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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":"Ethiopia engraved: an illustrated catalogue of engravings by foreign travellers from 1681 to 1900 . By Richard Pankhurst and Leila Ingrams. pp. 214; map (on end papers). London and New York, Kegan Paul International, 1988. £30.00.","authors":"E. Ullendorff","doi":"10.1017/S0035869X00107932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0035869X00107932","url":null,"abstract":"reasonable amount of sampling, from Ezana and the Periplus via the Zagwe dynasty and the mediaeval Ethiopian Chronicles to the travels of Charles Poncet, has convinced me of the vast amount of work invested by Huntingford in the assembly of this widespread material. Although Huntingford was by profession an anthropologist, he always evinced a devotion to things Ethiopian which was quite touching. I think it was originally based on the pleasure he took in forming the Ethiopian characters (which he did extremely well) rather than on any profound knowledge of Ethiopian languages. I f a s Huntingford tells his readers on p. xxvii-it was I who had suggested to him to write this book (rather than translate Ethiopian documents), I feel the scholarly world is unlikely to dissent sharply from the justification of this proposal on the evidence of the work now before us. I think it will serve as a worthy memorial to a dedicated man of letters.","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":"138 - 141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0035869X00107932","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57099598","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}