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East Asia
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UTA LAUER: A master of his own: the calligraphy of the Chan abbot Zhongfeng Mingben (1262–1323). (Studien zur Ostasiatischen Schriftkunst, 5.) 164 pp, 43 plates. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002. Euro45.
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M. HOLT RUFFIN and DANIEL WAUGH (ed.): Civil society in Central Asia. ix, 331 pp. Seattle and London: Washington University Press with the Center for Civil Society International, The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, 1999. $19.95 (paperback).
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WILLIAM C. CHITTICK: The heart of Islamic philosophy: the quest for self-knowledge in the teachings of Afdal al-Dīn Kāshānī. xiii, 360 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. £45.
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LINDA S. NORTHRUP: From slave to sultan: the career of al-Mansūr Qalāwūn and the consolidation of Mamluk rule in Egypt and Syria (678–689 A.H./1279–1290 A.D.). (Freiburger Islamstudien, 18.) 349 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998.
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KAHAR BARAT (ed. and trans.): The Uygur-Turkic biography of the seventh-century Chinese Buddhist pilgrim Xuanzang, ninth and tenth chapters. (Indiana University Uralic and Altaic Series, 166.) xxxiv, 430 pp. Bloomington, IN: Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 2000. $79.
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SARAH HANDLER: Austere luminosity of Chinese classical furniture. xi, 417 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2001. $65.
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HIKARU SUZUKI: The price of death: The funeral industry in contemporary Japan. xi, 266 pp. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2000. £25.
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M. RAFIQUE AFZAL: Pakistan: history and politics 1947–1971. xvi, 490 pp. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2001. $20.
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KEES VAN DIJK: A country in despair: Indonesia between 1997 and 2000. viii, 621 pp. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2001.
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TESSA CARROLL: Language planning and language change in Japan. (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series, 86.) xii, 276 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001. £40.
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SUSMITA ARP: Kālāpāni: Zum Streit über die Zulässigkeit von Seereisen im kolonialzeitlichen Indien. (Alt- und Neu-Indische Studien, Band 52.) vii, 258 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000.
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Africa
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ROBIN LAW (ed.): The English in West Africa 1685–1688: the local correspondence of the Royal African Company of England, 1681–1699. Part 2. (Fontes Historiae Africanae, New Series. Sources of African History, 5.) xvi, 468 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press for The British Academy, 2001. £45.
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PHILIPPE RAMIREZ: De la disparition des chefs: une anthropologie politique népalaise. (Monde Indien Sciences Sociales 15e × 16e siècle.) 370 pp. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2000.
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ANDREW RIPPIN: Muslims: their religious beliefs and practices. (Second edition.) (The Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices.) xii, 346 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. £12.99.
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PAUL V. MANKOWSKI: Akkadian loanwords in Biblical Hebrew. (Harvard Semitic Studies, 47.) xviii, 232 pp. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2000. $29.95.
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PATRICK FRANKE: Begegnung mit Khidr: Quellenstudien zum Imaginären im traditionellen Islam. (Beiruter Texte und Studien, 79.) xv, 620 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000. Euro89.
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ODED PERI: Christianity under Islam in Jerusalem: the question of the Holy Sites in early Ottoman times. (The Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage.) x, 219 pp. Leiden, Boston and Cologne: Brill, 2001. Euro64.
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DWIGHT F. REYNOLDS (ed.): Interpreting the self: autobiography in the Arabic literary tradition. ix, 336 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2001. £36.50.
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SATOE HORII: Die gesetzlichen Umgehungen im Islamischen Recht (hiyal). Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Ğannat al-ahkām wa-ğunnat al-hussām des Hanafiten Sa‘īd b. ‘Alī as-Samarqandī (gest. 12. Jhdt). (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, 239). 206 pp. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2001. Euro41.
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THOMAS M. BUOYE: Manslaughter, markets, and moral economy: violent disputes over property rights in eighteenth-century China. xvi, 283 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. £37.50.
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