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BUCHANAN, TOM: East Wind: China and the British Left, 1925–1976. xxv, 250 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £65. ISBN 978 0 19 957033 1.

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CANTONE, CLEO: Making and Remaking Mosques in Senegal. (Islam in Africa.) xliv, 408 pp., plates. Leiden: Brill, 2012. €133. ISBN 978 90 04 20337 2.

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CHARPIN, DOMINIQUE: Hammurabi of Babylon. xxxix, 228 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2012. ISBN 978 1 84885 752 0.

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CLINE, ERIC H. and O'CONNOR, DAVID (eds): Ramesses III: The Life and Times of Egypt's Last Hero. xvi, 542 pp. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2012. ISBN 978 0 472 11760 4.

COHEN, RICHARD S.: Reading a Buddhist Sutra: The Splendid Vision. xiii, 160 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. £12.50. ISBN 978 0 231 15669 1.

COMERRO, VIVIANE: Les traditions sur la constitution du muṣṣḥaf de ʿUthmān. (Beiruter Texte und Studien.) xiv, 219 pp. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2012. €48. ISBN 978 3 89913 879 5.

COMMINS, DAVID: The Gulf States: A Modern History. viii, 318 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2012. ISBN 978 1 84885 278 5.

COPLAND, IAN, MABBETT, IAN, ROY, ASIM, BRITTLEBANK, KATE and BOWLES, ADAM: A History of State and Religion in India. (Routledge Studies in South Asian History.) ix, 337 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2012. £100. ISBN 978 0 415 58066 3.

DAS KUNDU, NIVEDITA: India–Russia Strategic Partnership: Challenges and Prospects. 167 pp. New Delhi: Academic Foundation, in association with the Indian Council of World Affairs, 2010. ISBN 978 81 7188827 6.

DE COURSEY CLAPP, ANNE: Commemorative Landscape Painting in China. (Tang Center Lecture Series.) 135 pp. Princeton: P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, Princeton University, 2012. £19.95. ISBN 978 0 691 15476 3.

DE LAURENTIS, PIETRO: The Manual of Calligraphy by Sun Guoting of the Tang: A Comprehensive Study on the Manuscript and Its Author. xxiii, 126 pp. Naples: Unversità degli Studi di Napoli “L'Orientale”, Dipartimento de Studi Asiatici. Series Minor. 2011. €15. ISBN 978 88 95044 91 0.

DEVJI, FAISAL: The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence. ix, 213 pp. London: Hurst, 2012. £16.99. ISBN 978 1 84904 115 7.

DHARAMSEY, VIRCHAND: Bhagwanlal Indraji: The First Indian Archaeologist. Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Study of the Past. xxiv, 504 pp. Vadodara, Gujarat: Darshak Itifas Nidhi, 2012. ISBN 81 922639 2 4.

DING, XIAOJIONG: Policy Metamorphosis in China: A Case Study of Minban Education in Shanghai. (Emerging Perspectives on Education in China.) xviii, 239 pp. Lanham, MD and Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2011. £44.95. ISBN 978 0 7391 2963 0.

DONNER, FRED M. (ed.): The Articulation of Early Islamic State Structures. (The Formation of the Classical Islamic World.) xliv, 424 pp. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012. £100. ISBN 978 0 8607 8721 1.

DOUGLASS, JAMES W.: Gandhi and the Unspeakable: His Final Experiment with Truth. xv, 158 pp. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2012. ISBN 978 1 57075 963 5.

DUBOULOZ, JULIEN and INGOLD, ALICE (eds): Faire la preuve de la propriété: droits et savoirs en Méditerranée. (Collection de L'École Française de Rome.) iv, 339 pp. Rome: École Française de Rome, 2012. €50. ISBN 978 2 7283 0906 1.

DUŠEK, JAN: Aramaic and Hebrew Inscriptions from Mt. Gerizim and Samaria between Antiochus III and Antiochus IV Epiphanes. (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East.) xviii, 200 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2012. €99. ISBN 978 90 04 18385 8.

EBER, IRENE: Wartime Shanghai and the Jewish Refugees from Central Europe: Survival, Co-Existence, and Identity in a Multi-Ethnic City. (New Perspectives on Modern Jewish History.) xiv, 245 pp. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012. ISBN 978 3 11 026797 6.

ELLENBLUM, RONNIE: The Collapse of the Eastern Mediterranean: Climate Change and the Decline of the East, 950–1072. xii, 270 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. £60. ISBN 978 1 107 02335 2.

EMON, ANVER M.: Religious Pluralism and Islamic Law: Dhimmis and others in the Empire of Law. (Oxford Islamic Legal Studies.) xiv, 367 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN 978 0 19 966163 3.

ERNST, CARL W.: How to Read the Qur'an: A New Guide, with Select Translations. x, 273 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011. £19.99. ISBN 978 0 7486 5070 5.

EVANS, GRANT: The Last Century of Lao Royalty: A Documentary History. xiv, 430 pp. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books (paperback 2011.) 2009. £27.99. ISBN 978 616 215 008 1.

EVERED, EMINE Ö: Empire and Education under the Ottomans: Politics, Reform and Resistance from the Tanzimat to the Young Turks. xix, 333 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2012. £56.50. ISBN 978 1 78076 109 1.

FÄHNRICH, HEINZ: Die georgische Sprache. (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section Eight. Central Asia.) iv, 856 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2012. €217. ISBN 978 90 04 21906 9.

FISCHER, PAUL (ed. and trans.): Shizi: China's First Syncretist. vii, 248 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. £31. ISBN 978 0 231 15906 7.

FRAJZYNGIER, ZYGMUNT and SHAY, ERIN (eds): The Afroasiatic Languages. (Cambridge Language Surveys.) xix, 687 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. £100. ISBN 978 0 521 86533 3.

FRECHETTE, CHRISTOPHER G.: Mesopotamian Ritual Prayers of “Hand-Lifting” (Akkadian Šuillas): An Investigation of Function in Light of the Idiomatic Meaning of the Rubric. (Alter Orient und altes Testament.) xxi, 316 pp. Munster: Ugarit Verlag, 2012. ISBN 978 3 86835 046 3.

FREEMAN, CAREN: Making and Faking Kinship: Marriage and Labor Migration between China and South Korea. xiv, 263 pp. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2011. ISBN 978 0 8014 4958 1.

GADOIN, ISABELLE and VESEL, ŽIVA (eds): Figures Pionnières de l'Orientalisme: Convergences Européennes. (Res Orientales XX.) 376 pp. Bures-sur-Yvette: Groupe pour l'Étude de la Civilisation du Moyen-Orient, 2011. ISBN 978 2 9521376 4 5.

GALAN, CHRISTIAN and LÉVI ALVARÈS, CLAUDE (eds): Séisme éducatif au Japon. (Les Dossiers des Sciences de l'Éducation.) 179 pp. Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2012. €21. ISBN 978 2 8107 0204 6.

GARRETSON, PETER P.: A Victorian Gentleman and Ethiopian Nationalist: The Life and Times of Hakim Wärqenäh, Dr Charles Martin. xv, 315 pp. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 2012. £55. ISBN 978 1 84701 044 5.

GIGNOUX, PHILIPPE: Lexique des Termes de la Pharmacopée. (Studia Iranica. Cahier 47. Chrétiens en Terre d'Iran.) 103 pp. Paris: Association pour l'Avancement des Études Iraniennes, 2011. €20. ISBN 978 2 910640 33 0.

GÖRKE, ANDREAS and HIRSCHLER, KONRAD (eds): Manuscript Notes as Documentary Sources. (Beiruter Texte und Studien.) 208 pp. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2011. €48. ISBN 978 3 89913 831 3.

GREEN, NILE: Sufism: A Global History. xxi, 263 pp. Oxford and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. £19.99. ISBN 978 1 4051 5765 0.

GULLIVER, KATRINA: Modern Women in China and Japan: Gender, Feminism and Global Modernity between the Wars. vii, 189 pp. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2012. £56. ISBN 978 1 84885 939 5.

GUO, LI: The Performing Arts in Medieval Islam: Shadow Play and Popular Poetry in Ibn Dāniyāl's Mamluk Cairo. (Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and Texts.) xiii, 240 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2012. €99. ISBN 978 90 04 21045 5.

HADDAD, JOUMANA: Superman is an Arab: On God, Marriage, Macho Men and Other Disastrous Inventions. 173 pp. London: The Westbourne Press, 2012. £8.99. ISBN 978 1 908906 09 0.

HAIDER, NAJAM: The Origins of the Shīʿa: Identity, Ritual and Sacred Space in Eighth-Century Kūfa. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) xvii, 276 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. £60. ISBN 978 1 107 01071 0.

HERMAN, MARILYN: Gondar's Child: Songs, Honor, and Identity among Ethiopian Jews in Israel. xvii, 316 pp. Trenton, NJ: The Red Sea Press, 2012. $34.95. ISBN 978 1 56902 328 0.

HESSELINK, NATHAN: SamulNori; Contemporary Korean Drumming and the Rebirth of Itinerant Performance Culture. xiv, 201 pp. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. £18. ISBN 978 0 226 33097 6.

HIGGS, CATHERINE: Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa. xv, 230 pp. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2012. £24.50. ISBN 978 0 8214 2006 5.

HOFER, THERESIA: The Inheritance of Change: Transmission and Practice of Tibetan Medicine in Ngamring. (Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde.) xxi, 418 pp. Vienna: Arbeitskreis für tibetische und buddhistische Studien Universität Wien. 2012. ISBN 978 3 902501 14 1.

HOFFMAN, VALERIE J.: The Essentials of Ibāḍī Islam. xii, 344 pp. New York: Syracuse University Press, 2012. £35.95. ISBN 978 0 8156 3288 7.

HOLLIDAY, IAN: Burma Redux: Global Justice and the Quest for Political Reform in Myanmar. xiii, 287 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. £20.50. ISBN 978 0 231 16127 5.

HOPKINS, BENJAMIN D. and MARSDEN, MAGNUS: Fragments of the Afghan Frontier. xii, 301 pp. London: Hurst & Co., 2012. £30. ISBN 978 184904 072 3.

HUBER, TONI and BLACKBURN, STUART (eds): Origins and Migrations in the Extended Eastern Himalayas. (Tribal Cultures in the Eastern Himalayas.) viii, 336 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2012. €99. ISBN 978 90 04 22691 3.

HUGHES, AARON W.: Theorizing Islam: Disciplinary Deconstruction and Reconstruction. (Religion in Culture: Studies in Social Contest and Construction.) vii, 146 pp. Sheffield and Bristol, CT: Equinox, 2012. £60. ISBN 978 1 908049 36 0.

JABRE MOUAWAD, RAY, AERCKE, KRISTIAAN and BEHMARDI, VAHID (eds): Discrimination and Tolerance in the Middle East: Proceedings of the Conference on Discrimination and Tolerance in the Middle East organized by the Lebanese American University (LAU) and the Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB), May 2–4, 2007. (Beiruter Texte und Studien.) vi, 124 pp. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2012. €32. ISBN 978 3 89913 899 3.

JAGOU, FABIENNE (trans. Rebecca Bissett Buechel): The Ninth Panchen Lama (1883–1937): A Life at the Crossroads of Sino-Tibetan Relations. (EFEO-Silkworm Books Series.) xvii, 333 pp., 4 plates. Paris/Chiang Mai: EFEO/Silkworm Books, 2011. £31. ISBN 978 616 215 016 6.

JOHNSON, JO and KUMAR, RAJIV (eds): Reconnecting Britain and India: Ideas for an Enhanced Partnership. 283 pp. New Delhi: Academic Foundation, 2011. Rs. 895. ISBN 978 81 7188 898 6.

JOO, RACHAEL MIYUNG: Transnational Sport: Gender, Media, and Global Korea. xiii, 336 pp. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2012. £16.99. ISBN 978 0 8223 4856 6.

KENDALL, ELISABETH: Media Arabic. (Second Edition.) (Essential Middle Eastern Vocabularies.) viii, 104 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. £12.99. ISBN 978 0 7486 4495 7.

EKSELL, KERSTIN and GUTH, STEPHAN (eds): Crossings and Transitions in Modern Arabic Literature. 179 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2011. €42. ISBN 978 3 447 06645 7.

KHALAF, SAMIR: Lebanon Adrift: From Battleground to Playground. 296 pp. London: Saqi Books, 2012. £18.99. ISBN 978 0 86356 434 5.

KULIKOV, LEONID: The Vedic -ya- presents: Passives and Intransitivity in Old Indo-Aryan. (Leiden Studies in Indo-European.) xxix, 994 pp. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2012. £189. ISBN 978 90 420 3522 5.

LAVENDA, ROBERT H. and SCHULTZ, EMILY A.: Anthropology: What Does It Mean to Be Human? (Second Edition.) xxvi, 501 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. £55. ISBN 978 0 19 539287 6.

LE BILLON, PHILIPPE: Wars of Plunder: Conflicts, Profits and the Politics of Resources. xi, 363 pp. London: Hurst & Co., 2012. £20. ISBN 978 1 84904 145 4.

LERICHE, MATTHEW and ARNOLD, MATTHEW: South Sudan: From Revolution to Independence. xviii, 313 pp. London: Hurst, 2012. £19.99. ISBN 978 1 84904 195 9.

LOEWENSTEIN, ANTONY and MOOR, AHMED (eds): After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine. 256 pp. London: Saqi Books, 2012. £10.99. ISBN 978 0 86356 816 9.

XIN, LUO (editor) and COVEY, ROGER (translation editor): Chinese Scholars on Inner Asia. (Indiana University Uralic and Altaic Series.) xxiii, 707 pp. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, Sinor Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 2012. $55. ISBN 978 0 93307058 5.

MACGREGOR, SHERRY LOU: Beyond Hearth and Home: Women in the Public Sphere in Neo-Assyrian Society. (State Archives of Assyria Studies. Volume XXI.) xvi, 153 pp. Helsinki: State Archives of Assyria, 2012. $59. ISBN 978 952 10 1337 9.

MACLEAN, DERRYL N. and AHMED, SIKEENA KARMALI (eds): Cosmopolitanisms in Muslim Contexts: Perspectives from the Past. (Exploring Muslim Contexts.) viii, 190 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. £60. ISBN 978 0 7486 4456 8.

MAṄ:-KRĪ: MAHĀSIRIJEYA-SŪ: Catalogue of the Piṭaka and Other Texts in Pāḷi, Pāḷi-Burmese, and Burmese (Piṭakat-tō-sa-mui:). Summarized and annotated translation by Nyunt, Peter. xxiv, 230 pp. Bristol: The Pali Text Society, 2012. ISBN 978086013 497 8.

MANN, RICHARD D.: The Rise of Mahāsena: The Transformation of Skanda-Kārttikeya in North India from the Kūṣāṇa to Gupta Empires. (Brill's Indological Library.) xiii, 282 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2012. €105. ISBN 978 90 04 21754 6.

MAROGY, AMAL ELESHA (foreword by CARTER, M.G.): The Foundations of Arabic Linguistics: Sībawayhi and Early Arabic Grammatical Theory. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics.) xii, 236 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2012. €107. ISBN 978 90 04 22359 2.

MAY, TIMOTHY: The Mongol Conquests in World History. 319 pp. London and New York: Reaktion Books, 2012. £25. ISBN 978 1 86189 867 8.

MORIMOTO, KAZUO (ed.): Sayyids and Sharifs in Muslim Societies: The Living Links to the Prophet. (New Horizons in Islamic Studies.) xii, 276 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2012. £75. ISBN 978 0 415 51917 5.

OLIVELLE, PATRICK: Language, Texts, and Society: Explorations in Ancient Indian Culture and Religion. (Cultural, Historical and Textual Studies of Religions.) 419 pp. London: Anthem Press, 2011. ISBN 978 0 85728 431 0.

ORMSBY, ERIC (trans.): Between Reason and Revelation: Twin Wisdoms Reconciled – An Annotated English Translation of Nāṣir-i Khusraw's Kitāb-I Jāmiʿ al-ḥikmatayn. (Ismaili Texts and Translations Series.) xii, 292 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies. 2012. £29.50. ISBN 978 1 78076 132 9.

OUYANG, WEN-CHIN: Poetics of Love in the Arabic Novel: Nation-State, Modernity and Tradition. v, 298 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. £70. ISBN 978 0 7486 4273 1.

PANG, LAIKWAN: Creativity and Its Discontents: China's Creative Industries and Intellectual Property Rights Offenses. ix, 299 pp. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. £15.99. ISBN 978 0 8223 5082 8.

PANJWANI, IMRANALI (ed.): The Shiʿa of Samarra: The Heritage and Politics of a Community in Iraq. xvii, 273 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2012. £56.50. ISBN 978 1 84885 779 7.

PARK, J.P.: Art by the Book: Painting Manuals and the Leisurely Life in Late Ming China. xiii, 309 pp. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2012. $50. ISBN 978 0 295 99176 4.

PARK, JUNGNOK: How Buddhism Acquired a Soul on the Way to China. (Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies Monographs.) x, 246 pp. Sheffield: Equinox Publishing, 2012. £19.99. ISBN 978 1 84553 997 9.

PARSONS, ROSS: Growing up with HIV in Zimbabwe: One Day This Will All Be Over. x, 197 pp. Woodbridge, Suffolk: James Currey, 2012. £40. ISBN 978 1 84701 048 3.

PATEL, ALKA and LEONARD, KAREN (eds): Indo-Muslim Cultures in Transition. (Brill's Indological Library.) x, 279 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2012. €99. ISBN 978 90 04 21209 1.

PEEK, PHILIP M.: Twins in African and Diaspora Cultures: Double Trouble, Twice Blessed. vii, 366 pp. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2011. £18.99. ISBN 978 0 253 22307 4.

PENNY, BENJAMIN: The Religion of Falun Gong. xiii, 262 pp. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. £29. ISBN 978 0 226 65501 7.

PEYCAM PHILIPPE, M.F.: The Birth of Vietnamese Political Journalism: Saigon 1916–1930. xiii, 306 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. £34.50. ISBN 978 0 231 15850 3.

PHILLIPS, STEPHEN: Epistemology in Classical India: The Knowledge Sources of the Nyāya School. x, 194 pp. New York and London: Routledge, 2012. £80. ISBN 978 0 415 89554 5.

PINES, YURI: The Everlasting Empire: The Political Culture of Ancient China and Its Imperial Legacy. viii, 245 pp. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. £27.95. ISBN 978 0 691 13495 6.

RADICH, MICHAEL: How Ajātaśatru Was Reformed: The Domestication of “Ajase” and Stories in Buddhist History. (Studia Philologica Buddhica. Monograph Series.) iii, 202 pp. Tokyo: The International Institute for Buddhist Studies, 2011. ISBN 978 4 906267 65 1.

LÓPEZ, RICARDO and WEINSTEIN, BARBARA (eds): The Making of the Middle Class: Toward a Transnational History. xi, 446 pp. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. £18.99. ISBN 978 0 8223 5129 0.

SAGUER, ABDERRAHIM (ed.): Al-luġa al-ʿaṣliyya fī al-'ulūmi al-ʿarabiyya. Le vocabulaire fondamental pour celui qui quête la science de la langue arabe. (Valorisation et Édition Critique des Manuscrits Arabes Sub-sahariens.) 297 pp. Lyon: ENS Editions, 2011. €15. ISBN 978 2 84788 328 2.

SANAGUSTIN, FLORÉAL: Livre de la guérison des maladies externes et internes affectant les corps. Aḥmad al-Raqqādī al-Kuntī. Tome premier. (Valorisation et Édition Critique des Manuscrits Arabes Sub-sahariens.) v, 167 pp. Lyon: ENS Editions, 2011. €15. ISBN 978 2 84788 308 4.

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SANTASOMBAT, YOS: The River of Life: Changing Ecosystems of the Mekong River. xiii, 224 pp. Chiang Mai: Mekong Press (distributed by Washington University Press), 2011. £19.99. ISBN 978 616 90053 2 2.

SCHÄFER, DAGMAR (ed.): Cultures of Knowledge: Technology in Chinese History. (Sinica Leidensia.) vii, 394 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2012. €133. ISBN 978 90 04 21844 4.

SCHLEE, GÜNTHER with SHONGOLO, ABDULLAHI A.: Islam and Ethnicity in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia. ix, 185 pp. Woodbridge, Suffolk: James Currey, 2012. £40. ISBN 978 0 8248 3602 3.

SCHLEE, GÜNTHER with SHONGOLO, ABDULLAHI A.: Pastoralism and Politics in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia. ix, 179 pp. Woodbridge, Suffolk: James Currey, 2012. £30. ISBN 978 1 84701 036 0.

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