{"title":"Review of Command and Creation: A Shiʿi Cosmological Treatise. A Persian Edition and English Translation of Muḥammad al-Shahrastānī’s Majlis-i maktūb","authors":"P. Walker","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.br009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.br009","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Command and Creation: A Shiʿi Cosmological Treatise. A Persian Edition and English Translation of Muḥammad al-Shahrastānī’s Majlis-i maktūb. Edited and translated by Daryoush Mohammad Poor. London: I. B. Tauris, in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2021. Pp. xvi + 135 (Eng.), 84 (Pers.). \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43232504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization. Vol. 1: Ancient Israel, from Its Beginnings through 332 BCE","authors":"L. Fried","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.r0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.r0028","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization. Vol. 1: Ancient Israel, from Its Beginnings through 332 BCE. Edited by Jeffrey H. Tigay and Adele Berlin. Lucerne: The Posen Foundation, and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. Pp. lvii + 538, illus. $200. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43671048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shahrastānī and the Ismailis","authors":"P. Walker","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.ar017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.ar017","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000The exact sectarian affiliation of Shahrastānī has long been a matter of serious debate. Was he possibly an adherent of the Ismaili cause? Considerable recent scholarship purports to establish a connection. The evidence consists of some off-handed remarks by his own contemporaries; what he himself has to say about the Ismailis in his Kitāb al-Milal wa-l-niḥal; and finally, a set of doctrines or analytical categories he uses in his later writings that were later adopted by Nizari Ismailis. However, an impartial look at the evidence does not support the claim that Shahrastānī was himself in any significant way an Ismaili. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47261075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Chan before Chan: Meditation, Repentance, and Visionary Experience in Chinese Buddhism","authors":"A. Heirman","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.r0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.r0024","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Chan before Chan: Meditation, Repentance, and Visionary Experience in Chinese Buddhism. By Eric M. Greene. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2021. Pp. xiv + 313. $68 (cloth); $20 (paper). \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47298711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Secondary Stress and Vowel Lengthening in Biblical Aramaic","authors":"Emmanuel Aïm","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.ar014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.ar014","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000This study is concerned with the placement of the secondary stress in Tiberian Biblical Aramaic. The challenging aspect of this placement is that, contrary to universal typology, both long-voweled CVVC, CVV and short-voweled CV syllables are stressed whereas short-voweled CVC syllables are not. This apparently abnormal distribution is rationalized by arguing that CV syllables became CVV due to a secondary lengthening of the short vowel. I claim that this lengthening is a late development and likely corresponds to the late orthographical practice of regularly marking the secondary stress on open syllables. A similar lengthening in Eastern Syriac offers support for this interpretation. Finally, the common origin of Biblical Hebrew and Biblical Aramaic secondary stresses is briefly discussed. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46471240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Die Zitadelle von Dūr-Katlimmu in mittel- und neuassyrischer Zeit","authors":"J. N. Postgate","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.r0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.r0032","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Die Zitadelle von Dūr-Katlimmu in mittel- und neuassyrischer Zeit. Edited by Hartmut Kühne. 3 vols. Berichte der Ausgrabung Tall Šēḫ Ḥamad / Dūr-Katlimmu, vol. 12. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021. Pp. xl + 433 (vol. 1); xi + 307 (vol. 2); 57 loose supplements in case. €298. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46164770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of A Comparative Dictionary of Raute and Rawat: Tibeto-Burman Languages of the Central Himalayas","authors":"G. Anderson","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.r0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.r0020","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000A Comparative Dictionary of Raute and Rawat: Tibeto-Burman Languages of the Central Himalayas. By Jana Fortier. Harvard Oriental Series, vol. 88. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. xx + 276. $50. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44875014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of The Rise of the West Lake: A Cultural Landmark in the Song Dynasty","authors":"Qian Jia","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.r0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.r0023","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000The Rise of the West Lake: A Cultural Landmark in the Song Dynasty. By Xiaolin Duan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. Pp. xi + 247. $30. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41763876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of The History and Culture of Iran and Central Asia from the Pre-Islamic to the Islamic Period","authors":"K. V. van Bladel","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.r0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.r0021","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000The History and Culture of Iran and Central Asia from the Pre-Islamic to the Islamic Period. Edited by D. G. Tor and Minoru inaba. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2022. Pp. xiv + 349. $90. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44883518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Bosphorus/Bosporus (Boghaz-İçi) from Byzantine to Latin and Ottoman Times (4th–15th Centuries): Constantinople Viewed from the Northeast Water Currents","authors":"G. Leiser","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.br007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.br007","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Bosphorus/Bosporus (Boghaz-İçi) from Byzantine to Latin and Ottoman Times (4th–15th Centuries): Constantinople Viewed from the Northeast Water Currents. By Alexios G. C. Savvides. Athens: Hêrotodos, 2020. Pp. 238. €30. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42287798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}