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Volume 81 - February 2018

Reviews: The Near and Middle East

Adam Benkato: Āzandnāmē. An Edition and Literary-Critical Study of the Manichaean–Sogdian Parable-Book. (Beiträge zur Iranistik, 42.) €79. 210 pp. Wiesbaden: Dr Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2017. ISBN 978 3 95490 236 1.

Charles Tieszen: Cross Veneration in the Medieval Islamic World: Christian Identity and Practice under Muslim Rule. (The Early and Medieval Islamic World.) x, 229 pp. London and New York: I.B Tauris, 2017. £59. ISBN 978 1 78453 662 6.

Hüseyin Yılmaz: Caliphate Redefined: The Mystical Turn in Ottoman Political Thought. xiii, 384 pp. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. ISBN 978 069117480 8.

Leslie Peirce: Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl became Queen of the Ottoman Empire. viii, 359 pp. New York: Basic Books, 2017. £20. ISBN 978 0 465 03251 8.

Reviews: South Asia

Audrey Truschke: Aurangzeb: The Life and Legacy of India's Most Controversial King. xiii, 136 pp. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017. ISBN 978 1 5036 0257 1.

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Side Emre: Ibrahim-i Gulshani and the Khalwati-Gulshani Order: Power Brokers in Ottoman Egypt. (Studies on Sufism 1.) xiv, 431 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2017. €129. ISBN 978 90 04 34101 2.

Giovanna Calasso and Giuliano Lancioni (eds): Dār al-Islām / Dār al-Harb: Territories, People, Identities. (Studies in Islamic Law and Society.) x, 450 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2017. £126. ISBN 978 9 004 33103 7.

Stefan Winter: A History of the ʿAlawīs: From Medieval Aleppo to the Turkish Republic. xiii, 317 pp. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016. £22.95. ISBN 978 069117389 4.

Reviews: Central Asia

Clare Harris: Photography and Tibet. (Exposures.) 176 pp. London: Reaktion, 2016. £19.95. ISBN 978 1 78023 652 0.

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Sonja Brentjes, Taner Edis and Lutz Richter-Bernburg (eds): 1001 Distortions. How (Not) to Narrate History of Science, Medicine, and Technology in Non-Western Cultures. (Bibliotheca Academica. Orientalistik.) 278 pp. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2016. ISBN 978 3 95650 169 2.

Jean Kellens: Cinq cours sur les Yašts de l'Avesta. (Studia Iranica, Cahier 59.) 192 pp. Paris: Association pour l'Avancement des Études Iraniennes, 2016. ISBN 978 2 910640 45 3.

Reviews: Central Asia

Gwendolyn Hyslop: A Grammar of Kurtöp. (Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region.) xv, 458 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2017. ISBN 978 90 04 29250 5.

Reviews: East Asia

Newell Ann Van Auken: The Commentarial Transformation of the Spring and Autumn. (SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture.) xiv, 338 pp. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2016.

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Rainer Osswald: Das islamische Sklavenrecht. (Mitteilungen zur Sozial und Kulturgeschichte der islamischen Welt 40.) 313 pp. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2017. €45. ISBN 978 3 95650 238 5.

Reviews: South Asia

Naama Shalom: Re-ending the Mahābhārata: The Rejection of Dharma in the Sanskrit Epic. (SUNY Series in Hindu Studies.) xvii, 248 pp. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2017. $85. ISBN 978 1 4384 6501 2.

Reviews: East Asia

Barend J. Ter Haar: Guan Yu: The Religious Afterlife of a Failed Hero. ix, 285 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. ISBN 978 0 19 880364 5.

Reviews: The Near and Middle East

George A. Bournoutian: The 1820 Russian Survey of the Khanate of Shirvan: A Primary Source on the Demography and Economy of an Iranian Province Prior to Its Annexation by Russia. xxvii, 238 pp. Cambridge: Gibb Memorial Trust, 2016. ISBN 978 190972480 8.

Reviews: East Asia

Alexei Kamran Ditter, Jessey Choo and Sarah Allen (eds): Tales from Tang Dynasty China: Selections from the Taiping Guangji. xiii, 162 pp. Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 2017. ISBN 978 1 62466 630 8.

Reviews: The Near and Middle East

Fahmida Suleman: Textiles from the Middle East and Central Asia: Fabric of Life. 232 pp. London: British Museum and Thames & Hudson, 2017. ISBN 978 0 500 519912.

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