The Journal of the American Oriental Society articles from April 1993

The Journal of the American Oriental Society archives from April 1993

Nabu and munabbiatu: two new Syrian religious personnel.
April 1, 1993... Recently published Akkadian texts from Mari and Emar include two previously unattested religious personel whose titles are derived from the verb nabu(m), "to name, call, lament."l The nouns nabu and munabbiatu (both plural) appear in the...

A medrese for the palace: Ottoman dynastic legitimation in the eighteenth century.
April 1, 1993... There can be little doubt that Ottoman imperial propaganda was associated with Islam from the earliest days of the Ottoman Empire until its end in the twentieth century. Religiously evocative myths, deeds, honorifics, holidays, architecture and...

A woman's place: a confrontation with Bedouin custom in the sharia court.
April 1, 1993... The potential for conflict between Bedouin custom and Islamic law (shari a) is illuminated by the study of a decision of the shari a court in al- Arish. A Bedouin woman from the al-Rumaylat tribe prosecuted her husband in 1906 and demanded the...

The science of respiration and the doctrine of the bodily winds in ancient India.
April 1, 1993... Ancient Indians paid particular attention to respiration and the function of wind in the body by making the breathing process a focus of religious concern and practice. In the minds of the early Indians, respiration was the principal indicator...

Text and edition in early Chinese philosophical literature.
April 1, 1993... INTRODUCTION During the years I have been working on the textual histories of a number of important sources of early Taoist philosophy such as the Huai-nan Tzu and the Chuang Tzu, I have had to confront some conceptual problems in the...

The inquisition against Su Shih: his sentence as an example of Sung legal practice.
April 1, 1993... INTRODUCTION In the autumn of 1079 the Sung dynasty official and poet Su Shih [UNKNOWN TEXT OMITTED] (1037-1101) stood trial for composing and disseminating writings that criticized Court policy and slandered government officials....

High-load nominal attributes in some Semitic languages.
April 1, 1993... In "The Place of the Attribute in Ge??ez" (JSS 26 (1981): 257-65), I demonstrated the function of the nominal attribute preceding its noun in that language: Normally, when a noun is qualified by an attribute, the noun has the main...

Laqab for a future caliph: the case of the Abbasid al-Mahdi.
April 1, 1993... Relatively little has been written on the relationship between numismatic inscriptions and Abbasid imperial policies, although important work has been done by George C. Miles, Norman Douglas Nicol, and Muhammad al-??Ush, among others, on...

An additional note on Aracapana.
April 1, 1993... In a recent article(1) I attempted to prove that the inscriptions in Kharosthi script on the Gandharan sculptures in the Lahore and Peshawar Museums(2) illustrating the Lipisalasamdarsana episode as recounted in the Lalitavistara, in which the...

Five divine lords or one (human) emperor? A problematic passage in the material on Dong Zhongsu.
April 1, 1993... For much of Chinese history the Former Han Confucian philosopher Dong Zhongshu [UNKNOWN TEXT OMITTED] has had the credit - or blame - for having introduced Yin-Yang [UNKNOWN TEXT OMITTED] and Five Forces [UNKNOWN TEXT OMITTED] ideas into the...

Political Opposition in the Early Turkish Republic: The Progressive Republican Party: 1924-1925.
April 1, 1993... Erik Zurcher, Reader in Middle East History at the University of Nijmegen and Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, has filled an important gap in the political history of the Turkish Republic. In...