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A Sign of the End Time: 'The Monastery', Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi H.2153 f.131b by WHITE, JAMES

“…Studies of visual culture in the Persian-speaking world of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries frequently discuss the literary contexts in which painting…”
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The Figures of Kōho and Li-mi-i, and the Origins of the Case for a Christian Missionary Presence in Tenpyō Era Japan by MORRIS, JAMES HARRY

“…In 1916 P.Y. Saeki devoted a page of his book “The Nestorian Monument in China,” to a short thought experiment which linked a Persian by the name of Li-mi-i…”
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Did Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Destroy the Fatimids' Books? An Historiographical Enquiry by BORA, FOZIA

“…A persistent myth featuring in some modern accounts of the transition from Fatimid to Ayyubid rule (1169–71) is that one of Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn's (r. 1171–93) first…”
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The Yogīs' Latest Trick by MALLINSON, JAMES

“…David Gordon White's wide-ranging scholarship on tantra, yoga and alchemy has inspired many students and scholars to undertake research in those fields. White…”
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Tibetan √lan ‘reply’ by HILL, NATHAN W., ZADOKS, ABEL

“…Recognising the parallelism between the conjugation of a verb such as √lug ‘pour’ (pres. ldug, past blugs, fut. blug, imp. lhugs ‘pour’ and a verb such as √kru…”
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The Early History of the Boxer Codex by CROSSLEY, JOHN N.

“…In 1950 this journal published Charles Boxer's description of the Codex that bears his name and is now in the Lilly Library in Bloomington, Indiana. In this…”
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The First Casualty: Truth, Lies and Commercial Opportunism in Chinese Newspapers during the First Sino-Japanese War by TSAI, WEIPIN

“…The First Sino-Japanese War during 1894 and 1895 was a dramatic moment in world events. Not only did it catch the attention of the West but, for as long as it…”
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JRA volume 27 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

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JRA volume 27 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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JRA volume 27 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

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Indica - 4.Handbuch Des Sanskrit Mit Texten Und Glossar. Von A. Thumb. 1 Teil: Grammatik. Zweite Auflage … verbessert und mit Nachtragen versehen von Hermann Hirt. 8¼ × 5¼, pp. xx+538. Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1930

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Situating Sufism and Yoga by Ernst, Carl W.

“…“The natives of all unknown countries are commonly called Indians” Maximilian of Transylvania, De molucco (1523)…”
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Special Issue: Textiles as Money on the Silk Road by Ansari, Sarah

“…In January 2013 we published our third special issue ‘Perfumery and Ritual in Asia’. As I wrote in the Introduction to that group of articles, the Journal's…”
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JRA volume 25 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

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JRA volume 25 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

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Special Issue: Perfumery and Ritual in Asia by Ansari, Sarah

“…As readers of this Journal will appreciate, our remit is broad; both in regard to time (from before the Common Era to the closing decades of the twentieth…”
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JRA volume 25 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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Nader Shah and Persian Naval Expansion in the Persian Gulf, 1700–1747 by AXWORTHY, MICHAEL

“…The purpose of this article is to relate a remarkable episode involving Nader Shah's navy and to connect it directly to the wider aims and projects of his…”
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JRA volume 24 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

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