Tzvee Zahavy: The traditions of Eleazar ben Azariah. (Brown Judaic Studies, No. 2.) XV, 365 pp. Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press for Brown University, [1977]. $7.50.

JOURNAL ARTICLE published June 1978 in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Authors: J. Wansbrough

Books Received for Review

JOURNAL ARTICLE published February 1960 in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

South-East Asia - Alfred Gell: Wrapping in images: tattooing in Polynesia. (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Forms.) xi, 347 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. £35.

JOURNAL ARTICLE published February 1997 in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Authors: Ruth Barnes

Amos Oz: Under this blazing light. Translated by Nicholas de Lange. xii, 205 pp. Cambridge etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1995. £13.95.

JOURNAL ARTICLE published October 1996 in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Authors: Natasha Lehrer

Nikki R. Keddie (ed.): Scholars, saints, and Sufis: Muslim religious institutions in the Middle East since 1500. xi, 401 pp. Berkeley, etc.: University of California Press, 1972. $20. (English agents: IBEG Ltd. £7.90.)

JOURNAL ARTICLE published October 1973 in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Authors: R. M. Burrell

John S. Strong: The legend of king Aśoka: a study and transiation of the Aśokāvadāna. xii, 336 pp. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, [1984]. £24.70.

JOURNAL ARTICLE published October 1985 in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Authors: Michael Carrithers

P. Chalmeta and F. Corriente (ed.): Formulario notarial hispano-árabe porel alfaquí y notario cordobés Ibn al-'Aṭṭūr (s. x). Kitūb al-Wathū'iq wa'l-Sijillūt. xxxviii, 685 pp. [in Arabic], 2 plates. Madrid: Academia Matritense del Notariado, Instituto Hispano-Arabe de Cultura, 1983.

JOURNAL ARTICLE published June 1985 in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Authors: H. T. Norris

Siddhešvara Bhattācārya: The Philosophy of the Śrimad-Bhāgavata. viii, 309 pp. Varanasi: [the author], 1982. Rs. 80.

JOURNAL ARTICLE published February 1985 in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Authors: Tuvia Gelblum

Wyatt MacGaffey: Religion and society in Central Africa: the BaKongo of lower Zaire, xi, 295 pp. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1986. £38.25 (paper £14.50).

JOURNAL ARTICLE published June 1988 in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Authors: Louis Brenner

Abdul Majeed Mohamed Mackeen: Contemporary Islamic legal organization in Malaya. (Yale University Southeast Asia Studies. Monograph Series, No. 13.) x, 137 pp. + errata sheet. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, [1969]. (Distributed by Cellar Book Shop, Detroit. $4.50.)

JOURNAL ARTICLE published February 1971 in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Authors: R. B. Serjeant

The Near and Middle East - Ahmet Kanlidere: Reform within Islam: the Tajdid and Jadid movement among the Kazan Tatars (1809–1917). Conciliation or conflict? (Middle Eastern and Balkan Studies Series, 1.) 200 pp. Istanbul: Eren Yayincilik Ltd., 1997.

JOURNAL ARTICLE published January 1999 in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Authors: H. T. Norris

Colin Crisswell: The Taipans: Hong kong's merchant princes. x, 249 pp., 32 Plates. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1981. £13.

JOURNAL ARTICLE published October 1982 in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Yuka Kadoi: Islamic Chinoiserie: The Art of Mongol Iran. (Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art.) xvii, 286 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. £75. ISBN 978 0 7486 3582 5.

JOURNAL ARTICLE published June 2011 in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Authors: George Lane

Soonil Hwang: Metaphor and Literalism in Buddhism: The Doctrinal History of Nirvana. (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism.) xv, 160 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. £60. ISBN 978 0 7546 53691.

JOURNAL ARTICLE published February 2008 in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Authors: Tadeusz Skorupski

M.B. Emeneau: Kolami, a Dravidian language. (University of California Publications in Linguistics, Vol. XII.) xvi, 302 pp., Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1955 $3.

JOURNAL ARTICLE published February 1958 in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Authors: Alfred Master

Ḥasan-i-Ṣabbāḥ and the Assassins

JOURNAL ARTICLE published February 1930 in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Authors: Laurence Lockhart

Avner Gil'adi: Children of Islam: concepts of childhood in medieval Muslim society. (St Antony's/Macmillan Series.) xii, 176 pp. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan Academic and Professional Ltd., 1992. £40.

JOURNAL ARTICLE published February 1994 in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Authors: Hugh Cunningham

Howard J. Wechsler: Offerings of jade and silk: ritual and symbol in the legitimation of the T'ang Dynasty. xiv, 313 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1985. £27.

JOURNAL ARTICLE published October 1987 in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Authors: T. H. Barrett

G. R. Hawting (tr.): [The History of al-Ṭabar.ī] Vol. xx: The collapse of Sufyānid authority and the coming of the Marwānids. The caliphates of Mu‘āwiyah II and Marwān I and the beginning of the caliphate of ‘Abd al-Malik, A.D. 683–685/A.H. 64–66. xviii, 246 pp. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1989. $54.50 (paper $17.95).

JOURNAL ARTICLE published June 1992 in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Authors: Michael Bonner

Rosie Llewellyn-Jones: A very ingenious man: Claude Martin in early colonial India. xxi, 241 pp. 12 plates, Map [on end papers]. Delhi, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1992 [pub. 1993]. Rs. 400, £15.95.

JOURNAL ARTICLE published October 1994 in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Authors: M. E. Yapp