School of Oriental and African Studies.Bulletin
Vol.  LXVII    Part 1          2004

Articles
Two texts in Barzani Jewish Neo-Aramaic
HEZY MUTZAFI		  1-13
The conquest of Khuzistan: a historiographical reassessment
CHASE F. ROBINSON		  14-39
The renovation ritual in a south Indian temple: the 1995 kumbhabhiseka in the Minaksi Temple, Madurai
C. J. FULLER		  40-63
Glimpses into Zhong Hong's educational background, with remarks on manifestations of the Zhouyi in his writings
BERNHARD FUEHRER		  64-78
Mishnah, ’Avôt 5: 13 in early Buddhism
J. DUNCAN M. DERRETT		  79-87
Reviews

The Ancient World

  
ERICA EHRENBERG (ed.): Leaving no stones unturned: essays on the ancient Near East and Egypt in honor of Donald P. Hansen.
A. R. GEORGE		  88-89

The Near and Middle East

 
JAFAR HASANPOOR: A study of European, Persian and Arabic loans in standard Sorani.
CHRISTINE ALLISON		  90-91
BERTOLD SPULER (tr. M. ISMAIL MARCINKOWSKI): Persian historiography and geography.
GEORGE LANE		  91-93
MOHAMMAD GHOLI MAJD: Great Britain and Reza Shah: the plunder of Iran, 1921–1941.
PAUL LUFT		  93-95

South Asia

  
BHADRIRAJU KRISHNAMURTI: The Dravidian languages.
R. E. ASHER		  95-97
KATHERINE ANNE HARPER and ROBERT L. BROWN (ed.): The roots of Tantra.
KATHLEEN TAYLOR		  97-99
JULIA A. B. HEGEWALD: Water architecture in South Asia: a study of types, developments and meanings.
GEORGE MICHELL		  99-101
MARK LIECHTY: Suitably modern: making middle-class culture in a new consumer society.
DAVID N. GELLNER		  101-102
ARJUN GUNERATNE: Many tongues, one people: the making of Tharu identity in Nepal.
GISÈLE KRAUSKOPFF		  102-105

Central and Inner Asia

  
ROBERT LEGVOLD (ed.) Thinking strategically: the major powers, Kazakhstan, and the Central Asian nexus.
SHIRIN AKINER		  105-106
PETER B. GOLDEN: Nomads and their neighbours in the Russian steppe.
GEORGE LANE		  106-107
PAUL PELLIOT (ed. JEAN-PIERRE DRÈGE): Les Routes de la région de Turfan sous les T'ang, suivi de L'histoire et la géographie anciennes de l'Asie Centrale dans Innermost Asia.
T. H. BARRETT		  108-109

East Asia

  
CHEN JINHUA: Monks and monarchs, kinship and kingship. Tanqian in Sui Buddhism and politics.
JOHN KIESCHNICK		  109-112
WILLARD J. PETERSON (ed.): The Cambridge history of China, Vol. 9, Part 1: The Ch'ing dynasty to 1800.
LARS PETER LAAMANN		  112-115
THOMAS GOLD, DOUG GUTHRIE and DAVID WANK (ed.): Social connections in China: institutions, culture, and the changing nature of guanxi.
ALLEN CHUN		  115-117
CHRISTIAN HENRIOT: Prostitution and sexuality in Shanghai: a social history, 1849–1949.
CHIARA BETTA		  117-119
BROOK ZIPORYN: The Penumbra unbound: the neo-Taoist philosophy of Guo Xiang.
T. H. BARRETT		  119-121
ALICE TISDALE HOBART: Oil for the lamps of China.
T. H. BARRETT		  121-122
PIERRE FRANÇOIS SOUYRI (trans. Käthe Roth): The world turned upside down: medieval Japanese society.
TOM NELSON		  122-124
CHAN E. PARK: Voices from the straw mat: toward an ethnography of Korean story telling.
KEITH HOWARD		  124-126

South-East Asia

  
KEITH FOULCHER and TONY DAY (ed.): Clearing a space: postcolonial readings of modern Indonesian literature.
BEN MURTAGH		  126-128
GRAYSON LLOYD and SHANNON SMITH (ed.): Indonesia today: challenges of history.
STEIN TØNNESSON		  128-129
ASHLEY SOUTH: Mon nationalism and civil war in Burma: The Golden Sheldrake.
MICHAEL W. CHARNEY		  130-131
HUUB DE JONGE and NICO KAPTEIN (ed.): Transcending borders: Arabs, politics, trade and Islam in Southeast Asia.
PETER G. RIDDELL		  131-133
GEOFF P. SMITH: Growing up with Tok Pisin: contact, creolization, and change in Papua New Guinea's national language.
STÉPHANE GOYETTE		  133-134

Africa

  
MICHAEL A. KNIBB: Translating the Bible: the Ethiopic version of the Old Testament.
STEVEN M. BRYAN		  134-137
AZEB AMHA: The Maale language.
DAVID L. ALEYARD		  137-139
PHILIP J. JAGGAR: Hausa.
GERRIT J. DIMMENDAAL		  140-141
NIALL FINNERAN: The archaeology of Christianity in Africa.
DAVID W. PHILLIPSON		  142-142

General

  
DAVID ARNOLD and CHRISTOPHER SHACKLE (ed.): SOAS since the sixties.
T. H. BARRETT		  143-144

Short notices

  
NELIDA FUCCARO: The other Kurds: Yazidis in colonial Iraq.
CHRISTINE ALLISON		  144-145
R. KEITH SCHOA: Song full of tears: nine centuries of Chinese life at Xiang Lake.
T. H. BARRETT		  145-145
JEAN A. BERLIE: East Timor, a bibliography.
W.G. CLARENCE-SMITH		  146-146
OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED FOR REVIEW  147-149