PAUL R. GOLDIN,
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Art 539
SHUEN-FU LIN, The Last Classic Chinese
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TIMOTHY LUBIN, Vratá Divine and Human in
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BRIAN A. HATCHER, Sanskrit Pandits Recall
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GERALD T. ELMORE, Shaykh 'Abd al-'Aziz
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TZVI ABUSCH, The Development and Meaning of
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Review Article
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SIMMONS: Chinese Dialect Classifcation: A Comparative Approach to Harngjou, Old Jintarn,
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DUDBRIDGE: Lost Books of Medieval China (Paul W. Kroll) 660
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FUSSMAN and KÖNIG: Die Felsbildstation Shatial (Richard Salomon) 663
BAKKER: The Vakatakas: An Essay in Hindu Iconology (Robert L. Brown) 664
SINGHA: A Despotism of Law: Crime and Justice in Early Colonial India (Ludo
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BROCKINGTON, ed.: A Catalogue of the Sanskrit and Other Indian Manuscripts of the Chandra
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Stotras (Ludo Rocher) 668
MURRAY: Sir William Jones 1746-1794: A Commemoration (Rosane Rocher) 669
ODDIE: Missionaries, Rebellion and Proto-Nationalism: James Long of Bengal 1814-47 (Rosane
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SASTRI: Mahakavi BhÀdhardas: Ek SamÀlocanÀtmak Adhyayan (John E.
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WAYMAN: A Millennium of Buddhist Logic, vol. 1 (Brendan S. Gillon) 672
HOCKINGS: A Comprehensive Bibliography for the Nilgiri Hills of Southern India, 1603-1996
(Kamil V. Zvelebil) 673
BOSE, ed.: Faces of the Feminine in Ancient, Medieval, and Modern India (Arvind
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GNOLI: Abhinavagupta, Luce di Tantra: Tantraloka; Torella: Gli aforismi di Siva, con il
Commento de Ksemaraja: Sivasitravimarsivi (André Padoux) 676
HANNEDER: Abhinavagupta's Philosophy of Revelation: An Edition and Annotated Translation
of Malinislokavarttika I, 1-399 (André Padoux) 678
WHICHER: The Integrity of the Yoga Darsana: A Reconsideration of Classical Yoga (Patrick
Olivelle) 679
BANERJI: A Brief History of Dharmasastra (Richard W. Lariviere) 680
MATILAL: The Character of Logic in India (John A. Taber) 681
PORTER, ed.: One God or Many? Concepts of Divinity in the Ancient World (Gary Beckman)
683
VAN DER TOORN: Family Religion in Babylonia, Syria and Israel: Continuity and Change in
the Forms of Religious Life (Dominique Charpin) 685
SWERDLOW, ed.: Ancient Astronomy and Celestial Divination (Peter J. Huber) 687
SOKOLOFF and YAHALOM, eds.: Jewish Palestinian Aramaic Poetry from Late Antiquity (Jan
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STAGER, GREENE and COOGAN, eds.: The Archaeology of Jordan and Beyond: Essays in Honor of
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WEVERS: Notes on the Greek Text of Numbers (Saul Levin) 691
AL- MUBARAKI, et al., eds.: Ginza Rha (The Great Treasure); Qualasta: The Mandaean
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KAHL: Siut-Theben: Zur Wertschäftzung von Traditionen im alten Ägypten (B. P. Muhs)
694
GORDON: A Scholar's Odyssey (A. F. Rainey) 695
YILDIZ and OZAKI: Die Umma-Texte aus den archäologischen Museen zu Istanbul, vol. 5
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GOEHRING: Ascetics, Society, and the Desert: Studies in Early Egyptian Monasticism (Andrew
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BEAULIEU: Legal and Administrative Texts from the Reign of Nabonidus (M. A. Dandamayev)
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RUSSELL: The Writing on the Wall: Studies in the Architectural Context of Late Assyrian
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BATTINI-VILLARD: L'espace domestique en Mésopotamie de la IIIe dynastie d'Ur à l'époque
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MACDONALD and YOUNKER, eds.: Ancient Ammon (Bruce Routledge) 705
PETRY, ed.: The Cambridge History of Egypt, vol. 1: Islamic Egypt, 640-1517 (Reuven
Amitai) 707
DALY, ed.: The Cambridge History of Egypt, vol. 2: Modern Egypt from 1517 to the End of
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FLOOR: The Afghan Occupation of Safavid Persia 1721-1729 (Rudi Matthee)
711
EDZARD and NEKROUMI, eds.: Tradition and Innovation: Norm and Deviation in Arabic and
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DUTTON: The Origins of Islamic Law: The Qur'an, The Muwatta' and Madinan `Amal
(Christopher Melchert) 713
ILIC: Hüseyin Lamekani: Ein osmanischer Dichter und Mystiker und sein literarisches Werk
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DE JONG and RADTKE, eds.: Islamic Mysticism Contested: Thirteen Centuries of Controversies
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HOVANNISIAN and SABAGH, eds.: Religion and Culture in Medieval Islam (Josef W. Meri)
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SHANI: A Monumental Manifestation of the Shi`ite Faith in Late Twelfth-Century Islam: The
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QUINN: Historical Writing during the Reign of Shah `Abbas: Ideology, Imitation, and
Legitimacy in Safavid Chronicles (Julie Scott Meisami) 723
MOTZKI, ed.: The Biography of Muhammad: The Issue of the Sources (Asma Afsaruddin)
726
WARRAQ, ed.: The Quest for the Historica Muhammad (Asma Afsaruddin) 728
WALBRIDGE: The Leaven of the Ancients: Shrawardi and the Heritage of the Greeks (Jon
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