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Authored Books

George, Andrew (2017) Old Babylonian Texts in the Schøyen Collection, Part One: Selected Letters. Bethesda, Md: CDL Press. (Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology 36)

Hezser, Catherine (2017) Rabbinic Body Language: Non-Verbal Communication in Palestinian Rabbinic Literature of Late Antiquity. Leiden; Boston, MA: Brill. (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, Volume: 179)

Hunter, Erica C D and Coakley, James F. (2017) A Syriac service-book from Turfan. Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin MS MIK III 45. Turnhout: Brepols. (Berliner Turfantexte XXXIX)

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2017) An ascetic miscellany: The Christian Sogdian manuscript E28. Turnhout (Belgium): Brepols. (Berliner Turfantexte)

Tournier, Vincent (2017) La formation du Mahāvastu et la mise en place des conceptions relatives à la carrière du bodhisattva. Paris: École française d'Extrême-Orient.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Morgan, David and Stewart, Sarah, eds. (2017) The Coming of the Mongols (The Idea of Iran Vol. 7). London: I.B. Tauris. (Soudavar Memorial Foundation Series)

Hirmer, Monika and Istratii, Romina, eds. (2017) Exploring Fluid Times: Knowledge, Minds and Bodies. SOAS. London: SOAS University of London. (The SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research Vol. 10 (2016-2017))

Flügel, Peter and Whimster, Sam, eds. (2017) Max Weber‘s Hinduism and Buddhism: Reflections on a Sociological Classic 100 Years On (Special Issue: Part I). London: Max Weber Studies Society. (Max Weber Studies 17: 2)

Henkelman, W. F. M. and Redard, Céline, eds. (2017) Persian Religion in the Achaemenid Period - La religion perse à l’époque achéménide. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. (Classica et Orientalia; 16)

George, Andrew, ed. (2017) Assyrian Archival Texts in the Schøyen Collection and Other Documents from North Mesopotamia and Syria. Bethesda, Md: CDL Press.

Book Chapters

Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad (2017) 'The Arabic Qur'an in the Muslim World.' In: Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad, (ed.), Exploring the Qur'an: Context and Impact. London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 237-248.

Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad (2017) 'English Translations of the Qur'an: The Making of an Image.' In: Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad, (ed.), Exploring the Qur'an: Context and Impact. London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 249-282.

Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad (2017) 'Evidential Style: Divine Oaths in the Qur'an.' In: Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad, (ed.), Exploring the Qur'an: Context and Impact. London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 177-212.

Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad (2017) 'Legal Style: Qur'anic Sharia - Avoiding the Application of the Ultimate Penalties.' In: Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad, (ed.), Exploring the Qur'an: Context and Impact. London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 89-110.

Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad (2017) 'Qur'anic Paradise.' In: Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad, (ed.), Exploring the Qur'an: Context and Impact. London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 69-87.

Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad (2017) 'The 'Sword Verse' Myth.' In: Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad, (ed.), Exploring the Qur'an: Context and Impact. London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 7-29.

Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad (2017) 'Translations of the Qur'an and Interfaith Relations.' In: Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad, (ed.), Exploring the Qur'an: Context and Impact. London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 283-298.

Flügel, Peter (2017) 'Jaina Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices.' In: Moreman, Christopher M., (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying. London: Routledge, pp. 119-132. (Routledge Religion Companions)

George, Andrew (2017) 'Babylonian documents from North Mesopotamia.' In: George, Andrew, Hertel, Thomas, Llop-Raduà, Jaume, Radner, Karen and van Soldt, Wilfred Hugo, (eds.), Assyrian Archival Texts in the Schøyen Collection and Other Documents. Bethesda, Md: CDL Press, pp. 95-108. (Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology, 34)

Giladi, Paul (2017) 'Recognition theory and Kantian cosmopolitanism.' In: Demont-Biaggi, Florian, (ed.), The Nature of Peace and the Morality of Armed Conflict. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 19-38.

Haustein, Jörg (2017) 'Evangelikalismus in Afrika.' In: Elwert, Frederik, Radermacher, Martin and Schlamelcher, Jens, (eds.), Handbuch Evangelikalismus. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, pp. 141-156.

Haustein, Jörg and Tomalin, Emma (2017) 'Religion and Development in Africa and Asia.' In: Amakasu Raposo, Pedro, Arase, David and Cornelissen, Scarlett, (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Africa–Asia Relations. London: Routledge, pp. 76-93.

Hawthorne, Sian (2017) 'Origin Myths and Temporal Orders.' In: Hawthorne, Sian, (ed.), Gender: God. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Macmillan Reference USA, pp. 247-262. (Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Gender)

Hawthorne, Sian and Auga, Ulrike (2017) 'Homonationalism and the Challenge of Queer Theology.' In: Hawthorne, Sian, (ed.), Gender: God. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, pp. 367-383. (Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks)

Hezser, Catherine (2017) 'Prostitution: Early Judaism.' In: Oxford Encyclopedias of the Bible (Oxford Scholarship Online). Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Oxford Scholarship Online)

Hezser, Catherine (2017) '"Scribes/scribality".' In: Thatcher, Tom, Keith, Chris, Person, Raymond F., Stern, Elsie R. and Odor, Judith, (eds.), The Dictionary of the Bible and Ancient Media (DBAM). London: Bloomsbury, pp. 355-359.

Hezser, Catherine (2017) 'Strangers on the Road: Otherness, Identification, and Disguise in Rabbinic Travel Tales of Late Roman Palestine.' In: Niehoff, Maren R., (ed.), Journeys in the Roman East: Imagined and Real. Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, pp. 239-253. (Culture, Religion, and Politics in the Greco-Roman World 1)

Hezser, Catherine (2017) 'Torah als ‘Gesetz’? Überlegungen zum Torahverständnis im antiken Judentum.' In: Rüterswörden, Udo, (ed.), Ist die Tora Gesetz? Zzum Gesetzesverständnis im Alten Testament, Frühjudentum, und Neuem Testament. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, pp. 119-140. (Biblisch-Theologische Studien 167)

Hezser, Catherine (2017) 'Uncertain Symbol: The Representation of Yavne in the Talmud Yerushalmi.' In: Schwartz, Joshua and Tomson, Peter J., (eds.), Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries: The Interbellum 70‒132 CE. Leiden; Boston: Brill, pp. 176-195. (Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum)

Hunter, Erica C D (2017) 'Syriac Manuscripts from Turfan: Public Worship and Private Devotion.' In: Li, Tarsee and Dyer, Keith, (eds.), From Ancient Manuscripts to Modern Dictionaries: Select Studies in Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, pp. 77-96. (Perspectives on Linguistics and Ancient Languages: 9)

Li, Zijie (2017) '日本的净影寺慧远研究略述.' In: Zhou, Wei zhou, (ed.), 西北民族论丛 (Northwest Ethnology Series) 第十六辑. Beijing: 社会科学文献出版社.

Proferes, Theodore N. (2017) 'The Mīmāṃsā Influence on the Formation of the Bhagavad Gītā.' In: Gunsel, D., Katz, J. T., Vine, B. and Weiss, Michael, (eds.), Sahasram Ati Srajas: Indo-Iranian and Indo-European Studies in Honor of Stephanie W. Jamison. Ann Arbor; New York: Beech Stave Press, pp. 345-356.

Singh, Gurharpal and Kim, Heewon (2017) 'Understanding the Rise and Fall of Sikh ethno-nationalism: the Limits of India’s Ethno-Linguistic Federation.' In: Bhogal, Balbinder, (ed.), Violent Nation: 1984 and Sikhs. New York: Columbia University Press. (Forthcoming)

Travagnin, Stefania (2017) 'Yin and Yang Dynamics and the Concept of Kong: Understanding "Becoming" and "Being" in Chinese Philosophy and Religions.' In: Congiunti, Lorella, Formica, Giambattista and Ndreca, Ardian, (eds.), Oltre l'individualismo: Relazioni e relazionalità per ripensare l'identità. Rome: Urbaniana University Press, pp. 475-490. (Grandi Opere)

Wilkinson, Matthew L. N. (2017) 'Factoring-in Faith Fairly: A Contribution from Critical Realism to the Authentic Framing of Muslims-in-Education.' In: Mac an Ghaill, Mairtin and Haywood, Chris, (eds.), Muslim Students, Education and Neoliberalism Schooling a 'Suspect Community. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 67-84.

Journal Article

Baums, Stefan, Griffiths, Arlo, Strauch, Ingo and Tournier, Vincent (2017) 'Early Inscriptions of Āndhradeśa: Results of fieldwork in January and February 2016.' Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient, 102. pp. 355-398.

Flügel, Peter (2017) 'Jaina-Prosopography: Monastic Lineages, Networks and Patronage.' Jaina Studies – Newsletter of the Centre of Jaina Studies, 12. pp. 25-26.

Flügel, Peter (2017) 'Johannes Emil Otto Klatt (1852–1903). Forgotten Chronicler of Jainism and Bibliographer of Oriental Literature: Letters to Albrecht Weber 1874–1882, Ernst Kuhn 1881–1889, Charles Rockwell Lanman 1889 and Ehrhardt Karras 1891, with Curricula Vitae, and a Complete Bibliography of Johannes Klatt’s Works.' Berliner Indologische Studien, 23 (1). pp. 1-76.

Flügel, Peter (2017) 'Klaus Bruhn (22.5.1928 – 9.5.2016).' Jaina Studies - Newsletter of the Centre of Jaina Studies, 12. pp. 40-44.

George, Andrew (2017) 'SB Gilgamesh XI 149–50; Enlightenment on Išum.' Nouvelles assyriologiques breves et utilitaires, 2016 (3). pp. 164-166.

Giladi, Paul (2017) 'Battling for Metaphysics: The Case for Indispensability.' Metaphysica, 18 (1). pp. 127-150.

Giladi, Paul (2017) 'Hegel: Analytic Philosophy’s Pharmakon.' The European Legacy: toward new paradigms, 22 (2). pp. 185-198.

Giladi, Paul (2017) 'Idealism and the metaphysics of individuality.' Philosophy and Social Criticism, 43 (2). pp. 208-229.

Haustein, Jörg (2017) 'Strategic tangles: slavery, colonial policy, and religion in German East Africa, 1885–1918.' Atlantic Studies, 14 (4). pp. 497-518.

Hezser, Catherine (2017) 'Bookish Circles? The Use of Written Texts in Rabbinic Oral Culture.' Temas Medievales, 25. pp. 63-81.

Hintze, Almut (2017) 'Avestan Research 1991–2017, Part 2: Morphology, Syntax, Lexicon (nos. 32–79).' Kratylos, 62. pp. 1-126.

Imafidon, Elvis (2017) 'Dealing With the Other Between the Ethical and the Moral: Albinism on the African Continent.' Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 38 (2). pp. 163-177.

Istratii, Romina (2017) 'Mainstream Gender and Development Concepts and Theories at the Interface with Local Knowledge Systems: Some Theoretical Reflections.' The Journal of Development Practice, 3. pp. 1-13.

Kim, Heewon (2017) 'Understanding Modi and Minorities: the BJP-led NDA Government in India and Religious Minorities.' India Review, 16 (4). pp. 357-376.

Li, Zijie (2017) '三階教における如来蔵説の一考察―『仏性観修善法』・『仏性観』と『宝性論』を中心に.' 駒沢大学大学院仏教学研究会年報, 50. pp. 137-158.

Li, Zijie (2017) '南北朝隋唐仏教と『菩薩地持経』.' 駒沢大学仏教学部論集 (Journal of Buddhist Studies at Komazawa University), 48. pp. 289-310.

Li, Zijie (2017) '敦煌写本S.6388『勝鬘経疏』に見られる種性説と如来蔵説.' 印度學佛教學研究 (Journal of Indian and Buddhist studies), 66 (1). pp. 60-64.

Li, Zijie (2017) '転依（parivṛtti）と真如（tathatā）の一考察―南北朝期の中国仏教を中心に.' 東アジア仏教研究 (The journal of East Asian Buddhist Studies), 15. pp. 27-40.

Pagel, Ulrich (2017) 'Nothing to Declare: Status, Power and Religious Aspiration in the Policies of Taxation in Ancient India.' Medieval Worlds: Religious Exemption in Pre-Modern Eurasia, c. 300-1300 CE, 6. pp. 101-117.

Palumbo, Antonello (2017) 'Exemption not Granted: The Confrontation between Buddhism and the Chinese State in Late Antiquity and the ‘First Great Divergence’ between China and Western Eurasia.' Medieval Worlds: Religious Exemption in Pre-Modern Eurasia, c. 300-1300 CE, 6. pp. 118-155.

Scott-Baumann, Alison (2017) 'Ideology, utopia and Islam on campus: how to free speech a little from its own terrors.' Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 12 (2). pp. 159-176.

Travagnin, Stefania (2017) 'Buddhist Education between Tradition, Modernity and Networks: Reconsidering the ‘Revival’ of Education for the Saṅgha in Twentieth-century China.' Studies in Chinese Religions, 3 (3). pp. 220-241.

Travagnin, Stefania (2017) 'Genealogy and Taxonomy of the "Twentieth-century Renjian Fojiao 人間佛教" Mapping a famen 法門 from Mainland China and Taiwan to Europe.' Journal of Humanistic Buddhism (人間佛教學報藝文), 9. pp. 180-197.

Conference or Workshop Items

Errichiello, Mariano (2017) From reactive to creative: a Khshnoomist perspective of the evil force. In: Symposia Iranica Third Biennial Conference, 11-12 April 2017, Cambridge.

Errichiello, Mariano (2017) The influence of the Theosophical Society on Parsees and the rise of Ilm-e-Khshnoom. In: Western Esotericism and Spiritualism in the 19th - 21st Centuries, 1-7 July 2017, Kiev, Ukraine. (Unpublished)

Book Reviews

Hezser, Catherine (2017) 'Review of: Jonathan S. Milgram, From Mesopotamia to the Mishnah. Tannaitic Inheritance Law in Its Legal and Social Contexts, Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 142 (11). pp. 1175-1177.

Hezser, Catherine (2017) 'Review of: Julia Watts Belser, Power, Ethics, and Ecology in Jewish Late Antiquity. Rabbinic Responses to Drought and Disaster. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 142 (3). pp. 188-190.

Hezser, Catherine (2017) 'Review of: Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud, New York: CUP, 2013.' Journal of Jewish Studies, 68 (2). pp. 411-413.

Hezser, Catherine (2017) 'Review of: Walter Homolka, Jesus Reclaimed. Jewish Perspectives on the Nazarene (New York: Berghahn Books, 2015); Jewish Jesus Research and its Challenge to Christology Today (Leiden: Brill, 2017).' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 142 (12). pp. 1320-1322.

Palumbo, Antonello (2017) 'Review of: Storch, Tanya, The History of Chinese Buddhist Bibliography: Censorship and Transformation of the Tripiṭaka.' H-Buddhism .

Redard, Céline (2017) 'Review: Les livres de l’Avesta. Les textes sacrés des zoroastriens. Paris: Cerf, 2016.' Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions, 180 . pp. 385-389.

Stewart, Sarah (2017) 'Review of: The Making of a Salafi Muslim Woman: Paths to Conversion by Anabel Inge, Oxford University Press, 2016.' The Middle East in London (April-May). p. 22.

Tournier, Vincent (2017) 'Review of: Gérard Fussman, Choix d’articles. Réunis par Denis Matringe, Éric Ollivier et Isabelle Szelagowski. (Réimpressions, no. 14) 598 pp. Paris: École française d’Extrême-Orient, 2014.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 80 (1). pp. 169-70.

Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs

Scott-Baumann, Alison (2017) No platform isn't the real problem for free speech on campus. Guardian HE Online [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Theses

Nicol, Janine (2017) Daoxuan (c.596-667) and the creation of a Buddhist sacred geography of China : an examination of the Shijia fangzhi. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024954

Pragya, Samani Pratibha (2017) Prekṣā meditation : history and methods. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024340

Translations

Pagel, Ulrich and Lilljenberg, Karen, trans. (2017) The Great Lion's Roar of Maitreya (Maitreyamahāsiṃhanādasūtra). 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha, Toh67 .

Sulamal, Abdul Wakil and Caron, James, trans. (2017) 'Faces and Thoughts (Tsire aw Andixene)'. Samovar, Strange Horizons .

Audios

Scott-Baumann, Alison (2017) Today programme Radio 4, 4 Nov 2017. BBC. [Audio]

Datasets

Garrett, Edward and Hill, Nathan W. (2017) A rule based Tibetan part-of-speech (POS) tagger for the creation of gold standard training data. [Datasets]

Hill, Nathan W. and Garrett, Edward (2017) A part-of-speech (POS) lexicon of Classical Tibetan for NLP. [Datasets]

Hill, Nathan W. and Garrett, Edward (2017) A part-of-speech (POS) tagged corpus of Classical Tibetan. [Datasets]

Other

Newbigin, Eleanor (2017) 'India on Film: 1899-1947 [Various Contributions].' BFI Player . London: British Film Institute.