Author: American Oriental SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oriental philology
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
List of members in each volume.
Journal of the American Oriental Society
Author: American Oriental SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oriental philology
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
List of members in each volume.
Journal of the American Oriental Society
Author: Trübner's American and Oriental Literary Record
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
A monthly register of the most important works published in North and South America, in India, China, and the British colonies: with occasional notes on German, Dutch, Danish, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian books.
Proceedings (American Oriental Society). 1874-1893
Author: Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: Trubner's American and Oriental Literary Record
Author: Trübner's American, European and Oriental literary record
Author: Rediscovering the Islamic Classics
Author: Ahmed El ShamsyPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691241910
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literature Islamic book culture dates back to late antiquity, when Muslim scholars began to write down their doctrines on parchment, papyrus, and paper and then to compose increasingly elaborate analyses of, and commentaries on, these ideas. Movable type was adopted in the Middle East only in the early nineteenth century, and it wasn't until the second half of the century that the first works of classical Islamic religious scholarship were printed there. But from that moment on, Ahmed El Shamsy reveals, the technology of print transformed Islamic scholarship and Arabic literature. In the first wide-ranging account of the effects of print and the publishing industry on Islamic scholarship, El Shamsy tells the fascinating story of how a small group of editors and intellectuals brought forgotten works of Islamic literature into print and defined what became the classical canon of Islamic thought. Through the lens of the literary culture of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Arab cities—especially Cairo, a hot spot of the nascent publishing business—he explores the contributions of these individuals, who included some of the most important thinkers of the time. Through their efforts to find and publish classical literature, El Shamsy shows, many nearly lost works were recovered, disseminated, and harnessed for agendas of linguistic, ethical, and religious reform. Bringing to light the agents and events of the Islamic print revolution, Rediscovering the Islamic Classics is an absorbing examination of the central role printing and its advocates played in the intellectual history of the modern Arab world.
Trübner's American, European, & Oriental Literary Record
Author: Text and Authority in the Older Upaniṣads
Author: Signe CohenPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047433637
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Upaniṣads have often been treated as a unified corpus of religious and philosophical texts, separate from the older Vedic tradition. It is well known that the Upaniṣads were initially composed and transmitted within specific schools of Vedic recitation, or Śākhās, but the Śākhā affiliation of each Upaniṣad has received very little attention in the scholarly literature. The author offers a new interpretation of the older Upaniṣads in the light of the Vedic school affiliations of each text. This book argues that issues of textual authority, and in particular the authority of the various Vedic schools, are central in the Upaniṣads, and that the Upaniṣads can, on one level, be read as texts about text. While analyzing the theme of textual authority in the Upaniṣads, the author also outlines a theory of textual criticism as applied to orally transmitted texts that will be of use to textual scholars in other fields as well.