Reviews: The Near and Middle East
Lynn Jones: Between Islam and Byzantium: Aghtʿamar and the Visual Construction of Medieval Armenian Rulership. xvi, 144 pp. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. £55. ISBN 978 07546 3852 0.
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- 26 February 2009, pp. 179-181
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Charles King: The Ghost of Freedom. A History of the Caucasus. xxii, 290 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. £17.99. ISBN 978 0 19 517775 6.
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Reviews: South Asia
Léon Feer (ed.): The Saṃyutta-nikāya of the Sutta-piṭaka. Pt. 5 Mahāvagga. (Pali Text Society: Text Series no. 97.) xv, 499 pp. Oxford: The Pali Text Society, 2008. ISBN 086013 169 6.
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- 26 February 2009, pp. 183-185
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Mehrdad Shokoohy and Natalie H. Shokoohy: Tughluqabad: A Paradigm for Indo-Islamic Urban Planning and Its Architectural Components. 272 pp. London: Araxus Books, The Society for South Asian Studies, The British Academy, 2007. £38. ISBN 978 1 870606 10 3.
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- 26 February 2009, pp. 186-187
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Adam Hardy: The Temple Architecture of India. 256 pp. Chichester: John Wiley, 2007. £45. ISBN 978 047002827 8.
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- 26 February 2009, pp. 187-189
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George Michell (ed.): Vijayanagara: Splendour in Ruins. 250 pp. Ahmedabad: Mapin Publishing and The Alkazi Collection of Photography, 2008. ISBN 978 81 89995 03 4.
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- 26 February 2009, pp. 189-191
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John Burton-Page (ed. George Michell): Indian Islamic Architecture: Forms and Typologies, Sites and Monuments. (Handbook of Oriental Studies.) xxiv, 196 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008. €99. ISBN 978 90 04 16339 3.
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- 26 February 2009, pp. 191-192
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Crispin Branfoot: Gods on the Move: Architecture and Ritual in the South Indian Temple. xvi, 272 pp. London: The Society for South Asian Studies, The British Academy, 2007. £30. ISBN 978 0 9553924 1 2.
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Priti Kumar Mitra: The Dissent of Nazrul Islam: Poetry and History. 330 pp. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007. Rs. 695. ISBN 978 0 19 568398 1.
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- 26 February 2009, pp. 194-196
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John R. Hinnells and Alan Williams (eds): Parsis in India and the Diaspora. (Routledge South Asian Religions Series.) xiv, 290 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. £80. ISBN 978 0 415 44366 1.
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- 26 February 2009, pp. 196-200
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Reviews: Central and Inner Asia
P.J. Marczell: Alexander Csoma de Kőrös. Volume One: Csoma Kőrösi's Planet. (Monograph Series No. XLV.) xxiii, 302 pp., Alexander Csoma de Kőrös. Volume Two: British-Indian Source Documents. (Monograph Series No. XLV.) xxviii, 593 pp. Calcutta: The Asiatic Society, 2007. $120.
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Reviews: East Asia
Marc S. Abramson: Ethnic Identity in Tang China. (Encounters with Asia.) xxv, 258 pp. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. £36. ISBN 0 8122 4052 9.
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Ouyang Xiu (translated and with an introduction by Richard L. Davis): Historical Records of the Five Dynasties. lxxix, 669 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. £17.50. ISBN 978 0 231 12827 8.
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Christian Meyer: Ritendiskussionen am Hof der nördlichen Song-Dynastie (1034–1093): Zwischen Ritengelehrsamkeit, Machtkampf und intellektuellen Bewegungen. (Monumenta Serica Monograph Series.) 646 pp. Sankt Augustin: Institut Monumenta Serica, 2008. €65. ISBN 978 3 8050 0551 7.
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James M. Hargett: Riding the River Home: A Complete and Annotated Translation of Fan Chengda's (1126–1193) Diary of a Boat Trip to Wu (Wuchuan lu). xi, 302 pp. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2008. $55. ISBN 978 962 996 302 6.
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Judith T. Zeitlin: The Phantom Heroine: Ghosts and Gender in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Literature. xiv, 298 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2007. $57. ISBN 978 0 8248 3091 5.
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Fan Pan Li Chen: Chinese Shadow Theatre, History, Popular Religion, and Women Warriors. xxii, 343 pp. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. £41. ISBN 978 077353197 0.
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Christopher Hancock: Robert Morrison and the Birth of Chinese Protestantism. xii, 268 pp. London: T & T Clark, 2008. £19.99. ISBN 978 0567031778.
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Francesca Bray, Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann and Georges Métailié (eds): Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft. (Sinica Leidensia.) xiii, 772 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2007. €149. ISBN 9789004160637.
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Paul Williams: Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations. (Second edition.) xi, 438 pp. London: Routledge, 2009. £19.99. ISBN 978 0 415 35653 4.
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- 26 February 2009, pp. 216-217
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