Jesuits in China : book review

Read the review of Mary Laven's Mission to China: Matteo Ricci and the Jesuit encounter with China (published this year by Faber) in the Institute of Historical Research's Reviews in History


The reviewer is our own Dr Lars Laaman
Dr Laven is a lecturer in history at the University of Cambridge and is a fellow of Jesus College
The click HERE to read her response.

If you want to read the book yourself, SOAS has a copy at CC266.2 / 734467.
Click HERE to check the catalogue

Gersonides: Judaism within the limits of reason: book review

Levi ben Gershom was a 14th century Jewish philosopher, born in Orange in Provence (southern France)

Seymour Feldman analyses his life and work in Gersonides: Judaism within the limits of reason, published in 2010 by the Littman Library for Jewish Civilization

Read the H-Net Review by Norbert Samuelson (Arizona State University) on Humanities and Socials Sciences Online.
Read the book in SOAS Library at QN181.06 / 736666 .
Click here to check the catalogue directly

The making of Indian secularism: book review

Professor Chandra Mallampalli of  the History Department at Westmont College (California) reviews Nandini Chatterji's "The making of Indian secularism: Empire, law and Christianity" in the Institute of Historical Research's Reviews in History

Dr. Nandini Chatterji teaches in the History Department at Plymouth University (Devon, U.K.).
Click here to read the her response to Professor Mallampalli's review

And read the book in SOAS Library at JA322.1 /737922

Jewish communities in West Africa: book review

Forgotten diaspora: Jewish communities in West Africa and the making of the Atlantic World, by Peter Mark and José da Silva Horta

This book is currently on order for SOAS Library. Its focus is on two communities of Sephardic Jews who settled in Portudal and Joal in Senegambia in the early 17th century

Read a review by Dr. Tobias Green (Centre for West African Studies, University of Birmingham) from the H-Luso-Africa pages of the Humanities and Social Sciences Net online

Jews and Christians in 5th and 6th century Arabia: book review

Professor Hagith Sivan of the Department of History, University of Kansas, writes about the collected 2008 conference proceedings published in Paris in 2010 as Juifs et chrétiens en Arabie aux Ve et VIe siècles: regards croisés sur les sources (edited by Joëlle Beaucamp, Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet and Christian Julien Robin)


Read her opinions in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Find this book in SOAS Library at QO296.396 / 750253

"Hymns of Zoroaster": online article

This feature from the news website Today's Zaman looks at the historical background to Professor M.L. West's recently published "The hymns of Zoroaster: a new translation of the most ancient sacred texts of Iran".
For more details and book reviews, go to publisher I.B. Tauris' website.

SOAS Library has a copy at PLB295 / 733763