About the Journal
Journal of the American Society for Premodern Asia (JASPA; ISSN 0003-0279) is published quarterly by the American Society for Premodern Asia. The first volume (1843-1849) 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 aud
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Current Issue
Vol. 146 No. 1 (2026): Journal of the American Society for Premodern Asia (JASPA)
Published: 2026-02-19
Front Matter
Front Matter
Abstract 108 | PDF Downloads 29Page 1–2
Articles
Does the Quranic Reading Change When Jurisprudence Does?
Abstract 78 | PDF Downloads 0Page 1–14
Entombing the Prophet in Cairo?
Abstract 42 | PDF Downloads 3Page 15–36
Ambasamudram in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries
Abstract 51 | PDF Downloads 2Page 37–86
From Him Power Arose
Abstract 30 | PDF Downloads 1Page 87–106
Quantifying Accomplishments, Rewarding Performance
Abstract 38 | PDF Downloads 1Page 107–126
Romantic Entanglements
Abstract 37 | PDF Downloads 1Page 127–148
“Boy,” “Slave,” and “Slav”
Abstract 26 | PDF Downloads 3Page 149–162
Oil, Swallows, and Sumerian Wordplay
Abstract 27 | PDF Downloads 3Page 163–182
Reviews
Review of Disenchanting the Caliphate: The Secular Discipline of Power in Abbasid Political Thought
Abstract 20 | PDF Downloads 0Page 183–185
Review of The Ottoman Scientific Heritage
Abstract 33 | PDF Downloads 0Page 185–188
Review of Love at a Crux: The New Persian Romance in a Global Middle Ages
Abstract 21 | PDF Downloads 0Page 189–191
Review of Doing Justice to a Wronged Literature
Abstract 16 | PDF Downloads 0Page 191–194
Review of Creating an Islamic City: Beirut, Jihad, and the Sacred
Abstract 22 | PDF Downloads 2Page 194–196
Review of A Prince of Martial Splendour in the Sixteen Kingdoms: Li Hao (351–417), Ruler of Western Liang
Abstract 23 | PDF Downloads 0Page 196–198
Review of Kings of Oxen and Horses: Draft Animals, Buddhism, and Chinese Rural Religion
Abstract 25 | PDF Downloads 1Page 198–200
Review of The Tsinghua University Warring States Bamboo Manuscripts: Studies and Translations, vol. 2
Abstract 40 | PDF Downloads 0Page 200–202
Review of The World of Wu Zhao: Annotated Selections from Zhang Zhuo’s Court and Country
Abstract 46 | PDF Downloads 1Page 202–204
Review of Kūkai: Japan’s First Vajrayāna Visionary
Abstract 25 | PDF Downloads 6Page 204–206
Review of Printing Technologies and Book Production in Seventeenth-Century Japan
Abstract 23 | PDF Downloads 0Page 207–209
Review of Persuading the Divine: On the Composition of Hittite Prayers
Abstract 25 | PDF Downloads 1Page 209–212
Review of Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and Its Origins
Abstract 23 | PDF Downloads 0Page 212–214
Review of Motherhood and Early Childhood in Ancient Egypt: Culture, Religion, and Medicine
Abstract 23 | PDF Downloads 1Page 214–216
Review of Weavers, Scribes, and Kings; The Mesopotamian Riddle; and The Victorians and the Holy Land
Abstract 41 | PDF Downloads 7Page 216–218
Review of Understanding Power in Ancient Egypt and the Near East, vol. 1: Approaches
Abstract 44 | PDF Downloads 4Page 218–220
Brief Reviews
Review of Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam
Abstract 32 | PDF Downloads 1Page 221
Review of The Qurʾan: A Verse Translation
Abstract 18 | PDF Downloads 1Page 222