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Robert Gleave and István T. Kristó-Nagy (eds): Violence in Islamic Thought from the Mongols to European Imperialism. (Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Islamic Thought.) viii, 240 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018. ISBN 978 1 47441300 8.
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Whitney Cox: Politics, Kingship, and Poetry in Medieval South India: Moonset on Sunrise Mountain. xv, 309 pp. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. ISBN 978 1 107 17237 1.
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Joel P. Brereton and Theodore N. Proferes (eds): Creating the Veda, Living the Veda: Selected Papers from the 13th World Sanskrit Conference. (Annales Academiæ Scientiarum Fennicæ, Humaniora 379.) 185 pp. Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 2018. €35. ISBN 978 951 41 1120 4.
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Martin Pfeiffer: Kuṛux Historical Phonology Reconsidered. With a Reconstruction of Pre-Kuṛux-Malto Phonology and Copious Indo-Aryan and Munda Etymologies. 480 pp. Norderstedt: PublIQation Academic Publishing, 2018. ISBN 978 3 7458 6986 6.
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Gerald Larson: Classical Yoga Philosophy and the Legacy of Sāṃkhya with Sanskrit Text and English Translation of Pātañjala Yogasūtra-s, Vyāsa Bhāṣya and Tattvavaiśāradī of Vācaspatimiśra. (MLBD Classical Systems of Indian Philosophy.) 1023 pp. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2018. 3295 INR. ISBN 978 81 208 4201 4.
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Jean-Charles Ducène: L'Europe et les géographes arabes du Moyen Âge. 502 pp. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2018. ISBN 978 2 271 08209 1.
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Tulsidas: The Epic of Ram. Volume 3 (trans. Philip Lutgendorf). (Murty Classical Library of India, 15.) xxiii, 301 pp. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. - Tulsidas: The Epic of Ram. Volume 4 (trans. Philip Lutgendorf). (Murty Classical Library of India, 16.) xxiii, 329 pp. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018.
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Iver B. Neumann and Einar Wigen: The Steppe Tradition in International Relations: Russians, Turks, and European State Building 4000 bce–2018 ce. xv, 309 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. £75. ISBN 978 1 108 42079 2.
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Alireza Doostdar: The Iranian Metaphysicals: Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny. xiv, 295 pp. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. ISBN 978 0 691 16378 9.
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Lauren Gawne and Nathan W. Hill (eds): Evidential Systems of Tibetan Languages. (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, 302.) 472 pp. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2017. £91. ISBN 978 3 11 046018 6.
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Yana Tchekhanovets: The Caucasian Archaeology of the Holy Land: Armenian, Georgian and Albanian Communities between the Fourth and Eleventh Centuries CE. (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section One: The Near and Middle East, Volume 123.) xxiv, 307 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2018. €150. ISBN 978 90 04 36224 6.
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Hans-Georg Moeller and Paul J. D'ambrosio: Genuine Pretending: On the Philosophy of the Zhuangzi. x, 221 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. $35. ISBN 978 0 231 18399 4.
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Jinhua Jia: Gender, Power, and Talent: The Journey of Daoist Priestesses in Tang China. xxvi, 324 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. $70. ISBN 978 0 23118 444 1.
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Vazha Pshavela: Unveiling Vazha Pshavela: A Dozen Poems by Vazha, with Stories and Artworks Inspired by Him. Translated by Donald Rayfield, with illustrations by Manana Antelidze, Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili, Andro Semeiko, and Leonid Semeiko. 173 pp. London: Garnett Press, 2018. ISBN 978 0 9564683 4 5.
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James Duncan Gentry: Power Objects in Tibetan Buddhism: The Life, Writings and Legacy of Sokdokpa Lodrö Gyeltsen. (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library.) xiv, 514 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2017. ISBN 978 90 04 33019 1.
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Hsueh-Man Shen: Authentic Replicas: Buddhist Art in Medieval China. xii, 335 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2019. ISBN 978 0 8248 6705 8.
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Robert Donceel and Pauline Donceel-Voute: Matériel archéologique de Khirbet Quoumrân et ʿAin Feshkha sur la Mer Morte. Pierre, lampes, verre, matériaux divers. xii, 501 pp. Leuven: Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2017. ISBN 978 2 87558 606 3.
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Sam van Schaik: The Spirit of Zen. xiv, 255 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018 (published in association with the International Sacred Literature Trust). £12.99. ISBN 978 0 300 22145 9.
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Behnaz A. Mirzai: A History of Slavery and Emancipation in Iran, 1800/1929. xiii, 324 pp. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017. ISBN 978 1 4773 1186 8.
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Ge Zhaoguang (trans. Michael Gibbs Hill): What is China? Territory, Ethnicity, Culture, and History. xv, 201 pp. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018. £28.95. ISBN 978 0 674 73714 3.
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