Front Matter

A Political Biography of al-Ṣāḥib Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbbād (d. 385/995)

Page 1–23

The Phrase dharmaparyāyo hastagato in Mahāyāna Buddhist Literature

Page 25–50

Reflections on a Braised Pig’s Head

Page 51–68

History, Fiction, and Public Opinion

Page 69–88

Borrowings to Create Anew

Page 89–106

Beginnings of Indian and Chinese Calendrical Astronomy

Page 107–112

Origins of the ghiyār

Page 113–121

Epistemic Modality in Old Babylonian

Page 123–136

Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts. By Haruo Shirane

Page 137–138

Rethinking Early Medieval India: A Reader. Edited by Upinder Singh

Page 138–139

Politische Strukturen im Guptareich (300–550 n.Chr.). By Fred Virkus; and The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual: Temples and the Establishment of the Gods. By Michael Willis

Page 140–143

Tamil Love Poetry: The Five Hundred Short Poems of the Aiṅkurunūru. By Martha Ann Selby

Page 143–146

Convictions religieuses et engagement en Asie du Sud depuis 1850/Religious Convictions and Social Commitment in South Asia since 1850. Edited by Catherine Clémentin-oJha

Page 146–148

The Making of a Modern Indian Artist-Craftsman: Devi Prasad. By Naman P. AhuJa, with contributions by Krishna Kumar, Kristine Michael, Bob Overy, and Sunand Prasad

Page 148–150

Writing Science before the Greeks: A Naturalistic Analysis of the Babylonian Astronomical Treatise MUL.APIN. By Rita Watson and Wayne Horowitz

Page 150–152

The Ahhiyawa Texts. By Gary M. Beckman; Trevor R. Bryce; and Eric H. Cline

Page 152–154

Gods Carved in Stone: The Hittite Rock Sanctuary of Yazɩlɩkaya. By Jürgen Seeher

Page 154–156

Origen y persistencia del Judaísmo. By Gregorio del Olmo Lete

Page 156–158

The Book of Ezekiel and Mesopotamian City Laments. By Donna Lee Petter

Page 158–160

Narratives of Egypt and the Ancient Near East: Literary and Linguistic Approaches. Edited by Fredrik Hagen; John Johnston; Wendy Monkhouse; Kathryn Piquette; John Tait; and Martin Worthington

Page 160–162

Umm el-Qaab VII: Private Stelae of the Early Dynastic Period from the Royal Cemetery at Abydos. By Geoffrey Thorndike Martin

Page 162–164

Ägypten zwischen innerem Zwist und äußerem Druck: Die Zeit Ptolemaios’ VI. bis VIII. Edited by Andrea Jördens and Joachim Friedrich Quack

Page 164–166

Ctesias’ World. Classica et Orientalia, vol. 1. Edited by Josef Wieshöfer; Robert Rollinger; and Giovanni Lanfranchi

Page 166–168

The Formation of Islamic Hermeneutics: How Sunni Legal Theorists Imagined a Revealed Law. By David Vishanoff

Page 168–172

Parable and Politics in Early Islamic History: The Rashidun Caliphs. By Tayeb el-Hibri

Page 171–172

Islamic Law in Action: Authority, Discretion, and Everyday Experiences in Mamluk Egypt. By Kristen Stilt

Page 173–175

Chishtī Sufis in the Sultanate of Delhi 1190–1400: From Restrained Indifference to Calculated Defiance. By Tanvir Anjum

Page 175–177

Pilgrimage, Politics, and Pestilence: The Haj from the Indian Subcontinent 1860–1920. By Saurabh Mishra

Page 178–180

Saladin. By Anne-Marie Eddé. Translated by Jane Marie Todd

Page 181–182

Late Mamlūk Military Equipment. By David Nicolle

Page 182

Coptic Christianity in Ottoman Egypt. By Febe Armanios

Page 182–183

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