Rocznik Orientalistyczny: Ostatnio dodane
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Some Aspects of the New History of Japanese Literature
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)This article discusses the concept of a new textbook of the history of Japanese literature commissioned by the Polish Scientific Publishers PWN in Warsaw, which was further developed during the writing process. The ... -
Bible Terminology in Mongolian Translation
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)The paper deals with the difficulties which translators of the Bible had to face when rendering Christian terms in Mongolian. Which problems did they have to solve in order to convey ideas to people whose cultural-religious ... -
The Invention of “Shamanism” in 18th Century Mongolian Elite Discourse
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)The paper concentrates on the transformation of the religious field in 17th and 18th century Mongolia, focusing on the discourse formations which accompanied the missionary strategies the Tibetan Buddhist monks employed ... -
The Buddha’s Stūpa and Image. The Icons of his Immanence and Transcendence
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)This paper broadly explores the innate or doctrinal permutations of the Buddha’s stūpa and image, and attempts to establish their mutual relationship. In the first instance the Buddha’s stūpa was considered as the ... -
Theatre in the United Arab Emirates
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)In the Emirates the first theatre productions took place in schools, for example in the al-Qassimiyya school in Aš-Šāriqa. For Emirate schools and those teaching within them were to produce the actors and dramatists of ... -
Apostasy as a Tool to Suppress Dissent – Indonesian Perspective Gábor Takacs, Agaw Lexicon and Its Cushitic and Afro-Asiatic Background
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)Accusation of apostasy in the Muslim majority countries has the potential of becoming a dangerous tool against the dissenting voices. When it is used by those with religious authority and appears in a form of a fatwa it ... -
Arabic Linguistics. A Historiographic Overview
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)The study of Arabic language seems to have started under the driving need to establish a correct reading and interpretation of the Qur’ān. Notwithstanding the opinions of some writers about its origins one should stress ... -
An Alternative Insight into the First Centuries of Islam on the Iberian Peninsula – Problems of Historiographic Sources Concerning the Early Islamic History of Al-Andalus
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)The stream of historical revisionism within the Orientalist scholarship has offered in recent years a number of intriguing theories attempting to undermine some of the conventional concepts of the Arab-Muslim early history ... -
Late Appearance of Early Arab Cartography. A 19th C. Manuscript Map by Az-Zayyānī: Its Toponymy and Its Vision of the World
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)The question of survival of the Ptolemaic cartographical tradition in the Arab World, all through the Idrisian transmission chain and down to the modern times, is the subject of this article. A handwritten map found in ... -
Agaw Lexicon and Its Cushitic and Afro-Asiatic Background
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)The long awaited Comparative Dictionary of the Agaw Languages published most recently by David Appleyard (2006) presents a precious etymological treatment not only for specialists of Agaw and Cushitic, but also from ... -
An Old-Fashioned Genre – Maqāma in the 18th Century
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)The eighteenth century was crucial for the development of Arabic literature. While some genres were more prone to change, the maqāma remained a conservative and elitist genre. Yet it did enjoy a kind of renaissance in ...