10 September 2024: Due to technical disruption, we are experiencing some delays to publication. We are working to restore services and apologise for the inconvenience. For further updates please visit our website: https://www.cambridge.org/universitypress/about-us/news-and-blogs/cambridge-university-press-publishing-update-following-technical-disruption

Skip to main content Accessibility help

Home
Journals
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
Volume 50

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Other actions
- Information
- - Add bookmark
  - Add alert
  - RSS Feed
  - Share

Published on behalf of The School of Oriental and African Studies

Journal Home

Only show content I have access to (8)

Over 3 years (305)

View selected items
Save to my bookmarks
Export citations
Download PDF (zip)
Save to Kindle
Save to Dropbox
Save to Google Drive
Save content to
To save this undefined to your undefined account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your undefined account. Find out more about saving content to .

To save this article to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Please be advised that item(s) you selected are not available.
You are about to save
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
ISSN: 0041-977X

EISSN: 1474-0699

URL: /core/journals/bulletin-of-the-school-of-oriental-and-african-studies
Your Kindle email address

Please provide your Kindle email.

@free.kindle.com @kindle.com (service fees apply)

By using this service, you agree that you will only keep content for personal use, and will not openly distribute them via Dropbox, Google Drive or other file sharing services

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Refine listing

Actions for selected content:

Volume 50 - October 1987

Short Notices

Michael Aris: Sources for the history of Bhutan. (Wiener Studien Zur Tibbetologie und Buddhismuskunde, 14.) [iv], 203 pp. Vienna: Arbeitskreis fϋr tibetische und buddhistische Studien Universität Wien, 1986.

A. Chris Eccel: Egypt Islam and social change: al-Azhar in conflict and accommodation. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen Bd.8b) xxiii, 611 pp. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1984.

Frank Whaling (ed.): Contemporary approaches to the study of religion. 2 vols. I: The humanities, II: The social sciences. (Religion and Reason, 27, 28.) ix, 492 pp., ix, 302 pp. Berlin, New York and Amsterdam: Mouton Publishers, 1984, 1985. DM 118, 78, $39.95, $29.95.

J. Brugman: An introduction to the history of modern Arabic literature in Egypt. (Studies in Arabic Literature. Supplements to the Journal of Arabic Literature. Vol.x.) [xv] 439 pp. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1984.

Alfred Schmitt: Zur Phonetik, Schriftgeschichte und allgemeinen Sprachwissenschaft: Kleine Schriften. Hrsg. von Claus Haebler. xvi, 707 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1984.

Heinrich Scholler: The Special court of Ethiopia 1920–1935. (Äthiopistische Forschungen, Bd. 15). 414 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1985.

Lore Sander and Ernst Waldschmidt: Sanskrithandschriften aus den Turfanfunden. Teil 5. (Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, Bd. x, 5.) viii, 375pp., 87 plates. Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1985. DM 220.

Book Received

Other Books Received For Review

Short Notices

Yogendra Yadav: Advanced aural excercises in Hindi. ix, 134 pp. 6 C60 cassette tapes. Canberra: Australian National University, 1985.

Front matter

BSO volume 50 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

Back matter

BSO volume 50 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

Short Notices

Werner Thomas: Die Erforschung des Tocharischen (1960–1984). (Schriften der Wissenschaftlichen Ges. ander J. W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. Geisteswissenschaftliche Reihe, Nr. 5.) xi, 187 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1985.

M. N. Pearson (ed.): Legitimary and symbols: the South Asian writings of F. W. Buckler. (Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia, No. 26) xiv, 193 pp. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, 1985. $18.95 (paper $8.95).

Wolfram Eberhard : A dictionary of Chinese symbols: hidden symbols in Chinese life and thought. Translated from the German by G. L. Campbell. 332 pp. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986

Les peintures murales et les manuscrits de Dunhuang. Colloque Francochinois organisé par la Fondation Singer-Polignac ā Paris, les 21, 22et 23 Féverier 1983. [151] pp., front., 28 plates. Paris: Editions de la Fondation Singer-Polignac, 1984.

Sydney S. K. Fung and S. T. Lai (comp.): 25 Tang poets: index to Engligh translations. (A Renditions Book.) xxviii, 696pp. Hong Kong: Chinese University press, [1985]. (Distributed by the Washington University press. $75.)

Ruth Sacher and Nguon Phan : Lehrbuch des khmer. 211pp. Leipzig: VEB Verlag Enzyklopadie, 1985. DM 45.50.

Peter Carey: Maritime Southeast Asian studies in the United King-dom: A survey of their Post-war development and current resources. (JASO Occasional PaPers, No. 6.) viii, 115 pp. oxford: JASO, 1986. $5.50, $11.50.

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Refine listing

Actions for selected content:

Save Search

Volume 50 - October 1987

Short Notices

Book Received

Short Notices

Front matter

Back matter

Short Notices