The Journal of the American Oriental Society back issues from January 2001:
TEXTUAL CRITICISM OF THE KORAN.
Jan 01, 2001; ... The presidential address of 2000, in which the author suggests emendations and/or explanations of seven proper names in the Koran, which have not been satisfactorily identified. These are: Tuwan, al-Jibt, Azar, Idris, [Uzayr.[subset]], al-Rass, and [Isa.[subset]] F. W. HALL, A ...
BUKHARI AND EARLY HADITH CRITICISM.
Jan 01, 2001; ... Norman Calder has questioned the attribution of al-Ta'rikh al-kabir to al-Bukhari (d. 256/870). Quotations from Ibn Abi Hatim al-Razi and al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, together with comparisons among the rijal works of Bukhari, suggest that al Ta'rikh al-kabir was one of Bukhari's last works, ...
MARTYRDOM AND THE EXECUTION OF GURU ARJAN IN EARLY SIKH SOURCES.
Jan 01, 2001; ... Popular Sikh histories of today are united in their claim that the execution in 1606 of the fifth Sikh Master, Guru Arjan has always been understood as an heroic martyrdom. Yet the fact that this event is not mentioned either in the Bachitar Natak, the first Sikh text to allocate ...
RABIES AND RABID DOGS IN SUMERIAN AND AKKADIAN LITERATURE.
Jan 01, 2001; ... An analysis of the symptoms of a disease described in incantations against the bite of a dog leads to its identification with rabies or hydrophobia. A particular type of dog, called ur-[mu.sub.2]-da or ur-idim in Sumerian literature, is equated with Akkadian kalbu segum, "rabid dog." This ...
WHAT'S IN A NAME? ON THE APPELLATIVE "SHU" IN EARLY MEDIEVAL CHINESE HISTORIOGRAPHY.
Jan 01, 2001; ... Drawing on contemporary sources such as edicts, memorials, and epistles quoted by Chen Shou (233-97) in his Sanguo zhi, this paper examines the various names applied to Liu Bei's (161-223) state--known in later history as "shu" or "Shu Han"--by the state itself, its contemporaries, and ...
HUANG T'ING-CHIEN'S "INCENSE OF AWARENESS": POEMS OF EXCHANGE, POEMS OF ENLIGHTENMENT.(Critical Essay)
Jan 01, 2001; ... The writing of poems in association with objects that were exchanged as gifts became a common practice in eleventh-century China. Two sets of poems by Huang T'ing-chien written in 1086 in response to gifts of incense provide an index of his poetic techniques and an instructive contrast ...
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING: KUMARILA, SANTARAKSITA, AND DHARMAKIRTI ON THE COGNITION OF NON-BEING.(Nichts bleibt nichts: Die Buddhistische Zuruckweisung von Kumarila's Abhavapramana; Ubersetzung und Interpretation von Santaraksita's Tattvasangraha vv. 1647-1690 mit Kamalasila's Tattvasangrahapajika sowie Ansatze und Arbeitshypothese zur Geschichte negativer Erkenntnis in der indischen Philosophie)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Birgit Kellner's translation and study of the Abhavavicara section of Santaraksita's Tattvasangraha, while historically sophisticated and philologically sound, ignores the broader philosophical significance of the problem of the cognition of non-being (abhava) in classical Indian ...
Diverse Indo-Iranian Etymological Notes.
Jan 01, 2001; ... INDO-ARYAN DEVERBAL AGENTIVES IN I-E *-EN- I have recently discussed the sparse attestation of the Indo-European class of nomina agentis derived in [-en-.sup.*] from verbal bases, [1] a class which is poorly represented in the handbooks, and to which I intend to turn soon again ....
Isdi mati, The Foundations Of The Earth?(term in recently found fragment of the Gilgamesh epic)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2001; ... The fragment Rm 956, recently identified as the opening eight lines of the Gilgamesh epic, restores only one word previously unknown: isdi in the second hemistich of the first verse. This term, taken in apposition to nagba in the first hemistich, and understood in the sense of "abyss," ...
Legal Sanctions Imposed on Parents in Old Babylonian Legal Sources.
Jan 01, 2001; ... One may conclude from an analysis of Old Babylonian legal sources that a parent was not permitted to cancel, without lawful cause, the legal tie between himself and his natural or adopted child by means of the declaration, "you are not my son," or "you are not my daughter." Severe ...
Freethinkers of Medieval Islam: Ibn al-Rawandi, Abu Bakr al-Razi, and their Impact on Islamic Thought.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Freethinkers of Medieval Islam: Ibn al-Rawandi, Abu Bakr al-Razi, and their Impact on Islamic Thought. By SARAH STROUMSA. Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Science, vol. 35 Leiden: BRILL, 1999. Pp. xii + 261. HFI 135, $79.50. In this well-written book, Dr. Sarah Stroumsa draws ...
State and Rural Society in Medieval Islam: Sultans, [Muqta.sup.[subset]]s and Fallahun.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... State and Rural Society in Medieval Islam: Sultans, [Muqta.sup.[subset]]s and Fallahun. By SATO TSUGITAKA. Leiden: BRILL, 1997. Pp. ix + 337. $110. This new volume represents, to the best of my knowledge, the first comprehensive study of the [iqta.sup.[subset]], which is La say, ...
War and Society in the Eastern Mediterranean, 7th-15th Centuries.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... War and Society in the Eastern Mediterranean, 7th-15th Centuries. Edited by YAACOV LEV. The Medieval Mediterranean: Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400-1453, vol. 9. Leiden: BRILL, 1997. Pp. 410. Yaacov Lev has assembled fourteen articles that treat the broad concept of warfare ...
All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali, His Army and the Making of Modern Egypt.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali, His Army and the Making of Modern Egypt. By KHALED FAHMY. Cambridge: CAMBRIDGE UNIV. PRESS, 1997. Pp. xvii + 334. All the Pasha's Men is one of the few scholarly texts that succeed in gracefully weaving together a close reading with an analysis ...
The Revolution of 1908 in Turkey.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... The Revolution of 1908 in Turkey. By AYKUT KANSU. Leiden: BRILL, 1997. Pp. xi + 341. This book sets out "to criticise the conventional approaches in writing modem Turkish history" with particular reference to the 1908 revolution, which the author would like to establish as "a ...
Making Big Money in 1600: The Life and Times of [Isma.sup.[subset]]il Abu Taqiyya, Egyptian Merchant.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Making Big Money in 1600: The Life and Times of [Isma.sup.[subset]]il Abu Taqiyya, Egyptian Merchant. By NELLY HANNA. Syracuse, N.Y.: SYRACUSE UNIV. PRESS, 1998. Pp. xi + 219. $44.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Although [Isma.sup.[subset]]il Abu Taqiyya (fl. 1580-1624) was ...
Islamic Law and Culrure, 1600-1840.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Islamic Law and Culrure, 1600-1840. By HAIM GERBER. Studies in Islamic Law and Society, vol. 9. Leiden: BRILL, 1999. Pp. 156. Its grand title notwithstanding, this work is primarily an analysis of two collections of Hanafi legal opinions, al-Fatdwa al-khayriyah fi-naf al-bariyah ...
Contingency in a Sacred Law: Legal and Ethical Norms in the Muslim Fiqh.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Contingency in a Sacred Law: Legal and Ethical Norms in the Muslim Fiqh. By BABER JOHANSEN. Studies in Islamic Law and Society, vol. 7. Leiden: BRILL, 1999. Pp. xiii + 521. Nig. 246.00/US $144.50. Although largely a collection of previously published material, this volume ...
Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography: Harun al-Rashid and the Narrative of the [Abbasid.sup.[subset]] Caliphate.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography: Harun al-Rashid and the Narrative of the [Abbasid.sup.[subset]] Caliphate. By TAYEB EL-HIBRI. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization. Cambridge: CAMBRIDGE UNIV. PRESS, 1999. Pp. x + 236. $64.95. The caliphs, finally, have become texts ....
The Fortress of Faith: The Attitude towards Muslims in Fifteenth Century Spain.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... The Fortress of Faith: The Attitude towards Muslims in Fifteenth Century Spain. By ANA ECHEVARRIA. Medieval Iberian Peninsula, Texts and Studies, vol. 12. Leiden: BRILL, 1999. Pp. viii + 254. NIg. 175.OO/US $103. In slightly more than a decade, from 1450 to 1461, Christian ...
Muntaz[a.sup.[subset]] al-akhbar fi akhbar al-d[u.sup.[subset]]at al-akhyar (The History of the Ism[a.sup.[subset]]ili Tayyibi d[a.sup.[subset]]wa up to the D[a.sup.[contains]]udi-Sulaymani Schism).(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Muntaz[a.sup.[subset]] al-akhbar fi akhbar al-d[u.sup.[subset]]at al-akhyar (The History of the Ism[a.sup.[subset]]ili Tayyibi d[a.sup.[subset]]wa up to the D[a.sup.[contains]]udi-Sulaymani Schism), by Qutb al-Din Sulaymani Burhanpuri. Edited by SAMER F. TRABOULSI. Beirut: DAR AL-GHARB ...
Im Tod gewinnt der Mensch sein Selbst: Das Phanomen des Todes in asiatischer und abendlandischer Religionstradition; Arbeitsdokumentation eines Symposions.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Im Tod gewinnt der Mensch sein Selbst: Das Phanomen des Todes in asiatischer und abendlandischer Religionstradition; Arbeitsdokumentation eines Symposions. Edited by GERHARD OBERHAMMER. Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-hist. Kl., Sitzungsberichte, vol. 624; Beitrage zur ...
Indian Semantic Analysis: The nirvacana Tradition.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Indian Semantic Analysis: The nirvacana Tradition. By EIVIND KAHRS. University of Cambridge Oriental Publications, vol. 55. Cambridge: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1998. Pp. xv + 302. $69.95. Kahrs presents the first major contribution to the study of the Nirukta tradition since ...
Changing Patterns of Family and Kinship in South Asia.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Changing Patterns of Family and Kinship in South Asia. Edited by AsKo PARPOLA and SIRPA TENHUNEN. Studia Orientalia, vol. 84. Helsinki: FINNISH ORIENTAL SOCIETY, 1998. Pp. vii + 314, illustrations (paper). This volume is based on the proceedings of an international symposium ...
Paths to Conflagration: Fifty Years of Diplomacy and Warfare in Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam, 1778-1828.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Paths to Conflagration: Fifty Years of Diplomacy and Warfare in Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam, 1778-1828. By MAYOURY NGAOSYVATHN and PHEUIPHANH NGAOSYVATHN. Ithaca, N.Y.: CORNELL UNIVERSITY SOUTHEAST ASIA PROGRAM, 1998. Pp. 270. With this work, the authors, Mayoury and Pheuiphanh ...
Elaborations on Emptiness: Uses of the Heart Sutra.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Elaborations on Emptiness: Uses of the Heart Sutra. By DONALD S. LOPEZ, JR. Princeton, N.J.: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1996. Pp. xii + 265. $15.95 (paper). In the early 1970s, Edward Conze, that prolific and revered scholar of the Perfection of Wisdom (prajnaparamita) ...
Tibetan.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Tibetan. By PHILIP DENWOOD. London Oriental and African Language Library, vol. 3. Philadelphia: JOHN BENJAMINS, 1999. Pp. xviii + 372. $99. Anyonc interested in demotic Tibetan will encounter serious problems in this new monograph, not the least of which will be the identity of ...
Mishnah and Tosefta: A Synoptic Comparison of the Tractates Berakhaot and Shebiit.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Mishnah and Tosefta: A Synoptic Comparison of the Tractates Berakhaot and Shebiit. By ALBERDINA HOUTMAN. Texte und Studien zum Antiken Judentum, vol. 59. Tubingen: J. C. B. MOHR (PAUL SIEBECK). 1997. Pp. xv + 255, illustrations. DM 198. Mishnah and Tosefta: A Synoptic Comparison ...
Syntax and Semantics: Studies in Biblical and Modern Hebrew.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Syntax and Semantics: Studies in Biblical and Modern Hebrew. By ELIEZER RUBINSTEIN Texts and Studies in the Hebrew Language and Related Subjects, vol. 9. Tel-Aviv: THE CHAIM ROSENBERG SCHOOL OF JEWISH STUDIES, 1998. Pp. xvi + 287 + 59. From his graduation as a Ph.D. in 1968 ...
Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography. By WAYNE HOROWITZ. Mesopotamian Civilizations, vol. 8. Winona Lake, Ind.: EISENBRAUNS, 1998. Pp. xiv + 410, illus., 10 plts. $52.50. The series "Mesopotamian Civilizations" has made a substantial contribution to scholarship on ancient Mesopotamia ...
The Bureaucracy of Shuruppak: Administrative Centres, Central Offices, Intermediate Structures and Hierarchies in the Economic Documentation of Fara.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... The Bureaucracy of Shuruppak: Administrative Centres, Central Offices, Intermediate Structures and Hierarchies in the Economic Documentation of Fara. By GIUSEPPE VISICATO. Abhandlungen zur Literatur Alt-Syrien-Palastinas und Mesopotamiens, vol. 10. Munster: UGARIT VERLAG, 1995. ...
Ancient Egyptian Science: A Source Book, vol. 3: Ancient Egyptian Mathematics.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Ancient Egyptian Science: A Source Book, vol. 3: Ancient Egyptian Mathematics. By MARSHALL CLAGETT, Philadelphia: AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 1999. Pp. x + 462, illustrations. $30. This work, the third in a series of detailed but basic studies about ancient Egyptian ...
Proche-Orient ancien; Temps vecu, temps pense: Actes de la Table-Ronde du 15 novembre 1997 organisee par l'URA 1062 [much less than]Etudes Semitiques.[much greater than].(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Proche-Orient ancien; Temps vecu, temps pense: Actes de la Table-Ronde du 15 novembre 1997 organisee par l'URA 1062 [much less than]Etudes Semitiques.[much greater than] Edited by FRANCOISE BRIQUEL-CHATONNET and HELENE LOZACHMEUR. Antiquites Semitiques, vol. 3. Paris: JEAN MAISONNEUVE, ...
Das Goldland der Pharaonen: Die Entdeckung von Berenike Pancrisia.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Das Goldland der Pharaonen: Die Entdeckung von Berenike Pancrisia. By A. and A. CASTIGLIONI, J. VERCOUTTER, et al. Mainz: PHILIPP VON ZABERN, 1998. This volume, translated from Italian, presents the results of five expeditions to the Nubian (northeastern) Desert of Sudan between ...
Ethnicity and Identity in Ancient Israel: Prolegomena to the Study of Ethnic Sentiments and Their Expressions in the Hebrew Bible.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Ethnicity and Identity in Ancient Israel: Prolegomena to the Study of Ethnic Sentiments and Their Expressions in the Hebrew Bible. By KENTON L. SPARKS. Winona Lake, Ind.: EISENBRAUNS, 1998. Pp. xiv + 344. $37.50. This book is the outgrowth of K. Sparks' doctoral dissertation ...
From Epic to Canon: History and Literature in Ancient Israel.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... From Epic to Canon: History and Literature in Ancient Israel. By FRANK MOORE CROSS. Baltimore: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1998. Pp. xv + 262. $45. Frank Moore Cross is a name to conjure with in modem biblical scholarship. The quality, scope, and erudition of his work are ...
Die neuassyrischen Privatrechtsurkunden als Quelle fur Mensch und Umwelt.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Die neuassyrischen Privatrechtsurkunden als Quelle fur Mensch und Umwelt. By KAREN RADNER. State Archives of Assyria Studies, vol. 6. Helsinki: HELSINKI UNIVERSITY PRESS. 1997. Pp. xlii + 428. $44.50. When C. H. W. Johns in 1898 published the first large collection of ...
Tablettes cuneiformes de Tello au Musee d'Istanbul datant de l'epoque de la [III.sup.e] dynastie d'Ur.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Tablettes cuneiformes de Tello au Musee d'Istanbul datant de l'epoque de la [III.sup.e] dynastie d'Ur. By BERTRAND LAFONT and FATMA YILDIZ. Publications de l'Institut historique-archeologique neerlandais de Stamboul, vol. 77. Leiden: NEDERLANDS HISTORISCH-ARCHAEOLOGISCH INSTITUUT TE ...
Drinking in Ancient Societies; History and Culture of Drinks in the Ancient Near East: Papers of a Symposiwn held in Rome, May 17-19, 1990.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Drinking in Ancient Societies; History and Culture of Drinks in the Ancient Near East: Papers of a Symposiwn held in Rome, May 17-19, 1990. Edited by LUCIO MILANO. History of the Ancient Near East: Studies, vol. 6. Padua: SRI, 1994. Pp. xvi + 469, plates (paper). Drinking in ...
Ein vergoldeter Silberbecher der Zeit Assurbanipals im Miho Museum: Historische Darstellungen des 7. Jahrhunderts v. Chr.(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Ein vergoldeter Silberbecher der Zeit Assurbanipals im Miho Museum: Historische Darstellungen des 7. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. By ERIKA BLEIBTREU Archiv fur Orientforschung, Beiheft 28. Vienna: SELBSTVERLAG DES INSTITUTS FUR ORIENTALISTIK DER UNIVERSITAT WIEN, 1999. Pp. v + 48, illustrations. ...
Bible and the Ethics of Reading.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Bible and the Ethics of Reading. Edited by D. N. FEWELL and G. A. PHILLIPS. Semeia, vol. 77. Atlanta: SCHOLARS PRESS, 1997. This Semeia volume mirrors a new scholarly tendency currently spreading among many biblical critics. The new tendency is conveyed through a style that ...
The Semitic Languages. Routledge Language Family Descriptions.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... The Semitic Languages. Routledge Language Family Descriptions. Edited by ROBERT HETZRON. New York: ROUTLEDGE, 1997. Pp. xx + 572, maps. $200. Robert Hetzron was the most influential Semitist of the last three or four decades. The editor and driving force behind the fine volume ...
Psalm 119: The Exaltation of Torah.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Psalm 119: The Exaltation of Torah. By DAVID NOEL FREEDMAN, with Jeffrey C. Geoghehan and Andrew Welch. Biblical and Judaic Studies from the University of California, San Diego, vol. 6. Winona Lake, Ind.: EISENBRAUNS, 1999. Pp. vii + 94. $19.50. This volume undertakes a close ...
Ameliorative Satire and the Seventeenth-Century Chinese Novel: Xingshi yinyuan zhuan--Marriage as Retribution, Awakening the World.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Ameliorative Satire and the Seventeenth-Century Chinese Novel: Xingshi yinyuan zhuan--Marriage as Retribution, Awakening the World. By YENNA Wu. Chinese Studies, vol. 9. Lewiston, N.Y.: EDWIN MELLEN PRESS, 1999. Pp. 407. $109.95. This study is the first English-language ...
The Bodhidharma Anthology: The Earliest Records of Zen.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... The Bodhidharma Anthology: The Earliest Records of Zen. By JEFFREY L. BROUGHTON. Berkeley and Los Angeles: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, 1999. Pp. 186. The Bodhidharma Anthology is a collection of texts attributed to Bodhidharma, the "first patriarch" of the Ch'an lineage in ...
Grundstrukturen der antikchinesischen Syntax: Eine erklarende Grammatik & Antikchinesisch in funf Element(ar)gangen: Eine propadeutische Einfuhrung & Antikchinesische Texte: Materialien fur den Hochschulunterricht.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Grundstrukturen der antikchinesischen Syntax: Eine erklarende Grammatik. By ROBERT H. GASSMANN. Schweizer Assistische Studien, monograph no. 26. New York: PETER LANG, 1997. Pp. 352 + tables. $54.95 (paper). Antikchinesisch in funf Element(ar)gangen: Eine propadeutische ...
V. M. Alekseev: Pis'ma k Eduardu Shavannu i Poliu Pellio.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... V. M. Alekseev: Pis'ma k Eduardu Shavannu i Poliu Pellio (Letters of V. M. Alekseev to Edouard Chavannes and Paul Pelliot). Compiled, translated, annotated by I. E. TSIPEROVICH. Archiv Rossiyskogo Vostokovednia. St. Petersburg: ST. PETERSBURG CENTER FOR ORIENTAL STUDIES, 1998. Pp. 232, ...
Um porto entre dois imperios: Estudos sobre Macau e as relacues luso-chinesas.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Um porto entre dois imperios: Estudos sobre Macau e as relacues luso-chinesas. By JORGE MANUEL DOS SANTOS ALVES: Coleccao Memoria do Oriente, vol. 14. Macau: INSTITVTO PORTVGVES DO ORIENTE, 1999. Pp. 229 (paper). This book opens with a short preface by Luis Filipe Barreto, a ...
A Survey of the Islamic Sites near Aden and in the Abyan District of Yemen.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... A Survey of the Islamic Sires near Aden and in the Abyan District of Yemen. By GEOFFREY KING and CRISTINA TONGHINI. London: SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, 1996. Pp. 96, plates, line drawings. This ninety-six page volume reports on an archaeological ...
The Self-Disclosure of God: Principles of Ibn Al-'Arabi's Cosmology.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... The Self-Disclosure of God: Principles of Ibn [Al-.sup.[subset]]Arabi's Cosmology. By WILLIAM C. CHITTICK. Albany: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS, 1998. Pp. x1 + 483. This important volume of selected translations from "The Meccan Revelations" (al-Futuhat al-makkiya, 4 vols ....
Jaina System of Education.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Jaina System of Education. By DEBENDRA CHANDRA DASGUPTA. Lala Sundarlal Jain Research Series, vol. XII. Delhi: MOTILAL BANARSIDASS, 1999 [1979]. Pp. 134. Rs 200. This volume is a reprint of a 1979 publication of a series of ten lectures presented in Calcutta in 1942. Each ...
Studies in the Buddhist Epistemological Tradition: Proceedings of the Second International Dharmakirti Conference, Vienna, June 11-16, 1989.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Studies in the Buddhist Epistemological Tradition: Proceedings of the Second International Dharmakirti Conference, Vienna, June 11-16, 1989. Edited by ERNST STEINKELLNER. Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-hist. Kl., Denkschriften, vol. 222; Beitrage zur Kultur und ...
Fatalism in Ancient India.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Fatalism in Ancient India. By SUKUMARI BHATTACHARJI. Calcutta: BAULMON PRAKASHAN, 1995. Pp. xxvii + 356. Rs 250. Sukumari Bhattacharji, known for her Indian Theogony (Cambridge U.P., 1970; corrected Indian ed., Calcutta: Firma KLM, 1978; U.S. ed., Anima, 1988), has become a ...
A Provisional List of Tibetological Research-papers and Articles Published in The People's Republic of China and Tibet.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... A Provisional List of Tibetological Research-papers and Articles Published in The People's Republic of China and Tibet. By PER K. SORENSEN. Nepal Research Centre Publications, 17. Stuttgart: FRANZ STEINER VERLAG, 1991. Pp. [6] + 101. DM 44. The list of mainly, but not ...
Vier Studien zum altindischen Syllogismus.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Vier Studien zum altindischen Syllogismus. By CLAUS OETKE. Philosophia Indica, Einsichten-Ansichten, vol. 2. Reinbek: VERLAG FUR ORIENTALISTICHE FACHPUBLIKATIONEN, 1994. The goal of this publication is to probe five theses connected with the evaluation of the five-member ...
Tamulica et Dravidica: A Selection of Papers on Tamil and Dravidian Linguistics.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Tamulica et Dravidica: A Selection of Papers on Tamil and Dravidian Linguistics. By KAMIL V. ZVELEBIL. Edited by JAROSLAV VACEK and JAN DVORAK. Orientalia Pragensia, vol. 13. Prague: KAROLINUM/CHARLES UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1998. Pp. 296 (paper). In this volume are collected and ...
Pandanus '98: Flowers, Nature, Semiotics: Kavya and Sangam.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Pandanus '98: Flowers, Nature, Semiotics: Kavya and Sangam. Edited by JAROSLAV VACEK and BLANKA KNOTKOVA-CAPKOVA. Prague: SIGNETA, 1999. Pp. 179 (paper). This small volume publishes six papers given at a workshop, "Flower Symbolism in Classical Indian Literature," held in ...
The Oxford Anthology of Raj Stories.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... The Oxford Anthology of Raj Stories, Edited by SAROS COWASJEE. Delhi: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1999. Pp. x + 345. $29.95. Nostalgia freaks (perhaps even a few subalternists) will appreciate this collection of short stories (mostly by English authors) that span the sixty-year ...
Lives of Indian Images.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Lives of Indian Images. By RICHARD H. DAVIS. Princeton: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1997. Pp. 331. $39.50, [pound]30 (cloth); $18.95, [pound]11.50 (paper). There are books that defeat even an editor's best attempts to find a reviewer and the lapsus is particularly painful when ...
Studies on the Civilization and Culture of Nuzi and the Hurrians, vol. 9: General Studies and Excavations at Nuzi 10/2.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Studies on the Civilization and Culture of Nuzi and the Hurrians, vol. 9: General Studies and Excavations at Nuzi 10/2. Edited by D. I. OWEN and G. WILHELM. Bethesda, Md.: CDL PRESS, 1998. Pp. viii + 396. This new volume of the SCCNH series, like the previous ones, enhances our ...
Neo-Sumerian Texts from the Royal Ontario Museum, vol. 1 The Administration at Drehem.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Neo-Sumerian Texts from the Royal Ontario Museum, vol. 1 The Administration at Drehem. By MARCEL SIGRIST. Bethesda, Md.: CDL PRESS, 1995. Pp. [v] + 125, 20 plates. In this volume M. Sigrist publishes one hundred seventy-nine administrative texts of the Third Dynasty of Ur ...
Helden en goden van Sumer: Een keuze uit de heroische en mythologische dichtkunst van her Oude Mesopotamie.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Helden en goden van Sumer: Een keuze uit de heroische en mythologische dichtkunst van her Oude Mesopotamie. By HERMAN VANSTIPHOUT. Nijmegen: UITGEVERIJ SUN, 1998. Pp. 253. HFI 39.50. The study of Sumerian literature is flourishing. In the last two decades a small but very active ...
Food and Society in Classical Antiquity.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Food and Society in Classical Antiquity. By PETER GARNSEY. Cambridge: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1999. Pp. 175, illustrations. $54.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). This compact manual on food is part of a distinguished series of short guides to various intriguing, non-traditional, ...
Conservation des manuscrits de Dunhuang et d'Asie centrale.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Conservation des manuscrits de Dunhuang et d'Asie centrale. Edited by MONIQUE COHEN. Paris: BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE DE FRANCE, 1998. Pp. 169, illustrations, figures. 230 F (paper). This publication represents the fruits of the second international seminar on the conservation of ...
Linked Faiths: Essays on Chinese Religions and Traditional Culture, in Honour of Kristofer Schipper.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Linked Faiths: Essays on Chinese Religions and Traditional Culture, in Honour of Kristofer Schipper. Edited by JAN A. D. DE MEYER and PETER M. ENGELFRIET. Sinica Leidensia, vol. 46. Leiden: BRILL, 2000. Pp. 370. A collection of thirteen essays constituting a Festschrift for ...