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Volume 117 I Number 3 I July-September 1997 ISSN 0003- 0279

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RICHARD VANNESS SIMMONS, A Second Look at the Tiiwa sanyi:

Clues to the Nature of the Guanhuah Studied by Japanese in the Early Eighteenth Century.419 MARK LAURENT ASSELIN, The Lu-School Reading of "Guanju" as Preserved in an Eastern Han fu.427

MADHAV M. DESHPANDE, Who Inspired Piini9.444 ADRIAN GULLY, Tadmin, "Implication of Meaning," in Medieval Arabic.466

JODI MAGNESS, The Chronology of Capernaum in the Early Islamic Period.481 LEO DEPUYDT, Agent-less Indirect Adjectival Verb Forms in Egyptian and Arabic.487

Review Articles

DAVID N. KEIGHTLEY, Graphs, Words, and Meanings: Three Reference Works for Shang Oracle-Bone Studies, with an Excursus on the Religious Role of the Day or Sun.507

ROBERT J. ZYDENBOS, Viraaivism, Caste, Revolution, Etc.525 TONY STREET, On Studying Medieval Arabic Logic.536 ELTON L. DANIEL, Arabs, Persians, and the Advent of the Abbasids Reconsidered.542

RONALD L. GORNY, Zippalanda and Ankuwa.549 A. LUBOTSKY, Remarks on the Vedic Intensive.558

Reviews of Books.565

Brief Reviews of Books.617

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Reviews of Books

SHIBATANI and THOMPSON, eds.: Essays in Semantics and ISLAMOtiLU-INAN: State and Peasant in the Ottoman Em- Pragmatics in Honor of charles j. Fillmore (Roy Andrew pire: Agrarian Power Relations and Regional Economic Miller).565 Development in Ottoman Anatolia during the Sixteenth

FRACASSO, tr.: Libro dei monti e dei man (Shanhai jing): century (Margaret L. Venzke).593 Cosmografia e mitologica nella C'ina antica (Paul W. ADAMOVI6, ed.: Kelile ii Dimne: Turkische Handschrft T 189 Kroll).568 der Forschungsbibliothek Gotha (Robert Dankoff) . . . 595

STAUTZEBACH: Pariiksfi und SarvasaIhmataiksfi: Recht- WATSON: A Syntax of anCdnt Arabic (Alan S. Kaye) . . . 596 lautlehren der Taittirtya-Siikhd (Stephanie W. Jamison) 569 CANNON and KAYE: The Arabic contributions to the English

KRIPAL: Kali's child: The Mystical and Erotic in the Life Language: An Historical Dictionary (Peter Behnstedt) . 598 and Teachings of Ramakrishna (Malcolm McLean) . . 571 WALKER: Abi Yacqtib al-Sijistdnt: Intellectual Missionary

LUDVIK: Hanumdn in the Rdmdyaiia of Vdlmiki and the (Douglas Crow).599 Rdmacaritamdnasa of Tulasi DOsa; GRIMES: Gaapati: SPELLBERG: Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Song of the Self (Leona Anderson).572 Legacy of CAD isha bint Abi Bakr (Matthew Gordon). . . 600

YOUNGER: The Home of Dancing Siva: The Traditions of DE WEESE: Islamization and Native Religion in the Golden the Hindu Temple in Citamparam (Leslie C. Orr) . . . 574 Horde: Baba Tukles and conversion to Islam in Histori-

FORT and MUMME, eds.: Living Liberation in Hindu Thought cal and Epic Tradition (Ahmet T. Karamustafa).601 (Patrick OliVelle).575 WESTERMANN: Roots of Wisdom, tr. Charles (James L.

STEINKELLNER and TAUSCHER, eds.: Contributions on Ti- Crenshaw).603 betan Language, History, and Culture; Contributions on KUNIN: The Logic of Incest: A Structuralist Analysis of Tibetan and Buddhist Religion and Philosophy (Mark Hebrew Mythology (Naomi Steinberg).603 Tatz).576 JANOWSKI et al., eds.: Religionsgeschichtliche Beziehungen

SCHERRER-SCHAUB: Yuktisastikdvrtti: Commentaire c la zwischen Kleinasien, Nordsyrien und dem Alten Testa- soixantaine sur le raisonnement ou Du vrai enseignement ment (Itamar Singer).604 de la causalit par le Maiire indien Candrakirti (Masaaki SCHRAMM: The Opponents of Third Isaiah (Victor Avigdor Hattori).577 Hurowitz).605

SWEARER: The Buddhist World of Southeast Asia (Peter GITIN, ed.: Recent Excavations in Israel (A. Bernard Skilling).579 Knapp).606

JACOB: cambodian Linguistics, Literature, and History: Col- ENGLUND: Archaic Administrative Texts from Uruk (Marvin lected Articles; HUDAK, ed.: William J. Gedney's "The Tai A. Powell).608 Dialect of Lungming: Glossary, Texts, and Translations" SAGOS: Babylonians (Mark W. Chavalas).609 (Karen L. Adams).580 HINTZE: Der Zamydd-Yailt (P. Oktor Skfierv0).610

IwABUCHI: The People of the Alas Valley: A Study of an GYSELEN: Sceaux magiques en Iran sassanide (Shaul Ethnic Group of Northern Sumatra (Frank J. Korom) . 582 Shaked).612

CHATTOPADHYAYA: The Making of Early Medieval India IsAACs: Medical and Para-Medical Manuscripts in the (James HeitZman).583 Cambridge Genizah collections (Shaul Shaked). 615

FUSSMAN and JETTMAR, eds.: Antiquities of Northern Paki- stan: Reports and Studies, vol. 3 (Richard Salomon). . 584 Brief Reviews

WtDDESS: The Rdgas of Early Indian Music: Modes, Melo- dies, and Musical Notations from the Gupta Period to DAY, ed.: Lectures on the Religions of the Semites, 2nd and c. 1250 (James R. Kippen).587 3rd series (Baruch Levine).617

HETTRICH and OBERLIES, eds.: Hanns Oertel: Kleine DAwsoN: Text-Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew (Walter R. Schriften (Jared S. Klein).587 Bodine).617

ATIYEH, ed.: The Book in the Islamic World (William SIVAN: Ugaritic Grammar (Edward L. Greenstein).618 Smyth).588 GRAMLICH, ed., tr.: Die Nahrung der Herzen, vol. 2: Chap-

ZELDAN: Arab Women Novelists (Roger Allen).589 ter 32 (Gerhard Bowering).619 YEROUSHALMI, ed., tr.: The Judeo-Persian Poet CEmrdni and GOLDZIHER: On the History of Grammar Among the Arabs.

his "Book of Treasure," a Versified Commentary on the An Essay in Literary History, tr. Ddvdnyi and Ivinyi Mishnaic Tractate Abot (Herbert H. Paper).591 (William Smyth).620

OWENS, ed.: Arabs and Arabic in the Lake Chad Region BooRo: The Cult of the Deity Vajraktla (Herbert Guenther) 620 (Catherine Miller).591 BANSAT-BOUDON: Le Thitre de Kiiliddsa (Edwin Gerow) 621

ILIscH: Sylloge Numorum Arabicorum Tubingen (Robert BARRETT: Taoism under the T'ang: Religion and Empire dur- Schick).592 ing the Golden Age of Chinese History (Paul W. Kroll). 621

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