JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY
VOLUME XI · PART 2 · JULY  2001

CONTENTS

 

Richard Burton's Somali Expedition, 1854–55: Its Wider Historical Context and Planning
Jon R. Godsall
 
pp 135-173
Lover and Saint The Early Development of Anandghan's Reputation
Imre Bangha
 
pp 175-190
Tirumala Nayaka's “New Hall” and the European Study of the South Indian Temple
Crispin Branfoot
 
pp 191-217
Buddhist Saints in Ancient Vedisa
Michael Willis
 
pp 219-228
Pearl ship ang qi: a central generic feature of Xiao Shuo.
Liang Shi
 
pp 229-248

Book Reviews

Carolyn R. Higginbotham: Egyptianization and Elite Emulation in Ramesside Palestine. Governance and Accommodation on the Imperial Periphery.
K. A. Kitchen
 
253
Alexander Sima: Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-‘Udayb (Saudi-Arabien).
François Bron
 
255
William C. Chittick: The Self-Disclosure of God: Principles of Ibn al-‘Arabi's Cosmology.
Alexander Knysh
 
257
M. T. Heemskerk: Suffering in the Mu‘tazilite Theology. ‘Abd al-Jabbar's Teaching on Pain and Divine Justice.
Miklós Maróth
 
260
D. Perler and U. Rudolph: Occasionalismus. Theorien der Kausalität im arabisch-islamischen und im europäischen Denken.
Miklós Maróth
 
263
Malise Ruthven: Islam. A very short introduction.
François de Blois
 
266
Martin Hinds: Studies in Islamic History. Edited by Jere Bacharach, Lawrence I. Conrad and Patricia Crone with an introduction by G. R. Hawting.
Michael Bonner
 
268
Karin Ådahl, and Mikael Ahlund: Islamic Art Collections. An International Survey.
Anna Contadini
 
270
G. R. Hawting: The Idea of Idolatry and the Emergence of Islam: From Polemic to History.
Wilferd Madelung
 
271
Christopher S. Taylor: In the Vicinity of the Righteous: Ziyara and the Veneration of Muslim Saints in Late Medieval Egypt.
Muhammad Qasim Zaman
 
273
C. E. Bosworth: The History of Al-Tabari. Vol 5. The Sansanids, The Byzantines, The Lakhmids and Yemen.
Robert Hoyland
 
275
John Curtis: Mesopotamia and Iran in the Parthian and Sasanian Periods: Rejection and Revival c. 238 b.c. – a.d. 642.
A. D. H. Bivar
 
275
Vera Basch Moreen: In Queen Esther's Garden. An Anthology of Judeo-Persian Literature.
Chana Tolmas
 
277
Willem Floor: A Fiscal History of Iran in the Safavid and Qajar Periods.
Homa Katouzian
 
278
Nicholas Sutton: Religious Doctrines in the Mahabharata.
Nicholas Allen
 
288
Mary Brockington and Peter Schreiner: Composing a tradition: concepts, techniques and relationships, Proceedings of the First Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Puranas, August 1997
Dominic Goodall
 
290
Jürgen Hanneder: Abhinavagupta's Philosophy of Revelation: An edition and annotated translation of Malinislokavarttika I, 1–399.
Dominic Goodall
 
292
Folke Josephson: Categorisation and interpretation. Indological and comparative studies from an international Indological meeting at the Department of Comparative Philology
Renate Söhnen-Thieme
 
295
Simon Digby: Wonder-tales of South Asia.
Lalita du Perron
 
296
Pepita Seth: Reflections of the Spirit. The Theyyams of Malabar.
A. L. Dallapiccola
 
296
Kanakalatha Mukund: The Trading World of the Tamil Merchant. Evolution of Merchant Capitalism in the Coromandel.
Roderich Ptak
 
298
Vibhuti Chakrabarti: Indian Architectural Theory: Contemporary Uses of Vastu Vidya.
Crispin Branfoot
 
300
Indira Ghose: Memsahibs Abroad. Writings by Women Travellers in Nineteenth Century India.
Claudia Liebeskind
 
302
Catherine Hall: Cultures of Empire: a reader. Colonizers in Britain and the Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Simon C. Smith
 
304
H. J. Klimkeit: Gnosis on the Silk Road, Gnostic Parables, Hymns and Prayers from Central Asia.
Sam Lieu
 
305
Rémi Mathieu: Démons et Merveilles dans la littérature chinoise des Six Dynasties: Le fantastique et l'anecdotique dans le Soushen ji de Gan Bao.
James St. André
 
309
David Gedalecia: The Philosophy of Wu Ch'eng, a Neo-Confucian of the Yüan Dynasty.
Willard J. Peterson
 
310
Chen-main Wang: The Life and Career of Hung Ch'eng-ch'ou (1593–1665): Public Service in a Time of Dynastic Change.
Morris Rossabi
 
312
Barend J. ter Haar: Ritual and Mythology of the Chinese Triads: Creating an Identity.
T. H. Barrett
 
313
David D. Wang: Clouds over Tianshan: Essays on Social Disturbance in Xinjiang in the 1940s.
Michael Dillon
 
315
Meher McArthur: Gods and Goblins: Japanese Folk Paintings from Otsu.
Timon Screech
 
316
Engelbert Kaempfer: Kaempfer's Japan; Tokugawa Culture Observed. , translated by Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey.
B. J. Terwiel
 
317
Chushichi Tsuzuki: The Pursuit of Power in Modern Japan 1825–1995.
Richard Sims
 
318
Ralph Isaacs and T. Richard Blurton: Visions from the Golden Land: Burma and the Art of Lacquer.
Alexandra Green
 
320
David Smyth: The Canon in Southeast Asian literatures. Literatures of Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.
Edwin Wieringa
 
323