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WISDOM TEXTS FROM DEIR EL-MEDINA ('Nauki' z Deir el-Medina)

Miroslaw Barwik

Przegląd Orientalistyczny > 2009 > 1-2 (228-229) > 29-38

Wisdom and didactic texts connected with the community of Deir el-Medina are translated and commented in the present paper. Some of them were composed by the inhabitants of the village. Others were just copied by the literate men well acquainted with literary tradition of Egypt.

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THE LETTERS OF JAN KALINOWSKI FROM KOREA (1885-1887): SOME REMARKS ON EARLY CONTACTS BETWEEN POLAND AND KOREA (Kilka uwag o wczesnych kontaktach polsko-koreanskich ze szczegolnym uwzglednieniem listow Jana Kalinowskiego z lat 1885-1887)

Andrzej Wadas

Przegląd Orientalistyczny > 2009 > 1-2 (228-229) > 17-28

The earliest contacts between Poland and Korea, accidental as they undoubtedly must have been, had fallen into oblivion. Those which are documented can be traced back to the last two decades of the 19th century and reach its climax during the time of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905). Those early contacts seem to have been an offshoot of a dramatic political situation of Poland in that period, especially...

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BADI-UZ-ZAMAN'S 'DEATH OF A RAT'. FIRST FANTASY NOVEL IN THE HINDI LANGUAGE ('Smierc pewnego szczura' Badi-uz-zamana. Pierwsza powiesc fantastyczna w jezyku hindi)

Justyna Kurowska

Przegląd Orientalistyczny > 2009 > 1-2 (228-229)

The aim of this article is to present Badi-uz-zaman's novel 'The Death of a Rat' which is usually referred to as the first fantasy novel in the Hindi language. The analysis revolves around the innovative elements of style and topic introduced by Badi-uz-zaman in his work. The introductory part of the article sheds light on basic facts regarding the work of Badi-uz-zaman, the language used by him and...

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THE FIRST POPULAR NOVEL IN THE HINDI LANGUAGE (Pierwsza popularna powiesc w jezyku hindi)

Justyna Wisniewska

Przegląd Orientalistyczny > 2009 > 1-2 (228-229) > 63-71

The article gives an account of the late nineteenth century work by Devakinandan Khatri that can be referred to as the first best-seller in Hindi. Although neglected by many critics and writers contemporary with Khatri and considered by them as a mere romance without any importance, Chandrakanta had made a tremendous impact on the reading public of the time. In this article, The authoress examines...

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THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ROLE OF MUSLIM BROTHERHOODS AND RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES IN MODERN TURKEY (Rola spoleczno-polityczna bractw i wspólnot religijnych we wspólczesnej Turcji)

Anna Chometowska-Kontkiewicz

Przegląd Orientalistyczny > 2009 > 1-2 (228-229) > 86-99

This article concerns the problem of Muslim brotherhoods (tarika) and religious communities (cemaat) in contemporary Turkey. Muslim brotherhoods for over 800 years had been the major feature of social and political life in Ottoman Empire. They were banned in 1925 as the Kemalists considered them to be the main force resisting the imposed laicism. At that time, Said Nursi created a religious community...

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THE HISTORY OF RESEARCH ON THE OLD TURKIC INSCRIPTIONS (Historia badan zabytków pismiennictwa starotureckiego)

PIotr Kwiatkowski

Przegląd Orientalistyczny > 2009 > 1-2 (228-229) > 39-51

This article is an attempt to point out the most important facts dealing with the history of research on the oldest relic of the written language of Turkic nomads. The first findings are to be linked to D.G. Messershmidt who travelled through Khakassia in 1721. A systematic search for them was begun by G.I. Spasskiy and M.A. Kastrem in the Khakassia region at the beginning of the nineteenth century...

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SERAYA SHAPSHAL'S LETTER WRITTEN IN THE OTTOMAN LANGUAGE (Z historii polskiej orientalistyki w polowie XX w. List Seraii Szapszala pisany po turecku do Tadeusza Kowalskiego)

Jan Tyszkiewicz, Öztürk Emiroglu

Przegląd Orientalistyczny > 2009 > 1-2 (228-229) > 9-16

Seraya Shapshal (1873-1961) was a turkologist and a religious leader of the haham Karaim community. He came from Crimea and studied in Saint Petersburg (Russia) and Istanbul. He also spent some time in Iran and in 1928 he came to Vilnius (Wilno) in Poland. From 1929 to 1939 he worked with the Polish Oriental Society. He corresponded with the Cracow turkologist professor Tadeusz Kowalski on scientific...

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ANNEXATION OF THE KARABAKH KHANATE TO THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE IN THE 18TH CENTURY (Przylaczenie Chanatu Karabachskiego do Cesarstwa Rosyjskiego)

Przemyslaw Adamczewski

Przegląd Orientalistyczny > 2009 > 1-2 (228-229) > 52-62

The geopolitics of the area of the South Caucasus in the 18th century after the death of Nadir Shah, was the cause, for the rising of the independent de facto Karabakh khanate, whose founder was Panah Ali Khan. It became one of the strongest countries in the area of Azerbaijan; however, it was unable to defend itself from constant Persian invasions. The only military force that could oppose them was...

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THE FIRST POLISH TRANSLATION OF AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN TEXT (Pierwszy polski przeklad starozytnego tekstu egipskiego)

Leszek Zinkow

Przegląd Orientalistyczny > 2009 > 1-2 (228-229) > 3-8

This article deals with the discovery of an unknown manuscript of the first Polish translation of an ancient Egyptian text. Tadeusz Samuel Smolenski (1884-1909), a student of Gaston Maspero and the first Polish Egyptologist, about 1908 translated into Polish a demotic text Contest for the Breastplate of Inaros directly from the original. The reprint of this manuscript, which unfortunately is preserved...

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SCARAB FROM EL-AR (Skarabeusz z El-Ar)

Joachim Sliwa

Przegląd Orientalistyczny > 2009 > 3-4 (230-231) > 136-137

The Scarab from El-Ar was discovered in a multicultural cemetery in the Fourth Cataract area in Sudan. This small object (20 X 14 X 9 mm) is made of faience with traces of green glaze. On the flat surface of the base, in an oval enclosure, two falcon-headed figures going right and holding hands, are deeply impressed. The left figure is crowned with a sun disk of Re, the god on the right has a feathered...

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GODDESS MAFDET IN EGYPTIAN PYRAMID TEXTS (Bogini Mafdet w egipskich tekstach piramid)

Adrian Antoniewicz

Przegląd Orientalistyczny > 2009 > 3-4 (230-231) > 138-143

The main aim of the paper is an attempt to analyse the function of the goddess Mafdet in the Pyramid Texts, the earliest corpus of ancient Egyptian religious texts. Her role in the Egyptian religion seems to be underestimated. The reason for that is her marginal appearance in the documents later than the Old Kingdom. However, an examination of the spells from the Pyramid Texts, where Mafdet is mentioned,...

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THE IDENTITY OF THE ASSYRIAN DIASPORA IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (Tozsamosc diaspory asyryjskiej w Stanach Zjednoczonych)

Marta Wozniak

Przegląd Orientalistyczny > 2009 > 3-4 (230-231) > 205-219

The subject of the article is the modern Assyrian national and social identity in the United States diaspora. The text consists of three parts. Part one presents basic definitions such as 'nation', 'nationalism' and 'identity'. It also discusses controversy over the name 'Assyrians' and other designations, i.e. Arameans, Chaldeans, Syrians, Syriacs, Suryoye. Futhermore, it shows the history of immigration...

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THE NOUN 'TENGRI' IN THE OLD TURKIC INSCRIPTIONS (Wyraz 'tengri' w tekstach orchonsko-jenisejskich)

Piotr Kwiatkowski

Przegląd Orientalistyczny > 2009 > 3-4 (230-231)

This article deals with the way the noun 'tengri which means 'heaven' and may refer to the Heaven's God, is used in Old-Turkic inscriptions from Mongolia (Orchon Inscriptions) and Southern Siberia (Yenissei Inscriptions). The inscriptions were written between the 8th and 10th centuries in the Turkic speaking nomad environment and most of them include explicit references to the ruling dynasty. In Orchon...

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IBN TAWQ'S 'TA'LIQ'. A JOURNAL OF A DAMASCENE FROM THE TURN OF THE 16TH CENTURY ('Talik' Ibn Tauka. Dziennik damascenczyka z przelomu XV i XVI w.)

Joanna Musiatewicz

Przegląd Orientalistyczny > 2009 > 3-4 (230-231) > 161-170

Ta'liq is a journal of Ibn Tawq, a notary and court witness, who lived in Damascus in the second half of the 15th and the first decade of the 16th centuries. The manuscript of the journal was found in the Damascene Madrasat Adh-Dhahiriyya, a former seat of the Syrian National Library, some 40 years ago, but is still almost unknown among scholars. The journal contains an interesting material on everyday...

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IMPERIAL OTHODOX PALESTINE SOCIETY AND THE ORTHODOX ARABS (Imperatorskie Prawoslawne Towarzystwo Palestynskie i prawoslawni Arabowie)

Izabela Konczak

Przegląd Orientalistyczny > 2009 > 3-4 (230-231) > 181-196

The article is devoted to the history of Russian Empire's presence in the Holy Land. It discusses the diplomatic efforts, which had been made by the tsarist Russia to gain influences in Palestine through such organisations as the Russian Spiritual Mission, the Palestine Committee and the Orthodox Palestine Society. The latter - according to its statutory objectives - organised the system of hospitals...

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MISTERIES OF THE HILL IN EL-AR. ARCHEOLOGICAL SALVAGE PROJECT IN THE AREA OF THE FOURTH CATARACT (SUDAN) (Tajemnice wzgórza El-Ar. Badania ratownicze w rejonie IV katarakty Nilu (Sudan))

Anna Longa

Przegląd Orientalistyczny > 2009 > 3-4 (230-231) > 129-135

For several years archaeological excavations have been conducted in Sudan, in the Fourth Nile Cataract region, in consequence of the construction of a new dam on the Nile River after Sudanese Antiquity Service decided to start intense archaeological research in this area. One of the expeditions working in the area of the Fourth Cataract is a Polish Mission organized by the Polish Centre of Mediterranean...

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COLLECTIVE IDENTITY OF LEBANESE MARONITES. BETWEEN THE WEST AND THE MIDLE-EAST ( Tozsamosc zbiorowa Maronitów libanskich. Miedzy Zachodem a Bliskim Wschodem)

Michal B. Moch

Przegląd Orientalistyczny > 2009 > 3-4 (230-231) > 220-227

Conscious of a complex and ambiguous character of the concept of collective identity, the author utilizes it in reference to the Maronite community in Lebanon, which constitutes the dominating part of internally diversified Lebanese Christianity. Political, religious and financial Maronite elites played significant and often decisive role in shaping contemporary Lebanese 'imagined community' and modern...

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THE ORIGIN OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE RYUKYU ARCHPELAGO. PALEOANTHROPOLOGICAL DATA (Pochodzenie mieszkanców Archipelagu Ryukyu. Dane paleoantropologiczne)

Joanna R. Marszewska

Przegląd Orientalistyczny > 2009 > 3-4 (230-231) > 144-150

This paper opens with the reference to the prehistoric osteological human remains discovered in some Ryukyn islands and found to be the oldest within the whole archipelago. These findings are set against the comparative, mainly Southeast Asian, background. Then, most important hypotheses concerning the alleged, changing in time, distributions and interrelations of the anthropological races on the...

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SAHEBDHANI - THE RISE AND DEVELOPMENT OF A HETERODOX SECT IN BENGAL (Sahebdhani - powstanie i rozwój heterodoksyjnej wspólnoty religijnej w Bengalu)

Michal Panasiuk

Przegląd Orientalistyczny > 2009 > 3-4 (230-231) > 171-180

Sahebdhani is one of many minor religious groups or traditions (sampraday) that came into being between the 17th and 19th century in Bengal. The first guru of Sahebdhani, Murali Pal, received his mantra from a Sufi mystic living in Nadiya, a central district of Bengal. For the next three generations his sons continued the tradition as gurus, having established a centre of Sahebdhanis in Brittihuda...

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DID GOD DIE IN AUSCHWITZ? JEWISH THEOLOGICAL REACTION TO THE HOLOCAUST (Czy Bóg umarl w Auschwitz? Reakcje teologii zydowskiej na Holocaust)

Shoshana Ronen

Przegląd Orientalistyczny > 2009 > 3-4 (230-231) > 197-204

The Holocaust shatters the Jewish belief in God, who takes care of his people, leads them to redemption. Extermination camps refuted the concepts of omnipotent, merciful and absolutely good God: if God is omnipotent and absolutely good how he allowed Auschwitz? Auschwitz calls the Jews for re-evaluation of their faith and their trust in God. Facing the destruction of the Jewish people a question is...

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WISDOM TEXTS FROM DEIR EL-MEDINA ('Nauki' z Deir el-Medina)

THE LETTERS OF JAN KALINOWSKI FROM KOREA (1885-1887): SOME REMARKS ON EARLY CONTACTS BETWEEN POLAND AND KOREA (Kilka uwag o wczesnych kontaktach polsko-koreanskich ze szczegolnym uwzglednieniem listow Jana Kalinowskiego z lat 1885-1887)

BADI-UZ-ZAMAN'S 'DEATH OF A RAT'. FIRST FANTASY NOVEL IN THE HINDI LANGUAGE ('Smierc pewnego szczura' Badi-uz-zamana. Pierwsza powiesc fantastyczna w jezyku hindi)

THE FIRST POPULAR NOVEL IN THE HINDI LANGUAGE (Pierwsza popularna powiesc w jezyku hindi)

THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ROLE OF MUSLIM BROTHERHOODS AND RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES IN MODERN TURKEY (Rola spoleczno-polityczna bractw i wspólnot religijnych we wspólczesnej Turcji)

THE HISTORY OF RESEARCH ON THE OLD TURKIC INSCRIPTIONS (Historia badan zabytków pismiennictwa starotureckiego)

SERAYA SHAPSHAL'S LETTER WRITTEN IN THE OTTOMAN LANGUAGE (Z historii polskiej orientalistyki w polowie XX w. List Seraii Szapszala pisany po turecku do Tadeusza Kowalskiego)

ANNEXATION OF THE KARABAKH KHANATE TO THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE IN THE 18TH CENTURY (Przylaczenie Chanatu Karabachskiego do Cesarstwa Rosyjskiego)

THE FIRST POLISH TRANSLATION OF AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN TEXT (Pierwszy polski przeklad starozytnego tekstu egipskiego)

SCARAB FROM EL-AR (Skarabeusz z El-Ar)

GODDESS MAFDET IN EGYPTIAN PYRAMID TEXTS (Bogini Mafdet w egipskich tekstach piramid)

THE IDENTITY OF THE ASSYRIAN DIASPORA IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (Tozsamosc diaspory asyryjskiej w Stanach Zjednoczonych)

THE NOUN 'TENGRI' IN THE OLD TURKIC INSCRIPTIONS (Wyraz 'tengri' w tekstach orchonsko-jenisejskich)

IBN TAWQ'S 'TA'LIQ'. A JOURNAL OF A DAMASCENE FROM THE TURN OF THE 16TH CENTURY ('Talik' Ibn Tauka. Dziennik damascenczyka z przelomu XV i XVI w.)

IMPERIAL OTHODOX PALESTINE SOCIETY AND THE ORTHODOX ARABS (Imperatorskie Prawoslawne Towarzystwo Palestynskie i prawoslawni Arabowie)

MISTERIES OF THE HILL IN EL-AR. ARCHEOLOGICAL SALVAGE PROJECT IN THE AREA OF THE FOURTH CATARACT (SUDAN) (Tajemnice wzgórza El-Ar. Badania ratownicze w rejonie IV katarakty Nilu (Sudan))

COLLECTIVE IDENTITY OF LEBANESE MARONITES. BETWEEN THE WEST AND THE MIDLE-EAST ( Tozsamosc zbiorowa Maronitów libanskich. Miedzy Zachodem a Bliskim Wschodem)

THE ORIGIN OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE RYUKYU ARCHPELAGO. PALEOANTHROPOLOGICAL DATA (Pochodzenie mieszkanców Archipelagu Ryukyu. Dane paleoantropologiczne)

SAHEBDHANI - THE RISE AND DEVELOPMENT OF A HETERODOX SECT IN BENGAL (Sahebdhani - powstanie i rozwój heterodoksyjnej wspólnoty religijnej w Bengalu)

DID GOD DIE IN AUSCHWITZ? JEWISH THEOLOGICAL REACTION TO THE HOLOCAUST (Czy Bóg umarl w Auschwitz? Reakcje teologii zydowskiej na Holocaust)

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