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Volume 18 - January 2008

Book Review

Early Śaivism and the Skandapurခṇa. Sects and Centres. By Peter C. Bisschop. Groningen Oriental Studies Vol. XXI. pp. vii, 368. Groningen, Egbert Forsten, 2006.

Chinggis Khan. By Michal Biran. pp. x, 182. Oneworld, Oxford, 2007.

The Dispensatory of Ibn at-Tilmīd. By Oliver Kahl. pp. 349. Leiden, Brill, 2007.

Nippur V. The Early Dynastic to Akkadian Transition. The Area WF Sounding at Nippur. By Augusta McMahon. pp. xxxii, 173. Chicago, The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2006.

Tocqueville in India. By Jean Alphonse Bernard. pp. xvii, 247. Paris, Les Editions d'en Face, 2006.

The Canonization of al-Bukhaārī and Muslim: the Formation and Function of the Sunnī Ḥadīth Canon. By Jonathan Brown (Islam [sic] History and Civilization, Studies and Texts 69). Series Editors Wadad Kadi and Rotraud Wielandt. pp. xxii, 431. Leiden, Brill, 2007.

Eagle's Nest: Ismaili Castles in Iran and Syria. By Peter Willey (Ismaili Heritage Series 10). pp. xxvii, 321. London and New York, I. B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, 2005.

A Hindu Education. Early Years of the Banaras Hindu University. By Leah Renold. pp xvii, 237. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2005.

Religion And Society In South India: Hindus, Muslims And Christians (Institute for Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Meshar, Series-18). By J. B. P More. With a foreword by Francis Robinson. pp. xi, 277. Midas Press, Kuthuparamba, 2006.

The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj: Merchants, Rulers and the British in the Nineteenth-Century Gulf. By James Onley. pp. xxxv, 352. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007.

Law and Education in Medieval Islam: Studies in Memory of Professor George Makdisi. Edited by Joseph E. Lowry, Devin J. Stewart and Shawkat M. Toorawa. pp. xiv, 194. London, E.J.W. Gibb Memorial Trust, 2004.

La Letteratura Pahlavi: Introduzione ai testi con riferimenti alla storia degli studi e alla tradizione manoscritta. By Carlo G. Cereti. pp. 262. Milan, Mimesis, 2001.

Violent Order: Religious Warfare, Chivalry, and the ‘Ayyār Phenomenon in the Medieval Islamic World. By D. G. Tor. pp. 318. Würzburg, Orient-Institut Istanbul, Istanbuler Texte und Studien, 11, 2007.

The Shadow Of The Great Game: The Untold Story Of India's Partition. By Narendra Singh Sarila. pp. 432. London, Constable and Robinson, 2007.

The harem, slavery and british imperial culture; anglo-muslim relations in the late nineteenth century. By Diane Robinson-Dunn. (Studies in imperialism series, edited by John M. MacKenzie). pp. xiv, 225. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2006.

Chinese Sculpture. By Angela Falco Howard, Li Song, Wu Hung, and Yang Hong. pp. 536. New Haven, London, and Beijing, Yale University Press, 2006.

Timurids in Transition: Turko-Persian Politics and Acculturation in Medieval Iran. By Maria E. Subtelny. (Brill's Inner Asian Library). pp. xv, 411. Leiden, Brill, 2007.

Trade and Society in The Straits of Melaka: Dutch Melaka and English Penang, 1780–1830. By Nordin Hussin. (NIAS Monographs, 100) pp. xxvii, 388. Copenhagen, NIASXX Press, 2007.

The Teeth and Claws of the Buddha: Monastic Warriors and Sōhei in Japanese History. By Mikael S. Adolphson. pp. xvi, 212. Honolulu, University of Hawai'i Press, 2007.

Indian Temple Sculpture. By John Guy. pp. 192. London, Victoria and Albert Museum Publications, 2007.

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Book Review