Rocznik Orientalistyczny: Recent submissions
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Giles’s of Rome Criticism of Avicenna’s Conception of the Unity of Agent Intellect
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2011)The discussion with Islamic philosophy is one of the most important topics in the history of medieval philosophy. Furthermore, the criticism of the unity of intellect formulated by Christian medieval thinkers against ... -
Flavorings in Context: Spices and Herbs in Medieval Near East
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2011)Throughout history, the approach towards imported spices varied from culture to culture. In medieval and early post-medieval Europe, where spices became an exotic object of temporary desire, they were often used ... -
Remarques sur la genèse du peuplement antique et médiéval du Maghreb: l’apport de la toponymie et de la philologie
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2013)The issues relating to toponymy and the fundamental questions on settlement patterns in North Africa, from the ancient period to the Middle Ages, have sparked many debates around some controversies. The results of the ... -
The Heroes and the Flame
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2013)The poems of the Jewish poet Hanna Senesh bear witness to strong resolve and refusal to stand by without interference. Written mostly in Hebrew the words reflect a fusion of ancient as well as modern features of ... -
1963: The Spring of Hope for the Ba῾t
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2013)In 1963 events elsewhere in the Arab world began to move swiftly under pressures from the underlying Arab nationalist forces. On 8 February the Iraqi dictator ῾Abd al-Karīm Qāsim was overthrown and shot in a coup led ... -
Частота встречаемости смычных согласных в некоторых языках мира как показатель степени смычности их звуковой цепочки
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2013)It is still an enigma why some languages produce many occlusive consonants in their speech sound chains while others do not. Thus, some world languages may have many occlusive consonants in their sound speech chains, ... -
Written Manchu šumin ‘deep’
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2013)The main goal of this paper is to discuss the etymology of Written Manchu šumin ‘deep’ (§§1.1–1.3.1). This word is usually connected with Ewenki suŋta ‘deep’ (§2.1.1). Benzing and Doerfer proposed partial solutions ... -
Eine osmanisch überlieferte arabische Nachricht über zaqoqo, den afrikanischen Totengeist in der Flasche
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2013)In the year 1262 / 1846, a book was published in Ottoman Turkey, which according to itself was the translation of a travel report of a Tunisian in southern Sudan written in Arabic. The alleged Arabic original remains ... -
The Role of Confucianism in Contemporary South Korean Society
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2013)The studies concerning the role of Confucianism in East Asian countries, including South Korea, predominantly concern the specific aspects of either ancient or modern forms of Confucianism in Korean Peninsula, the time ... -
How to Distinguish between Non-existing Entities? Dharmakīrti and Prajñākaragupta on Universals as Objects of Knowledge
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)The paper concerns the very beginning of the chapter on perception in Dharmakīrti’s Pramāṇavārttika. It focuses on an apparent contradiction in Dignāga’s and Dhamrakīrti’s epistemology, namely, that universals do not ... -
Lydia T. Black (16.12.1925–12.3.2007) – Leben und Werk
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)The present article deals with life and work of the Social Anthropologist, Sibirist and Americanist Lydia T. Black (1925–2007), whose works cover fields of research reaching from ethnological studies on the material ... -
Temporal Characteristics of Japanese Verbs from the Contrastive Perspective
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)In this study we investigate an alternative way to look into the aspectual properties of Polish and Japanese verbs from the contrastive perspective. The analysis is based on a formationally motivated classification of ... -
Mongolian and Manchu Studies in Poland
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)Paper describes development of Mongolian and Manchu Studies in Poland starting with the activities of Jan Potocki, Ignacy Wojciechowski and Józef Kowalewski. It depicts works of Marian Lewicki and Stanisław Kałużyński ... -
What do Ancient Indian Cosmogonies Tell us about Language?
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)The aim of the paper is to reconstruct the Vedic concept of language as presented in the Brāhmaṇas and to show that, according to the Vedic thinkers, language not only expresses thoughts but also it is a social phenomenon ... -
An Old-Fashioned Genre – Maqāma in the 18th Century
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)The eighteenth century was crucial for the development of Arabic literature. While some genres were more prone to change, the maqāma remained a conservative and elitist genre. Yet it did enjoy a kind of renaissance in ... -
Descriptions of “Feeling” (vedanā) , “Ideation” (samjñā), and “the Unconditioned” (asamskrta) in Vasubandhu’s Pañcaskandhaka and Sthiramati’s Pañcaskandhakavibhāsā
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)This article focuses on three passages of Vasubandhu’s “[Treatise] on the Five Constituents of the Person” (Pañcaskandhaka) and its commentary by the 6th-century Indian scholar Sthiramati, the Pañcaskandhakavibhāsā. ... -
Morphological Coding of Verb-Object Agreement in African Languages
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)The aim of the paper is to demonstrate the structures of some African languages that mark agreement between the verb and the object. The means of coding agreement are rich and differentiated and include pronominal ... -
Pho-lha-nas, Khang-chen-nas, and the Last Era of Mongol Domination in Tibet
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)The lives of Pho-lha-nas and Khang-chen-nas are well known, most importantly from Luciano Petech’s seminal study of early 18th-century Tibet. Since the publication of that study, the appearance of several previously ... -
Lexical and Grammatical Properties of Personal Pronouns in Vietnamese: Deicticity and Relationships
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)Since all languages have ways of referring to the person speaking and the person being addressed, some have been misled into thinking that the category of person works in the same manner in all languages. Recognition ... -
Segmentotactics of Mandarin Chinese
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)The aim of this paper is to propose an extension of Bańczerowski’s phonotactic theory and introduce a research project on Mandarin Chinese segmental linguistics in the proposed theoretical framework. The proposal ...