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Reviews: The Near and Middle East
Doris Behrens-Abouseif (with contributions by Nicholas Warner; photographs by Bernard O'Kane): The Minarets of Cairo: Islamic Architecture from the Arab Conquest to the End of the Ottoman Empire. xvi, 352 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2010. ISBN 978 1 84885 539 7.
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- 22 February 2012, pp. 171-174
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Sarah D. Shields: Fezzes in the River: Identity Politics and European Diplomacy in the Middle East on the Eve of World War II. xi, 306 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. £27.50. ISBN 978 0 19 539331 6.
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- 22 February 2012, pp. 174-175
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Terence Walz and Kenneth M. Cuno (eds): Race and Slavery in the Middle East: Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean. xiv, 264 pp. Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2010. ISBN 978 977 416 398 2.
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- 22 February 2012, pp. 175-177
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Jenny Rose: Zoroastrianism: An Introduction. xxiv, 303 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2011. £14.99. ISBN 978 1 84885 088 0.
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- 22 February 2012, pp. 177-179
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Reviews: South Asia
Jennifer Howes: Illustrating India: The Early Colonial Investigations of Colin Mackenzie (1784–1821). xiv, 269 pp. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010. £75. ISBN 978 0 19 806441 1.
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- 22 February 2012, pp. 179-181
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Avril A. Powell: Scottish Orientalists and India: The Muir Brothers, Religion, Education and Empire. (Worlds of the East India Company.) xvi, 318 pp. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 2010. ISBN 978 1 84383 579 0.
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- 22 February 2012, pp. 181-183
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Rabindranath Tagore: Gitanjali, A New Translation with an Introduction by William Radice. 344 pp. New Delhi: Penguin India, 2011. ISBN 978 0 67008542 2.
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- 22 February 2012, pp. 183-185
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Michael Madhusudan Dutt: The Poem of the Killing of Meghnād: Meghnādbadh kabya (Translated by William Radice). cxxi, 428 pp. New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 2010. ISBN 978 0 143 41413 1.
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- 22 February 2012, pp. 185-187
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Reviews: Central Asia
Peter B. Golden: Central Asia in World History. (The New Oxford World History.) x, 178 pp. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. £12.99. ISBN 978 0 19 533819 5.
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- 22 February 2012, pp. 187-188
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Peter B. Golden: Turks and Khazars: Origins, Institutions, and Interactions in Pre-Mongol Eurasia. (Variorum Collected Studies Series.) x, 368 pp. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. £90. ISBN 978 1 4094 0003 5.
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- 22 February 2012, pp. 189-190
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Sam Van Schaik: Tibet: A History. xxiii, 324 pp. London and New York: Yale University Press, 2011. £25. ISBN 978 0 300 15404 7.
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- 22 February 2012, pp. 190-192
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Xinru Liu: The Silk Road in World History. (The New Oxford World History.) 154 pp. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. £47.50. ISBN 978 019 516174 8.
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- 22 February 2012, pp. 192-193
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Jens Wilkens: Alttürkische Handschriften. Teil 10. Buddhistische Erzähltexte. (Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland. XIII, 18.) 389 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. €74. ISBN 978 3 515 09666 9.
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- 22 February 2012, pp. 194-196
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The Cowherds: Moonshadows: Conventional Truth in Buddhist Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. £22.50. ISBN 978 0 19 975143 3.
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- 22 February 2012, pp. 196-198
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Reviews: East Asia
Kenneth Dean and Zheng Zhenman 鄭振滿: Ritual Alliances of the Putian Plain. Volume One: Historical Introduction to the Return of the Gods; Volume Two: A Survey of the Village Temples and Ritual Activities. (Handbook of Oriental Studies.) Vol. I, xv, 404 pp. €103. ISBN 978 90 04 17602 7. Vol. II, xxx, 1060 pp. €185. ISBN 978 90 04 17601 0.
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- 22 February 2012, pp. 198-200
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Roel Sterckx: Food, Sacrifice, and Sagehood in Early China. x, 235 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. £55. ISBN 978 110700171 8.
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- 22 February 2012, pp. 200-201
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Joseph W. Esherick: Ancestral Leaves: A Family Journey through Chinese History. xvi, 374 pp. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. £16.95. ISBN 978 0 520 26700 8.
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- 22 February 2012, pp. 201-203
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Francesca R. Sborgi Lawson: The Narrative Arts of Tianjin: Between Music and Language. (SOAS Musicology Series.) xiii, 198 pp., CD. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2011. £55. ISBN 978 1 4094 0588 7.
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- 22 February 2012, pp. 203-205
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R. Kent Guy: Qing Governors and Their Provinces: The Evolution of Territorial Administration in China, 1644–1796. (A China Program Book.) xii, 445 pp. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2010. £23.69. ISBN 978 0 295 99019 4.
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- 22 February 2012, pp. 205-207
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Elizabeth Morrison: The Power of Patriarchs: Qisong and Lineage in Chinese Buddhism. (Sinica Leidensia.) ix, 305 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010. €108. ISBN 978 90 04 18301 8.
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- 22 February 2012, pp. 207-208
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