EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
PERI BEARMAN
Harvard University
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
GARY BECKMAN
University of Michigan
STEPHANIE W. JAMISON
University of California, Los Angeles
THOMAS MAZANEC
University of Calfornia Santa Barbara
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. 1 (2025): JAOS
Published: 2025-02-27
Front Matter
Front Matter
Abstract 58 | PDF Downloads 24Articles
Exploring the Liminal Characteristics of Muslim Converts
Abstract 119 | PDF Downloads 1Page 1–18
The First Draft of the First World History
Abstract 101 | PDF Downloads 7Page 19–42
Translating Tamil God into Sanskrit in Vedāntadeśika’s Dramiḍopaniṣattātparyaratnāvalī
Abstract 140 | PDF Downloads 3Page 43–64
Two Early Biographical Accounts of Atiśa Preserved in Tangut Sources
Abstract 147 | PDF Downloads 9Page 65–90
A Normal Anomaly
Abstract 106 | PDF Downloads 5Page 91–114
New Sources of Han Verse
Abstract 141 | PDF Downloads 7Page 115–134
The Imperial Gaze in the Historiography of Amarna Politics
Abstract 101 | PDF Downloads 1Page 135–154
Hermeneutic Strategies of Mesopotamian Scholars
Abstract 113 | PDF Downloads 2Page 155–172
Lexicon and Grammar in the Aramaic Land Description Ostraca from Idumea
Abstract 66 | PDF Downloads 1Page 173–190
Reviews
Review of Arab Traders in Their Own Words: Merchant Letters from the Eastern Mediterranean around 1800
Abstract 67 | PDF Downloads 0Page 191–193
Review of Sufis and Sharīʿa: The Forgotten School of Mercy
Abstract 47 | PDF Downloads 1Page 193–196
Review of Writing Egypt: Al-Maqrizi and His Historical Project
Abstract 60 | PDF Downloads 5Page 196–99
Review of History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate: Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature
Abstract 80 | PDF Downloads 4Page 199–202
Review of Messianism and Sociopolitical Revolution in Medieval Islam
Abstract 31 | PDF Downloads 0Page 202–206
Review of À la découverte du jaïnisme: Une tradition indienne
Abstract 26 | PDF Downloads 1Page 206–209
Review of Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King
Abstract 112 | PDF Downloads 6Page 209–211
Review of The Stage in the Temple: Ritual Opera in Village Shanxi
Abstract 23 | PDF Downloads 3Page 211–213
Review of The Women Who Ruled China: Buddhism, Multiculturalism, and Governance in the Sixth Century
Abstract 123 | PDF Downloads 3Page 213–215
Review of The Collapse of Heaven: The Taiping Civil War and Chinese Literature and Culture, 1850–1880
Abstract 106 | PDF Downloads 2Page 215–216
Review of The Inscription of Things: Writing and Materiality in Early Modern China
Abstract 86 | PDF Downloads 6Page 216–218
Review of Strange Tales from Edo: Rewriting Chinese Fiction in Early Modern Japan
Abstract 65 | PDF Downloads 2Page 218–220
Review of The Betrayal of the Humanities: The University during the Third Reich
Abstract 82 | PDF Downloads 3Page 221–223
Review of Exploring Writing Systems and Practices in the Bronze Age Aegean
Abstract 89 | PDF Downloads 2Page 223–225