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{"title":"The rise and rule of Tamerlane. By Beatrice Forbes Manz. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilisation.) pp. xi, 227, 4 maps. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1989. £25.00.","authors":"Peter Jackson","doi":"10.1017/S0035869X00108792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0035869X00108792","url":null,"abstract":"second). Moreover, Van den Wyngaert was unaware of the existence of a quite different report of the mission, drawn up by a Franciscan in Silesia in the summer of 1247, while Carpini's party was still on its way back through Eastern Europe. This, the so-called \"Tartar Relation\", contains certain passages found in the two standard versions but also incorporates a wealth of other material, apparently dictated by Carpini's companion Benedict. The need for a new, and better annotated, edition of the Ystoria has accordingly been felt for some years. It has now been met through the strenuous efforts of Italian scholars, and two in particular. Maria Cristiana Lungarotti provides an authoritative survey of the two recensions, and has produced the Italian translation; Enrico Menesto is responsible not simply for the edition but also for an exhaustive examination of the manuscript tradition and a well-rounded biography of Carpini. The superiority of the new edition over that of Van den Wyngaert lies primarily in Menesto's punctuation, which is often more helpful in determining the sense, and in his choice of readings, of which notable examples are hyrcum (III, 23), where Van den Wyngaert quite unwarrantably read hercium; Sarruyur (V, 70) instead of Sariemiur for the tribal name Sari-Uighur, and the disappearance of the ludicrous Divult (IX, 298) which Van den Wyngaert adopted from the Cambridge manuscript in place of Om.il (Emil, in Dzhungaria). Other welcome improvements relate to the names of members of the Mongol imperial dynasty listed in chapter V: Tanuht (Tangut) for the Thaube of the 1929 edition; Thuatemyr (To'a-temur) for Chuacenur; Seroctan (Sorqoqtani) for Sorocan; and Buygel (not, as assumed in the notes at p. 445, Tangut again, but Bochek) for Dinget. A few misprints should be noted: forpurificati (III, 172) readpurificari; for videtur (V, 104), videntur; for lorica (VI, 31), loricas; and for crebas (VI, 104), crebras. The other contributions are perhaps a trifle disappointing in comparison. The historical introduction by Luciano Petech is wide-ranging; but it fails to take account of the more recent work on the Mongols (the spectre of the \"lost opportunity\" of a Mongol-Western alliance in 1248 and 1260, for example, still rattles its chains at pp. 34, 37-8, 41). And while the notes, by Paolo Daffina, are largely excellent, some questions certainly call for further discussion. Three examples will suffice. (1) The traditional identification of the place Ornas (V, 321) with Urgench is tentatively endorsed by Daffina (pp. 449-51), who might have appealed, incidentally, to the description of the Khwarazmshah as soldanus de Hornach found in the report of the Hungarian Dominican Julian. Yet Carpini's Ornas lay not on the Amu but on the SIr-darya, and one manuscript reads Orpar: is it possible, therefore, that a metathetical form of Utrar is intended? (2) Carpini's precursores (VI, 92) are not tamachis (p. 463), since these were permanent garrison tro","PeriodicalId":81727,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland","volume":"122 1","pages":"399 - 401"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0035869X00108792","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57103877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The perilous frontier: nomadic empires and China. By Thomas J. Barfield. (Studies in Social Discontinuity.) pp. xvi, 325, map. Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1989. £29.50.","authors":"D. Morgan","doi":"10.1017/S0035869X00109013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0035869X00109013","url":null,"abstract":"period of authoritarian rule. In the case of the Philippines, these have all been taking place simultaneously. The Philippines is not unique in this respect, but what adds to the flow of volumes trying to explain the causes and possible solutions to these multiple crises is the importance of the country to the United States, where most of the recent books have been produced. The Philippines, as America's only Asian colony, perceived as a flag ship for American values and ideals in the third world after independence, has remained intimately tied to the United States throughout the twentieth century. Many of the current crises in fact grow out of attempts to resolve the nature of the American-Philippine relationship. When Filipinos, of whatever political persuasion, attempt to find solutions to domestic issues, they often see the influence of the United States at the heart of the problem. The volume under review is representative of the current outpouring of literature. The author, Richard J. Kessler, works in the midst of the Washington, D.C. policy mill where the question of \"what to do about the Philippines\" is high on the agenda of \"Third World problems\". Of its type, it is an interesting and well documented book, though the author seems to be a bit hesitant in judging the relative weight to give to his sources. He also tends to report rumours and allegations as facts, such as the landing of Chinese weapons on the coast for the use of the Communist New People's Army (NPA) in the 1970s when it was subsequently revealed that this was a report started by then President Marcos to justify his declaration of Martial Law at about the same time. Kessler's five chapters provide an introduction to the social context of what he calls Philippine insurgencies. He then turns to document the origins of the Philippine Communist Party and its strategy and tactics. This is all fairly straightforward and informative. The fourth chapter, on the role of the Philippine army in politics is suggestive of the politicisation of the military since the 1960s but does not have the documentary depth of his discussion of the NPA. The final chapter assesses in pessimistic terms, from the point of view of the anti-communist forces, the nature of the military's attempts to defeat the NPA. But, like most analysts, he also believes that while the NPA cannot successfully take state power, they cannot be defeated without significant political and economic reforms. These, he feels, are unlikely to occur. Despite his clear acknowledgement of the inability of the United States to shape the outcome of the conflict in the Philippines, he cannot resist the Washington imperative to propose a range of actions for the United States to take to help change the structure of Philippine society and politics, including the nature of the military and its response to Communist insurgencies. It is doubtful his proposals would, if implemented, be any more successfully heeded by the Philippine governm","PeriodicalId":81727,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland","volume":"122 1","pages":"426 - 427"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0035869X00109013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57104534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Near East study tour diary of Ignaz Goldziher","authors":"L. Conrad","doi":"10.1017/S0035869X00107890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0035869X00107890","url":null,"abstract":"Ignaz Goldziher (1850–1921) is generally acknowledged as the scholar whose work to a great extent laid the modern foundations for the study in the West of the history, culture, and religion of Islam. Issues of considerable significance are thus posed by questions concerning the individual responsible for this seminal scholarship, including, for example, such matters as his personal background, the influences that directed the course of his intellectual development, and the perspective from which he viewed the discipline he did so much to create and to which he dedicated his life. Fortunately, much material relevant to the investigation of these topics survives. In addition to Goldziher's vast scholarly corpus, important collections of his correspondence with colleagues and friends are extant, primarily in Budapest. The material published to date includes Goldziher's letters to Immanuel Löw (1854–1944), a discussion – with important extracts – of those to S. A. Poznanski (1864–1921), the letters of Solomon Schechter (1849–1915), Max Nordau (1849–1923) and Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857–1936) to Goldziher, and a selection from the correspondence between Theodor Nöldeke (1836–1930) and Goldziher. His 1890 memoirs and subsequent diary have also been published, and Raphael Patai has now brought to light another important document, Goldziher's Keleti Naplóm (“My Oriental Diary”), in English translation with a detailed introduction offering a psychological portrait of the author.","PeriodicalId":81727,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland","volume":"145 1","pages":"105 - 126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0035869X00107890","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57099477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A full hearing: orality and literacy in the Malay world . By Amin Sweeney, pp. ix, 338. Berkeley etc., University of California Press, 1987. US $37.50.","authors":"N. Phillips","doi":"10.1017/S0035869X00108378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0035869X00108378","url":null,"abstract":"All this said, the \"decapitation\" thesis still seems exaggerated. The author presents his evidence selectively. One of his major case studies deals with the Burma Spinning and Weaving Company. He alleges that \"heavy financial burdens\" were attached to a government loan to the company and insists that further loans ought to have been granted. The reality seems to have been rather different, according to the government report on the affair. The promoters of the company set out to raise Rs 30 Lakhs (or £225,000), but actually realised less than 11 Lakhs (not 15 Lakhs as stated, p. 73). They raised the remainder in loans on the open market\" at exorbitant rates of interest\". A government loan at 6 per cent per annum was granted instead. The Directors asked the government to take over their property: the object was to relieve the Burmese Directors of their liability for the loan. The government left the decision to the elected members of the legislature, who gave their approval. The transaction involved a public loss of more than Rs 5 Lakhs (£38,000). A very different story to that related by Aung Tun Thet (see Memorandum Submitted to the Statutory Commission, 1930, p. 132).","PeriodicalId":81727,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland","volume":"122 1","pages":"201 - 202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0035869X00108378","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57100533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A petition to the Fāṭimid caliph al-'Āmir","authors":"G. Khan","doi":"10.1017/S0035869X00107841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0035869X00107841","url":null,"abstract":"The document which is published here comes from the Michaelides Collection, formerly belonging to G. A. Michaelides and now in the possession of Cambridge University Library. In addition to a substantial number of Arabic papyri this collection also contains Arabic paper documents. The paper documents are very varying in date, ranging from the Fāṭimid to the Ottoman periods. The present document is a petition from the Fāṭimid period. Some Fāṭimid documents of this type have already been published. Several unpublishedFāṭimid petitions have come to my attention. Most of these are from the Cairo Genizah and will be published as part of a corpus of Arabic Genizah documents. I am publishing the present document from the Michaelides collection separately.","PeriodicalId":81727,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland","volume":"122 1","pages":"44 - 54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0035869X00107841","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57098806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Armenians in History and the Armenian question . By Esat Uras. An English translation of the revised and expanded second edition. pp. xiv, 1048. Ankara, Documentary Publications, 1988.","authors":"Christopher J. Walker","doi":"10.1017/S0035869X00108093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0035869X00108093","url":null,"abstract":"Avar word for \"h i t \" is not q'abize but Xabize, and tunkize really means \"bump into\" or \"knock\" (p. 253). A number of authors deal with more broadly philological topics. Jan Braun makes a brief and unconvincing attempt to prove the identical function of -i as a definite article marker in Georgian and Basque (pp. 38-41); more judicious use is made of Basque data in Donald Rayfield's extensive survey of sheepkeeping terminology in the Caucasus (pp. 239-50). Michel van Esbroeck proposes and elegantly supports an Arabic etymology for Georgian bzoba (pp. 42-50), while Jost Gippert in something of a tour de force (at least regarding the extent of its documentation 297 footnotes!) gives an exhaustive account of the attestation and etymology of each of the Old Georgian names for the months (pp. 87-154). Edward Szymanski provides a very useful survey of the works of Arab geographers relating to the Caucasus (pp. 298-308), while Wolfgang Feuerstein in papers on the toponymy of Lazistan (pp. 51-68) and on legends about the Man of the Woods (pp. 69-86) succeeds in conveying something of his enthusiasm for the culture and mythology of the Laz. The volume is produced to a high technical standard, especially in view of the wide range of languages cited, and typographical errors are few (p. 2161. 15 up \"don'nt\", p. 254 second table \"markes\" for \"markers\", p. 259 example 23 lacks an explanatory translation, p. 303 1. 21 \"Muridit\" for \"Muridist\" and 1. 24 \" A r b \" for \"Arab\", p. 306 1. 5 \" m \" instead of a comma and on p. 7 we are informed in an endearing Scandinavianism that the colloquium took place \" i Oslo \"). Inevitably some of the topics covered are a little esoteric, but taken as a whole the book provides an excellent picture of the current state of Caucasian linguistics. Hans Vogt, long time professor at the University of Oslo and one of the most eminent representatives of the older generation of caucasologists, died shortly after the Oslo colloquium. The second of the volumes reviewed here is a collection of twenty-seven of his articles published in a number of places between 1930 and 1975. The breadth of Vogt's interests and erudition is shown by the number of his papers which touch on themes raised at the 1986 meeting: genetic relationships between the Caucasian languages (\"La parente des langues caucasiques\", pp. 152-67 and \" Indoevropejskie jazyki i sravnitel'nye metody\", pp. 500-5), the reconstruction of proto-Kartvelian (\"Remarques sur la prehistoire des langues karthveliennes\", pp. 462-8), toponymy (\" Remarques sur les noms de lieux du Caucase\", pp. 168-76) and the study of Ubykh (\"In search of an unknown language\", pp. 449-57, made available here to a wider audience in an English translation from the Norwegian). In \"Le basque et les langues caucasiques\" (pp. 317—43) Vogt subjects Rene Lafon's lists of proposed correspondences to detailed analysis, on the basis that such painstaking work on individual items is more valuable than the construction","PeriodicalId":81727,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland","volume":"122 1","pages":"165 - 170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0035869X00108093","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57099368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The importance of Macaulay","authors":"K. Ballhatchet","doi":"10.1017/S0035869X00107877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0035869X00107877","url":null,"abstract":"In J.R.A.S. 1988/2 Robert E. Frykenberg assails what he calls the “myth” that Macaulay's minute on education in British India was the occasion for a radical change in policy which imposed English education on an unwilling people. He puts forward three main arguments. First, there was no radical change in policy, for the government continued to support “Oriental” education and scholarship as well as English education. Secondly, Macaulay's advocacy of English education was a recognition of the views of “forward-looking gentry in India”. Thirdly, his minute was “one more salvo in a long and running set of encounters in which the positions of some protagonists were often much more blurred than has been properly realised by later generations of historians”. What is new in all this?","PeriodicalId":81727,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland","volume":"122 1","pages":"91 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0035869X00107877","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57099377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bahā' al-Dīn al-'Āmilī and his Literary Anthologies . By C. E. Bosworth. (Journal of Semitic Studies, Monograph No. 10.) pp. ix, 128. Manchester, University of Manchester, 1989.","authors":"J. Meisami","doi":"10.1017/S0035869X00108135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0035869X00108135","url":null,"abstract":"from the date of Khusraw Khan's usurpation rather than from that ruler's downfall. It would follow too that Muhammad's accession occurred on 1 Sha'ban 724 (24 July 1324). For what it is worth, this is precisely the date furnished by an external observer writing in the 1340s, the Coptic chronicler al-Mufaddal, whose information was apparently derived from a Delhi shaykh (al-Nahj al-sadid, ed. and trans. Samira Kortantamer, Agypten und Syrien zwischen 1317 und 1341, Freiburg i. Br., 1973, text p. 27, tr. p. 104).","PeriodicalId":81727,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland","volume":"122 1","pages":"172 - 174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0035869X00108135","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57099447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Die infirmen Verbaltypen des Arabischen und das Biradikalismus-Problem . By Rainer M. Voigt. (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz. Veroffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, Bd. XXXIX.) pp. 232. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1988, DM 98.","authors":"Clive Holes","doi":"10.1017/S0035869X00107944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0035869X00107944","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81727,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland","volume":"122 1","pages":"141 - 144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0035869X00107944","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57099607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mahāyāna Buddhism: the doctrinal foundations . By Paul Williams. (The Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices.) pp. xii, 371. London and New York, Routledge, 1989. £30.00 (cloth), £9.95 (paperback).","authors":"D. Keown","doi":"10.1017/S0035869X00108238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0035869X00108238","url":null,"abstract":"that are the best represented in Varanasi. Their performance practice includes, unusually, all the traditional vikrtis (verbal permutations) plus some other rarer ones peculiar to that school. Here Howard shows that there is no significant relation between accent and recitation tone; he suggests (p. 84) that the Madhyandina chanters have cultivated the particularly large number of vikrtis precisely because accent is not followed in the chant, and so another form of mnemonic is required for the exact preservation of the tradition. In the Samavedic chant, most practitioners of which in VaranasT are of the Kauthuma branch, Howard sets out to interpret from first principles the numerical notation of the texts. His achievement here is considerable, especially if we consider the difficulty he experienced in gaining access to the practitioners' own explanations. Howard is sufficiently secure in his reading of the notation to be able to give a transcription, without reference to an actual performance, of the Gayatri, of which he was dissuaded from even requesting a recorded version, so reluctant are the northern Kauthumas to chant this saman for an outsider. All musicologists of India will be indebted to Howard for his meticulous gathering of material and painstaking transcriptions. Some parts of his musicological analysis will be found tantalizing. His brief speculations on the compositional process of saman chant rest on a notional repertoire of melodic elements and phrases or \"motives\", which he extracts and categorizes from the recordings. The method by which these motives are combined and structured is likened to that of the melodic components in the Hindustani aldp and tan, and as an example Howard cites the svaravistara given by V. N. Bhatkhande for a rdga in his pedagogical work, Hindustanisahglta paddhati. A great deal more needs to be discovered about the melodic form of saman in order to make this comparison intelligible. Are we really dealing here with improvised or formulaic structures, later fixed, or with melodic compositions which predated the texts to which they were fitted? Our thoughts about such questions may be assisted by examining the occasional comments on chant and melody in the ancillary saman and other Vedic texts, but we shall have to be careful to distinguish the quasi-analytical statements of early theory from likely historical reality. Above all, what is the nature of the relationship between saman and the other early musical traditions of India, and are there any detectable melody types analogous to the jdtis described in the early treatises? Howard's comments in this area of musicology are really only peripheral in a work which provides much valuable source material and which should inspire further investigation.","PeriodicalId":81727,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland","volume":"122 1","pages":"185 - 187"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0035869X00108238","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57099717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}