School of Oriental and African Studies.Bulletin
Vol.  LXIV     Part 3        2001

Table of Contents

Articles

Mirror for princes or vizor for viziers: The twelfth-century Arabic popular encyclopedia Mufid al-‘ulum and its relationship with the anonymous Persian Bahr al-fawa'id
GEERT JAN VAN GELDER  

pp 313-339

Toleration and exclusion: al-Shafi‘i and al-Ghazali on the treatment of apostates
FRANK GRIFFEL
pp 339-354
The ewer of Ibn Jaldak (623/1226) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: the inquiry into the origin of the Mawsili School of metalwork revisited
HOWAYDA AL-HARITHY
pp 355-368
Official monks and reclusive monks: focusing on the salvation of women
MATSUO KENJI
pp 369-380
Transitivity alternation and neutral-verbs in Korean
JAEHOON YEON
pp 381-391
Notes and communications
Some Sri Lankan medical manuscripts of importance for the history of Sout Asian traditional medicine
JINADASA LIYANARATNE
pp 392-400
Reviews
The ancient world
N. M. SWERDLOW (ed.): Ancient astronomy and celestial divination. By
David Brown
pp 401
CHARLES KEITH MAISELS: Early civilizations of the old world: the formative histories of Egypt, the Levant, Mesopotamia, India and China. By Harriet Crawford pp 402
The Near and Middle East
ANDREW J. NEWMAN: The formative period of Twelver Shi‘ism: hadith as discourse between Qum and Baghdad. By Tamima Bayhom-Daou  403
FARHAD DAFTARY: A short history of the Ismailis: traditions of a Muslim community. By Andrew J. Newman  404
AL-ŠIRAZI, ABU ISHAQ IBRAHIM (476/1083): Kitab al-Luma‘ fi usul al-fiqh; le Livre des Rais illuminant les fondements de la compréhension de la loi: traité de théorie légale musulmane. By A. Kevin Reinhart 405
CAROLE HILLENBRAND: The Crusades: Islamic perspectives. By P. M. Holt 407
A. D. H. BIVAR (comp.): The travels of Ibn Battuta, A.D. 1325–1354, Index. Vol. V. By H. T. Norris 408
PAULINA B. LEWICKA: Šafi‘ Ibn ‘Ali's biography of the Mamluk sultan Qalawun. By P. M. Holt 409
THABIT A. J. ABDULLAH: Merchants, Mamluks and murder: the political economy of trade in eighteenth[hyphen]century Basra. By M. E. Yapp  410
TUDOR PARFITT (ed.): Israel and Ishmael: studies in Muslim-Jewish relations. By David J. Wasserstein 411
ABRAHAM OF EREVAN: History of the Wars (1721–1738). By Tom Sinclair 412
George A. Bournoutian.(ed. and tr.) : The Chronicle of Abraham of Crete. By Tom Sinclair 413
BOŠKO I. BOJOVIC: Raguse et l'empire ottoman (1430-1520). Les actes impériaux en vieux-Serbe de Murad II à Selim Ier. By Kate Fleet 414
TIMOTHY GABASHVILI: Pilgrimage to Mount Athos, Constantinople and Jerusalem 1755–1759. By George Hewitt 415
TIM POTIER: Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. A legal appraisal. By George Hewitt 416
BRUNO COPPIETERS, DAVID DARCHIASHVILI and NATELLA AKABA (ed.): Federal practice: exploring alternatives for Georgia and Abkhazia. By George Hewitt 417
South Asia
RICHARD SALOMON: A Gandhari version of the Rhinoceros Sutra: British Library Kharosthi Fragment 5B. By J. C. Wright 418
RONALD INDEN, JONATHAN WALTERS and DAUD ALI (ed.): Querying the medieval: texts and the history of practices in South Asia. By Michael Willis 419
LEONARD C. D. C. PRIESTLEY: Pudgalavada Buddhism: the reality of the indeterminate self. By Sean Gaffney 420
ROGER MARCAURELLE: Freedom through inner renunciation: Sankara's philosophy in a new light. By Trichur Rukmani 421
TAPAN RAYCHAUDHURI: Perceptions, emotions, sensibilities: essays on India's colonial and post-colonial sensibilities. By Shefali Chandra 423
K. SIVARAMAKRISHNAN: Modern forests: statemaking and environmental change in colonial Eastern India. By Sarah Jewitt 424
B. G. KARLSSON: Contested belonging: an indigenous people's struggle for forest and identity in sub-Himalayan Bengal. By Sarah Jewitt 425
JEAN DELOCHE: Senji (Gingi): ville fortifiée du pays tamoul. By George Michell 426
East Asia
POUL ANDERSEN: The demon chained under Turtle Mountain: the history and mythology of the Chinese River Spirit Wuzhiqi. By T. H. Barrett 427
GLEN DUDBRIDGE: Lost books of Medieval China. By T. H. Barrett 428
ZHOU XUN: Chinese perceptions of the ‘Jews’ and Judaism: a history of the Youtai. By Jeffrey Lesser 429
MARIS BOYD GILLETTE: Between Mecca and Beijing: modernization and consumption among urban Chinese Muslims. By Rachel Harris 430
MATTHEW H. SOMMER: Sex, law, and society in late imperial China. By
Frank Dikötter
430
CHRISTOPHER BO BRAMSEN: Open doors: Vilhelm Meyer and the establishment of General Electric in China. By Robert Gardella 431
ATSUKO CEUGNIET: L'Office des Études Supérieurs au Japon du VIIIe au XIIe Siècle et les Dissertations de Fin d'Études. By T. H. Barrett 432
JOHN BREEN and MARK TEEUWEN (ed.): Shinto in history: ways of the kami. By Sarah Thal 433
KAREN E. SANDNESS: The evolution of the Japanese past and perfective suffixes. By Lone Takeuchi 434
SHARON KINSELLA: Adult manga: culture and power in contemporary Japanese society. By D. P. Martinez 435
PAUL H. KRATOSKA: The Japanese occupation of Malaya, 1941–1945. By R. L. Sims 436
WILLIAM W. FITZHUGH and CHISATO O. DUBREUIL (ed.): Ainu, spirit of a northern people. - HONDA KATSUICHI (translated by KYOKO SELDEN HARAKUR): An Ainu woman's tale. By Jane Wilkinson 437
DENNIS HIROTA (ed.): Toward a contemporary understanding of Pure Land Buddhism: creating a Shin Buddhist theology in a religiously plural world. By Galen Amstutz 438
South-East Asia
G. L. KOSTER: Roaming through seductive gardens. Readings in Malay narrative. By Vladimir I. Braginsky 439
TEUKU ISKANDAR: Catalogue of Malay, Minangkabau, and South Sumatran manuscripts in the Netherlands. By Vladimir I. Braginsky 440
JOHN OKELL and ANNA ALLOTT: Burmese/Myanmar dictionary of grammatical forms. By Justin Watkins 443
Africa
THOMAS LEIPER KANE: Tigrinya-English dictionary. By Edward Ullendorff 444
PAUL NEWMAN: The Hausa language: an encyclopedic reference grammar. By Graham Furniss 446
ALEX BORAINE: A country unmasked: inside South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. - DOROTHY SHEA: The South African Truth Commission: the politics of reconciliation. By Paul Gready 447
DERYCK SCARR: Seychelles since 1770: history of a slave and post-slavery society. By W. G. Clarence-Smith 449
ALICE MOORE-HARELL: Gordon in the Sudan: prologue to the Mahdiyya 1877–1880. By P. M. Holt 449
General
DAVID SNELLGROVE: Asian commitment: travels and studies in the Indian sub-continent and South-East Asia. By A. C. Mckay 450
ANDREW SIMPSON: Wh-movement and the theory of feature-checking. By Eric Mathieu 452
KEVIN WARD and BRIAN STANLEY (ed.): The Church Mission Society and world Christianity, 1799–1999. By Deborah Gaitskell 453
DAURIL ALDEN, assisted by JAMES M. CUMMINS and MICHAEL COOPER: Charles R. Boxer: an uncommon life. By T. H. Barrett  454
Short notices
R. MESQUITA: Madhva: Visnutattvanirnaya. Annotierte Übersetzung mit Studie. By Gudrun Bühnemann 456
C. BOUY: Gaudapada: L'Agamasastra. Un traité vedantique en quatre chapitres. By Gudrun Bühnemann 456
CHRISTOPHER BO BRAMSEN (Chinese Translation by Lin Hua): Peace and friendship: Denmark's official relations with China 1674–2000. By Flemming Christiansen 456
THE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL EURASIAN STUDIES: Studies on the Inner Asian Languages, XV. By T. H. Barrett 457
LÉON VANDERMEERSCH (ed.): Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident 22: L'art des jardins dans les pays sinisés: Chine, Japon, Corée, By T. H. Barrett 457