SOAS Research Online

Authored Books

Crosby, Kate (2009) The Dead of Night and the Women. New York: New York University Press. (Clay Sanskrit Library)

Gifford, Paul (2009) Christianity, Politics and Public Life in Kenya. London: Hurst and Co..

Singh, Gurharpal and Talbot, Ian (2009) The Partition of India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Zene, Cosimo (2009) Dialoghi Nulesi - Storia, Memoria, identita' di Nule (Sardegna) nell'antropologia di Andreas F. W. Bentzon. Nuoro, Italy: Edizioni ISRE (Istituto Superiore Regionale Etnografico).

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Hunter, Erica C D, ed. (2009) The Christian Heritage of Iraq: collected papers from the Christianity in Iraq I-V Seminar Days. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. (Gorgias Eastern Christian Series 13)

Crosby, Kate, Dhammasami, Khammai, Khur-Yearn, Jotika and Skilton, Andrew, eds. (2009) Contemporary Buddhism, Volume 10 Issue 1. Special Issue: Shan Buddhism. Abingdon: Taylor and Francis.

Sundermann, Werner, Hintze, Almut and De Blois, Francois, eds. (2009) Exegisti monumenta. Festschrift in Honour of Nicholas Sims-Williams. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. (Iranica 17)

Christmann, Andreas and Hartung, Jan-Peter, eds. (2009) Islamica: Studies in Memory of Holger Preißler (1943-2006). Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. (Journal of Semitic Studies Supplements. No.26)

Sarkhosh Curtis, Vesta and Stewart, Sarah, eds. (2009) The Rise of Islam. London: I.B. Tauris. (The Idea of Iran, Vol. 4)

Book Chapters

De Blois, Francois (2009) 'On the sources of the Barlaam Romance.' In: Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond, Reck, Christiane and Weber, Dieter, (eds.), Literarische Stoffe und ihre Gestaltung in mitteliranischer Zeit: Kolloquium anlässlich des 70. Geburtstages von Werner Sundermann. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert, pp. 7-26.

De Blois, Francois (2009) 'Pre-Islamic Iranian and Indian influences on Persian literature.' In: de Bruijn, J.T.P., (ed.), General introduction to Persian literature. London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 333-344.

De Blois, Francois (2009) 'A Sasanian silver bowl.' In: Sundermann, Werner and Sims-Williams, Nicholas, (eds.), Exegisti monumenta. Festschrift in Honour of Nicholas Sims-Williams. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 13-16.

Dickens, Mark (2009) 'The Syriac Bible in Central Asia.' In: Hunter, Erica C D, (ed.), The Christian Heritage of Iraq. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, pp. 92-120. (Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies)

Dickens, Mark (2009) 'Syriac Gravestones in the Tashkent History Museum.' In: Winkler, Dietmar W. and Tang, Li, (eds.), Hidden Treasures and Intercultural Encounters: Studies on East Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia. Wien: LIT Verlag, pp. 13-49. (Orientalia-Patristica-Oecumenica)

Dorfmann-Lazarev, Igor (2009) 'L’Ermete armeno: un catechismo. Ermete il Tre-volte-grande ad Asclepio «Definizioni»(annotated translation, introduction, lexicon).' In: Scarpi, P., (ed.), La rivelazione segreta di Ermete Trismegisto, vol. I. Milan: Mondadori, 3-23, 393.

Dorfmann-Lazarev, Igor (2009) 'Silence, Intellect and Discourse in the Quest for the True Teaching: Reflections on Hermes Trismegistos’s «Definitions».' In: Pabst, A. and Schneider, C., (eds.), Encounter between Eastern Orthodoxy and Radical Orthodoxy: Transfiguring the World through the Word. Surrey: Ashgate, pp. 176-184.

Gifford, Paul (2009) 'African Christianity and the Eclipse of the Afterlife.' In: Clark, Peter and Claydon, Tony, (eds.), The church, the afterlife and the fate of the soul : papers read at the 2007 summer meeting and the 2008 winter meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society. Saffron Walden: The Ecclesiastical History Society, pp. 413-429.

Gifford, Paul (2009) 'Christianity in a Patronage State.' In: Knighton, Ben, (ed.), Cover image Title Religion and politics in Kenya : essays in honor of a meddlesome priest. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Hartung, Jan-Peter (2009) 'Philosophie: III. Islam.' In: Jäger, Friedrich et al., (ed.), Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit. Stuttgart: Metzler, pp. 1121-1125.

Haustein, Jörg (2009) 'Navigating Political Revolutions: Ethiopia's Churches During and After the Mengistu Regime.' In: Koschorke, Klaus, (ed.), Falling Walls: The Year 1989/90 as a Turning Point in the History of World Christianity. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 117-136. (Studien zur Außereuropäischen Christentumsgeschichte (Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika); 15)

Haustein, Jörg and Quaas, Anna (2009) 'Die Pfingstbewegung.' In: Mühling, Markus, (ed.), Kirchen und Konfessionen. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, pp. 170-185.

Hawthorne, Sian (2009) 'Religion and Gender. 'Contentious Traditions': The Study of Religions and the Gender-Theoretical Critique.' In: Clarke, Peter B., (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 134-151.

Hezser, Catherine (2009) 'Ben-Hur and Ancient Jewish Slavery.' In: Rogers, Zuleika, (ed.), A Wandering Galilean: Essays in Honour of Sean Freyne. Leiden; Boston: Brill, pp. 121-139. (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, v.132)

Hintze, Almut (2009) 'Avestan Literature.' In: Emmerick, Ronald E. and Macuch, Maria, (eds.), The Literature of Pre-Islamic Iran. Companion Volume I to A History of Persian Literature. London: Taurus, pp. 1-71. (A History of Persian Literature)

Hintze, Almut (2009) 'An Avestan ghost word: auuah- ‘water’.' In: Tremblay, Xavier and Pirart, Eric, (eds.), Zarathushtra entre l’Inde et l’Iran. Études indo-iraniennes et indo-européennes offertes à Jean Kellens à l’occasion de son 65e anniversaire. Wiesbaden: Reichert, pp. 129-144. (Beiträge zur Iranistik)

Hintze, Almut (2009) 'Disseminating the Mazdayasnian Religion. An Edition of the Avesten Hērbedestān Chapter 5.' In: Sundermann, Werner, (ed.), Exegisti monumenta. Festschrift in Honour of Nicholas Sims-Williams. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 171-190. (Iranica 17)

Hintze, Almut (2009) 'The Return of the Fravashis in the Avestan Calendar.' In: Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond, Reck, Christiane and Weber, Dieter, (eds.), Literarische Stoffe und ihre Gestaltung in mittel­iranischer Zeit. Kolloquium anlässlich des 70. Geburtstages von Werner Sundermann. Wiesbaden: Dr Ludwig Reichert Verlag, pp. 99-121. (Beiträge zur Iranistik)

Hunter, Erica C D (2009) 'A Jewish Inscription from Jam, Afghanistan.' In: Sundermann, Werner, Hintze, Almut and De Blois, Francois, (eds.), Exegisti monumenta: Festschrift in Honour of Nicholas Sims-Williams. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 191-196. (Iranica, Band 17)

Hunter, Erica C D (2009) 'Magic and Medicine amongst the Christians of Kurdistan.' In: Hunter, Erica C D, (ed.), The Christian Heritage of Iraq: Collected Papers from the Christianity in Iraq I-V Seminar Days. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. (Gorgias Eastern Christian Series 13)

Hunter, Erica C D (2009) 'The Persian Contribution to Christianity in China: reflections in the Xian Fu Syriac inscriptions.' In: Winkler, Dietmar W. and Li, Tang, (eds.), Hidden Treasures and Intercultural Encounters: Studies on East Syriac Christianity in Central Asia and China. Berlin: Lit; London: Global, pp. 71-86. (Orientalia - patristica - oecumenica, 1)

Savchenko, Alexei and Dickens, Mark (2009) 'Prester John’s Realm: New Light on Christianity between Merv and Turfan.' In: Hunter, Erica C D, (ed.), The Christian Heritage of Iraq. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, pp. 121-135. (Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies)

Sundermann, Werner, Hintze, Almut and De Blois, Francois (2009) 'Nicholas Sims-Williams.' In: Sundermann, Werner, (ed.), Exegisti monumenta. Festschrift in Honour of Nicholas Sims-Williams. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, xiii-xxiv.

Journal Article

Cabrita, Joel (2009) 'Isaiah Shembe’s Theological Nationalism, 1920-1935.' Journal of Southern African Studies, 35 (3). pp. 609-625.

Dickens, Mark (2009) 'Multilingual Christian Manuscripts from Turfan.' Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies, 9. pp. 22-42.

Dolce, Lucia (2009) 'Duality and the kami: Reconfiguring Buddhist notions and ritual patterns.' Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie, 16. pp. 119-150.

Ganeri, Jonardon (2009) 'Intellectual India: Reason, Identity, Dissent.' New Literary History, 40 (2). pp. 247-263.

Gifford, Paul (2009) 'The Primal Pentecostal Imagination: Variants, Origins and Importance.' Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society, 34 (2). pp. 44-52.

Hartung, Jan-Peter (2009) 'Religious Education in Transition: The Moral and Academic Training of Sayyid Abû 'l-Hasan ´Alî Nadwî.' Journal of Semitic Studies: Supplt: Islamica Studies in memory of Holger Preissler (1943-2006), 26. pp. 231-255.

Hintze, Almut (2009) 'The Cow that Came from the Moon. The Avestan expression māh- gaociϑra-.' Bulletin of the Asia Institute. New series, 19. pp. 59-68.

Hunter, Erica C D (2009) 'Men Only. Hebrew-script inscriptions from Jām, Afghanistan.' Buried History. Journal of the Australian Institute of Archaeology, 45. pp. 11-14.

Hunter, Erica C D (2009) 'Reconstructing Christianity in south-west Iraq: Reassessing Hira.' The Harp, XXIV. pp. 411-423.

Watson, Tony (2009) 'Listening to God: Using Meta-Terminology to Describe Revelation in a Comparative Theistic Context.' Dialog: a Journal of Theology, 48 (2). pp. 179-186.

Watson, Tony (2009) 'Nothing to Gain From the Forest? Ramon Llull’s Radical Monotheism and Islamic Thought.' Missiology: an International Journal, 37 (3).

Book Reviews

Dolce, Lucia (2009) 'Review of Patricia J. Graham, 'Faith and Power in Japanese Buddhist Art 1600-2005'.' Nihon bukkyô sôgô kenkyû [Interdisciplinary studies of Japanese Buddhism], 8 . pp. 129-138.

Hezser, Catherine (2009) 'Review of: Annelies Kuyt and Gerold Necker (eds.), 'Orient als Grenzbereich? Rabbinisches und ausserrabbinisches' Judentum, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2008.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 134 (3). pp. 283-284.

Hezser, Catherine (2009) 'Review of: David Brodsky, 'A Bride Without a Blessing: A Study in the Redaction and Content of Massekhet Kallah and Its Gemara', Tuebingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 2006.' Journal of Jewish Studies, 60 (1). pp. 154-156.

Hezser, Catherine (2009) 'Review of: David Daube, The Deed and the Doer in the Bible. David Daube's Giffort Lectured, ed. Calum Carmichael. West Conshohoken, Penn.: Templeton Foundation Press, 2008.' Hebraic political studies, 4 (2). pp. 190-194.

Hintze, Almut (2009) 'Review: John R. Hinnells and Alan Williams (eds.): Parsis in India and the Diaspora. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2007.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 72 (1). pp. 196-200.