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Del 98 - American Oriental Series
Chronicle of the Early Safavids and the Reign of Shah Ismāʿīl (907–930/1501–1524)
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
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In this volume, Kioumars Ghereghlou presents an edition, with preface and indexes, of a previously unpublished sixteenth-century Persian chronicle. Written by Qāsim Beg Ḥayātī, a court scribe to Shah Ṭahmāsp (r. 1524–76), it covers Safavid history beginning with the early part of the fourteenth century and closing with an account of Shah Ismāʿīl’s (r. 1501–24) rise to power and military campaigns in Iran. Dedicated to the Safavid princess Mihīn Begum (d. 1562), whom Ghereghlou credits as Ḥayātī’s coauthor, the chronicle is composed of two parts. Part one deals with the predynastic phase of Safavid history and ends with an account of Shaykh Ṣafī’s life and career. Part two tells the story of the Ṣafaviyya Sufi order, from the ascension of Shaykh Ṣadr al-Dīn Mūsā b. Shaykh Ṣafi (d. 1377) to the early years of Shah Ismāʿīl’s reign. Punctuating this account are two “tailpieces” (tadhʾīl), one on the history of the Safavid shrine in Ardabīl in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and the other on the shrine’s superintendents who held this post in the early part of the sixteenth century. This edition makes available for the first time a chronicle that had long been thought lost. Rich in new details about the Ṣafaviyya Sufi order (ṭarīqa) in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, it is an important historical source for scholars interested in this period of Persian history. The text of the chronicle is presented in Persian, transcribed from the original manuscript. The editorial preface and bibliography are in English. The book includes four plates, in colour, showing sample sections of the original manuscript.
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Del 81 - American Oriental Series
Aristocratic Violence and Holy War
Studies in the Jihad and the Arab-Byzantine Frontier
Inbunden, Engelska, 1996
643 kr
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This book discusses the relationship between the idea of Holy War in early Islamic societies and the competition for resources and legitimacy among Muslims who lived on the Arab-Byzantine frontier, providing a fresh perspective on the history of that region during the late Umayyad and early Abbasid periods.
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For every word form of the Rgveda, this concordance provides its frequency and the text of all padas in which it occurs. The concordance was devised as a tool for studying Rgvedic metrical phenomena and Rgvedic formulas, but it can also be used for investigating syntax and the semantics of the Rgveda. It is based on the electronic text of the Rgveda prepared by Gary B. Holland and Barend A. van Nooten.
894 kr
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Del 85 - American Oriental Series
Stele Inscriptions of Ch'in Shih-huang
Text and Ritual in Early Chinese Imperial Representation
Inbunden, Engelska, 2000
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Del 86 - American Oriental Series
Incense at the Altar
Pioneering Sinologists and the Development of Classical Chinese Philology
Inbunden, Engelska, 2001
993 kr
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The discipline of Sinology, as it has been developed in the West, is rooted in philology. Despite the variety of new scholarly fashions and approaches to the study of premodern China that have arisen during the past half-century, the careful examination of texts remains fundamental for all serious Sinological work. In this we are beholden to those European, and latterly, American, scholars who, over several generations, painstakingly established the standards for such work. But no comprehensive history of the field has heretofore been published in a Western language. Now Professor Honey offers just such a history of Sinology, spanning its beginnings in the first efforts of seventeenth-century Jesuit missionaries to the growing disciplinary fragmentation of the field in the second half of the twentieth century. Honey gives his most thorough attention to the major figures of French, German, Dutch, British, and American Sinology from approximately 1800 to 1980, with extensive discussion of their most significant works and individual techniques. This is a book of special importance for every student of China who cares about the history of the field.
Del 87 - American Oriental Series
Vrttivarttika or Commentary on the Functions of Words of Appaya Diksita
Inbunden, Engelska, 2001
493 kr
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This present text represents a significant improvement over the two previously published texts of Vrttivarttika. The novelty of the present edition, aside from correcting many errors found in its predecessors, lies in a careful comparison of the two previous editions, and their collation with still another manuscript, from the Houghton Library at Harvard University, Indic no. 1268. This volume includes commentary, transliterated Sanskrit text and notes.
Del 78 - American Oriental Series
Origin and Early Development of the Chinese Writing System
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
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This work sketches with extraordinary precision the history of the Chinese writing system from the late Shang (ca. 1200 B.C.) when Chinese characters are first in evidence down to the script’s standardization and codification a millennium later in the Ch’in and Han (221 B.C.–A.D. 220). Prof. Boltz takes in part a comparative approach to the origin and early structure and development of Chinese writing, suggesting that in its general principles the process was matched pari passu by the way writing first arose in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and among the Mayas (for example, that the Chinese script records the sounds of words, not ideas). The author also examines the question of why the Chinese script never became alphabetic, in spite of hints of such tendencies in the third and second centuries B.C.Kidder Smith, of Bowdoin College, said of the original publication: “... this book will be highly valued by anyone concerned with the relationships of language to writing, and should become the point of reference for all discussions of these questions as they pertain to ancient Chinese” (Religious Studies Review Vol. 21, No. 4, October 1995).
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Del 89 - American Oriental Series
Nocturnal Ciphers
The Allusive Language of Dreams in the Ancient Near East
Inbunden, Engelska, 2007
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This monograph seeks to understand the cultural context and function of wordplay as employed by ancient Mesopotamian dream interpreters and other divinatory experts. The author then aims to use this context to explain the presence of punning in Akkadian literary and epistolary accounts of enigmatic dreams. Noegel also examines the later appearance of Egyptian oneirocritic punning and explores the possibility that it represents intellectual exchange between Egypt and Mesopotamia. Building upon these observations, he then argues that Israelite, and possibly Ugaritic, literary reports of enigmatic dreams similarly reflect the punning hermeneutic and therefore also may share a mantic context, as well as possible Mesopotamian influence. Finally, Noegel traces punning oneirocritic strategy into other cultures and later times and texts, including early Greek and Talmudic literature. Noegel’s investigation provides insights into a variety of subjects including the social context of divination and the production of literary texts, the role of writing and script in the divinatory process, the impact of Mesopotamian intellectual thought, the authorship of certain biblical pericopes, the relationship of oneiromancy to prophecy, and the function of ancient Near Eastern literary devices. In so doing, he draws attention to broader theoretical concerns that confront the study of the ancient world.
Del 90 - American Oriental Series
Vedic Ideals of Sovereignty and the Poetics of Power
Inbunden, Engelska, 2007
903 kr
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This monograph examines a number of motifs central to the expression of the ideal of sovereignty as it is articulated in Vedic liturgical poetry. It argues that, because the qualities and privileges of a sovereign leader were coveted even by those for whom there was no possibility of attaining royal station, the language proper to the domain of kingship was gradually generalised and used to express aspirations towards a freedom and self-determination that became progressively more mystical in nature.
Del 91 - American Oriental Series
Rebellions and Peripheries in the Cuneiform World
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
580 kr
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Del 92 - American Oriental Series
Significant Season
Cai Yong (ca. 133-192) and His Contemporaries
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
1 101 kr
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Del 28 - American Oriental Series
Gafat Documents
Records of a South Ethiopic Language - Grammar, Text, and Comparative Vocabulary
Häftad, Engelska, 1945
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Del 93 - American Oriental Series
Formation of Islamic Hermeneutics
How Sunni Legal Theorists Imagined a Revealed Law
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
790 kr
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This book is the first historical analysis of those parts of Islamic legal theory that deal with the language of revelation, and a milestone in reconstructing the missing history of legal theory in the ninth and tenth centuries. It offers a fresh interpretation of al-Shafii’s seminal thought, and traces the development of four different responses to his hermeneutic, culminating in the works of Ibn Hazm, Abd al-Jabbar, al-Baqillani, and Abu Yala Ibn al-Farra. It reveals startling connections between rationalism and literalism, and documents how the remarkable diversity that characterized even traditionalist schools of law was eclipsed in the fifth/eleventh century by a pragmatic hermeneutic that gave jurists the interpretive power and flexibility they needed to claim revealed status for their legal doctrines. More than a detailed and richly documented history, this book opens new avenues for the comparative study of legal and hermeneutical theories, and offers new insights into unstated premises that shape and restrict Muslim legal discourse today. The book is of interest to all occupied with classical Islam, the development of Islamic law, and comparative hermeneutical research.
Del 94 - American Oriental Series
Yang Xiong and the Pleasures of Reading and Classical Learning in China
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
667 kr
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Yang Xiong (53 BC-AD 18), the Han philosophical master remarks at one point in his Exemplary Figures, “Books are as sexy as women.” Modern readers may frown at a comparison they regard as less than apt. Yang was supremely aware, however, of longstanding traditions, ascribed both to the sages and to the Classics, contrasting the unusual strength of the basic drives for food and sex with the general weakness of the acquired inclinations toward moral behaviour. To say that “books are as sexy as women” was to make bold to add to those traditions, adopting the manner of a sage; also to elevate the value of certain texts, at least, to the level morality itself, insofar as they represented acquired tastes leading to the most desirable aspects of civilized life.
Del 36 - American Oriental Series
Early Hebrew Orthography
A Study of the Epigraphic Evidence
Häftad, Engelska, 1990
483 kr
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Del 96 - American Oriental Series
Crucifixion and Death as Spectacle
Umayyad Crucifixion in Its Late Antique Context
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
618 kr
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What historical continuity, if any, existed between the practice of crucifixion in the early Islamic polity and crucifixion as practiced by the Byzantines in the Late Roman empire and by the Sasanids in Persia? Crucifixion and Death as Spectacle explores how the first caliphal dynasty of early Islam, the Umayyads, employed crucifixion in its sundry forms to punish brigands and heretics and to humiliate rebels and enemies, and how, while doing so, the Umayyads drew upon a late antique legacy of punitive practices associated with crucifixion in the Late Roman and Sasanid Persian worlds. Like their Roman and Persian predecessors, the Umayyads wielded crucifixion, and thus the symbolism of violence against the body, to attest to their impunity as caliphs and the legitimacy of their rule. Yet, as this study also argues, this is only one side of the story. Dissidents and political rivals mobilized stories of crucified rebels and martyrs, as told and memorialized by Christians and Muslims alike, against the Umayyads in order to contest and subvert the sublimation of crucifixion as an indubitable symbol of the caliphs’ use of legitimate violence, and succeeded in propagating alternative religious and political ideologies of their own.
326 kr
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Tell el-Amarna tablets, Sumerian language -- Texts, Akkadian language -- Texts, Egyptian language -- Texts, 11.43 Old Testament in relation to other cultures, Akkadian language, Egyptian language, Sumerian language, Apiroe
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Index to the Journal of American Oriental Society, Volumes 21-60
Häftad, Engelska, 1955
255 kr
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Del 30 - American Oriental Series
Roots, Verb-Forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language
Häftad, Engelska, 1988
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Del 43 - American Oriental Series
Early Mesopotamian Royal Titles
A Philologic and Historical Analysis
Häftad, Engelska, 1988
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610 kr
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Del 46 - American Oriental Series
Vasanta Vilasa
A Poem of the Spring Festival
Inbunden, Engelska, 1962
1 275 kr
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The Vasanta Vilasa is a poem of the spring festival in Old Gujarātī accompanied by Sanskrit and Prakrit stanzas and illustrated with miniature paintings. Here it is critically edited and translated, with an introduction and a description of the paintings.
Del 47 - American Oriental Series
Indological Studies in Honor of W. Norman Brown
Inbunden, Engelska, 1962
769 kr
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315 kr
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