Archív Orientální

Volume 77, Issue 1 (2009)

2009.

Publishing status: Available | Language: Czech

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

Table of Contents

Articles
Rethinking the Islamic Hijra: A Religious Paradigm or an Ideological Instrument of Political Action Miloš Mendel	1–26
Nation and Translation: The Character as Translator in Leila Aboulela’s the Translator and Ahdaf Soueif’s the Map of Love Faten I. Morsy	27–42
Foi, doute et aliénation dans le roman Dard lā davā (1975) de Krishna Baldev Vaid Anne Castaing	43–58
Odoric of Pordenone, a Franciscan Missionary to Mongolian China Vladimír Liščák	59–77
Book Reviews and Notes
Markham J. Geller, Evil Demons. Canonical Utukkū Lemnūtu Incantations. Introduction, Cuneiform Text, and Transliteration with a Translation and Glossary. Reviewed by Jiří Prosecký	79–81
Tomáš Machalík and Jan Záhořík (eds.), Viva Africa 2007: Proceedings of the IInd International Conference on African Studies. Reviewed by Otakar Hulec	82–84
G. Altmann; Fan Fengxiang (eds.), Analyses of Script. Properties of Characters and Writing Systems. Reviewed by Luděk Hřebíček	84–85
Our Contributors	87

Subjects

Linguistics

Afro-Asiatic languages

Other African languages