RSS 1.0Rocznik Orientalistyczny, T. 65, Z. 2 (2012)
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Optimizing the Process of Basic Modern Chinese Teaching and Proficiency Tests for Adults in Sinological Glottodidactics in the Polish Language Environment
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)The sinological studies in Poland and the Chinese language teaching have a long tradition. Due to the growing interest in Chine, the increasing need for the Chinese language competences has to be outlined. The teachers’ ... -
Theatre in the United Arab Emirates
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)In the Emirates the first theatre productions took place in schools, for example in the al-Qassimiyya school in Aš-Šāriqa. For Emirate schools and those teaching within them were to produce the actors and dramatists of ... -
Apostasy as a Tool to Suppress Dissent – Indonesian Perspective Gábor Takacs, Agaw Lexicon and Its Cushitic and Afro-Asiatic Background
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)Accusation of apostasy in the Muslim majority countries has the potential of becoming a dangerous tool against the dissenting voices. When it is used by those with religious authority and appears in a form of a fatwa it ... -
Arabic Linguistics. A Historiographic Overview
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)The study of Arabic language seems to have started under the driving need to establish a correct reading and interpretation of the Qur’ān. Notwithstanding the opinions of some writers about its origins one should stress ... -
An Alternative Insight into the First Centuries of Islam on the Iberian Peninsula – Problems of Historiographic Sources Concerning the Early Islamic History of Al-Andalus
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)The stream of historical revisionism within the Orientalist scholarship has offered in recent years a number of intriguing theories attempting to undermine some of the conventional concepts of the Arab-Muslim early history ... -
Late Appearance of Early Arab Cartography. A 19th C. Manuscript Map by Az-Zayyānī: Its Toponymy and Its Vision of the World
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)The question of survival of the Ptolemaic cartographical tradition in the Arab World, all through the Idrisian transmission chain and down to the modern times, is the subject of this article. A handwritten map found in ... -
Agaw Lexicon and Its Cushitic and Afro-Asiatic Background
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)The long awaited Comparative Dictionary of the Agaw Languages published most recently by David Appleyard (2006) presents a precious etymological treatment not only for specialists of Agaw and Cushitic, but also from ... -
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 ...