Journal of the American Society for Premodern Asia (JASPA)

JASPA is published quarterly by the American Society for Premodern Asia. 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 “ideographic” character of the Chinese script.

From that year to the present day, the Journal has brought to the world of scholarship the results of the advanced researches of the most distinguished specialists in the literatures and civilizations of North Africa, the Near East, South and Southeast Asia, Inner Asia, and the Far East. The pages of the Journal are always open to original and interesting contributions from scholars. The Journal follows standard double-blind peer-review practice. 

Editors

Editor-in-Chief
Peri Bearman, Harvard University

Sectional Editors
Gary M. Beckman (Ancient Near East), University of Michigan

Peri Bearman (Islamic Studies), Harvard University

Stephanie Jamison (Traditional India, South Asia, and Southeast Asia), University of California Los Angeles

Thomas Mazanec (East Asia), University of California Santa Barbara

ISSN: 0003-0279 (print), 2169-2289 (online)