.0
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
The Southwest Silk Road: artistic exchange and transmission in early China0
Nathan Wasserman and Elyze Zomer: Akkadian Magic Literature, Old Babylonian and Old Assyrian Incantations: Corpus–Context–Praxis. (Leipziger Altorientalistische Studien 12.) Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 20
The Tangut verbal template from a cross-West Gyalrongic perspective0
Travis Zadeh: Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023. ISBN 978 0 67425845 7.0
“All the world at the palm of the hand”: imagining history through the life of an early Afghan saint0
Between Qum and Qayrawān: Unearthing early Shii ḥadı̄th sources0
Geoffrey Sampson: Voices from Early China: The Odes Demystified. 445 pp. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars’ Press, 2020. £67.99. ISBN 978 1 5275 5212 8.0
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
Hakan Özkan and Nefeli Papoutsakis (eds): Doing Justice to a Wronged Literature. Essays on Arabic Literature and Rhetoric of the 12th–18th Centuries in Honour of Thomas Bauer<0
Fanny Bessard: Caliphs and Merchants: Cities and Economies of Power in the Near East (700–950). (Oxford Studies in Byzantium.) xxviii, 360 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. £90. ISBN 978 0 190
Constructing identity through monastic legislation: rules intended to differentiate Buddhists from Jainas and Ājīvikas in Vinaya literature0
Salma Samar Damluji and Viola Bertini: Hassan Fathy: Earth & Utopia 368 pp. London: Laurence King, 2018, £68. ISBN 978 1 78627 261 4.0
The addition of syllable-final stops in Ganan0
Scepticism as method in the study of Quranic origins: A review article of Stephen J. Shoemaker, Creating the Qur’an: A Historical-Critical Study (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2022)0
Christiane Gruber and Michelle Al-Ferzly, with a foreword by Renata Holod: City in the Desert, Revisited. Oleg Grabar at Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi, 1964–71 (Kelsey Museum Publication 17.) xvii, 160
From oral charms to written heritage: four Yezidi prayer-incantations from Sinjar, Iraq0
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R.D. McChesney: Four Central Asian Shrines: A Socio-Political History Leiden: Brill, 2021. ISBN 978 90 04 45958 8.0
G.G. Rowley: In the Shelter of the Pine: A Memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu and Tokugawa Japan. Ōgimachi Machiko. Translated by G.G. Rowley. 368 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. £28. ISBN 0
Emilie Aussant and Gerard Colas (eds): Les scolastiques indiennes. Genèses, développements, interactions. (Études thématiques 32.) 326 pp. Paris: École française d'Extrême Orient, 2020. €40. ISBN 978 0
The origin and evolution of laterals in Proto-Naish0
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Sophus Helle: Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epic. xxx, 286 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021. $25. ISBN 978 0 300 25118 0.0
Hala Auji, Raphael Cormack and Alaaeldin Mahmoud (eds): The Arab Nahda as Popular Entertainment: Mass Culture and Modernity in the Middle East London: I.B. Tauris, 2024. ISBN 978 075564740 8.0
India's epidemics in theRiḥlaof Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: plague, cholera or lexical muddle?0
Charles Hartman: The Making of Song Dynasty History: Sources and Narratives, 960–1279 ce. xv, 377 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. ISBN 978 1 108 83483 4. £90.0
Warwick Ball: The Eurasian Steppe: People, Movement and Ideas. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. ISBN 978 1 4744 8806 8.0
Harold Roth: The Contemplative Foundations of Classical Daoism. (Chinese Philosophy and Culture Series.) xiii, 558 pp. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2021. ISBN 978 1 43848271 2.0
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Maryam Nourzaei, Carina Jahani and Agnes Korn (eds): Oral Narration in Iranian Cultures (Beiträge zur Iranistik 48.) Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2022. 198 pp. ISBN 978 3 7520 0640 7.0
Pashto preverbs, III. Compound verbs with preverb0
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
James McHugh: An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian History and Religions. 403 pp. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. £25.99. ISBN 978 0 937594 3.0
Marcus Milwright: A Story of Islamic Art xii, 311 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2024. ISBN 978 1 032 44815 2.0
Zoroastrian ritual and exegetical traditions: the case of the Iranian Pahlavi Yasna0
Mun'im A. Sirry: The Qur'an with Cross-References ix, 683 pp. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2022. ISBN 978 3 11077915 8.0
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
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Johannes Bach: Untersuchungen zur transtextuellen Poetik assyrischer herrschaftlich-narrativen Texte. (State Archives of Assyria Studies XXX.) xii, 481 pp. Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Proje0
Huaiyu Chen: Animals and Plants in Chinese Religions and Science vii, 205 pp. London: Anthem Press, 2023. ISBN 978 1 83998 501 0.0
Edward L. Shaughnessy: The Tsinghua University Warring States Bamboo Manuscripts: Studies and Translations 1 – The Yi Zhou Shu and Pseudo-Yi Zhou Shu Chapters 355 pp. Beijing: Tsinghua Universi0
South Arabian etymology for the Meccan Kaʿbah0
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
Towards the decipherment of Thamudic D: an identification of new glyphs and phoneme values0
Jack W. Chen: Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance: Essays on the Shishuo xinyu. (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series.) xii, 278 pp. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2020
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
Understanding the theology of natural and divine laws in the cultural and philosophical context of late Ming China0
Imbued with the essence of the Gods: the intersection between Zoroastrian theology and the Old Avestan possessive adjectives derived from personal pronouns0
The Avestan ī̆šti- in Middle Persian texts0
Female diaconate in medieval Nubia: evidence from a wall inscription from Faras0
Sylvie Denoix and Hélène Renel (eds): Atlas des mondes musulmans médiévaux 382 pp. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2022. ISBN 978 2 271 13949 8.0
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
On the concept of leadership and the office of Leader of the Zoroastrians (hu-dēnān pēšōbāy) in Abbasid Zoroastrianism0
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Shi Jinbo: Tangut Language and Manuscripts: An Introduction. (Languages of Asia Series.) xx, 547 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2020. €25. ISBN 978 0 04 41453 2.0
The pragmatics of standardization: document standards and their implementation in Qin administration (late third century bce)0
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
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Leonid Kogan and Manfred Krebernik: Etymological Dictionary of Akkadian, Volume 1: Roots Beginning with P and B. v, 537 pp., vii, 539–767 pp. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020.0
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
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
Las Huelgas: Arabic inscriptions for Christian liturgy0
Central Tibetan famines 1280–1400: when premodern climate change and bad governance starved Tibet0
Hannah-Lena Hagemann: The Khārijites in Early Islamic Historical Tradition: Heroes and Villains. (Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture.) xii, 328 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univers0
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
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Mādayān ī Wīrāzagān: a newly discovered Middle Persian text: transliteration, transcription, and translation0
Sharon Kinoshita: Marco Polo and His World (Medieval Lives.) 190 pp. London: Reaktion Books, 2024. ISBN 978 1 78914 937 1.0
Prasun historical linguistics: new etymologies and the fate of the Indo-Iranian morphemes *-am and *-ka-0
A cross-cultural archery analogy in Matteo Ricci's Tianzhu shiyi0
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
The Sogdian epitaph of Shi Jun and his wife0
Egophoricity in Central Stau copular clauses0
A “wild man” from the island of Soqotra: a new text in its comparative setting0
Progressive constructions in different Balochi dialects from a diachronic and an areal linguistic point of view0
時建 Shi Jian: 陇川阿昌语参考语法 A Reference Grammar of Longchuan Achang 社会科学文献出版社 Beijing: Social Science Literature Publishing House, 2021. ISBN 978 752018838 8.0
On the terminology designating the Zoroastrians of Iran and their language0
Jia Lianxiang 賈連翔: Chutu shuzi gua wenxian jishi 出土數字卦文獻輯釋 [Organization and Interpretation of Unearthed Numerical Divination Symbol Texts]. 305 pp. Shanghai 上海: Zhonghua Book Company 中西書局, 2020. ISBN0
Reading across confessional lines in Ayyubid Egypt: a Judaeo-Arabic Geniza fragment with three new poems by Ibn al-Kīzānī (d. 562/1166)0
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
The circle of the world: the global diplomacy of Caliph al-Manṣūr0
Solomon, his temple, and Ottoman imperial anxieties0
Apocalypticism and imperial criticism: (re)reading the Dürr-i meknūn (The Hidden Pearl, 1472–73) in the context of Ottoman–Akkoyunlu imperial confrontation0
Ksenia Chizhova: Kinship Novels in Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday. (Premodern East Asia: New Horizons.) xii, 272 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021.0
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
Enrico Boccaccini: Reflecting Mirrors, East and West: Transcultural Comparisons of Advice Literature for Rulers (8th–13th Century). (Islamic History and Civilization.) xi, 314 pp0
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
Daniel K. Gardner (trans.): Zhu Xi: Basic Teachings New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. ISBN 978 0 231 20633 4.0
A quote attributed to Udbhaṭabhaṭṭa, which is actually from Arcaṭa0
“You and me against the world”: Direct-inverse morphology in Rma (Qiang)0
Stanza permutation in the “Guo feng” 國風 and an examination of the hermeneutical tradition of “orderly progression”0
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 978029570
Ankur Barua: Exploring Hindu Philosophy (Series in Global Philosophy.) Sheffield, UK and Bristol, CT: Equinox, 2023. ISBN 978 1 80050 269 7.0
Nikolaos Vryzidis (ed): The Hidden Life of Textiles in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean. Contexts and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Islamic, Latinate and Eastern Christian Worlds. (Medie0
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
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