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. 144 No. 3 (2024): JAOS
Published: 2024-08-20
Front Matter
Front Matter
Abstract 161 | PDF Downloads 38Articles
Translating the Esoteric
Abstract 94 | PDF Downloads 7Page 495–515
Things, Place, Self
Abstract 135 | PDF Downloads 4Page 517–537
Neo-Assyrian Policy in the Levant Reexamined
Abstract 51 | PDF Downloads 5Page 539–563
The Vilification of Sultan Meḥmed II
Abstract 38 | PDF Downloads 6Page 565–584
The Itinerant Judaeo-Muslim Preacher Abū Rayḥāna and His Daughter, Muḥammad’s Concubine Rayḥāna
Abstract 43 | PDF Downloads 3Page 585–604
Unknown Like Ḹ
Abstract 82 | PDF Downloads 5Page 605–626
Brief Communications
A Hitherto Unknown Arabic Manuscript of Thābit b. Qurra’s Version of the Almagest
Abstract 48 | PDF Downloads 2Page 627–632
Review Articles
Peddlers and Pen Pushers
Abstract 76 | PDF Downloads 2Page 633–669
Ancient South Arabian Legal Texts with Semitic Parallels and Their Anthropological Background
Abstract 67 | PDF Downloads 4Page 671–675
Reviews
Review of Northern Wei (386–534): A New Form of Empire in East Asia
Abstract 47 | PDF Downloads 4Page 677–678
Review of Structures of Governance in Song Dynasty China, 960–1279 CE
Abstract 51 | PDF Downloads 4Page 679–680
Review of Shandong Province, vol. 4: Mount Tai—Sutra Stone Valley
Abstract 47 | PDF Downloads 5Page 680–693
Review of he Akkadian and Sumerian Texts from Ortaköy-Šapinuwa
Abstract 38 | PDF Downloads 5Page 684–690
Review of Roma in the Medieval Islamic World: Literacy, Culture and Migration
Abstract 32 | PDF Downloads 2Page 690–693
Review of Oral Narration in Iranian Cultures
Abstract 20 | PDF Downloads 2Page 693–695
Review of Quranic Arabic: From Its Hijazi Origins to Its Classical Reading Traditions
Abstract 46 | PDF Downloads 4Page 696–699
Review of Creating the Qurʾan: A Historical-Critical Study
Abstract 34 | PDF Downloads 4Page 699–702
Review of An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian History and Religions.
Abstract 47 | PDF Downloads 5Page 703–705
Review of Qu’est-ce que la philosophie indienne?
Abstract 31 | PDF Downloads 7Page 705–707
Brief Reviews
Review of Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa
Abstract 41 | PDF Downloads 3Page 708–709