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An ulus within an ulus: the afterlife of Ariq Böke's appanage in the Mongol Empire (1252–1336)2
Carlos A. Segovia (ed.): Remapping Emergent Islam: Texts, Social Settings, and Ideological Trajectories. 245 pp. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. ISBN 978 90 485 4010 5.2
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Kaira Boddy: The Composition and Tradition of Erimḫuš. (Cuneiform Monographs 52.) xv, 468 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2021. ISBN 978 90 04 43816 3.1
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 1
Farid Suleiman: Ibn Taymiyya und die Attribute Gottes. (Welten des Islams – Worlds of Islam – Mondes de l'Islam.) xi, 388 pp. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. €109.95. ISBN 978 3 11 062322 2.1
Peter Behnstedt and Aharon Geva-Kleinberger: Atlas of the Arabic Dialects of Galilee (Israel): With some Data for Adjacent Areas. (Handbook of Oriental Studies 135.) 452 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2019. ISBN 1
Barbara Brend: Treasures of Herat. 240 pp. London: Gingko, in association with The British Library, 2022. ISBN 978 1 909942 54 7.1
V.L. Ménage (edited with additions by Colın Imber): Ottoman Historical Documents: The Institutions of an Empire. xix, 207 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. ISBN 978 1 4744 7936 3.1
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 5.1
Hwisang Cho: The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea. (Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.) xiii, 276 pp. Seattle: University of Washington Pre1
Stéphane Pradines and Farouk Topan (eds): Muslim Cultures of the Indian Ocean: Diversity and Pluralism, Past and Present (Exploring Muslim Contexts.) x, 356 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University 1
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The conversions of ʿAbdallāh ibn Salām (d. 43/633): A legendary moment in the biography of Muḥammad's Jewish companion1
Mathieu Tillier: L'invention du cadi: La justice des musulmans, des juifs et des chrétiens aux premiers siècles de l'Islam. 704 pp. Paris: Editions de la Sorbonne, 2017. ISBN 979 1 03510000 1.1
By no means doodles or scraps: reading manuscripts IOL Tib J 3 and 218 as bilingual Dunhuang Vinaya works1
Ejective stops in Hittite: evidence for a phonemic length distinction1
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 Universi1
Pashto preverbs, III. Compound verbs with preverb1
Mary E. Buck: The Amorite Dynasty of Ugarit: Historical Implications of Linguistic and Archaeological Parallels. (Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant.) xiii, 376 pp. Leiden: Brill, 201
The Greek death of Sībawayhi and the origins of Arabic grammar1
Chen Fei: Study on the Synchronistic King List from Ashur. (Cuneiform Monographs 51.) xviii, 249 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020. €143. ISBN 978 90 04 43091 4 hardback, 978 90 04 43092 1, ebook.0
Shang dynasty's “nine generations chaos” and the reign of Wu Ding: towards a unilineal line of transmission of royal power0
Duncan Poupard: A Pictographic Naxi Origin Myth from Southwest China: An Annotated Translation Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2023. ISBN 978 90 8728 427 5.0
“All the world at the palm of the hand”: imagining history through the life of an early Afghan saint0
The pragmatics of standardization: document standards and their implementation in Qin administration (late third century bce)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
Bai and Old Western Chinese0
胡祥华 Hu Xianghua and 黄柏权 Huang Baiquan (eds): 中国土家族大百科全书（上, 中, 下）Zhongguo Tujiazu Dabaike Quanshu (Shang, Zhong, Xia) [Encyclopaedia of China's Tujia nationality (Volumes I, II, and III)] 长江出版传媒 Changj0
Stanza permutation in the “Guo feng” 國風 and an examination of the hermeneutical tradition of “orderly progression”0
Apocalypticism and imperial criticism: (re)reading the Dürr-i meknūn (The Hidden Pearl, 1472–73) in the context of Ottoman–Akkoyunlu imperial confrontation0
Playing the fool: jesters of the Safavid and Zand courts0
Michael Hunter: The Poetics of Early Chinese Thought: How the Shijing Shaped the Chinese Philosophical Tradition 240 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. ISBN 978 0 231 20123 0.0
Oludamini Ogunnaike: Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions. (Africana Religions.) x, 470 pp. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State Universit0
Teresa Ciapparoni La Rocca: Mishima Monogatari: Un Samurai Delle Arti. 416 pp. Turin: Lindau, 2020. €32. ISBN 978 88 3353 466 4.0
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Bleda S. Düring: The Imperialisation of Assyria: An Archaeological Approach. xvii, 185 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £85. ISBN 978 1 10847874 8.0
Monetary reform under the Sufyanids: the papyrological evidence0
The addition of syllable-final stops in Ganan0
Laughter in early China: The Zhuangzi and beyond0
The Southwest Silk Road: artistic exchange and transmission in early China0
The secret history of Germiyan, or a reassessment of the debates on the origins of the Germiyanids0
Revisiting jīng 椋 on the ancient Korean Peninsula0
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
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
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
Alice Collett (ed.):Translating Buddhism: Historical and Contextual Perspectives. x, 292 pp. Albany, New York: SUNY Press, 2021. ISBN 978 1 4384 8293 4.0
Doris Behrens-Abouseif: Dress and Dress Code in Medieval Cairo: A Mamluk Obsession (Handbuch der Orientalistik 176.) Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2023. ISBN 978 90 04 68497 3.0
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 5335439.0
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
A “wild man” from the island of Soqotra: a new text in its comparative setting0
A.G. Hopkins: Capitalism in the Colonies: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851–1931 Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2024. £42. ISBN 978 0 69 125994 3.0
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
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
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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
On the concept of leadership and the office of Leader of the Zoroastrians (hu-dēnān pēšōbāy) in Abbasid Zoroastrianism0
The zīndag ruwān ceremony in historical perspective0
On the terminology designating the Zoroastrians of Iran and their language0
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
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
Christian Müller: Recht und historische Entwicklung der Scharia im Islam (Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East.) xii, 544 pp. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. ISBN 978 3 11 076577 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
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
Toni Huber: Source of Life: Revitalisation Rites and Bon Shamans in Bhutan and the Eastern Himalayas. (Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Klasse, Band 518. Veröffentlichungen zur Sozialanthr0
On the nature of morphological alternations in Archaic Chinese and their relevance to morphosyntax0
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
Prasun historical linguistics: new etymologies and the fate of the Indo-Iranian morphemes *-am and *-ka-0
Martin Worthington: Ea's Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood Story. (The Ancient World.) xxxii, 489 pp. London: Routledge, 2019. ISBN 978 1 138 38892 5.0
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 9.0
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
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Ian Rutherford: Hittite Texts and Greek Religion: Contact, Interaction, and Comparison. xviii, 385 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. £80. ISBN 978 0 19 959327 9.0
Sylvie Denoix and Hélène Renel (eds): Atlas des mondes musulmans médiévaux 382 pp. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2022. ISBN 978 2 271 13949 8.0
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Amanda Luyster (ed.): Bringing the Holy Land Home: The Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the Reconstruction of a Medieval Masterpiece 371 pp. London and Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2023. €10
The Middle Mongol zodiac in Georgian transcription0
Jérôme Ducor and Henry W. Isler (ed. and trans.): Jizang: Le sens des arcanes des Trois Traités, contribution à l’étude du Mādhyamika dans le bouddhisme d'Extrême-Orient 411 pp. Geneva: Librair0
Richard Van Ness Simmons (ed.): Studies in Colloquial Chinese and Its History: Dialect and Text x, 286 pp. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2022. ISBN 978 988 8754 09 0.0
Center for Unearthed Documents and Ancient Script at Fudan University: Chutu wenxian yu guwenzi jiaocheng 出土文獻與古文字教程 (A Course on Unearthed Documents and Ancient Scripts). Shanghai: Zhon0
Ḥamza versus Rustam: Comparing theḤamzanāmawith theShāhnāma0
Ying Wa boys in early colonial Hong Kong0
The “Black sheep” of the early Daoxue community: the making of Xing Shu's historical image – CORRIGENDUM0
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
Rape in early China: two case studies0
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
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
Leor Halevi: Modern Things on Trial: Islam's Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865–1935. xi, 367 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. $75. ISBN 978 0 23118866 1.0
The Avestan ī̆šti- in Middle Persian texts0
Valentina Laviola: Islamic Metalwork from Afghanistan (9th–13th century): The Documentation of the IsMEO Italian Archaeological Mission. (Università degli Studi di Napoli “l'Orie0
Replacing a pillar of Tibetan Buddhist historiography: on the redactions of the so-called Pillar Testament (bKa’-chems-ka-khol-ma)0
Solomon, his temple, and Ottoman imperial anxieties0
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
The significance of feathers in early and medieval China0
Richard John Lynn (trans.): Zhuangzi: A New Translation of the Sayings of Master Zhuang as Interpreted by Guo Xiang New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. ISBN 978 0 23112387 7.0
Ryan J. Lynch: Arab Conquests and Early Islamic Historiography. The Futuh al-Buldan of al-Baladhuri. (The Early and Medieval Islamic World.) xiv, 254 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2019. ISBN 90
R.D. McChesney: Four Central Asian Shrines: A Socio-Political History Leiden: Brill, 2021. ISBN 978 90 04 45958 8.0
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
Marcus Milwright: A Story of Islamic Art xii, 311 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2024. ISBN 978 1 032 44815 2.0
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
On the origins and emergence of the Qaŋlï Turks0
Yasin Dutton: Early Islam in Medina. Mālik and His Muwaṭṭa’. viii, 153 pp. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. £85. ISBN 978 1 3502 6186 0.0
A note on Pahlavi lexicography: Middle Persian hassār, hassārīh0
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: Edinb0
Vincent Goossaert: Making the Gods Speak: The Ritual Production of Revelation in Chinese Religious History (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series.) xii, 352 pp. Cambridge, Massachusetts: 0
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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
André Lalibertė and Stefania Travagnin (eds): Concepts and Methods for the Study of Chinese Religions I: State of the Field and Disciplinary Approaches. (Religion and Society, 77.) xiii, 260 pp. Berli0
Thomas Jülch: The Zhengzheng lun by Xuanyi: A Buddhist Apologetic Scripture of Tang China. (Monumenta Serica Monograph Series.) lxx, 274 pp. Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2019.0
Philipp Wirtz: Depicting the Late Ottoman Empire in Turkish Autobiographies: Images of a Past World. (Life Narratives of the Ottoman Realm: Individual and Empire in the Near East.) ix, 175 pp. London 0
Bene Pareza: A new talmudic lexeme0
Giuseppe Labisi:Dwelling Models of Umayyad Madā’in and Quṣūr in Greater Syria. (BAR International Series 3004.) xviii, 337 pp. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2020. £65. ISBN 978 1 4073 5722 5 p0
Redeeming the orphaned souls: fragments of a Mongolian translation from Khara-khoto0
Royall Tyler (trans.): Joy, Despair, Illusion, Dreams: Twenty Plays from the Nō Tradition New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. ISBN 9780231214766. - Royall Tyler, (trans.): The Dawn of0
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
Abū L-Muṭahhar Al-Azdī, Emily Selove and Geert Jan van Gelder (ed. and trans.): The Portrait of Abū l-Qāsim al-Baghdādī al-Tamīmī. 486 pp. London: The E.J.W. Gibb Memorial Trust, 2021. £90. ISBN 978 10
Franz-Xaver Erhard und Thomas Wild: Drumze – Metamorphoses of the Tibetan Carpet Potsdam: Edition Tethys, 2022. ISBN 978 3 942527 16 3.0
Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet (eds): Making a Living in Ottoman Anatolia. 227 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2021. ISBN 978 90 04 46697 5.0
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
Livia Kohn: The Daode jing: A Guide New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019. ISBN 978 0 19 068982 7.0
Salam Diab-Duranton and Henri Duranton (eds), with the collaboration of Nicolas Vatin: D'Orient en Occident: la voix/voie des proverbes. Autour du manuscrit Supplément turc 1200 d'Antoine Galland0
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
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
Becoming the Muʿallim: how tradition and innovation made a Nahḍa icon0
Yugen Wang: Writing Poetry, Surviving War: The Works of Refugee Scholar-Official Chen Yuyi (1090–1139). (Cambria Sinophone World Series, 136.) xxix, 339 pp. Amherst, New York: Cambria Press, 2020. $110
Carl F. Petry: The Mamluk Sultanate: A History Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. ISBN 978 1 1084 5699 9.0
Pierre-Étienne Will: Handbooks and Anthologies for Officials in Imperial China: A Descriptive and Critical Bibliography. 2 Vols. (Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section 4 China, Volume 36.) lxxxii, vii0
Daniel Perret and Jorge Santos Alves (eds): Patani through Foreign Eyes: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. (Archipel Hors-Série no 2.) 318 pp. Paris: Archipel, 2022. ISBN 978 2 910513 880
Alexander Ahrens: Aegyptiaca in der nördlichen Levante. Eine Studie zur Kontextualisierung und Rezeption ägyptischer und ägyptisierender Objekte in der Bronzezeit. (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis. Serie0
On the Akkadian adjectival masculine plural -ūtonce again0
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
The classification of nouns (nāma) in Buddhaghosa0
Andrew B. Liu: Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asia Institute of Columbia University.) xi, 360 pp. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. $0
Hubei sheng wenwu kaogu yanjiu yuan 湖北省文物考古研究院 and Wuhan daxue jianbo yanjiu zhongxin 武漢大學簡帛研究中心 (ed. in Chief Chen Wei 陳偉 and Xiong Beisheng 熊北生, ed. Cai Dan 蔡丹, Huang Haobo 黃浩波, Lei Hailong 雷海龍, and0
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
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
Anna Grasskamp: Art and Ocean Objects of Early Modern Eurasia: Shells, Bodies, and Materiality (Connected Histories in the Early Modern World.) 220 pp. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 200
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
South Arabian etymology for the Meccan Kaʿbah0
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
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
Action nouns in *-i̯a- and a new verbal stem *jsīn- “to kill” in Khotanese0
Christin Möllenbeck: Institutionelle Sklaverei in Tempel und Palast in Südmesopotamien während der altbabylonischen Zeit (2000–1500 v. Chr.). (Altorientalische Publikationen / Publications on the Anci0
Whyprāṇais the most excellent among the vital functions, or: the Shapley value in theUpaniṣads0
Establishing the text of theOdes: the Anhui University bamboo manuscript0
Li Qiancheng and Robert E. Hegel (trans.): Further Adventures on the Journey to the West. Master of Silent Whistle Studio. xxxvii, 278 pp. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. £30. ISBN 978 0
Huaiyu Chen: Animals and Plants in Chinese Religions and Science vii, 205 pp. London: Anthem Press, 2023. ISBN 978 1 83998 501 0.0
Jeanette Fincke: An Ancient Mesopotamian Herbal Handbook, the Series URU.AN.NA and MÚD-UR.MAH, Volume 1: The Tablets Leuven: Peters, 2021. ISBN 978 90 42944718.0
Christian Mauder: In the Sultan's Salon: Learning, Religion, and Rulership at the Mamluk Court of Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 1501–1516) (2 vols). 1302 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2021. ISBN 978 90 04 44421 8.0
Revisiting the date of Hiḍimbā Devī temple, Manali, Kulu (Himachal Pradesh): a study of epigraphic evidence0
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Gül Şen: Making Sense of History. Narrativity and Literariness in the Ottoman Chronicle of Na‘īmā (The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage: Politics, Society and Economy, 74.) xiv, 387 pp. Leiden a0
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Chen Fei: Study on the Synchronistic King List from Ashur. (Cuneiform Monographs 51.) xviii, 249 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2020. €143. ISBN 978 90 04 43091 4.0
Sharon Kinoshita: Marco Polo and His World (Medieval Lives.) 190 pp. London: Reaktion Books, 2024. ISBN 978 1 78914 937 1.0
Volker Grabowsky (ed.): Manuscript Cultures and Epigraphy in the Tai World. v, 418 pp. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2022. $65. ISBN 978 616 215 172 9.0
Nadine Schibille: Islamic Glass in the Making: Chronological and Geographical Dimensions Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2022. ISBN 978 946270319 3.0
Progressive constructions in different Balochi dialects from a diachronic and an areal linguistic point of view0
On the question of domestic slaves in late medieval and early modern Zoroastrianism0
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Mun'im A. Sirry: The Qur'an with Cross-References ix, 683 pp. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2022. ISBN 978 3 11077915 8.0
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Materia Medica Tocharo-Hvatanica0
Guillaume Jacques: A Grammar of Japhug. (Comprehensive Grammar Library 1.) xxvi, 1562 pp. Berlin: Language Science Press, 2021. ISBN 978 3 98554 001 3 (hardcover), 978 3 96110 305 8 (digital edition).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
Farming out judicial offices in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1750–18390
Felix Otter: A Course in Reading Classical Newari: Selections from the Vetālapañcaviṃśati. xiii, 162 pp. Heidelberg and Berlin: CrossAsia-eBooks, 2021. ISBN 978 3 946742 94 4 (pdf). ISBN 978 3 946742 0
From sūtra to practice: discovering the liturgy of the seven Tathāgatas including Bhaiṣajyaguru in Old Tibetan manuscripts0
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
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
Enrico Boccaccini: Reflecting Mirrors, East and West: Transcultural Comparisons of Advice Literature for Rulers (8th–13th Century). (Islamic History and Civilization.) xi, 314 pp0
Chariots, mail coaches and wagons in the Arabic dialect of Qaṭrāyīth (“in Qatari”) in early Islamic eastern Arabia0
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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Robert Ford Campany: The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE–800 CE. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Asia Center, 2020, 260 pp. ISBN 978 0 674 24780 2.0
A seal of Solomon son of Azariah, “son of the exilarch of all Israel”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
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
creating is cutting: a conceptual metaphor in Avestan and Pahlavi texts0
Blending style and theme: grammar and rhetoric in Han Yu's “Miscellaneous Discourses”0
Mark Csikszentmihalyi and Michael Nylan (eds): Technical Arts in the Han Histories: Tables and Treatises in the Shiji and Hanshu (SUNY Series of Chinese Philosophy and Culture.) xi, 414 pp. Alb0
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The Tangut verbal template from a cross-West Gyalrongic perspective0
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India's epidemics in theRiḥlaof Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: plague, cholera or lexical muddle?0
Another character for the word “rice plant” in Old Chinese0
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