About the Journal
JAOS (ISSN 0003-0279) is published quarterly by the AOS. The first volume (1843-49) set the tone for all time in the broad scope of subject matter and the solidity of its scholarship. It included studies of Arab music, of Persian cuneiform, and of Buddhism in India, and brought to a wide audience the then novel theories of Pierre E. Du Ponceau, assailing the doctrine of the “ideograp
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Current Issue
Vol. 145 No. 3 (2025): JAOS
Published: 2025-11-03
Front Matter
Front Matter
Abstract 538 | PDF Downloads 88Articles
The Turning Point
Abstract 417 | PDF Downloads 18Page 451–471
Diagnosing, Misdiagnosing, and Rediagnosing Women’s Anger in the Jin Ping Mei
Abstract 393 | PDF Downloads 14Page 473–489
On the Generic Usage of Yi in Literary Sinitic
Abstract 385 | PDF Downloads 15Page 491–498
The Emergence of di.kud.gal in Ur.ra5 = ḫubullu 2
Abstract 325 | PDF Downloads 10Page 499–513
Exploring the Neo-Babylonian Chronicle Chain ABC 3–5
Abstract 341 | PDF Downloads 8Page 515–525
The Art of Storytelling in the Epic of Aqhat
Abstract 321 | PDF Downloads 3Page 527–547
Poetic License in al-Ṭabarī’s Quranic Commentary
Abstract 323 | PDF Downloads 12Page 549–573
Not Very Far from the Madding Crowd
Abstract 350 | PDF Downloads 13Page 575–592
The Double Life of Doxography
Abstract 327 | PDF Downloads 10Page 593–621
Brief Communications
On the Etymological Awareness of the Traditional Arabic Lexicography
Abstract 390 | PDF Downloads 12Page 623–634
Review Articles
Medieval Jaina History and Prakrit Literature
Abstract 358 | PDF Downloads 10Page 635–641
Reviews
Review of Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo: Unearthing Early China with Sarah Allan
Abstract 338 | PDF Downloads 7Page 643–645
Review of 1800 Years of Encounters with Mandaeans
Abstract 290 | PDF Downloads 4Page 645–647
Review of The Shape of Stories: Narrative Structures in Cuneiform Literature
Abstract 329 | PDF Downloads 7Page 648–651
Review of The Book of the Cow: An Early Qurʾānic Codex on Papyrus (P. Hamb. Arab. 68)
Abstract 317 | PDF Downloads 5Page 651–653
Review of The Poetics of Spiritual Instruction: Farid al-Din ʿAttar and Persian Sufi Didacticism
Abstract 252 | PDF Downloads 4Page 653–655
Review of Alfarabi, Book of Letters (Kitāb al-Ḥurūf)
Abstract 316 | PDF Downloads 4Page 657–659
Review of Muslim al-Naysābūrī (d. 261/875): The Sceptical Traditionalist
Abstract 319 | PDF Downloads 6Page 659–662
Review of Political Thought in the Mamluk Period: The Unnecessary Caliphate
Abstract 298 | PDF Downloads 10Page 662–665
Brief Reviews
Review of Saved from Desert Sands: Re-Discovering Objects on the Silk Road
Abstract 342 | PDF Downloads 5Page 666–667
Review of Rumi: A Life in Pictures
Abstract 284 | PDF Downloads 2Page 667–668