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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, VOLUME 5 - ISSUE 02
Meetings with Magi: Iranian Themes among the Greeks, from Xanthus of Lydia to Plato's Academy
Peter Kingsley
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 5, Issue 02, July 1995, pp 173-209
doi: 10.1017/S1356186300015340, Published online by Cambridge University Press 24 Sep 2009
The Ardhakathanaka by Banarasi Das: a Socio-cultural Study
Eugenia Vanina
Love, Poetry and Renunciation: Changing Configurations of the Ideal of Suki
Rajyashree Pandey
Chinese Studies in Britain: a Review Article
Denis Twitchett
Prowess, piety and politics: the chronicle of Abeto Iyasu and Empress Zewditu of Ethiopia (19091930). By Aleqa Gebre-Igziabiher Elyas, Edited and
Translated By Reidulf K. Molvaer. (Studien Zur Kulturkunde, Vol. 104.) pp. 596. Cologne, Rdiger Kppe Verlag, 1994. DM 128.
Edward Ullendorff
A catalogue of Ethiopian manuscripts microfilmed for the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library, Addis Ababa, and for the Hill Monastic Manuscript
Library, Collegeville. Vol X. Project numbers 40015000. By Getatchew Haile. pp. xi, 511, 5 bl. and white illus. Collegeville, Minnesota, Hill Monastic
Manuscript Library, St John's University, 1993. US $75.00.
doi: 10.1017/S135618630001539X, Published online by Cambridge University Press 24 Sep 2009
Manichaeism in Mesopotamia and the Roman East. By Samuel N. C. Lieu. (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 118.) pp. xiv, 325. Leiden etc., E.
J. Brill, 1994, US $85.75.
Lain Gardner
Magic spells and formulae: Aramaic incantations of late antiquity. By Joseph Naveh and Shaul Shared, pp. 296, 80 pl., 18 figs. Jerusalem, The
Magnes Press, The Hebrew University, 1993. US $28.00.
Sebastian Brock
Pour un Oriens Christianus Novus: rpertoire des diocses syriaques orientaux et occidentaux. By Jean Maurice Fiey.(Beiruter Textc und Studien,
Band 49.) pp. 286. Beirut, In Kommision bei Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, 1993. DM 98.
Sebastian Brock
A Greek and Arabic lexicon (GALex): materials for a dictionary of the mediaeval translations from Greek into Arabic. Fascicle 2. . Edited By Gerhard
Endress and Dimitri Gutas. (Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten. Band n). pp. 95224 + pp. 27 of indexes.
Leiden etc., E.J. Brill, 1994. NLG 65, US $37.25.
Historical Atlas of the Middle East. By G. S. P. Freeman-Grenville. pp. 144, 113 maps. New York etc., Simon&Schuster, 1993. Distrib. in the UK by
Kuperard. 36.95.
D. O. Morgan
Cambridge University Press 1995.

New Arabian Studies. I. Edited By R. B. Serjeant, R. L. Bidwell and G. Rex Smith, Production editors, B. R. Pridham and J. R. Smart, pp. xi, 236,
illus., maps. Exeter, University of Exeter Press, 1993. 20.00.
C. Edmund Bosworth
Sibawayh the phonologist. A critical study of the phonetic and phonological theory of Sibawayh as presented in his treatise Al-Kitab. By A. A. AlNassir. (Library of Arabic Linguistics, Monograph No. 10.) pp. xx, 130 + pp. 12 (Arabic). London and New York, Kegan Paul International, 1993.
55.00.
Muhammad and the origins of Islam. By F. E. Peters. (SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies.) pp. xv, 334. Albany, NY, State University of New York
Press, 1994. US $19.95.
Patricia Crone
Der Herausbildungsproze des arabisch-islamischen Staates. Eine quellenkrittsche Untersuchung des Zusammenhangs zwischen den staatlichen
Zentralisierungstendenzen und der Stammesorganisation in der Frhislamischen Geschichte 160 H./622580. By Alman Ibrahim. (Islamkundliche
Untersuchungen, Band 177.) pp. xvii, 265. Berlin, Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1994.
The end of the Jihd State. The reign of Hishm Ibn Abd al-Malik and the collapse of the Umayyads. By Khalid Yahya Blankinship. (Suny Series in
Medieval Middle East History.) PP. x, 399, 9 maps. Albany, NY, State University of New York Press, 1994. US $24.95.
Lawerence Conard
Mu ammad b. Abdalwahhb (170392) im Widerstreit: Untersuchungen zur Rekonstruktion der Frhgeschichte der Wahhbya. By Esther Peskes.
(Beiruter Texte und Studien, Band 56.) pp. viii, 384. Beirut, In Kommission bei Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, 1993. DM 112.
Michael Cook
Muslims: their religious beliefs and practices. Vol. 2. The contemporary period. By Andrew Rippin. (The Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices.)
pp. xii, 171. London and New York, Routledge, 1993. 3500 (cloth), 16.00 (paperback).
Moojan Momen
The Turkic peoples of the world. Edited By Margaret Bainbridge. pp. xxii, 403, 18 maps. London and New York, Kegan Paul International, 1993.
65.00.
Richard Tapper
Ottoman seapower and Levantine diplomacy in the Age of Discovery. By Palmira Brummett. (Suny Series in the Social and Economic History of the
Middle East.) pp. xvi, 285, 7 illus., 2 maps. Albany, NY, State University of New York Press, 1994. US $17.95.
Kate Fleet
Ottoman manufacturing in the age of the Industrial Revolution. By Donald Quataert. (Cambridge Middle East Library, 30.) pp. xvii, 224, 5 pl., 5 maps.
Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1993. 35.00.
Nee Erim
The long peace. Ottoman Lebanon, 18611920. By Engin Deniz Akarli. pp. xviii, 288, 2 maps. London, Centre for Lebanese Studies and I. B. Tauris,
1993. 34.50.
Eugene Rogan

State and society in Syria and Lebanon. Edited By Youssef M. Choueiri. pp. xviii, 158. Exeter, University of Exeter Press, 1993. 29.50.
Ulrike Freitag
Islamic manuscripts in the New York Public Library. By Barbara Schmitz. pp. 440, 24 col. pl., 298 bl. and wh. figs. Oxford etc., Oxford University
Press; New York, New York Public Library, 1992.
B. W. Robinson
The mosaics of Jordan. By Michele Piccirillo, Edited By Patricia M. Bikai and Thomas A. Dailey, With a Presentation By H. M. King Hussein Bin Talal
and a Foreword By Ernst Kitzinger. (American Center of Oriental Research Publications, 1.) pp. 383, xxxvii + 787 figs in col. and bl. and wh., 2 maps.
Amman, American Center of Oriental Research, 1993. US $150.00.
The plants of Pehr Forsskal's Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica Collected on the Royal Danish Expedition to Egypt and the Yemen 17611763. By F. Nigel
Hepper and I. Friis. pp. xii, 400, front., 29 figs. Kew, Royal Botanic Gardens, in association with the Botanical Museum, Copenhagen, 1994 1500.
G. Rex Smith
Anthologie de Zdspram. dition critique du texte pehlevi. Translation and Commentary By Ph. Gignoux and A. Tafazzoli. (Studia Iranica, Cahier 13.)
pp. 441. Paris, Association pour l'Avancement des tudes Iraniennes, 1993. Distributed by E. Peeters, Leuven. BEF. 2100.
Philip G. Kreyenbroek
Persian studies in North America. Studies in honor of Mohammad Ali Jazayery. Edited By Mehdi Marashi. pp. xix, 421, front., Persian section, pp.
131. Bethesda, Maryland, Iranbooks Inc., 1994. US $60.00.
Julie Scott Meisam
South Asian archaeology 1991. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference of the Association of South Asian Archaeologists in Western
Europe Held in Berlin. 15 July, 1991. Edited By Adalbert J. Gail and Gerd J. R. Mevissen With the Assistance of Britta Zehmke. pp. xvi, 672, front.,
illus., maps. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1993. DM 184.
Trade and Diplomacy in India-China Relations: A Study of Bengal During the Fifteenth Century. By Haraprasad Ray. pp. ix, 221, 3 maps. New Delhi,
Radiant Publishers; London, Sangam Books, 1993. Rs 200.
Roderich Ptak
Bairam Khan. By Sukumar Ray, edited by M. H. A. BEG. (Publications of the Institute of Central and West Asian Studies, 15.) pp. xxi, 287, 4 col. pi., 4
bl. & wh. pl., 1 fig., map. Karachi, Institute of Central and West Asian Studies, University of Karachi, 1992. Pak Rs. 200.00, US $10.00.
C. Edmund Bosworth
Islam and Indian regions. Vol. I. Texts. Vol 2. References and documentation. Edited By Anna Libera Dallapiccola and Stephanie Zingel-Av
Lallemant. (Beitrge zur Sdasienforschung, Sdasien-Institut, Universitt Heidelberg, Band 145.) pp. xi, 535, front.; vi. 118, 55 pi., 26 drawings.
Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1993. DM 240.
The new Cambridge history of India. III. 3. The economy of modern India, 18601970. By B. R. Tomlinson. pp. xvii, 235, 12 maps. Cambridge etc.,
Cambridge University Press, 1993.24.95;
Nigel R. Crook

Dalit movements and the meanings of labour in India. Edited By Peter Robb. (Soas Studies on South Asia.) pp. viii, 354. Delhi, etc., Oxford University
Press, 1993. 13.95. Rs 360.
Antony Copley
Kleine Schriften. By Johann Otto Ferdinand Kirste, Edited By Walter Slaje. (Glasenapp-Stiftung, Band 33.) pp. xiii, 374. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner
Verlag, 1993. DM 98.
John Brockington
Kleine Schriften. Teil III. By Hermann Oldenberg, Edited By Hanns-Peter Schmidt. (Glasenapp-Stiftung, Band 34.) pp. viii, 15712121. Stuttgart,
Franz Steiner Verlag, 1993. DM 128.
John Brockington
Medical literature from India, Sri Lanka and Tibet. Edited By G. Jan Meulenbeld. (Panels of the Vllth World Sanskrit Conference, Kern Institute,
Leiden, 2329 08 1987, Vol. VIII.) pp. 137. Leiden etc., E. J. Brill, 1991. NLG 120, US $61.54.
Dominik Wujastyk
Rules and remedies in classical Indian law. Edited By Julia Leslie. (Panels of the VIIIth World Sanskrit Conference, Kern Institute, Leiden, 2329 08
1987, Vol. IX.) pp. vii, 90. Leiden etc., E. J. Brill, 1991. NLG 120, US $61.54.
J. Duncan M. Derrett
Vedic religion and culture. An exposition of distinct facets. By P. L. Bhargava. pp. xiv, 120. New Delhi, D. K. Printworld (P) Ltd., 1994. Rs. 130.
Karel Werner
Love divine. Studies in bhakti and devotional mysticism. Edited By Karel Werner. (Durham Indological Series, 3.) pp. xviii, 226. Richmond, Surrey,
Curzon Press, 1993. 35.00.
Dermot Killingley
vasYaka-Studien. Introduction gnrale et traductions. By Nalini Balbir. Glossar Ausgewhlter Wrter Zu E. Leumanns Die AvaYakaErzhlungen. By Thomas Oberlies. (Alt- und Neu-Indische Studien, Band 45, 1 and 2.) pp. 482; 203. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1993. DM 136.
K. R. Norman
The Jagannatha temple at Puri: its architecture, art and cult. By O. M. Starza. (Studies in South Asian Culture, 15.) pp. xiv, 161, front., 62 pls., 26 figs.
Leiden etc., E. J. Brill, 1993. NLG 150; US $85.75.
George Michell
The cult of the deity Vajrakla according to the texts of the Northern Treasures tradition of Tibet (Byang-Gter Phur-Ba). By Martin J. Boord. (Buddhica
Britannica, Series Continua IV.) pp. xiv, 271, 7 illus. Tring, The Institute of Buddhist Studies, 1993.
Erberto F. Lo Bue
H. C. P. Bell: archaeologist of Ceylon and the Maldives. By Bethia N. Bell and Heather M. Bell. pp. viii, 318, front., 18 pl., 5 maps. Denbigh, Clwyd,
Archetype Publications for the authors, 1993. 30.00.
C. H. B. Reynolds

Buddha of the future: an early Maitreya from Thailand. By Nandana Chutiwongs and Denise Patry Leidy. pp. 112, 6 col. illus., 54 bl. and wh. illus.,
map. New York, The Asia Society Galleries, 1994. Distrib. by University of Washington Press, Seattle and London. US $25.00.
Elizabeth Moore
crivains et expressions littraires du Cambodge au xxe sicle. Contributions l'histoire de la littrature khmre. Vol. 2. By Khing Hoc Dy.
(Collections Recherches Asiatiques. Travaux du Centre d'Histoire et Civilisations de la Pninsule Indochinoise.) pp. vi, 275. Paris, ditions
l'Harmattan, 1993.
Stone Lake: the poetry of Fan Chengda (11261193). By J. D. Schmidt. (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions.) pp. xiii,
199. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1992. 30.00.
Tzi-Cheng Wang
Empires beyond the Great Wall: the heritage of Genghis Khan. By Adam T. Kessler. pp. 176, 152 illus., maps. Los Angeles, Natural History Museum
of Los Angeles County, 1993. Distrib. by University of Washington Press, Seattle. US $50.00.
D. O. Morgan
Warriors Of Japan as portrayed in the war tales. By Paul Varley. pp. xiii, 276, 8 col. pl., 10 figs., map. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1994. US
$42.95 (cloth), US $16.95 (pb).
A. G. R. Smith
The culture of civil war in Kyoto. By Mary Elizabeth Berry. (A Philip E. Lilienthal Book.) pp. xxxii, 373, 6 illus., 5 maps. Berkeley, University of
California Press, 1994. US $45.00.
A. G. R. Smith
The trail of time: time measurement with incense in East Asia. Shih-Chien Ti Tsu-Chi. By Silvio A. Bedini. pp. xxiv, 342, 132 illus. Cambridge etc.,
Cambridge University Press, 1994. 75.00.
Frank Diktter
The rise of early modern science: Islam, China and the West. By Toby E. Huff. pp. xiv, 409, 12 illus. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press,
1993. 35.00.
R. I. Moore
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