Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Table of Contents - Volume  76  - Issue 02 - Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013

Articles

The Quran and the apostles of Jesus

 
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Gabriel Said Reynolds

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 209 - 227

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X13000062 (About DOI), Published online: Tue May 21 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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The contiguity between churches and mosques in early Islamic Bilād al-Shām

 
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Mattia Guidetti

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 229 - 258

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X13000086 (About DOI), Published online: Wed May 22 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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An Atharvanic hymn to night: text-critical and linguistic remarks on the interpretation of Śaunakīya 19.50 = Paippalāda 14.9

 
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Leonid Kulikov

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 259 - 269

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X13000074 (About DOI), Published online: Tue May 21 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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Nominal possessive constructions in the early modern Hasidic Hebrew tale

 
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Lily Kahn

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 271 - 287

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X13000050 (About DOI), Published online: Tue May 21 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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On pre-Tibetan semi-vowels

 
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Guillaume Jacques

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 289 - 300

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X12001450 (About DOI), Published online: Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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Reviews: The Ancient Near East

Sacha Stern: Calendars in Antiquity: Empires, States, and Societies. vi, 457 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £95. ISBN 978 019958944 9.

 
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J. Cale Johnson

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 301 - 302

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X13000098 (About DOI), Published online: Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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Reviews: The Near and Middle East

Kazuo Morimoto (ed.): Sayyids and Sharifs in Muslim Societies: The Living Links to the Prophet. (Routledge New Horizons in Islamic Studies.) xii, 276 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2012. £80. ISBN 978 0 415 51917 5.

 
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Raffaele Mauriello

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 302 - 304

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X13000104 (About DOI), Published online: Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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Sean W. Anthony: The Caliph and the Heretic: Ibn Saba’ and the Origins of Shīʿism. (Islamic History and Civilization: Studies and Texts.) xiii, 352 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012. €128. ISBN 978 90 04 20930 5.

 
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Tamima Bayhom-Daou

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 304 - 306

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X13000116 (About DOI), Published online: Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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Caterina Bori and Livnat Holtzman (eds): A Scholar in the Shadow: Essays in the Legal and Theological Thought of Ibn Qayyim al-Ğawziyyah. (Oriente Moderno XC.) ix, 293 pp. Rome: Istituto per l'Oriente C.A. Nallino, 2010. ISBN 977 003054700 4.

 
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Gino Schallenbergh

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 306 - 307

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X13000128 (About DOI), Published online: Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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Doris Behrens-Abouseif (ed.): The Arts of the Mamluks in Egypt and Syria – Evolution and Impact. (Mamluk Studies.) 351 pp., 150 figures. Goettingen: Bonn University Press at V&R unipress GmbH, 2012. €160. ISBN 978 3 89971 915 4.

 
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Tim Stanley

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 308 - 309

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X1300013X (About DOI), Published online: Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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Christine Woodhead (ed.): The Ottoman World. (The Routledge Worlds.) xix, 536 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2012. £140. ISBN 978 0 415 44492 7.

 
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Caroline Finkel

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 309 - 311

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X13000141 (About DOI), Published online: Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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Colette Establet and Jean-Paul Pascual: La gent d’état dans la société ottomane damascène. Les ʿaskars à la fin du xviie siècle. 351 pp. Damascus: Institut Français du Proche-Orient, 2011. €30. ISBN 978 2 35159 175 8.

 
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Astrid Meier

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 311 - 313

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X13000153 (About DOI), Published online: Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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Emine Ö. Evered: Empire and Education under the Ottomans: Politics, Reform, and Resistance from the Tanzimat to the Young Turks. xx, 333 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2012. £56.50. ISBN 978 1 78076 109 1.

 
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Selçuk Akşin Somel

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 313 - 315

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X13000165 (About DOI), Published online: Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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David Stronach and Ali Mousavi (eds): Ancient Iran from the Air. 192 pp., 114 Plates. Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2012. $44.90. ISBN: 978 3 8053 4453 1.

 
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Sabine Müller

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 315 - 316

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X13000177 (About DOI), Published online: Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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Abbas Amanat and Farzin Vejdani (eds): Iran Facing Others. Identity Boundaries in a Historical Perspective. xiii, 292 pp. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. ISBN 978 0 230 10253 8.

 
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Anja Pistor-Hatam

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 316 - 318

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X13000189 (About DOI), Published online: Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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Nile Green: Sufism: A Global History. xxi, 363 pp. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. £19.99. ISBN 978 1 4051 5765 0.

 
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 318 - 319

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X13000190 (About DOI), Published online: Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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Gerald MacLean and Nabil Matar: Britain and the Islamic World, 1558–1713. xiii, 335 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. ₤35. ISBN 978 0 19 920318 5.

 
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Ursula Wokoeck

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 320 - 321

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X13000207 (About DOI), Published online: Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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Derryl N. MacLean and Sikeena Karmali Ahmed (eds): Cosmopolitanisms in Muslim Contexts: Perspectives from the Past. (Exploring Muslim Contexts.) viii, 190 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press in association with the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, 2012. ISBN 978 0 7486 4456 8.

 
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Francis Robinson

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 321 - 323

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X13000219 (About DOI), Published online: Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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Allen J. Frank: Bukhara and the Muslims of Russia: Sufism, Education, and the Paradox of Islamic Prestige (Brill's Inner Asian Library.) 215 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012. ISBN 978 90 04 23288 4.

 
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Michael Kemper

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 323 - 324

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X13000220 (About DOI), Published online: Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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Reviews: South Asia

P. K. Basant: The City and Country in Early India: A Study of Malwa. xi, 369 pp. Delhi: Primus Books. 2012. ISBN 978 93 80607 15 3.

 
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Michael Willis

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 325 - 326

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X13000232 (About DOI), Published online: Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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Ali Usman Qasmi: Questioning the Authority of the Past: The Ahl al-Qur'an Movements in the Punjab. xii, 348 pp. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN 978 0 19 547348 3.

 
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Muhammad Qasim Zaman

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 326 - 328

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X13000244 (About DOI), Published online: Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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Navina Najat Haidar and Marika Sardar (eds): Sultans of the South: Arts of India's Deccan Courts, 1323–1687. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art Symposia.) xiv, 322 pp. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (distributed by Yale University Press), 2011. $50. ISBN 978 1 58839 438 5.

 
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Laura E. Parodi

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 328 - 330

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X13000256 (About DOI), Published online: Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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Johannes Bronkhorst: Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism. viii, 293 pp. (Handbook of Oriental Studies.) Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011. €119. ISBN 978 90 04 20140 8.

 
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Michael Willis

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 330 - 332

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X13000268 (About DOI), Published online: Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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Tirthankar Roy: India in the World Economy: From Antiquity to the Present. xliii, 276 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. ISBN 978 1 107 40147 1. £18.99.

 
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Sumit Guha

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 332 - 333

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X13000396 (About DOI), Published online: Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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Reviews: Central Asia

Christopher I. Beckwith: Warriors of the Cloisters: The Central Asian Origins of Science in the Medieval World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. $29.95. ISBN 978 0 691 15531 9.

 
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Johan Elverskog

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 333 - 335

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X13000426 (About DOI), Published online: Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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Reviews: East Asia

Hyunhee Park: Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Worlds: Cross-Cultural Exchange in Pre-Modern Asia. xxviii, 276 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. £60. ISBN 978 1 107 01868 6.

 
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Roderich Ptak

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 335 - 337

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X13000281 (About DOI), Published online: Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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Philip B. Yampolsky (trans.), with a new foreword by Morten Schlütter: The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch: The Text of the Tun-huang Manuscript. (Translations from the Asian Classics.) xx, 259 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. £22.50. ISBN 978 023115 956 2.

Morten Schlütter and Stephen F. Teiser (eds): Readings of the Platform Sutra. (Columbia Readings of Buddhist Literature.) xii, 220 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. £19. ISBN 978 023115821 3.

 
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T.H. Barrett

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 337 - 339

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X13000293 (About DOI), Published online: Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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Sam Van Schaik and Imre Galambos: Manuscripts and Travellers: The Sino-Tibetan Documents of a Tenth-Century Buddhist Pilgrim. (Studies in Manuscript Cultures, Volume 2.) viii, 247 pp. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012. ISBN 978 3 11 022564 8.

 
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T.H. Barrett

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 339 - 340

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X1300030X (About DOI), Published online: Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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Lo Jung-Pang (ed. Bruce A. Elleman): China as a Sea Power, 1127–1368. A Preliminary Survey of the Maritime Expansion and Naval Exploits of the Chinese People during the Southern Song and Yuan Periods. xxx, 378 pp. Singapore: NUS Press, 2012; Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2012. ISBN 978 9971 69 505 7 (NUS Pr.); ISBN 978 988 8139 80 4 (HK Univ. Pr.).

 
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Roderich Ptak

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 340 - 342

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X13000311 (About DOI), Published online: Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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Yan Xuetong (阎学通): Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power. (The Princeton China Series.) ix, 312 pp. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. (Translated by Edmund Ryden.) $32.50. ISBN 978 0 691 14826 7.

 
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R.A.H. King

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 342 - 343

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X13000335 (About DOI), Published online: Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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Benjamin Penny: The Religion of Falun Gong. xiii, 262 pp. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. ₤29. ISBN 978 0 226 65501 7.

 
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Barend J. ter Haar

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 344 - 345

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X13000347 (About DOI), Published online: Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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Anne de Coursey Clapp: Commemorative Landscape Painting in China. (Tang Center Lecture Series.) 176 pp. Princeton: P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, Princeton University, 2012. £19.95. ISBN 978 0 691 15476 3.

 
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Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 345 - 347

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X13000359 (About DOI), Published online: Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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Ariane KnüSel: Framing China: Media Images and Political Debates in Britain, the USA and Switzerland, 1900–1950. xiv, 316 pp. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2012. ISBN 978 140942559 5.

 
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T.H. Barrett

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 347 - 348

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X13000360 (About DOI), Published online: Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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Heonik Kwon and Byung-Ho Chung: North Korea: Beyond Charismatic Politics. xii, 218 pp. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2012. ISBN 978 0 7425 5679 9.

 
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Keith Howard

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 348 - 350

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X13000372 (About DOI), Published online: Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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Reviews: General

Lise Winer: Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad and Tobago. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009. xiv, 1048 pp. $85. ISBN 978 077353406 3.

 
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Philip Baker

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 350 - 351

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X13000414 (About DOI), Published online: Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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Books Received for Review

BOOKS RECEIVED FOR REVIEW

 
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp 353 - 359

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X13000402 (About DOI), Published online: Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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Front Cover (OFC, IFC) and matter

BSO volume 76 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

 
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp f1 - f5

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X13000438 (About DOI), Published online: Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 BST 2013

 

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Back Cover (IBC, OBC) and matter

BSO volume 76 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

 
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume  76 / Issue 02 / Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013, pp b1 - b7

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