SOAS Research Online

2023

Wallach, Yair (2023) 'Review of: Toda’at Mishna, Toda’at Mikra: Tzfat ve-ha-tarbut ha-Tzionit [Mishna consciousness, biblical consciousness: Safed and Zionist culture] by Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Makhon Van Leer and Ha-Kibbutz Ha-Meuhad,.' Journal of Israeli History, 41 (2). pp. 335-338.

Scott-Baumann, Alison (2023) 'Review of: British Islam and English Law: A Classical Pluralist Perspective. By Patrick S. Nash.' Journal of Church and State, 65 (4). pp. 473-474.

De Jonckheere, Heleen (2023) 'Review of: First Words, Last Words: New Theories for Reading Old Texts in Sixteenth-Century India. By Yigal Bronner and Lawrence McCrea.' Journal of Hindu Studies, 16 (3). pp. 372-373.

Karamursel, Ceyda (2023) 'Book review: As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities after Dark. Avner Wishnitzer (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021).' Arab Studies Journal, 31 (1/2).

Davis, Joanne (2023) 'Review of: Emmanuel A. S. Egbunu. 2021. 'Pathfinders for Christianity in Northern Nigeria (1862—1940): Early CMS Activities at the Niger—Benue Confluence'.' Studies in World Christianity, 29 (3). pp. 298-300.

Sperl, Stefan (2023) 'Review of: The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow: Late ʿAbbāsid Poetics in Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī’s Saqṭ al-Zand and Luzūm Mā Lā Yalzam, written by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych.' Journal of Arabic Literature, 54 (3-4). pp. 464-472.

Harris, Rachel (2023) 'Review of: The Sound of Salvation: Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China, by Guangtian Ha, New York, NY, Columbia University Press, 2022, 312 pp., $140.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780231198066; $35.00 (paperback), ISBN: 9780231198073.' Politics, Religion and Ideology, 24 (4). pp. 626-629.

Palmer, Michael (2023) 'Review of: Violent Intimacy: Family Harmony, State Stability, and Intimate Partner Violence in Post-Socialist China, written by Tiantian Zheng.' Nan Nü, 25 (2). pp. 352-356.

Stainsby, Victoria Allen (2023) 'Book Review: Achille Mbembe, Out Of The Dark Night: Essays On Decolonization, New York: Columbia University Press, 2021, 254 pp. First Published In French As Sortir De La Grande Nuit (Paris: Éditions La Découverte, 2010).' The SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research, 15 (2022-2023).

Lovestrand, Joseph (2023) 'Book Review: Why Language Documentation Matters (Chelliah 2021).' SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics, 21 . pp. 83-88.

Branfoot, Crispin (2023) 'Review of T. Richard Blurton: 'India: A History in Objects' 320 pp. London: Thames and Hudson and The British Museum, 2022.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 82 (2). pp. 380-381.

Matar, Dina (2023) 'Review of: 'Gaza on Screen' by Nadia Yaqub.' Media International Australia . (Forthcoming)

Hammond, Marle (2023) 'Review of: 'Reorienting Modernism in Arabic and Persian Poetry' by Levi Thompson.' Middle Eastern Literatures, 25 (2/3). pp. 189-190.

Strauss, Julia (2023) 'Review of: Linking Theory with Practice? Cadre Training and Environmental Governance in China. By Julia Marinaccio. Munich: Oekom. 174 pp. ISBN: 9783962383299.' The Journal of Asian Studies, 82 (4). pp. 700-701.

Flügel, Peter (2023) 'Review of: Soni, Jayandra: Jaina Epistemology. Including the Jaina Theory of Error. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan 2018.' Orientalische Literaturzeitung, 118 (2). pp. 135-137.

Graf, Katharina (2023) 'Review of: States of Subsistence: The Politics of Bread in Contemporary Jordan, by José Ciro Martinez.' Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, 23 (3). pp. 92-93.

Dewan, Khalil (2023) 'Review of: Peter Lee. 'Reaper Force: The Inside Story of Britain’s Drone Wars'.' Journal of Conflict and Security Law, 28 (2). pp. 413-416.

Wang, Dylan K. (2023) 'Review of Børdahl and Qi (2022): Jin Ping Mei: A Wild Horse in Chinese Literature: Essays on Texts, Illustrations and Translations of a Late Sixteenth-Century Masterpiece.' Babel: Revue internationale de la traduction / International Journal of Translation, 69 (3). pp. 429-432.

Lakhani, Amber (2023) 'Book Review: 'Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi' by Zoha Waseem.' Theoretical Criminology, 27 (3). pp. 524-526.

Lu, Xiaoning (2023) 'Review of: 'Trans-Asia as Method: Theory and Practices' Edited by Jeroen de Kloet, Yiu Fai Chow and Gladys Pak Lei Chong.' The China Quarterly (255). pp. 803-804.

Istratii, Romina (2023) 'Book Review: Elisabet le Roux and Sandra Iman Pertek, On the Significance of Religion in Violence Against Women and Girls, 2023, Oxon: Routledge, 194 pp, isbn 978-0-367-76949-9.' Religion and Gender, 14 (3). pp. 326-329.

Hill, Nathan W. (2023) 'Review of: Andrew B. Liu: Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asia Institute of Columbia University.) xi, 360 pp. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. $50. ISBN 978 0 30024373 4.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 86 (1). pp. 198-200.

Suresh, Mayur (2023) 'Review of Kannabiran, Kalpana (2021); Law, Justice and Human Rights in India: Short Reflections, Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan; pp xxvii + 387, Rs 1500.' Economic and Political Weekly, 58 (27).

Biglari, Mattin (2023) 'Review of: 'Social histories of Iran: modernism and marginality in the Middle East' by Stephanie Cronin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), 306 pp., £22 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-316-64125-5.' Middle Eastern Studies, 59 (5). pp. 857-860.

Bernstein, Henry (2023) 'Review of: Handbook of critical agrarian studies, Edited by Haroon Akram‐Lodhi, Kristina Dietz, Bettina Engels and Ben M. McKay, Edward Elgar, 2021, Pp. xxvi + 713. £244.80 (hb). ISBN: 978‐1‐78897‐245‐1.' Journal of Agrarian Change, 23 (3). pp. 645-649.

Karshenas, Massoud (2023) 'Review of: Ervand Abrahamian. 'Oil Crisis in Iran: From Nationalism to Coup d’ Etat'.' American Historical Review, 128 (2). pp. 1065-1067.

Clarence-Smith, William (2023) 'Review of: Nurfadzilah Yahaya. 'Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia'.' American Historical Review, 128 (2). pp. 1059-1061.

Funabashi, Sachiho (2023) 'Review of: Peacebuilding Paradigms: The Impact of Theoretical Diversity on Implementing Sustainable Peace, edited by Henry F. Carey, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 403 pp., £85.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781108483728.' International Peacekeeping, 30 (5). pp. 692-695.

Nelson, Matthew J. (2023) 'Review of Moeen Cheema, ‘Courting Constitutionalism: The Politics of Public Law and Judicial Review in Pakistan'.' International Journal of Constitutional Law, 21 (3). p. 256.

Gygi, Fabio (2023) 'Review of: Dahl, Shayne (prod.) and Satoshi Watanabe (dir.). The Buddha mummies of North Japan. 20 mins. DVD / PAL, colour. Watertown, Mass.: DER, 2017. $29.95 (home use).' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 29 (2). pp. 462-463.

Sperl, Stefan (2023) 'Review of :'The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice' written by Huda J. Fakhreddine.' Journal of Arabic Literature, 54 (1-2). pp. 254-261.

Karamursel, Ceyda (2023) 'Book review: Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in Seventeenth-Century Europe. Giancarlo Casale (ed.)(Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021).' Critical Inquiry .

Klein, Jakob A. (2023) 'Review: What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make, by Michael J. Hathaway, foreword by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing.' Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies, 23 (2). pp. 104-105.

Orsini, Francesca (2023) 'Review of: Paper, Performance, and the State: Social Change and Political Culture in Mughal India. By Farhat Hasan.' Journal of Islamic Studies, 34 (2). pp. 276-279.

Booth, Anne (2023) 'Review of: 'In Sickness and in Health: Diagnosing Indonesia', Firman Witoelar and Ariane Utomo, ISEAS Publishing, 2022, Singapore, Pp. 252 + xviii, ISBN 9789815011876.' Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, 37 (1). pp. 134-138.

Kennedy, Hugh (2023) 'Review of: Hannah-Lena Hagemann: The Kharijites in Early Islamic Historical Tradition.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 25 (1). pp. 112-114.

Jackson, Keith (2023) 'Review of: Deliberate calm: how to learn and lead in a volatile world.' Asia Pacific Business Review . pp. 1-5. (Forthcoming)

DasGupta, Amrita (2023) 'Review of: Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh.' The AAG Review of Books, 11 (2). pp. 12-14.

Thomas-Parr, Georgia (2023) 'Review of: Circulating Fear: Japanese Horror, Fractured Realities, and New Media, Lindsey Nelson (2021).' East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, 9 (1). pp. 140-142.

Singh, Gurharpal (2023) 'Review of: Global Diasporas: An Introduction, by Robin Cohen.' Diaspora Studies, 16 (1). pp. 117-119.

Ziadah, Rafeef, Rai, Shirin M., Jamil, Ghazala, Sokhi-Bulley, Bal, Baxi, Upendra and Madhok, Sumi (2023) 'Review of: Vernacular rights cultures: the politics of origins, human rights and gendered struggles for justice. By Sumi Madhok.' International Affairs, 99 (2). pp. 825-835.

Williams, Richard David (2023) 'Review of: Burger, Maya / Cattoni, Nadia (Hg.): Early Modern India. Literatures and Images, Texts and Languages. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Library 2019. XXII, 333 S. m. Abb. 8°. € 46,90. ISBN 978-3-946742-45-6.' Orientalische Literaturzeitung, 117 (4-5). pp. 421-424.

George, Nathaniel (2023) 'Review of 'The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq', by Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021.' H-Diplo, 14 (11). pp. 5-9.

Hezser, Catherine (2023) 'Review of: Gail Labovitz, Massekhet Mo'ed Qatan. A Feminist Commentary on the Babylonian Talmud II/10, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 148 (1/2). pp. 19-20.

Murtagh, Ben (2023) 'Dark Cityscape. Review of: Twilight in Jakarta.' Mekong Review, 30 .

Arab, Roya (2023) 'Review of: Hemmasi, Farzaneh. 'Tehrangeles dreaming: intimacy and imagination in southern California's Iranian pop music'. 264 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2020. £22.99 (paper).' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 29 (1). pp. 228-229.

Hammond, Marle (2023) 'Remaking the rhymes: The debt owed by modern Arabic literature to Nazik al-Mala'ika.' Times Literary Supplement . pp. 21-22.

Gerteis, Christopher (2023) 'Review of: Coed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left by Chelsea Szendi Schieder.' Journal of Japanese Studies, 49 (1). pp. 205-210.

Tripp, Charles (2023) 'Review of: Art and the Arab Spring: Aesthetics of Revolution and Resistance in Tunisia and Beyond. By Siobhán Shilton.' French Studies, 77 (1). p. 154.