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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 9.3
Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet (eds): Making a Living in Ottoman Anatolia. 227 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2021. ISBN 978 90 04 46697 5.3
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 2
Replacing a pillar of Tibetan Buddhist historiography: on the redactions of the so-called Pillar Testament (bKa’-chems-ka-khol-ma)2
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
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By no means doodles or scraps: reading manuscripts IOL Tib J 3 and 218 as bilingual Dunhuang Vinaya works1
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
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
Daoism and Ming rulership: on the authenticity of Jiajing's preface to theScripture of the Three Offices1
The derivatives of Barth's Law in the light of modern Arabic dialects1
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 0 191
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
Uri Gabbay: The Balaĝ Prayer “Oh, My Abzu!”: The God Enki in Sumerian Laments (Heidelberger Emesal-Studien, 5.) x, 188 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2024. ISBN 978 3 447 12271 9.1
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
Lost Turfan fragments from the Nachlass of W.B. Henning1
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
On the Akkadian adjectival masculine plural -ūtonce again1
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 Galland1
Rape in early China: two case studies1
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
The secret history of Germiyan, or a reassessment of the debates on the origins of the Germiyanids1
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 Miṣ1
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
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
Franz-Xaver Erhard und Thomas Wild: Drumze – Metamorphoses of the Tibetan Carpet Potsdam: Edition Tethys, 2022. ISBN 978 3 942527 16 3.0
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
The origin and evolution of laterals in Proto-Naish0
A “wild man” from the island of Soqotra: a new text in its comparative setting0
Shang dynasty's “nine generations chaos” and the reign of Wu Ding: towards a unilineal line of transmission of royal power0
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
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
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
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
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The pragmatics of standardization: document standards and their implementation in Qin administration (late third century bce)0
Ankur Barua: Exploring Hindu Philosophy (Series in Global Philosophy.) Sheffield, UK and Bristol, CT: Equinox, 2023. ISBN 978 1 80050 269 7.0
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
Imbued with the essence of the Gods: the intersection between Zoroastrian theology and the Old Avestan possessive adjectives derived from personal pronouns0
The antiquity of verb agreement in Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan)0
The Greek death of Sībawayhi and the origins of Arabic grammar0
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
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
Solomon, his temple, and Ottoman imperial anxieties0
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
Constructing identity through monastic legislation: rules intended to differentiate Buddhists from Jainas and Ājīvikas in Vinaya literature0
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
Reading across confessional lines in Ayyubid Egypt: a Judaeo-Arabic Geniza fragment with three new poems by Ibn al-Kīzānī (d. 562/1166)0
On the terminology designating the Zoroastrians of Iran and their language0
Towards the decipherment of Thamudic D: an identification of new glyphs and phoneme values0
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
Shivan Mahendrarajah: A History of Herat: from Chingiz Khan to Tamerlane Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. ISBN 978 1 47449936 1.0
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
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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
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
S. Herbordt, R. Mattila, B. Parker (†), J.N. Postgate and D.J. Wiseman (†): Documents from the Nabu Temple and from Private Houses on the Citadel. (Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud VI.) viii, 340 pp., plat0
Nalini Balbir and Georges-Jean Pinault (eds): Richard Pischel: Kleine Schriften. (Veröffentlichungen der Helmuth von Glasenapp-Stiftung, Bd. 48.) Teil 1: xcii, 613 pp. Teil 2: [v], 614–1269 pp.0
Farewell to the bishop of Hami: locating the thirteenth-century bishop of Kamul0
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
Sylvie Denoix and Hélène Renel (eds): Atlas des mondes musulmans médiévaux 382 pp. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2022. ISBN 978 2 271 13949 8.0
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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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
Alessandro Rizzo: Florence et le sultanat mamelouk: Les documents de la diplomatie (début XVe–début XVIe siècle) (Handbook of Oriental Studies.) 174, 548 pp. Leiden: Brill0
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
Timotheus A. Bodt: Proto-Western Kho-Bwa: Reconstructing a Community's Past through Language (Language and Linguistics Monograph Series 67.) Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, 2024.0
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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
Action nouns in *-i̯a- and a new verbal stem *jsīn- “to kill” in Khotanese0
Adam and the names0
Apocalypticism and imperial criticism: (re)reading the Dürr-i meknūn (The Hidden Pearl, 1472–73) in the context of Ottoman–Akkoyunlu imperial confrontation0
Ejective stops in Hittite: evidence for a phonemic length distinction0
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Nadine Schibille: Islamic Glass in the Making: Chronological and Geographical Dimensions Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2022. ISBN 978 946270319 3.0
Albert König and Hartmut Walravens: Asiatische Nashornvögel in bildlichen Darstellungen Asiens und Europas (ca. 1600–ca. 1850): Ein Streifzug durch die Kulturgeschichte (Deutsche Ostasienstudie0
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
Warwick Ball: The Eurasian Steppe: People, Movement and Ideas. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. ISBN 978 1 4744 8806 8.0
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
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
Egophoricity in Central Stau copular clauses0
Ghulam Shams-ur-Rehman (ed. and trans.): The Foundations of Sufism. An Annotated Translation of Qawāʿid al-Taṣawwuf by Shaykh Aḥmad Zarrūq al-Fāsī (d. 899/1493) (Studies on Sufism 10.) xiv, 2340
Ying Wa boys in early colonial Hong Kong0
Adam R. Gaiser: Sectarianism in Islam: The Umma Divided (Themes in Islamic History.) xii, 237 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. £70. ISBN 9781009325042.0
Bernard O'Kane, A.C.S. Peacock and Mark Muehlhaeusler (eds): Inscriptions of the Medieval Islamic World Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. ISBN 978 1 4744 8944 7.0
On the origins and emergence of the Qaŋlï Turks0
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
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
Nasser Rabbat: Writing Egypt. Al-Maqrizi and His Historical Project Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. ISBN 978 13995 0281 8.0
Middle Persian documents and the making of the Islamic fiscal system: problems and prospects0
Lād “law”: a Bactrian loanword in the Nuristani languages0
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 addition of syllable-final stops in Ganan0
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
Whyprāṇais the most excellent among the vital functions, or: the Shapley value in theUpaniṣads0
Ghazwan Yaghi: Imperial Ideology and Architecture: Damascus under the Mamlūk Sultans (1260–1516 CE) (Leiden Studies in Islam and Society.) xix, 125 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2024. ISBN 978 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
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
India's epidemics in theRiḥlaof Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: plague, cholera or lexical muddle?0
The zīndag ruwān ceremony in historical perspective0
Said Aljoumani and Konrad Hirschler: Owning Books and Preserving Documents in Medieval Jerusalem: The Library of Burhan al-Din (Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture.) xii,0
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Xiaoshan Yang: Wang Anshi and Song Poetic Culture. (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 129.) 360 pp. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2021. £56.95. ISBN 978 0 67426290 4.0
“You and me against the world”: Direct-inverse morphology in Rma (Qiang)0
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The eropolitical compound: immanence, transcendence and a parasitic operation of patriarchy in Sanskrit literature0
Chariots, mail coaches and wagons in the Arabic dialect of Qaṭrāyīth (“in Qatari”) in early Islamic eastern Arabia0
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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
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
Music and musical terms in Bobovius’ Serai Enderum (1665, MS Harley 3409)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
R.D. McChesney: Four Central Asian Shrines: A Socio-Political History Leiden: Brill, 2021. ISBN 978 90 04 45958 8.0
Suraiya Faroqhi: Women in the Ottoman Empire: A Social and Political History London: Bloomsbury/I.B. Tauris, 2023. ISBN 978 0 75563826 0.0
Bai and Old Western Chinese0
A foreign policy of benevolence: reinvestigating identities and material culture in the handscroll Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute 胡茄十八拍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
The Tangut verbal template from a cross-West Gyalrongic perspective0
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
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
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
Progressive constructions in different Balochi dialects from a diachronic and an areal linguistic point of view0
Playing the fool: jesters of the Safavid and Zand courts0
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
The Southwest Silk Road: artistic exchange and transmission in early China0
creating is cutting: a conceptual metaphor in Avestan and Pahlavi texts0
From sūtra to practice: discovering the liturgy of the seven Tathāgatas including Bhaiṣajyaguru in Old Tibetan manuscripts0
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 1.0
The classification of nouns (nāma) in Buddhaghosa0
A cross-cultural archery analogy in Matteo Ricci's Tianzhu shiyi0
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
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
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
Enrico Boccaccini: Reflecting Mirrors, East and West: Transcultural Comparisons of Advice Literature for Rulers (8th–13th Century). (Islamic History and Civilization.) xi, 314 pp0
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
Anna McSweeney: From Granada to Berlin: the Alhambra Cupola. (Connecting Art Histories in the Museum.) 196 pp. Dortmund: Verlag Kettler, 2020. €34. ISBN 978 3 86206 831 9.0
A quote attributed to Udbhaṭabhaṭṭa, which is actually from Arcaṭa0
Valentina Laviola: Islamic Metalwork from Afghanistan (9th–13th century): The Documentation of the IsMEO Italian Archaeological Mission. (Università degli Studi di Napoli “l'Orie0
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
On the nature of morphological alternations in Archaic Chinese and their relevance to morphosyntax0
“Melt” and the labial causative in Gyalrongic0
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
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
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
Farming out judicial offices in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1750–18390
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
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
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
Mādayān ī Wīrāzagān: a newly discovered Middle Persian text: transliteration, transcription, and translation0
New origins to vowel tensing in Tangut: internal and comparative evidence0
Wilt L. Idema: A Historical Taxonomy of Talking Birds in Chinese Literature (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series.) Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2025. ISBN 978 067429860
On the question of domestic slaves in late medieval and early modern Zoroastrianism0
Female diaconate in medieval Nubia: evidence from a wall inscription from Faras0
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
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
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
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
Mun'im A. Sirry: The Qur'an with Cross-References ix, 683 pp. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2022. ISBN 978 3 11077915 8.0
Dale Lightfoot: Qanat: Stream of Wells (Bloomsbury Academic.) 853 pp. London: Bloomsbury, 2024. £100. ISBN 978 1 8386 0217 8.0
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
Understanding the theology of natural and divine laws in the cultural and philosophical context of late Ming China0
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
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
bcan pos who were notkhri: Royal titulature and the succession to the throne in the Tibetan Empire0
The sound change of oralization in Mewahang0
The “Black sheep” of the early Daoxue community: the making of Xing Shu's historical image0
The spread of iron in Central Asia: on the etymology of the word for “iron” in Iranian and Tocharian0
Revisiting the date of Hiḍimbā Devī temple, Manali, Kulu (Himachal Pradesh): a study of epigraphic evidence0
Redeeming the orphaned souls: fragments of a Mongolian translation from Khara-khoto0
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Pashto preverbs, III. Compound verbs with preverb0
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Mirella Cassarino, Antonella Ghersetti, Letizia Osti and Samuela Pagani (eds): Antologia della letteratura araba. Dalle origini al XVIII secolo 699 pp. Rome: Carocci editore @ Studi Superiori, 0
Motion verbs and the ventive in the correspondence of Samsi-Addu, the king of Upper Mesopotamia (early eighteenth century bc)0
What a discourse unit can teach us about the relationship between the Mishnah and Tosefta: an examination of the parallelism between the compilations in the halakhic give-and-take conversation0
Las Huelgas: Arabic inscriptions for Christian liturgy0
Becoming the Muʿallim: how tradition and innovation made a Nahḍa icon0
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
Shadi Bartsch: Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism xv, 279 pp. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2023. ISBN 978 0 691 22959 1.0
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
Christin Möllenbeck: Institutionelle Sklaverei in Tempel und Palast in Südmesopotamien während der altbabylonischen Zeit (2000–1500 v. Chr.). (Altorientalische Publikationen / Publications on the Anci0
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
Ḥamza versus Rustam: Comparing theḤamzanāmawith theShāhnāma0
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
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
Sunila S. Kalé and Christian Lee Novetzke: The Yoga of Power. Yoga as Political Thought and Practice in India New York: Columbia University Press, 2025. ISBN 978 023117924 9.0
Central Tibetan famines 1280–1400: when premodern climate change and bad governance starved Tibet0
On the concept of leadership and the office of Leader of the Zoroastrians (hu-dēnān pēšōbāy) in Abbasid Zoroastrianism0
BSO volume 88 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
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
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
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
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
The circle of the world: the global diplomacy of Caliph al-Manṣūr0
“All the world at the palm of the hand”: imagining history through the life of an early Afghan saint0
The Seventh Dalai Lama's residence in Kham: Gartar Monastery interactions with indigenous chiefs and the Qing court0
A note on Pahlavi lexicography: Middle Persian hassār, hassārīh0
BSO volume 85 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
BSO volume 88 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
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
Barbara Brend: Treasures of Herat. 240 pp. London: Gingko, in association with The British Library, 2022. ISBN 978 1 909942 54 7.0
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
S.E. Kile: Towers in the Void: Li Yu and Early Modern Chinese Media New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. ISBN 978 0 231 21005 8.0
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
Muḥammad Ibn ʿAqīl, Anne-Marie Eddé and Abdallah Cheikh-Moussa (ed. and trans.): Les perles ordonnées: des vertus du sultan Barqūq (784–801/1382–1399): al-Durr al-naḍīd fī manāqib al-Malik al-Ẓāhir0
Nathan Wasserman and Elyze Zomer: Akkadian Magic Literature, Old Babylonian and Old Assyrian Incantations: Corpus–Context–Praxis. (Leipziger Altorientalistische Studien 12.) Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 20
Sharon Kinoshita: Marco Polo and His World (Medieval Lives.) 190 pp. London: Reaktion Books, 2024. ISBN 978 1 78914 937 1.0
BSO volume 87 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
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
“He was penetrated like a woman”: the evolution of a Companion report0
Prasun historical linguistics: new etymologies and the fate of the Indo-Iranian morphemes *-am and *-ka-0
Teresa Ciapparoni La Rocca: Mishima Monogatari: Un Samurai Delle Arti. 416 pp. Turin: Lindau, 2020. €32. ISBN 978 88 3353 466 4.0
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
BSO volume 86 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
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 significance of feathers in early and medieval China0
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
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
The Middle Mongol zodiac in Georgian transcription0
David J. Chalcraft and Zhodi Angami (eds): Encountering Diversity in Indian Biblical Studies: A Biblical Masala London and New York: Routledge, 2023. ISBN 978 1 03238350 7.0
The “Black sheep” of the early Daoxue community: the making of Xing Shu's historical image – CORRIGENDUM0
BSO volume 88 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
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
A pre-Mongol New Persian legal document from Islamic Khurāsān dated ah 608/1212 ce0
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
BSO volume 86 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Albert Welter: A Tale of Two Stūpas: Diverging Paths in the Revival of Buddhism in Hangzhou China viii, 228 pp. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2022. ISBN 978 0 19 760663 6.0
BSO volume 87 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
South Arabian etymology for the Meccan Kaʿbah0
Tseten Dorje (Tshe brtan rdo rje): Tsong kha rgyal rabs zhib ’jug (A Study of the Royal Genealogy of the Tsongkha Kingdom.) Zi ling: Mtsho sngon mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 2021. ISBN 978 7 5420 30
Methodological issues in Rma etymology0
Salma Samar Damluji and Viola Bertini: Hassan Fathy: Earth & Utopia 368 pp. London: Laurence King, 2018, £68. ISBN 978 1 78627 261 4.0
Deniz Türker: The Accidental Palace. The Making of Yıldız in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul xix, 251 pp. Pennysylvania: The Pennsylvania University Press, 2023. ISBN 978 027109391 8.0
Mattias Karlsson: From the Nile to the Tigris: African Individuals and Groups in Texts from the Neo-Assyrian Empire. (State Archives of Assyria Studies 31.) xiv, 282 pp. Helsinki: The Neo-Assyr0
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
The Avestan ī̆šti- in Middle Persian texts0
Huaiyu Chen: Animals and Plants in Chinese Religions and Science vii, 205 pp. London: Anthem Press, 2023. ISBN 978 1 83998 501 0.0
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
Stanza permutation in the “Guo feng” 國風 and an examination of the hermeneutical tradition of “orderly progression”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
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
Daniel K. Gardner (trans.): Zhu Xi: Basic Teachings New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. ISBN 978 0 231 20633 4.0
Another character for the word “rice plant” in Old Chinese0
Marcus Milwright: A Story of Islamic Art xii, 311 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2024. ISBN 978 1 032 44815 2.0
From oral charms to written heritage: four Yezidi prayer-incantations from Sinjar, Iraq0
Shanshan Lü: A Reference Grammar of Caijia: An Unclassified Language of Guizhou (Sinitic Languages of China 8.) xxviii, 600 pp. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton, 2022, ISBN 978 3 11072480 6.0
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
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
BSO volume 86 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
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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