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Volume 20 - July 2010

Book Review

The Geopolitics of South Asia. From early empires to the nuclear age. By Graham P. Chapman. pp. xx, 362. Aldershot, Ashgate, 2009.

Iranian Elites and Turkish Rulers: A History of Iṣfahan in the Saljūq Period, (Routledge Studies in the History of Iran and Turkey). By David Duran-Guédy. pp. xvii, 435. London and New York, Routledge, 2010.

Letters of a Sufi Scholar: The Correspondence of ‘Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi (1641–1731). By Samer Akkach. pp. 512. Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2010.

Frontiers of Islamic art and architecture: Essays in celebration of Oleg Grabar's eightieth birthday. Edited by Gülru Necipoğlu and Julia Bailey. (Muqarnas 25). pp. x, 396. Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2008.

Art and Archaeology of Afghanistan Its Fall and Survival A Multi-Disciplinary Approach. By Juliette van Krieken-Pieters. pp. xxi, 412. Leiden, Brill, 2006.

Between Social Skills and Marketable Skills: The Politics of Islamic Education in 20th Century Zanzibar. By Roman Loimeier. pp. xxxi, 643, Maps, 23 illus. Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2009.

In Defense of the Bible. A Critical Edition and an Introduction to al-Biqāʿī's Bible Treatise (Islamic History and Civilization, vol. 73). pp. viii, 223. By Walid A. Saleh. Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2008.

L'art du livre dans l'Inde des sultanats. By Éloïse Brac de la Perrière. pp. 367. Paris, Presses de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2008.

Parsis in India and the Diaspora. Edited by John R. Hinnells and Alan Williams. pp. xiv, 290. London, Routledge, 2007.

The Dharma's Gatekeepers: Sakya Paṇḍita on Buddhist Scholarship in Tibet. By Jonathan C. Gold. pp. 267. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008.

Islamic Connections: Muslim Societies in South and Southeast Asia. Edited by R. Michael Feener and Terenjit Sevea. pp. xxiv, 245. Singapore, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009.

Pastoralist landscapes and social interaction in Bronze Age Eurasia. By Michael D. Frachetti. pp. 232. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2008.

The Forgotten Bishops. The Malabar Independent Syrian Church and its Place in the Story of the St Thomas Christians (Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies, 20). By John Fenwick. pp. xlvii, 636. Piscataway NJ, Gorgias Press, 2009.

The Socially Involved Renunciate: Gurū Nānak's Discourse to the Nāth Yogis. By Kamala Elizabeth Nayar and Jaswinder Singh Sandhu. Albany, State University of New York Press, 2007.

State and Locality in Mughal India: Power Relations in Western India, c. 1572–1730. By Farhat Hasan. pp. x, 144. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Archibald Wavell: The Life and Times of an Imperial Servant. By Adrian Fort. pp. xiv, 498. London, Jonathan Cape, 2009.

Ideology and Christianity in Japan. By Kiri Paramore. (Routledge/Leiden Series in Modern East Asian History and Politics). pp. 230. London, Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2009.

Portraits in Princely India 1700–1947. Edited by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones. pp. 136. Mumbai, Marg Publications, 2010.

The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: an epic of ancient India. Volume VI: Yuddhakāṇḍa. Translated by Robert P. Goldman, Sally J. Sutherland Goldman, and Barend A. van Nooten. pp. xviii, 1655. Princeton, New Jersey and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2009.

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Book Review