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Volume 73 - October 2010

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Volume 73 - October 2010

Reviews: The Near and Middle East

Richard M. Frank: Classical Islamic Theology: The Ashʿarites. Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalām, Vol. III. Edited by Dimitri Gutas. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, CS835.) x, 428 pp. Burlington, VT and Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. £77.50. ISBN 978 0 86078 979 6.

Fahd Al-Semmari (ed.); Salma K. Jayyusi (trans.): A History of the Arabian Peninsula. viii, 312 pp. London: I. B.Tauris, in association with the King Abdul Aziz Foundation for Research and Archives, Riyadh, 2010. £35. ISBN 978 1 84511 688 0.

Jean-Jacques Thibon: L'oeuvre d'Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī (325/937–412/1021) et la formation du Soufisme. 642 pp. Damascus: Institut français du Proche-Orient, 2009. €30. ISBN 978 2 35159 024 9.

Mark Sedgwick: Muhammad Abduh. (Makers of the Muslim World.) xiii, 152 pp. Oxford: Oneworld, 2010. £30. ISBN 978 1 85168 432 8.

Reviews: Central and Inner Asia

Michael L. Walter: Buddhism and Empire: The Political and Religious Culture of Early Tibet. (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library.) xxvii, 311 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009. €125. ISBN 978 90 04 17584 6.

Reviews: The Near and Middle East

Nelida Fuccaro: Histories of City and State in the Persian Gulf: Manama since 1800. (Cambridge Middle East Studies 30.) xviii, 257 pp. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. £55. ISBN 978 0 521 51435 4.

John Renard: Tales of God's Friends: Islamic Hagiography in Translation. xv, 413 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2009. £14.95. ISBN 978 0 520 25896 9.

Reviews: Central and Inner Asia

Kurtis R. Schaeffer: The Culture of the Book in Tibet. xiii, 244 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. £31. ISBN 978 0 231 14716 3.

Reviews: The Near and Middle East

Suraiya Faroqhi and Gilles Veinstein (eds): Merchants in the Ottoman Empire. (Collection Turcica XV.) Paris, Louvain and Dudley, MA: Peeters, 2008. ISBN 978 90 429 2025 5.

Reviews: East Asia

Nicola Di Cosmo (ed.): Military Culture in Imperial China. x, 445 pp. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2009. £33.95. ISBN 978 0 674 03109 8.

Reviews: South Asia

Arlo Griffiths: The Paippalādasaṃhitā of the Atharvaveda: Kāṇḍas 6 and 7. A New Edition with Translation and Commentary. (Groningen Oriental Studies XXII.) lxxxvi, 540 pp. Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 2009. ISBN 978 90 6980 777 5.

Reviews: East Asia

Mark Edward Lewis: China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty. viii, 356 pp. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. £25.95. ISBN 978 0 674 03306 1.

Reviews: South Asia

Nile Green: Islam and the Army in Colonial India: Sepoy Religion in the Service of Empire. (Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society.) xvii, 217 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. ISBN 978 0 521 89845 4.

Reviews: The Near and Middle East

Shirin Akiner: Religious Language of a Belarussian Tatar Kitab. A Cultural Monument of Islam in Europe. (Mediterranean Language and Culture Monograph Series.) xxvii, 457 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2009. £68. ISBN 978 3 447 03027 4.

Reviews: South Asia

O'Connell Kathleen M. and Joseph T. O'Connell (eds): Rabindranath Tagore: Reclaiming a Cultural Icon. 424 pp. Calcutta: Visva-Bharati, 2009. Rs. 350. ISBN 978 81 7522 468 1.

Reviews: East Asia

Dieter Kuhn: The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China. (History of Imperial China.) ix, 356 pp. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. £25.95. ISBN 978 0 674 03146 3.

Reviews: South Asia

Himanshu Prabha Ray (ed.): Archaeology and Text: The Temple in South Asia. xvi, 311 pp. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010. £34.99. ISBN 978 0 19 806096 3.

Arvind Mandair: Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation. (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture.) xviii, 516 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. $55. ISBN 978 0 231 14724 8.

Reviews: East Asia

Vincent Durand-Dastès: La Conversion de l'Orient: une pérégrination didactique de Bodhidharma. (Mélanges chinois et bouddhiques XXIX.) ix, 437 pp. Brussels: Institut Belge des Hautes Études Chinoises, 2008. ISBN 978 2 9600076 1 9.

Reviews: South Asia

Peter Jackson: Studies on the Mongol Empire and Early Muslim India. (Variorum Collected Studies Series.) xii, 334 pp. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. £70. ISBN 978 0 7546 5988 4.

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Reviews: The Near and Middle East

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Reviews: South Asia

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