About the Journal
JAOS (ISSN 0003-0279) is published quarterly by the AOS. The first volume (1843-49) set the tone for all time in the broad scope of subject matter and the solidity of its scholarship. It included studies of Arab music, of Persian cuneiform, and of Buddhism in India, and brought to a wide audience the then novel theories of Pierre E. Du Ponceau, assailing the doctrine of the “ideograp
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Current Issue
Vol. 145 No. 3 (2025): JAOS
Published: 2025-11-03
Front Matter
Front Matter
Abstract 528 | PDF Downloads 86Articles
The Turning Point
Abstract 406 | PDF Downloads 16Page 451–471
Diagnosing, Misdiagnosing, and Rediagnosing Women’s Anger in the Jin Ping Mei
Abstract 383 | PDF Downloads 14Page 473–489
On the Generic Usage of Yi in Literary Sinitic
Abstract 372 | PDF Downloads 15Page 491–498
The Emergence of di.kud.gal in Ur.ra5 = ḫubullu 2
Abstract 316 | PDF Downloads 10Page 499–513
Exploring the Neo-Babylonian Chronicle Chain ABC 3–5
Abstract 331 | PDF Downloads 7Page 515–525
The Art of Storytelling in the Epic of Aqhat
Abstract 314 | PDF Downloads 2Page 527–547
Poetic License in al-Ṭabarī’s Quranic Commentary
Abstract 316 | PDF Downloads 11Page 549–573
Not Very Far from the Madding Crowd
Abstract 344 | PDF Downloads 13Page 575–592
The Double Life of Doxography
Abstract 314 | PDF Downloads 10Page 593–621
Brief Communications
On the Etymological Awareness of the Traditional Arabic Lexicography
Abstract 382 | PDF Downloads 12Page 623–634
Review Articles
Medieval Jaina History and Prakrit Literature
Abstract 347 | PDF Downloads 10Page 635–641
Reviews
Review of Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo: Unearthing Early China with Sarah Allan
Abstract 333 | PDF Downloads 7Page 643–645
Review of 1800 Years of Encounters with Mandaeans
Abstract 281 | PDF Downloads 4Page 645–647
Review of The Shape of Stories: Narrative Structures in Cuneiform Literature
Abstract 320 | PDF Downloads 7Page 648–651
Review of The Book of the Cow: An Early Qurʾānic Codex on Papyrus (P. Hamb. Arab. 68)
Abstract 313 | PDF Downloads 5Page 651–653
Review of The Poetics of Spiritual Instruction: Farid al-Din ʿAttar and Persian Sufi Didacticism
Abstract 246 | PDF Downloads 4Page 653–655
Review of Alfarabi, Book of Letters (Kitāb al-Ḥurūf)
Abstract 310 | PDF Downloads 4Page 657–659
Review of Muslim al-Naysābūrī (d. 261/875): The Sceptical Traditionalist
Abstract 309 | PDF Downloads 6Page 659–662
Review of Political Thought in the Mamluk Period: The Unnecessary Caliphate
Abstract 295 | PDF Downloads 10Page 662–665
Brief Reviews
Review of Saved from Desert Sands: Re-Discovering Objects on the Silk Road
Abstract 333 | PDF Downloads 5Page 666–667
Review of Rumi: A Life in Pictures
Abstract 275 | PDF Downloads 2Page 667–668