Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1017/S0041977X22000738
Matthew Clark
cise path among descriptions, comparisons and dating. Laura E. Parodi has many new things to say and writes with welcome clarity: her topic is a Mughal album leaf. The attribution of its pictorial verso of kneeling sages to the fifteenth-century painter Bihzad was already discounted by Ettinghausen; Parodi argues cogently for an origin in Shibanid Bukhara. Still mindful of the significance of Bihzad to the Mughals, Parodi turns to the folio’s calligraphic verso, and posits a reconstructed sequence of pictures and verses over four folios, three known and one putative, which will modify future understanding of album-making.
在描述，比较和日期之间的路径。劳拉·e·帕罗迪(Laura E. Parodi)有很多新东西要说，而且写得很清晰:她的主题是一张莫卧儿王朝的专辑叶子。这幅画中跪着的圣贤的对景画出自15世纪画家比哈扎德之手，这一说法已经被艾汀豪森否定了;Parodi有力地论证了Shibanid Bukhara的起源。仍然注意到比哈扎德对莫卧儿王朝的重要性，Parodi转向对开本的书法对页，并在四对开本中假设了一个重建的图片和诗句序列，三个已知的和一个假定的，这将修改未来对专辑制作的理解。
{"title":"James McHugh: An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian History and Religions. 403 pp. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. £25.99. ISBN 978 0 937594 3.","authors":"Matthew Clark","doi":"10.1017/S0041977X22000738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X22000738","url":null,"abstract":"cise path among descriptions, comparisons and dating. Laura E. Parodi has many new things to say and writes with welcome clarity: her topic is a Mughal album leaf. The attribution of its pictorial verso of kneeling sages to the fifteenth-century painter Bihzad was already discounted by Ettinghausen; Parodi argues cogently for an origin in Shibanid Bukhara. Still mindful of the significance of Bihzad to the Mughals, Parodi turns to the folio’s calligraphic verso, and posits a reconstructed sequence of pictures and verses over four folios, three known and one putative, which will modify future understanding of album-making.","PeriodicalId":46190,"journal":{"name":"BULLETIN OF THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES-UNIVERSITY OF LONDON","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45863917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1017/S0041977X22000635
Lili Xia
{"title":"Stephen Owen: All Mine! Happiness, Ownership, and Naming in Eleventh-Century China. 197 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. $30. ISBN 978 0 231 20311 1.","authors":"Lili Xia","doi":"10.1017/S0041977X22000635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X22000635","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46190,"journal":{"name":"BULLETIN OF THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES-UNIVERSITY OF LONDON","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41857751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1017/S0041977X22000581
Bony Schachter
Abstract This article examines Jiajing's (Zhu Houcong 朱厚熜, 1507–67) preface to the Scripture of the Three Offices (Sanguan jing 三官經, hereafter, Scripture). The first section discusses the provenance of Jiajing's preface, and shows that the preface is preserved in the Explanation (Sanguan jing zhujie 三官經註解), an unstudied edition of the Scripture produced in 1876. The second section offers a comparison between the Explanation and Ming editions of the Scripture. Relying on this comparison, the third section examines the role of Jiajing in the text's editorial history. Three aspects of the imperial preface support its authenticity: its description of Jiajing's lost imperial edition; its stance on local religious narratives; and its connection with Jiajing's early scholarly and political concerns. In examining the authenticity of Jiajing's preface, the article discusses the role of Daoist resources in shaping Ming imperial discourses on rulership.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1017/s0041977x22000763
K. Blankinship
{"title":"Abū L-Muṭahhar Al-Azdī, Emily Selove and Geert Jan van Gelder (ed. and trans.): The Portrait of Abū l-Qāsim al-Baghdādī al-Tamīmī. 486 pp. London: The E.J.W. Gibb Memorial Trust, 2021. £90. ISBN 978 19 1360404 2.","authors":"K. Blankinship","doi":"10.1017/s0041977x22000763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0041977x22000763","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46190,"journal":{"name":"BULLETIN OF THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES-UNIVERSITY OF LONDON","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47463573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1017/s0041977x22000647
Roderich Ptak
{"title":"António Vasconcelos de Saldanha (ed.): Fontes Históricas sobre Macau no Arquivo Histórico de Goa. Séculos XVI a XIX: Um Catálogo. 304 pp. Macau: Universidade de Macau, 2021. ISBN 978 99965 1 146 2.","authors":"Roderich Ptak","doi":"10.1017/s0041977x22000647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0041977x22000647","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46190,"journal":{"name":"BULLETIN OF THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES-UNIVERSITY OF LONDON","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44493516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1017/S0041977X22000702
Salvatore Gaspa
{"title":"Louise Quillien: Histoire des textiles en Babylonie, 626–484 av. J.-C. Production, circulations et usages. (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 126.) xvi, 742 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2022. €139. ISBN 978 90 04 46392 9.","authors":"Salvatore Gaspa","doi":"10.1017/S0041977X22000702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X22000702","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46190,"journal":{"name":"BULLETIN OF THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES-UNIVERSITY OF LONDON","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49613319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1017/S0041977X2200060X
Alwin Kloekhorst
Abstract In this article, it is argued that Hittite did not only possess a series of long ejective stops, as has previously been proposed, but that it also knew a series of short ejective stops. In this way, the Hittite stop system can be analysed as consisting of two types of stops, plain and ejective ones, with both types showing a length opposition: plain short /t/ vs. plain long /tː/, and ejective short /t’/ vs. ejective long /t’ː/.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1017/S0041977X22000659
Miriam T. Stark
Dharmaśāstra, medical texts, inscriptions, plays, poetry and literature, which illustrate a wide range of drinks used for a variety of recreational, ritual and medicinal purposes. But as McHugh notes, these sources are really only the tip of the iceberg: vernacular texts would provide a huge number of further references. The book consists of nine chapters, amusingly referred to as “Cups” (reflecting the nine “drinks” of the goddess of alcohol, Surā), which are divided into two parts (“Rounds”). In Round One, the material nature of various drinks and the practices of consumption are discussed; while in Round Two theories about drinking are examined, through mythology, law and ritual. Prefacing and ending the book are two short chapters, entitled “Aperitif” and “Digestif”, the first being introductory, the latter a summary. The first “Cup” focuses on the use of drinks based on cereal grains, usually referred to as surā, which, as noted above, has a role in Vedic ritual, primarily as a counterpart to soma. Cup 2 explores drinks based on sugar and natural fermentation, which are produced using a yeast starter. The use of betel (pān) is also examined. Brewing technology and the role of drinking houses/taverns in society are the main topics of Cup 3, while in Cup 4 there is an exploration of various contexts of drinking, including elite parties, and of the cultural roles of servants and courtesans, and drinking paraphernalia such as drinking vessels. Cup 5 focuses on the use of alcohol in Āyurveda. Beginning Round 2, the main content of Cup 6 is a presentation of a few wellknown stories about drinking from the Vedas and the epics, which have shaped and influenced opinion about aspects of drinking over the centuries. Cup 7 looks mainly at ethical and legal issues surrounding alcoholic drinks, and who may or may not drink, according to the texts. The use of alcohol in Tantric rites is explored in Cup 8, while in Cup 9 there is a brief assessment of what happened to all the drinks analysed in previous chapters. An Unholy Brew remains interesting throughout; it is abundantly referenced, carefully organized, and very readable both for the specialist and for any curious reader. The material presented in the book draws the reader into the mindset of many social and historical contexts of India, enriching our understanding of the culture through the lens of alcoholic drinks. An Unholy Brew will no doubt remain a standard work in the field for many years to come.
{"title":"Louise Tythacott and Panggah Ardiyansyah (eds): Returning Southeast Asia's Past: Objects, Museums, and Restitution. (Southeast Asian Art Academic Programme, SOAS University of London.) 304 pp. Singapore: NUS Press, 2021. ISBN 978 981 325 124 3.","authors":"Miriam T. Stark","doi":"10.1017/S0041977X22000659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X22000659","url":null,"abstract":"Dharmaśāstra, medical texts, inscriptions, plays, poetry and literature, which illustrate a wide range of drinks used for a variety of recreational, ritual and medicinal purposes. But as McHugh notes, these sources are really only the tip of the iceberg: vernacular texts would provide a huge number of further references. The book consists of nine chapters, amusingly referred to as “Cups” (reflecting the nine “drinks” of the goddess of alcohol, Surā), which are divided into two parts (“Rounds”). In Round One, the material nature of various drinks and the practices of consumption are discussed; while in Round Two theories about drinking are examined, through mythology, law and ritual. Prefacing and ending the book are two short chapters, entitled “Aperitif” and “Digestif”, the first being introductory, the latter a summary. The first “Cup” focuses on the use of drinks based on cereal grains, usually referred to as surā, which, as noted above, has a role in Vedic ritual, primarily as a counterpart to soma. Cup 2 explores drinks based on sugar and natural fermentation, which are produced using a yeast starter. The use of betel (pān) is also examined. Brewing technology and the role of drinking houses/taverns in society are the main topics of Cup 3, while in Cup 4 there is an exploration of various contexts of drinking, including elite parties, and of the cultural roles of servants and courtesans, and drinking paraphernalia such as drinking vessels. Cup 5 focuses on the use of alcohol in Āyurveda. Beginning Round 2, the main content of Cup 6 is a presentation of a few wellknown stories about drinking from the Vedas and the epics, which have shaped and influenced opinion about aspects of drinking over the centuries. Cup 7 looks mainly at ethical and legal issues surrounding alcoholic drinks, and who may or may not drink, according to the texts. The use of alcohol in Tantric rites is explored in Cup 8, while in Cup 9 there is a brief assessment of what happened to all the drinks analysed in previous chapters. An Unholy Brew remains interesting throughout; it is abundantly referenced, carefully organized, and very readable both for the specialist and for any curious reader. The material presented in the book draws the reader into the mindset of many social and historical contexts of India, enriching our understanding of the culture through the lens of alcoholic drinks. An Unholy Brew will no doubt remain a standard work in the field for many years to come.","PeriodicalId":46190,"journal":{"name":"BULLETIN OF THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES-UNIVERSITY OF LONDON","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46105339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1017/S0041977X22000660
Andrea Seri
{"title":"Christin Möllenbeck: Institutionelle Sklaverei in Tempel und Palast in Südmesopotamien während der altbabylonischen Zeit (2000–1500 v. Chr.). (Altorientalische Publikationen / Publications on the Ancient Near East. dubsar 23.) xii, 450 pp. Münster: Zaphon, 2021. ISBN 978 3 96327 166 3.","authors":"Andrea Seri","doi":"10.1017/S0041977X22000660","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X22000660","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46190,"journal":{"name":"BULLETIN OF THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES-UNIVERSITY OF LONDON","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47608021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1017/S0041977X22000751
Razan Francis
the machinations of the sultan’s exceptionally powerful wife (pp. 229–30). In fact, the very form of advice – imparted by a giver distanced from its recipient – and its frequent deployment in spite of its uncontested inefficacy, should suffice to alert the judicious reader to take heed of what lies between the lines. Considered as trope, advice also resists generic categorization (p. 51). How such novel typologies enhance our understanding of mirrors as refractors of political crisis remains unresolved. These theoretical qualms aside, there is much to recommend in this study. The author offers a particularly thoughtful analysis of al-Jāḥiẓ and Machiavelli on what distinguished advice literature as works providing instruction on matters of government (pp. 49–51), and a calibrated reading of the nuances of justice in various mirrors (pp. 118–38). An impressive amount of learning is imparted in those sections (chapters 2, 3, and 4) that offer a close reading of the selected mirrors and cognate texts. However, much of what is new and original in Reflecting Mirrors is buried under endless references to artificial boundaries and devising new taxonomies that, in spite of vigorous protestations to the contrary, have their own limitations and drawbacks.
{"title":"Anna McSweeney: From Granada to Berlin: the Alhambra Cupola. (Connecting Art Histories in the Museum.) 196 pp. Dortmund: Verlag Kettler, 2020. €34. ISBN 978 3 86206 831 9.","authors":"Razan Francis","doi":"10.1017/S0041977X22000751","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X22000751","url":null,"abstract":"the machinations of the sultan’s exceptionally powerful wife (pp. 229–30). In fact, the very form of advice – imparted by a giver distanced from its recipient – and its frequent deployment in spite of its uncontested inefficacy, should suffice to alert the judicious reader to take heed of what lies between the lines. Considered as trope, advice also resists generic categorization (p. 51). How such novel typologies enhance our understanding of mirrors as refractors of political crisis remains unresolved. These theoretical qualms aside, there is much to recommend in this study. The author offers a particularly thoughtful analysis of al-Jāḥiẓ and Machiavelli on what distinguished advice literature as works providing instruction on matters of government (pp. 49–51), and a calibrated reading of the nuances of justice in various mirrors (pp. 118–38). An impressive amount of learning is imparted in those sections (chapters 2, 3, and 4) that offer a close reading of the selected mirrors and cognate texts. However, much of what is new and original in Reflecting Mirrors is buried under endless references to artificial boundaries and devising new taxonomies that, in spite of vigorous protestations to the contrary, have their own limitations and drawbacks.","PeriodicalId":46190,"journal":{"name":"BULLETIN OF THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES-UNIVERSITY OF LONDON","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45597108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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