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. 4 (2024): JAOS
Published: 2024-12-05
Front Matter
Front Matter
Abstract 92 | PDF Downloads 37Articles
Philology: Past, Present, and Prospects (Presidential Address)
Abstract 107 | PDF Downloads 20Page 711–737
Sacrilegious Theft in First-Millennium BCE Babylonia
Abstract 91 | PDF Downloads 9Page 739–763
The Indian Frontier in the Samanid Period Based on a New Source
Abstract 78 | PDF Downloads 3Page 765–787
Customs Duty Evasion and Enforcement in the Arthaśāstra
Abstract 66 | PDF Downloads 5Page 789–805
The First Hundred Light Years
Abstract 128 | PDF Downloads 9Page 807–831
Layers of Beauty
Abstract 92 | PDF Downloads 6Page 833–854
Intra-Regional Alliances
Abstract 106 | PDF Downloads 6Page 855–878
Brief Communications
The Seljuk Sultan Kay Kāʾūs I and the Assassins
Abstract 95 | PDF Downloads 3Page 879–884
Reviews
Review of Ramesses II, Egypt’s Ultimate Pharaoh. By Peter J. Brand
Abstract 69 | PDF Downloads 5Page 885–887
Review of Die Sprache der königlichen Stelen der 18. Dynastie bis einschließlich Amenophis III
Abstract 57 | PDF Downloads 4Page 887–890
Review of Die Ostraka der frühen 18. Dynastie aus Deir el-Bahri und dem Asasif. By Malte Römer
Abstract 61 | PDF Downloads 4Page 890–892
Review of Schrift und Sprache in Nubien: Studien zum Napatanischen, Meroitischen und Altnubischen. By Francis Breyer
Abstract 64 | PDF Downloads 4Page 892–897
Review of The Iberian Qur’an: From the Middle Ages to Modern Times. Edited by Mercedes García-Arenal and Gerard A. Wiegers
Abstract 73 | PDF Downloads 2Page 897–899
Review of Harmonizing Differences: A History of Distinctions Literature in Islamic Law. By Elias G . Saba
Abstract 65 | PDF Downloads 3Page 899–901
Review of A History of Herat: From Chingiz Khan to Tamerlane. By Shivan Mahendrarajah
Abstract 56 | PDF Downloads 4Page 902–904
Review of The Snake and the Mongoose: The Emergence of Identity in Early Indian Religion. By Nathan McGovern
Abstract 62 | PDF Downloads 2Page 907–910
Review of Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China. By Thomas J. Mazanec
Abstract 91 | PDF Downloads 7Page 910–912
Review of The Chinese Love Story from the Tenth to the Fourteenth Century. By Alister D. Inglis
Abstract 51 | PDF Downloads 2Page 913–915
Review of Asie centrale 300–850: Des routes et des royaumes. By Étienne de la Vaissière
Abstract 71 | PDF Downloads 5Page 915–917
Review of Nominal Things: Bronzes in the Making of Medieval China. By Jeffery Moser
Abstract 73 | PDF Downloads 6Page 918–919
Brief Reviews
Review of The Hittites. By Damien Stone
Abstract 69 | PDF Downloads 7Page 920
Review of Historic Mosques in Sub-Saharan Africa: From Timbuktu to Zanzibar. By Stéphane Pradines
Abstract 69 | PDF Downloads 2Page 920–921