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CONTENTS Mithridates and the Oracle of Hystaspes: Some dating issues. By Vicente Dobroruka  Friday Veneration among Syriac Christians: The Witness of the Story of the Holy Friday. By Sergey Minov  Revisiting Islamic Laws of Istihạd̄ạ. By Haggai Mazuz  Hišam̄’s ʾIbrahām̄: Evidence for a Canonical Quranic Reading Based on the Rasm. By Marijn Van Putten  Hišam̄’s ʾIbrahām̄: Evidence for a Canonical Quranic Reading Based on the Rasm – CORRIGENDUM. By Marijn Van Putten  Knowledge of the Art of Governance: The Mughal and Ottoman Empires in the Early Seventeenth Century. By Gagan D. S. Sood  Between ‘Everyday’ and ‘Extraordinary’: Partition, violence and the communal riots of  in Bihar. By Isha Dubey  Political Power, Religious Authority, and the Caliphate in Eighteenth-Century Indian Islamic Thought. By Muhammad Qasim Zaman  The Baptist Endeavours in Biblical Translation in China before the Chinese Union Version. By Daniel Kam-to Choi  An unexpected excursion: The ﬁrst account of Spaniards in Ayutthaya (). By John N. Crossley 

BOOK REVIEWS Gerrit Bos: Maimonides, on the Regimen of Health. A New Parallel Arabic-English Translation. (Leigh Chipman)  Dorothy C. Wong: Buddhist Pilgrim-Monks as Agents of Cultural and Artistic Transmission: The International Buddhist Art Style in East Asia, ca. –. (Susan Whitﬁeld)  Roel Sterckx, Martina Siebert and Dagmar Schäfer: Animals Through Chinese History. Earliest Times to . (Huaiyu Chen)  Șerife Atlihan and Carol LaMotte: Tablet Weaving from Anatolia and the Ottoman Court. (Peter Alford Andrews)  Andrew T. Kaiser: Encountering China: The Evolution of Timothy Richard’s Missionary Thought (–). (Luke S. K. Kwong) 