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{"title":"Other Books Received for Review","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s0035869x00108512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0035869x00108512","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81727,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland","volume":"122 1","pages":"220 - 220"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/s0035869x00108512","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57100654","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}

{"title":"Khotanese birre","authors":"Khotanese Birre, B. E. Emmerick","doi":"10.1017/S0035869X00107804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0035869X00107804","url":null,"abstract":"In the Khotanese Sudhana story it is related that Sudhana will come upon a rākṣasī and must slay her with his sword. The Khotanese text reads at this point kāḍara jse vara ṣṭau raysga vīra jsanauña (Ch 00266.178–9 KBT 28) = kāḍąrinai vara ṣṭāṃ raysgi vī jsanñä (P 2957.118 KBT 37), which Sir Harold Bailey rendered “There he must promptly slay her with his sword” (BSOAS XXIX, no. 3, 1966, 512). MS. P. 4089a presents a variant reading for this line: kāḍara-birre raysaga vīra jsanauña (P 4089a.2–3 KBT 20). In his Dict. p. 287 Bailey renders it “with cut of sword, she must swiftly be slain”. In birre he sees a word attested only here and meaning “with cut”.","PeriodicalId":81727,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland","volume":"122 1","pages":"7 - 9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0035869X00107804","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57098977","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}

{"title":"Persian Bahmān “so-and-so”: an ancient survival?","authors":"N. Sims-Williams","doi":"10.1017/S0035869X00107816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0035869X00107816","url":null,"abstract":"In this short article marking Sir Harold Bailey's 90th birthday on 16 December 1989 it seems appropriate to take up and develop one amongst the many fruitful insights with which he has enriched our understanding of the languages of India, Iran, and Central Asia.","PeriodicalId":81727,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland","volume":"122 1","pages":"10 - 12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0035869X00107816","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57099011","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}

{"title":"Three Digoron notes","authors":"A. Butler","doi":"10.1017/S0035869X00107828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0035869X00107828","url":null,"abstract":"In 1961 an extensive collection of Ossetic folklore was published in two volumes in Ordzhonikidze under the title ИронАдæмьι Сфæлдьιстад. The collection includes both Iron and Digoron material and a large section of volume one is devoted to texts from the Ossetic Nart Epos. Among the Digoron Nart texts there is a large number of words and phrases which are difficult to interpret. Three such cases are discussed below.","PeriodicalId":81727,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland","volume":"122 1","pages":"13 - 16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0035869X00107828","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57099072","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}

{"title":"Die Königin von Saba: Kunst, Legende, und Archäologie zwischen Morgenland und Abendland. Edited by Werner Daum. pp. 216, illus. in col. and bl. and wh., 2 maps. Stuttgart and Zürich, Belser Verlag, 1988. DM 98.","authors":"E. Ullendorff","doi":"10.1017/S0035869X00107919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0035869X00107919","url":null,"abstract":"grow in the Dhofar coastal plain, nor anywhere on the coast, but in the high plateau and ravines of the interior. Apart from this, and even allowing for the qualification \" mainly\", the reader must gain the impression from these two passages that the habitat of the tree has contracted over the centuries, and now grows only in the Dhofar province of the Sultanate of Oman, but in the time of the PME extended much further west. This impression is fortified by the map on p. 119, showing the habitat as exclusively Dhofar. But it is certainly not so. What is true is, that Dhofari incense is esteemed the best quality and is today the only crop harvested for export; but, as many present-day travellers can attest, the tree still flourishes freely in eastern Hadramawt from approximately the longitude of Kane, though in this non-Dhofari area the product is used only for local consumption, not for export. There has been a contraction, not of the area where the tree grows, but of world demand, now making only the superior quality worth producing for export. But that Hadramawt, as well as Dhofar, is \"frankincense-bearing\" (Ai/kvcoTo^opo?) is as true today as it was in the time of the classical writers.","PeriodicalId":81727,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland","volume":"122 1","pages":"131 - 136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0035869X00107919","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57099560","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}

{"title":"The Cambridge history of Japan, Volume 6. The twentieth century . Edited by Peter Duus. pp. xx, 866, 7 figs., 4 maps. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1989. £60.00.","authors":"W. G. Beasley","doi":"10.1017/S0035869X00108482","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0035869X00108482","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81727,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland","volume":"122 1","pages":"216 - 217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0035869X00108482","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57100373","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}

{"title":"Frahang I Pahlavīk . Edited, with transliteration, transcription and commentary from the posthumous papers of Henrik Samuel Nyberg by Bo Utas, with the collaboration of Christopher Toll. pp. xviii, 175, 2 pl. Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz, 1988. DM 74.","authors":"P. Kreyenbroek","doi":"10.1017/S0035869X0010810X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0035869X0010810X","url":null,"abstract":"Although a version of the Frahang TPahlawTg has been known to Western scholars since 1771 (rather than 1711, as stated on p. vii), the difficulties of some parts of the text have long proved insurmountable. Iranists have been looking forward, therefore, to this edition of the Frahang. The late H. S. Nyberg, renowned both as an Iranist and a Semitist, was eminently qualified to undertake this important task, which, sadly, he did not live to complete. His work is based on a careful scrutiny of all important sources, including texts which are arranged according to subject and those which follow an orthographical order. After Junker's outline of 1912, a revised textual history was also envisaged, but only a beginning of this was found among Nyberg's papers. Nyberg, it seems, had begun his work on a new edition of the Frahang in the 1930s, but he was repeatedly forced to lay it aside. At his death, he left a number of handwritten versions of the text, the last of which is photographically reproduced in the book, as well as 56 pages of transliteration and transcription. Only a small part of the Commentary was ready, and the Editor had to draw extensively on notes from Nyberg's lectures, on Nyberg's files, and on his Manual ofPahlavi. Revised sets of references to occurrences of the Aramaic words found in the Frahang were supplied by Professor Toll. The posthumous edition of the Frahang bears testimony both to Nyberg's vast learning and to Utas's dedication and editorial skills. The work makes the Frahang much more accessible, and solves many riddles. It will be warmly welcomed by Iranists and Semitists alike. Inevitably, in a difficult text where context can hardly offer any guidance, points of debate remain. Until further evidence of its existence can be adduced, for example, a Phi. *azbay \" real\" (deriving, it is suggested on p. 73, from the unlikely Olr. *astbava-) remains very doubtful. The conjecture is based on Nyberg's reconstruction of ch. IX (pp. 7-8), where he emends TTMH to * TYRH (for * T'RH = T'LH), and reads * T'RH KZB' \" false jackal\", which he contrasts with T'LH 'zb', found earlier in the text. It is suggested that 'zb' is the antonym of KZB'. Although the original TTMH (so both Haug and Junker), may well be wrong, no variant *TYRH is mentioned in the critical apparatus, so that it is not clear how Nyberg arrived at his reconstruction. Given the similarity, in Pahlavi script, between KZB' and 'zb', stronger evidence would be required to make Nyberg's explanation seem probable. The interpretation of ch. XXX. 17/ given in the Commentary (p. 110), is simply not convincing: hamak-vanaktom gavak-pil; danb zanb; giya e dazd sikkar appdr, \"the (most) allvanquishing = having a father engendering increase; shore = id.; burning (old injunctive 3 sg. of dazitan) the grass (makes) the porcupine (go) away\". Several more plausible explanations could be put forward, but none appears to be entirely satisfactory. Attention should be drawn, however, to ","PeriodicalId":81727,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland","volume":"122 1","pages":"170 - 171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0035869X0010810X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57099416","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}

{"title":"A history of Islamic societies . By Ira M. Lapidus. pp. xxxi, 1002, 29 illus., 37 maps. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1988. £35.00.","authors":"R. Moore","doi":"10.1017/S0035869X00107968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0035869X00107968","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81727,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland","volume":"122 1","pages":"145 - 147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0035869X00107968","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57099615","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}

{"title":"A Muslim philosopher on the soul and its fate: al-'Āmirī's Kitāb al-Amad 'alā l-abad . By Everett K. Rowson. (American Oriental Series, Volume 70.) pp. vi, 375. New Haven, Connecticut, American Oriental Society, 1988.","authors":"W. Madelung","doi":"10.1017/S0035869X00108032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0035869X00108032","url":null,"abstract":"connected which ultimately reflects the value system that is the actual subject of the poetic mimesis, whereas the mannerist style depicts the object qua object through a series of comparisons in which the poet seeks to impress by his brilliant use of language, and the subject of the mimesis is not \" reality \" but literary language itself. Both styles demonstrate the need to redefine the notion of \"reality\" as applied to medieval literature; for in neither case is the object the mimesis of concrete reality as such, but its presentation through language at a certain level of experience, whether this is primarily ethical or rhetorical. \" The essential distinction between the two styles\", Sperl observes, \"does not reside in preponderance of reality or language as correlates of poetry. These are merely reflections of a more fundamental axis: that between language and its referent, a relation re-created and affirmed in classical style and disjoined in mannerism\" (p. 164). It is arguable that an important function of the mannerist style, as contrasted with the classicist, is to force a reappraisal of traditional values by breaking down the classicist association of poetic mimesis with such values and requiring the audience to reconstruct an alternative value system encoded in the language of the poem. Hence the importance of mannerism in religious and meditative poetry, as for example in the Luzumlyat, which deliberately subvert the moral values of the classicist zuhdlyat of Abu al-'Atahiya to \"evolve an idiosyncratic moral code so that the meaning of zuhdis changed; it is an intellectual creed remote from the simple asceticism of the earlier model\" (p. 97). Thus the notion of mannerism, as \"language at play\" is only partially adequate to deal with the broader implications of such a style, which must, as Sperl observes, be seen not merely as a stylistic alternative but as occupying one end of a literary continuum (with classicist poetic mimesis at the other) which seeks to include all aspects \" of an (ideally comprehensive) semiological mimesis\" (p. 157). The view that in mannerist (as opposed to classicist) mimesis \"the moral significance of the objective world is irrelevant\" (p. 159) must be modified; the deliberate withdrawal of a moral dimension (often more apparent than real) is often itself a moral statement. It has been argued that Western critical terminology cannot be applied to non-Western literatures because of their inherent difference from \" Western literature \", viewed as both unique and normative. The validity of borrowing critical terms from other disciplines (in the case of mannerism, from art criticism) has also been questioned. Sperl's lucid analyses do much to validate both strategies; avoiding the trap of positing close correlates between Arabic and European mannerism, he investigates the distinction within the Arabic literary system between classicism and mannerism as they function within that system. His approach runs counter to ","PeriodicalId":81727,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland","volume":"122 1","pages":"156 - 158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0035869X00108032","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57099249","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}

{"title":"Henry Miers Elliot – a reappraisal","authors":"Tripta Wahi","doi":"10.1017/S0035869X00107865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0035869X00107865","url":null,"abstract":"Henry Miers Elliot's first specifically historical work on India appeared one hundred and forty years ago in 1849. Four years later his small book on the Arabs in Sind was published. Between 1866 and 1877 appeared the magnum opus with which Elliot's name has since become identified, the History of India as told by its own Historians (8 vols.), edited, arranged and completed by John Dowson.","PeriodicalId":81727,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland","volume":"122 1","pages":"64 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0035869X00107865","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57099317","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}