... that this official poetic projects its proximity to the contemporary Turkish invasion (ca. 1205 ce ), and the attendant crisis and restructuring of the Sena state. Some idiosyncratic poems, however, evince a historical dynamic that is both distinct and inseparable from the official poetic: the proud assertion...

...Paul E. Eckel Abstract It is not customary to associate Japan with the Crimean War yet there is a very real connection. When the Russo-Turkish conflict expanded into a general European struggle it made out of the North Pacific and the seas around Japan a new arena of friction. Until March of 1854...

... beyond older networks of scholarship and communication (Metcalf 1990; Eickelman 1992). Often modernist writers have signaled their break with past scholarly traditions by writing in vernaculars, sometimes developing new vernaculars. They wrote in Turkish, Urdu, Bengali, or Indonesian, rather than...

... Museum. Enclosures in C.O. to Singapore, July 14 and 19, 1904, COD/C 41, Singapore Museum. After the death of Haji Attaoullah in 1903 and the subsequent British veto of Kiamil, successive German Consuls acted as Turkish Consuls-General in Singapore. 64 Trans, in C.O. to Singapore, Mar. 30, 1899...

...-Altaic ablative and locative suffixes tan and ta, respectively. In this 674 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES same section Miller claims that Chuvash ier and Old Turkish yuz 'hundred' exhibit exceptional rather than regular sound correspondences in their initial segments. One should not overlook, however, other...

... claims that Chuvash ier and Old Turkish yuz 'hundred' exhibit exceptional rather than regular sound correspondences in their initial segments. One should not overlook, however, other Chuvash and Old Turkish correspondences that show these same sounds (e.g., Chuvash sir- ~ Old Turkish yaz- 'to write...

..., Persian, and Turkish manuscripts and printed books for which NEWS OF THE PROFESSION 311 it is noted, but which do not concern us here. Then, under the Keeperships of Dr. L. D. Barnett (1908-36) and Dr. Lionel Giles (1936-40), Indian and Chinese literature received their full share of attention...

..., "Studies of Near Eastern and Chinese Folktales" (pp. 241-46) and "The Girl That Became a Bird" (pp. 247-253) are comparative studies of related Turkish and Chinese folk tales which were transmitted to Southeast China from Western Asia by Persian traders; particularly significant is Eberhard's...

... specifically concern contemporary culture, life, literature, and politics in colonial India. The cover of Cosmopolitan Dreams shows a battle scene in the Russo-Turkish War. An officer wearing a red Turkish fez with a star and crescent looks toward a figure dressed in red. All this takes place on top...

... Turkestan , ed. Hoernle A. F. Rudolf , I ( Oxford , 1916 ), 214 – 288 ; Nos. 26, 27, 28 ( Rāma story) by Bailey H. W. , BSOAS , X ( 1939 – 1942 ), 365 – 376 , 559 – 598 ; No. 33 (Turkish-Khotanese vocabulary) by Bailey H. W. , BSOAS , XI ( 1943 – 1946 ), 290 – 296...

... Turkish dervish's description of ecstatic experience (p. 122) are out of place without explicit justification about their relevance. It would seem that, instead, the author could easily have provided more examples from the NaqshbandT corpus itself (whether Indian or even central Asian or Turkish...

..., the fields they chose to work in were so unexplored and of so little interest to the British political and academic establishments that the scholars in question had to become autodidacts. It is clear from the obituary of Clauson, for example, that there was no established and sustained tradition of Turkish...

... in Japan . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press . Stokes Martin . 1992 . The Arabesk Debate: Music and Musicians in Modern Turkey . New York : Oxford University Press . Stokes Martin . 2010 . The Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music . Chicago : University...

... the Aq Qoyunlu, victors over the Qara Qoyunlu, who had gained control of these areas that were leaving the Timurid orbit already during the reign of Tamerlane's son and successor Shahrukh (1405–47). Safavid origins are complex. The dynasty's ancestor may have been Kurdish or Persian. They were Turkish...

..., 269 pp. $79.50. This volume contains five studies covering Turkey, India, Thailand, and Japan. Four of the five focus on specific historical documents. 814 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES O. Wright's lengthy chapter on historical change in the Turkish classical repertoire deals with the musicologically...

... the subject e.g., medieval Egyptian examples depicting Islamic social and educational norms (p. 26) and a modern Turkish dervish's description of ecstatic experience (p. 122) are out of place without explicit justification about their relevance. It would seem that, instead, the author could easily have...

... was not happy unless he could devote long hours to his work" (p. 109). Clauson, in what he described as his "declining years," produced a stream of articles focusing on "the phonology, morphology, and lexicography, of the various Turkish and Mongolian languages but with forays into the sphere of other...

... (there was no Diwan from 1914 to 1919), innovations ranging from irrigation projects and urban infrastructure to the founding of Osmania University, India's first university to use a vernacular (Urdu) as a medium of instruction. Chapter Three, "The Turkish Connection," actually has more on the British connection...

... former Han population of nearly 60 million in A.D. 2. In other words, the ratio of Hsiungnu to Chinese population is likely to have been 1:10. We find a similar situation in the early seventh century: a total population of 2 million for the Turkish empire as compared to a total of less than 3 million...

... The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008 The three books discussed in this review all deal in one way or another with the response of the Muslim world to the devastation wrought by Turkish and Mongol campaigns in the lands of Turan, Iran, and Iraq during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries...