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The Journal of the American Oriental Society articles from January 2008
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The Journal of the American Oriental Society archives from January 2008
Rethinking taqlid in the early Shafi'i school.(Essay)
January 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION
The concept of taqlid in Islamic law has long received a bad press. Juxtaposed with the creative vigor of ijtihad--direct and independent engagement with the sacred sources--taqlid, or legal conformism, has been dismissed as...
The first Islamic legal theory: Ibn al-Muqaffa' on interpretation, authority, and the structure of the law.(Essay)
January 1, 2008... I. INTRODUCTION
Disorder in the law is a recurring concern in legal systems. Premodern Islamic legal systems are no exception, and indeed we find concerns about disorderly jurisprudence expressed even in the formative period of Islamic...
Complementarity and opposition in early Tibetan ritual.(Report)
January 1, 2008... The Bon religion of Tibet is sometimes referred to as a form of heterodox Buddhism, or as the "fifth sect" of Tibetan Buddhism. As an institutionalized religious sect, it has its origins in the tenth and eleventh centuries. (1) In its outward...
Southern girls or Tibetan knights: a Liang (502-557) court performance.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... Xiao Yan [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.] (464-549; R. 502-549; posthumously Wudi [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.], the founding emperor of the Liang [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.] dynasty (502-557) (1) was born into a devout Taoist...
The fiery furnace in the book of Daniel and the ancient Near East.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... The court tales of Daniel 1-6 are all set in the Eastern diaspora. Daniel and his three friends, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, are four Jewish youths taken to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar to serve at his court and in the subsequent courts of...
Inquiring into Indian Theories of Verbal Cognition.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... We are fortunate to have N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya's second volume in a projected series of four volumes, the first of which (Sabdabodhamimamsa, An Inquiry into Indian Theories of Verbal Cognition: Vakyavakyarthavicaratmakah prathamo bhagah,...
Bemerkungen zum Hethitischen Worterbuch aus Chicago--CHD S/2.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... Im selben Jahr (1980), als in Heidelberg bereits die 5. Lieferung der Neuauflage von Johannes Friedrichs lexikalischem Werk Hethitisches Worterbuch ([HW.sup.1]) publiziert wurde, erschien in Chicago der erste Faszikel des Hittite Dictionary...
A note on civil cases in early China.(Report)
January 1, 2008... Civil cases usually involve disputes over property. They are "civil" because they seek remedies for individuals, as opposed to criminal cases that punish crimes in order to preserve the public order. Generally speaking, historians have...
Franz Kuhnert and the phonetics of late nineteenth-century Nankingese.(Report)
January 1, 2008... 1. INTRODUCTION
The Austrian astronomer and sinologist Franz Kuhnert left detailed studies of Nankingese pronunciation as it existed in the late nineteenth century. Accounts of this type are valuable because they can be compared with...