Folia orientaliaPub Date : 2023-11-06DOI: 10.24425/for.2019.130718
Michael Knüppel
{"title":"Ein überflüssiger Gelehrtenstreit aus den Jahren 1983–1991","authors":"Michael Knüppel","doi":"10.24425/for.2019.130718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24425/for.2019.130718","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81273,"journal":{"name":"Folia orientalia","volume":"47 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135544416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Folia orientaliaPub Date : 2023-11-06DOI: 10.24425/for.2019.126129
František Ondráš
{"title":"Druzes and Slavs between History and Fiction: the (Hi)Story of Ḥannā Ya‛qūbin the Novel \"The Druze of Belgrade\" by Rabī‛ Ǧābir","authors":"František Ondráš","doi":"10.24425/for.2019.126129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24425/for.2019.126129","url":null,"abstract":"This paper intends to present an semantic and cultural analysis of Rabī‛ Jābir’s novel Druzes of Belgrade. Published in 2011, the story deals with a period in Slavic history of the 19th century that parallels the reality of Middle East in the same time. The aim of the contribution is to examine the narrative context of historical events in the hero’s life which are narrated primarily through the juxtaposition of historical facts. Distinctions that are made between the real and the imaginary in the novel are bound to mystify – perhaps even mask – the historical and cultural relationship between Arab and Slavs. The writer is not only involved in producing the story of the mutual Arab – Slavic (co)existence within the Ottoman empire in Lebanon and Balkan as well, but is equally intent on providing the story behind the (hi)story. As a mode of representing reality the analysed literary work isn’ t neutral; it presupposes system of moral values which underlies the Arab Christian hero’s factual statements connected with the powerstructure and power-relations of the Ottoman society the protagonist lives in. Between history and narrative literature exists a relationship of complementarity that can only enrich and deepen reader’s understanding of a given culture and society. The narrative representations of historical facts in the novel Druzes of Belgrade are semantic and philosophical operations and as such can be misrepresentations according to Rabī‛ Jābir’s literary tendency in a specific historical and intellectual setting.","PeriodicalId":81273,"journal":{"name":"Folia orientalia","volume":"35 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135544426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Folia orientaliaPub Date : 2023-11-06DOI: 10.24425/for.2019.130709
Giulia Guidotti
{"title":"On the possibility of applying the research methods of lexical availability studiesto Middle Arabic and dialectal Arabic texts","authors":"Giulia Guidotti","doi":"10.24425/for.2019.130709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24425/for.2019.130709","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this article is to present and review the research methods employed in Laura Gago Gómez’s recent study, Aproximación a la situación sociolingüística de TángerArcila: variación léxica y grafemática (2018). Moreover, this article intends to evaluate the possibility of applying the methods of Hispanic research on lexical availability to Middle Arabic texts, after considering what kind of Middle Arabic texts should be taken into account for this purpose.","PeriodicalId":81273,"journal":{"name":"Folia orientalia","volume":"30 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135544429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Folia orientaliaPub Date : 2023-11-06DOI: 10.24425/for.2018.125150
Tomasz Polański
{"title":"Word Translating Image. In search of modern-language equivalents for Syriac and Coptic terminology","authors":"Tomasz Polański","doi":"10.24425/for.2018.125150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24425/for.2018.125150","url":null,"abstract":"In general the iconographic details recorded in the hagiographic literature are pretty meagre. Authors focus on the miraculous properties of icons. The Coptic lives of the saints may be selected as representative for the Early Christian and Byzantine hagiography. The Martyrdom and Miracles of Saint Mercurius the General and other lives contain stories about the Saint’s icons. We have some information about church decoration in the East, but, it does not look as impressive as John of Gaza’s extensive ecphraseis of St. Sergius’ and St. Stephen’s complex decorative programmes. However, we actually find a number of interesting minor descriptions in the church histories, in the theological polemic on icons, and in the hagiographies. A Syriac manuscript from the British Museum preserves a chronicle of the monastery of Qartamin, Mor Gabriel. I focus on a chapter which describes the church’s construction and its interior decoration. The essential part of the art terminology, which we know from the Coptic texts, consists of the Greek borrowings. The Syriac texts show an entirely different pattern. The Syriac description compiled by an anonymous monk from Qartamin resembles the hymn on the Edessa Cathedral. The Syriac art description in general evolved along entirely different lines from the Greek ecphrasis . Greek borrowings in the discussed Syriac texts are rare, and if they do appear, they are limited to only certain words .","PeriodicalId":81273,"journal":{"name":"Folia orientalia","volume":"340 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135635904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Folia orientaliaPub Date : 2023-11-06DOI: 10.24425/for.2018.124697
Wilfred G.E. Watson
{"title":"Lluís Feliu (ed.), Studies in Sumerian Civilization. Selected writings of Miguel Civil (Barcino Monographica Orientalia 17; Barcelona 2017. ISBN 978-84-475-4188-1","authors":"Wilfred G.E. Watson","doi":"10.24425/for.2018.124697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24425/for.2018.124697","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81273,"journal":{"name":"Folia orientalia","volume":"33 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135679639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Folia orientaliaPub Date : 2023-11-06DOI: 10.24425/for.2018.124691
Kurosh Salehi, Arezou Nazar
{"title":"A description of fire temples of Ancient Iran from the perspective of Islamic historians","authors":"Kurosh Salehi, Arezou Nazar","doi":"10.24425/for.2018.124691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24425/for.2018.124691","url":null,"abstract":"Buildings with religious functions were among the extant buildings of Ancient times. Among the buildings having existed since ancient history in Iran and which were regarded by Iranians as places for worship and rituals, one could refer to fire temples, idol-temples and monasteries, (synagogue and convents). Unlike the aforementioned buildings, Catacombs in ancient times were places for burying the dead. Thus, like the aforementioned buildings, they had religious functions. Many writers of works belonging to Islamic era paid attention to many of these buildings. All of the authors admitted the existence of such buildings and their religious functions although the Islamic authors did not have profound knowledge about these archeological buildings and their descriptions and reports about such buildings were intermingled with legend. The present paper is an attempt to examine the religious functions of these buildings and search in descriptions and reports of Islamic authors with a descriptive-analytic approach. The assumption of this research is based on the fact that and the collection of reports from the historical texts of the Islamic period is very brief, and because of the time gap between the era of building prosperity and the time of recording and recording them in these monuments, it is scattered and somewhat legendary. The result of this research suggests that in the descriptions of most Islamic historians, the principle of the existence of these fire temples and their religious function is confirmed by the relative domination of Islam. But in part, the prosperity and the existence of the conquerors and the conversion of the peoples of the prominent countries into Islam have prevented the display of a clear image of these works.","PeriodicalId":81273,"journal":{"name":"Folia orientalia","volume":"32 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135679659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Folia orientaliaPub Date : 2023-11-06DOI: 10.24425/for.2020.134081
{"title":"Stanisław Adam Jaśkowski, Parcham – Journal of Ahmad Kasravi and His Followers. A Snapshot from the History of Press in Iran, Warszawa: Dialog, 2018, 227 pp. ISBN 978-83-8002-736-7","authors":"","doi":"10.24425/for.2020.134081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24425/for.2020.134081","url":null,"abstract":"This book presents a critical analysis of the content of the Parčam bi-weekly, one of the newspapers published by Ahmad Kasravi (1890-1946). It came out from early Farvardin to late Shahrivar 1322 (March-September 1943). Stanisław Jaśkow - ski gives a brief account of Kasravi’s other periodicals (the bi-weekly Peymān , 1933-42; the daily Parčam, 1942; and the weekly Parčam , 1944)","PeriodicalId":81273,"journal":{"name":"Folia orientalia","volume":"252 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135678739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Folia orientaliaPub Date : 2023-11-06DOI: 10.24425/for.2018.124679
Ahmed Ech-Charfi
{"title":"The politics of language standardization and the nature of Classical Arabic","authors":"Ahmed Ech-Charfi","doi":"10.24425/for.2018.124679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24425/for.2018.124679","url":null,"abstract":"This article approaches the nature of Classical Arabic from the ideological discourse about it. More specifically, it investigates the controversy about “pure” and “Arabized” Arabs which was raised during the Umayyad period. The paper claims that underlying this controversy was an attempt by northern and southern Arabians to appropriate the symbolic capital of the sacred language. The tribal genealogies developed during the same period are also claimed to reflect political alliances. A third claim made in this connection is that Basran and Kufan grammarians were probably also involved indirectly by selecting data on which they based their linguistic analyses.","PeriodicalId":81273,"journal":{"name":"Folia orientalia","volume":"2 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135679842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Folia orientaliaPub Date : 2023-11-06DOI: 10.24425/for.2021.142215
{"title":"Halayqa, Issam. Traditional Agricultural and Domestic Tools in Palestinian Arabic: An Ethnographic and Lexical Study. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2014. 217 pp.ISBN 978-3-447-10248-3","authors":"","doi":"10.24425/for.2021.142215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24425/for.2021.142215","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81273,"journal":{"name":"Folia orientalia","volume":"6 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135680033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}