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Volume 11 - November 2001

Book Review

Magic, Causality and Intentionality. The Doctrine of Rays in Al-Kindī. By Pinella Travaglia. (Micrologus' Library 3), pp. 176. Rome, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 1999.

In the Shadow of the Mahatma: Bishop V. S. Azariah and the Travails of Christianity in British India. By Susan Billington Harper. pp. xix, 462. Grand Rapids, Michigan/Cambridge, William Erdmans Publishing Company with Curzon Press, Richmond, 2000.

The History of Al-Ṫabarī. Vol 5. The Sansanids, The Byzantines, The Lakhmids and Yemen. By C. E. Bosworth. pp. xxiv, 458. New York, State University of New York Press, 1999.

Engaging Scoundrels: True Tales of Old Lucknow. By Rosie Llewellyn-Jones. pp. xvi, 196, 4 plates. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998.

The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Essays on the Contribution of Peter Brown. Edited by James Howard-Johnston and Paul Anthony Hayward. pp. x, 298. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999.

Mesopotamia and Iran in the Parthian and Sasanian Periods: Rejection and Revival c. 238 B.C. – A.D. 642. Edited by John Curtis. pp. 104, illus. London, British Museum Press for the Trustees of the British Museum, 2000.

Propaganda and Information in Eastern India 1939–45. A Necessary Weapon of War. By Sanjoy Bhattacharya. pp. xiv, 242, 14 tables. Richmond, Curzon, 2001.

Islamic Mysticism: A Short History. By Alexander Knysh. pp. vii, 358. Leiden, Brill, 2000.

Die Personennamen in den qatabānischen Inschriften. Lexikalische und grammatische Analyse im Kontext der semitischen Anthropomastik. By Hani Hayajneh. (Texte und Studien zur Orientalistik, Band 10). pp. 416. Hildesheim, Zürich and New York, Georg Olms Verlag, 1998.

Music in the Age of Confucius. By Jenny So. pp. 152. Washington, The University of Washington Press, 2000.

In Queen Esther's Garden. An Anthology of Judeo-Persian Literature. Translated and with an introduction and notes. By Vera Basch Moreen. pp. 392. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2000.

Indigo in the Arab World. By Jenny Balfour-Paul. pp. xvii, 283. Richmond, Curzon, 1998.

A Fiscal History of Iran in the Safavid and Qajar Periods. By Willem Floor, Persian Studies Series 17, General Editor Ehsan Yarshater, pp. 573. New York, Bibliotheca Press, 1998.

A Biographical Dictionary of the Qin, Former Han, and Xin Periods (221 BC–AD 24). By Michael Loewe. pp. xxiii, 837. Leiden, Brill, 2000.

Religious Doctrines in the Mahābhārata. By Nicholas Sutton. pp. xxii, 477. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 2000.

A Jewel in Indra's Net. By Antonio Forte (Italian School of East Asian Studies Occasional Papers 8). pp. 105. Kyoto, Istituto Italiano di Cultura Scuola di Studi Asia Orientale, 2000.

Parfums d'Orient, Res orientales, Vol. XI. Textes réunis par Rika Gyselen. pp. 212. Bures-sur-Yvette, Goupe pour L'Étude de la Civilisation du Moyen-Orient, 1998.

Making and Remaking History: A Study of Tiantai Sectarian Historiography. By Jinhua Chen. Studia Philologica Buddhica, Monograph Series, XV. pp. xi, 202. Tokyo, The International Institute for Buddhist Studies, 1999.

Arming the State. Military Conscription in the Middle East and Central Asia, 1775–1925. Edited by Erik J. Zürcher. pp. 168. London and New York, I. B. Tauris, 1999.

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