Reviews: The Near and Middle East
Simon O'meara: The Kaʿba Orientations: Readings in Islam's Ancient House. x, 253 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. £95. ISBN 978 0 7486 9930 8.
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- 22 April 2021, pp. 169-170
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Danielle Ross: Tatar Empire: Kazan's Muslims and the Making of Imperial Russia. vii, 276 pp. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2020. ISBN 978 0 253 04570 6.
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- 22 April 2021, pp. 170-172
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Arash Zeini: Zoroastrian Scholasticism in Late Antiquity: The Pahlavi Version of the Yasna Haptaŋhāiti. (Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia.) xxvi, 396 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. £95. ISBN 978 1 4744 4288 6.
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- 22 April 2021, pp. 172-174
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Reviews: South Asia
Patrick Olivelle (ed. and trans.): Yajnavalkya: A Treatise on Dharma. (Murty Classical Library of India, 20.) xl, 384 pp. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. £23.95. ISBN 978 0 67427706 9.
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- 05 April 2021, pp. 174-176
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Hartmut Buescher: Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts: The Paṇḍit Collection. (Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts, Xylographs, etc. in Danish Collections, vol 7.2.) xl (Vol 1), xxiii (Vol 2), 805 pp. Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2019. £200. ISBN 978 87 7694 255 7.
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- 05 April 2021, pp. 176-178
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Mark Mcclish: The History of the Arthaśāstra: Sovereignty and Sacred Law in Ancient India. xvii, 274 pp. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. $99.99. ISBN 978 110847 6904.
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- 22 April 2021, pp. 178-180
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Roy S. Fischel: Local States in an Imperial World: Identity, Society and Politics in the Early Modern Deccan. x, 299 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. ISBN 978 147443607 6.
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- 22 April 2021, pp. 180-182
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Mehrdad Shokoohy and Natalie Shokoohy: Bayana: The Sources of Mughal Architecture. xi, 737 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. ISBN 978 1 4744 6072 9.
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- 22 April 2021, pp. 182-183
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Hans T. Bakker: The Alkhan. A Hunnic People in South Asia. (Companion to Hunnic Peoples in Central and South Asia. Sources for Their Origin and History.) xiv, 128 pp. Groningen: Barkhuis, 2020. ISBN 978 94 93194 00 7.
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- 22 April 2021, pp. 184-185
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Dániel Balogh (ed.): Hunnic Peoples in Central and South Asia: Sources for their Origin and History. xxx, 438 pp. Groningen: Barkhuis, 2020. ISBN 978 94 93194 01 4.
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- 22 April 2021, pp. 185-187
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Jonathan A. Silk (editor-in-chief); Richard Bowring, Vincent Eltschinger and Michael Radich (eds): Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Volume II: Lives. (Handbook of Oriental Studies.) xlvi, 1307 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2019. €410. ISBN 978 90 04 29937 5.
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- 22 April 2021, pp. 187-189
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Reviews: East Asia
Martin Bemmann and Sun Hua (eds), Lothar Ledderose (series editor): Buddhist Stone Sutras in China. Sichuan Province, vol. 4. Wofoyuan Section D. xii, 612 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag; and Hangzhou: China Academy of Art Press, 2018. £185. ISBN 978 3 447 11006 8.
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- 22 April 2021, pp. 189-191
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Mårten Söderblom Saarela: The Early Modern Travels of Manchu: A Script and Its Study in East Asia and Europe. (Encounters with Asia.) x, 301 pp. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. £58. ISBN 978 0 8122 5207 1.
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- 05 April 2021, pp. 191-193
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Moritz Huber: Lives of Sogdians in Medieval China. (Asiatische Forschungen 160.) xvi, 350 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2020. €78. ISBN 978 3 447 11380 9.
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- 05 April 2021, pp. 193-194
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Nanny Kim: Mountain Rivers, Mountain Roads: Transport in Southwest China, 1700–1850. (Monies, Markets and Finance in East Asia, 1600–1900.) xxv, 621 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2020. €149. ISBN 978 90 04 41509 6.
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- 05 April 2021, pp. 195-196
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Edward Mcdonald: Grammar West to East: The Investigation of Linguistic Meaning in European and Chinese Traditions. xx, 275 pp. (The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series.) New York: Springer, 2020. ISBN 978 981 13 7595 8.
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- 22 April 2021, pp. 197-198
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Yasuhiko Nagano (長野 泰彦): 嘉戎語文法研究 (A Reference Grammar of the rGyalrong Language – Bhola Dialect). xxviii, 508 pp. Tokyo: 汲古書院 (Kyuko Shoin), 2018. ISBN 978 4 7629 1227 6.
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- 22 April 2021, pp. 199-200
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Ebiharo Shiho: A Grammar of Amdo Tibetan. xxiv, 375 pp. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo, 2019. ISBN 978 89476 951 9.
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- 05 April 2021, pp. 200-202
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Thomas Irvine: Listening to China: Sound and the Sino-Western Encounter, 1770–1839. (New Material Histories of Music.) viii, 263 pp. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2020. £42. ISBN 978 0 226 66712 6.
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- 22 April 2021, pp. 202-204
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Reviews: Africa
Manfred Kropp and Harry Stroomer (eds): Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie des périodes pré-axoumite et axoumite. Tome III – Traductions et commentaires. B. Les inscriptions sémitiques par Abraham J. Drewes. (Aethiopistische Forschungen 85.) xvi, 722 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2019. ISBN 978 3 447 11316 8.
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- 22 April 2021, pp. 204-206
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