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Castalia Ediciones Artículo literario y narrativa breve del
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Castalia Publishing Company Antologa potica CLASICOS CASTALIA CC Spanish
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Antología poética del siglo de Oro
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La Esfera de los Libros, S.L. Libro del amigo y del amado
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Museum Tusculanum Press Classica et Mediaevalia 64: Danish Journal of
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Museum Tusculanum Press Opuscula XVII
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Nord Academic The Cuneiform Texts from the Danish Excavations
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NIAS Press Han Xin’s Challenge: A Tale of the Founding of
Book SynopsisThe death of China’s first emperor in 210 BCE initiated a brutal power struggle between Xiang Yu, Hegemon-King of Western Chu, and Liu Bang, later founder of the Han dynasty; the lowly Han Xin also strove for advancement. For over 2,000 years, the resulting story has been celebrated in China. Even today its main protagonists are household names. This is an epic tale of courage and cowardice, honour and treachery, acted out by lords, officials and soldiers, mothers, wives and concubines, and has inspired great works of literature, performance and the arts. Yet only recently has this narrative been translated into English – in Western Han: A Yangzhou Storyteller’s Script by the same authors (see p. 50). To a large extent, Han Xin’s Challenge is a shortened version of Western Han, largely comprising its English translation plus explanatory text. It is more than that, however. The story has been made more accessible to the general reader without compromising the accuracy of the translation. Its text is also illuminated with artwork that brings the narrative to life and shows how embedded the tale is in Chinese culture, even today. The result is a text ideal for the teaching of Chinese history, culture and literature. But also it is a sweeping drama, a page-turner, a story that anyone can enjoy.
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NIAS Press Jin Ping Mei – A Wild Horse in Chinese
Book SynopsisThe late 16th-century novel Jin Ping Mei has been described as a landmark in the development of the narrative art form, there being no earlier work of prose fiction of equal sophistication in world literature. However, it is also seen as something of a wild horse, its graphically explicit depiction of sexuality earning it great notoriety. Although Jin Ping Mei was banned soon after its appearance, today the novel is considered one of the six classics of Chinese literature. It is thus no surprise that Jin Ping Mei has caught the attention of scholars working in many different fields, places and periods. Unfortunately, the interdisciplinary and transnational exchange has been limited here, in part because of distance and language barriers. The present volume aims to bridge this gap, bringing together the best quality research on Jin Ping Mei by both established and emerging scholars. Not only will it showcase research on Jin Ping Mei but also it will function as a reader, helping future generations to understand and appreciate this important work.
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Brill Athens and Wittenberg: Poetry, Philosophy, and
Book SynopsisScholarship has tended to assume that Luther was uninterested in the Greek and Latin classics, given his promotion of the German vernacular and his polemic against the reliance upon Aristotle in theology. But as Athens and Wittenberg demonstrates, Luther was shaped by the classical education he had received and integrated it into his writings. He could quote Epicurean poetry to non-Epicurean ends; he could employ Aristotelian logic to prove the limits of philosophy’s role in theology. This volume explores how Luther and early Protestantism, especially Lutheranism, continued to draw from the classics in their quest to reform the church. In particular, it examines how early Protestantism made use of the philosophy and poetry from classical antiquity. Contributors to this volume: Joseph Herl, Jane Schatkin Hettrick, E.J. Hutchinson, Jack D. Kilcrease, E. Christian Kopf, John G. Nordling, Piergiacomo Petrioli, Eric G. Phillips, Richard J. Serina, Jr, R. Alden Smith, Carl P.E. Springer, Manfred Svensson, William P. Weaver, and Daniel Zager.Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations Abbreviations Classical Authors and Works Notes on Contributors Introduction: Martin Luther: From Classical Formation to Reformation James Kellerman, R. Alden Smith and Carl P.E. Springer Part 1: Luther and Classical Poets and Philosophers 1 Naso erat magister? Virgil and Other Classical Poets in Luther’s Tischreden R. Alden Smith 2 Nugatory Nonsense: Why Luther Rarely Cites Catullus John G. Nordling 3 “Pious Mirth”: Listening to Martin Luther’s Latin Poetry Carl P.E. Springer 4 Luther between Stoics and Epicureans Carl P.E. Springer 5 Philtered Philosophy: Aristotle and Cicero in Luther’s Tischreden R. Alden Smith 6 A Debatable Theology: Medieval Disputation, the Wittenberg Reformation, and Luther’s Heidelberg Theses Richard J. Serina, Jr. 7 A Painted Record of Martin Luther in Renaissance Bologna Piergiacomo Petrioli Part 2: The Reformation of Hymnody and Liturgy 8 What Virgil Taught Martin Luther About Poetry and Music E. Christian Kopff 9 Collaboration over Time: Luther’s Adaptation of Ambrose’s Veni Redemptor Gentium Eric Phillips 10 The Latin Liturgy and Juvenile Lutheran Instruction in Sixteenth-Century Germany Joseph Herl 11 “Exulting and Adorning in Exuberant Strains”: Luther and Latin Polyphonic Music Daniel Zager 12 Tradition and the Individual Talent: Some Verse-Paraphrases of Psalm 1 E.J. Hutchinson 13 Imitate the Lutherans: Catholic Solutions to Liturgical Problems in Late Eighteenth-Century Vienna Jane Schatkin Hettrick Part 3: Lutheran Readings of Philosophy and Poetry 14 Melanchthon, Luther, and Indexing the Classics William P. Weaver 15 An Intended Reformulation: Of Brad Gregory, Duns Scotus, and Early Modern Metaphysics Jack D. Kilcrease 16 Ad normam veritatis christianae: Correcting Aristotle in Protestant Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics Manfred Svensson 17 Influence and Inspiration: Archias and Staupitz as Didactic Models for Cicero and Luther John G. Nordling Bibliography Index
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Brill The Arabic Version of Aristotle's Historia
Book SynopsisAristotle’s Historia Animalium is one of the most famous and influential zoological works that was ever written. It was translated into Arabic in the 9th century CE together with Aristotle’s other zoological works, On the Generation of Animals and On the Parts of Animals. As a result, the influence of Aristotelian zoology is widely traceable in classical Arabic literary culture and thought. The Arabic translation found its way into Europe through the 13th-century Latin translation by Michael Scotus, which was extensively used by medieval European scholars. A critical edition of the Arabic Historia Animalium has long been awaited, and Lourus Filius’s edition, based on all extant Arabic MSS, as well as on Scotus’s Latin translation, can rightly be seen as a scholarly landmark.Trade Review"Gewissenhaft und akribisch durchgeführten, gründlich bearbeiteten und hervorragend aufbereiteten, zielführenden Edition." Herbert Eisenstein in Der Islam 98/2 (2021)Table of ContentsTable of contents 1.Preface 2. Table of Contents 3. Introduction 4. Stylistics 5. Manuscripts 6. Reception 7. Remarks to the text 8. Bibliography 9. List of Abbreviations 10. Index to the introduction 11. Selected glossary. 12. Sigla.
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Brill Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya and the Divine Attributes:
Book SynopsisIn Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya and the Divine Attributes Miriam Ovadia offers a thorough discussion on the hermeneutical methodology applied in the theology of the Ḥanbalite traditionalistic scholar Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (d. 1350), the most prominent disciple of the renowned Ibn Taymiyya (d. 1328). Focusing on Ibn al-Qayyim's voluminous – yet so far understudied – work on anthropomorphism, al-Ṣawāʿiq al-Mursala, Ovadia explores his modus operandi in his attack on four fundamental rationalistic convictions, while demonstrating Ibn al-Qayyim's systemization of the Taymiyyan theological doctrine and theoretical discourse. Contextualizing al-Ṣawāʿiq with relevant writings of thinkers who preceded Ibn al-Qayyim, Ovadia unfolds his employment of Kalāmic terminology and argumentations; thus, his rationalized-traditionalistic authoring of a theological manifesto directed against his contemporary Ashʿarite elite of Mamluk Damascus.Trade Review"Die Arbeit Ovadias zeichnet sich, soweit es ihre Textanalysen betrifft, durch große Genauigkeit aus. Die Themen der Attributenlehre werden in ihren geistesgeschichtlichen Kontext gestellt, was auch bedeutet, dass die Autorin sich mit Werken anderer sunnitischer Theologen auseinandersetzen musste." Angelika Brodersen, in Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 114/4–5 (2019)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Translation Introduction: Ibn al-Qayyim’s al-Ṣawāʿiq: A Hostile Response to Rationalism Islamic Traditionalistic Theology Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya as (an) a (In)dependent Scholar Methodological Lines of the Textual Inquiry 1 The Scholarly Setting of Mamluk Damascus: al-Ṣawāʿiq’s Birthplace 1.1 A Stormy Approach: Ibn Taymiyya on the Issue of Divine Attributes 1.2 Ibn Taymiyya’s View on taʾwīl in Bayān talbīs al-jahmiyya 2 A Stroke of Lightning: al-Ṣawāʿiq in Ibn al-Qayyim’s Theological Writing 2.1 Scope of al-Ṣawāʿiq: The Text and Related Writings 2.2 Al-Ṣawāʿiq within Mamluk Intellectual Literature 2.3 Appropriating the Taymiyyan Discourse in al-Ṣawāʿiq: Ibn al-Qayyim’s Systemization 2.4 Al-Ṣawāʿiq as a Kalām Manual: Ibn al-Qayyim’s Rationalization 2.5 Against taʾwīl: al-Ṣawāʿiq’s Main Argument 3 First ṭāghūt Refutation: The Islamic Scriptures Produce Certain Knowledge 3.1 Ibn al-Qayyim’s Rationalized-Traditionalistic Arguments on Epistemology in al-Ṣawāʿiq I 3.2 Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī on Certain Knowledge: Skepticism 3.3 Ibn Taymiyya’s Initial Critique against al-Rāzī 3.4 Ibn al-Qayyim’s Development: Restoring Optimism 4 Second ṭāghūt Refutation: Revelation is the Provenance of Knowledge 4.1 Ibn al-Qayyim’s Rationalized-Traditionalistic Arguments on Epistemology in al-Ṣawāʿiq II 4.2 Ibn Taymiyya’s Initial Critique against al-Ghazālī (from the View of Ibn al-Qayyim) 4.3 Ibn al-Qayyim on the Epistemological Value of Revelation 5 Third ṭāghūt Refutation: Undermining the Theoretical Basis of majāz 5.1 Prefatory Remarks: The ḥaqīqa/majāz Dichotomy and the Origin of Language 5.2 Ibn Taymiyya’s Critique against majāz 5.3 Ibn al-Qayyim’s Rationalized Hermeneutics 5.4 Attacking the Muʿtazilite Heritage 5.5 Ibn al-Qayyim’s Rational-Traditionalistic Inspiration 5.6 Ibn al-Qayyim’s Recruitment of Ibn Rushd against Taʾwīl 6 Fourth ṭāghūt Refutation: Hadith Literature Produces Certainty 6.1 Ibn Taymiyya on the Validity of ḥadīth al-āḥād 6.2 Ibn al-Qayyim’s Ten Arguments on the Value of ḥadīth al-āḥād 6.3 Structural Aspects of Ibn al-Qayyim’s Rationalization: al-Ṣawāʿiq’s Literary Symmetry Conclusions Bibliography Index of Names General Index
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Brill Ranks of the Divine Seekers: A Parallel
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2021 Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding (category: translation from Arabic into English) This is an unabridged, annotated, translation of the great Damascene savant and saint Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya’s (d. 751/1350) Madārij al-Sālikīn. Conceived as a critical commentary on an earlier Sufi classic by the great Hanbalite scholar Abū Ismāʿīl of Herat, Madārij aims to rejuvenate Sufism’s Qurʾanic foundations. The original work was a key text for the Sufi initiates, composed in terse, rhyming prose as a master’s instruction to the aspiring seeker on the path to God, in a journey of a hundred stations whose ultimate purpose was to be lost to one’s self (fanāʾ) and subsist (baqāʾ) in God. The translator, Ovamir (ʿUwaymir) Anjum, provides an extensive introduction and annotation to this English-Arabic face-to-face presentation of this masterpiece of Islamic psychology.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2021 Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding (category: translation from Arabic into English)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Translation Notes Translator’s Introduction 1 Madārij and Its Author 2 The Formation of Sufism 3 Sufism and Antinomianism 4 Sufism and Mysticism 5 Defining Sufism 6 Al-Harawī and Manāzil 7 Madārij’s Reverential Critique of Manāzil 8 The Problem of Ontology: Annihilation (fanāʾ) 9 Causality and Ethics 10 The Problem of Epistemology 11 An Egalitarian and Accessible Path 12 Conclusion Selected Bibliography Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, Madārij al-Sālikīn: Text and Translation Prolegomenon 1 Merits of the First Chapter of the Qurʾan, The Opening 2 The Opening Affirms All the Three Types of Divine Unicity 3 The Five Pivotal Names of God Affirm His Attributes 4 Ten Levels of Divine Guidance 5 The Opening Heals Hearts as well as Bodies 6 Refutation of Heresies 7 Exegesis of “You we worship and You we supplicate for help” 1 The Stations of the Journey 1 The Station of Awakening 2 The Station of Insight 3 The Station of Purpose 4 The Station of Resolve 5 Interlude: On the Ordering of the Stations 2 The Station of Reflection 1 Interlude: The Station of Annihilation 2 Three Types of Annihilation 3 The Causes of Experiential Annihilation 4 The Essence of Experiential Annihilation 5 The Dangers on the Path of Annihilation: Antinomianism 6 Volitional Annihilation: The True Goal of the Righteous 3 The Station of Self-Reckoning 1 The First Pillar 2 The Second Pillar 3 The Third Pillar 4 The Station of Repentance 1 Repentance and The Opening 2 The Conditions and Realities of Repentance 3 Legitimate and Illegitimate Excuses for Sins 4 The Inner Realities of Repentance 5 The Finer Points of the Inner Realities of Repentance 8 Interlude: Affirmation of the Ethical Value of Acts and Causality 9 Levels of Repentance: The Commoners 10 Some Rulings Concerning Repentance 11 The Full Meaning of Repentance 12 Sins: The Object of Repentance 13 Twelve Kinds of Sins in the Qurʾan 14 Perspectives on the Nature of Sin and Repentance Index
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Brill Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Albasitensis:
Book SynopsisEvery third year, the members of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS) assemble for a week-long conference. Over the years, this event has evolved into the largest single conference in the field of Neo-Latin studies. The papers presented at these conferences offer, then, a general overview of the current status of Neo-Latin research; its current trends, popular topics, and methodologies. In 2018, the members of IANLS gathered for a conference in Albacete (Spain) on the theme of “Humanity and Nature: Arts and Sciences in Neo-Latin Literature”. This volume presents the conference’s papers which were submitted after the event and which have undergone a peer-review process. The papers deal with a broad range of fields, including literature, history, philology, and religious studies.Table of ContentsXVIIth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies Programme Presidential Address Ingrid A. R. De Smet List of Illustrations Plenary Papers 1 Le De Alea (1561) de Pascasius, ou l’invention des addictions et de la thérapie analytique Jean-François Cottier 2 Petrarca e la natura Carla Maria Monti 3 “Conquering Greece”: On the Correct Way to Translate in Fifteenth-Century Humanist Translation Theory Marianne Pade 4 Autor/Erzähler und Fiktion im neulateinischen Roman: Ein Beitrag zu einer historischen Narratologie Stefan Tilg 5 Apuntes sobre la transmisión textual de la versión latina de la Política de Leonardo Bruni Juan J. Valverde Abril Communications 6 La Compendiosa Historia Hispanica (1470) como fuente en el primer Renacimiento castellano Guillermo Alvar Nuño 7 L’humaniste suisse Heinrich Glaréan (1488–1563), vir bonus dicendi et docendi peritus David Amherdt 8 La relevancia de los paratextos de las primeras ediciones de Marciano Capela para la crítica textual Manuel Ayuso 9 Fonctions et effets des titres-résumés dans les miscellanées philologiques de la Renaissance Valéry Berlincourt 10 From puer to iuuenis: Peder Hegelund’s Self-Reflecting Portrayal of Danish Christian III in the Epicedion de Inclyto et Serenissimo Rege Christiano III Anders Kirk Borggaard 11 Shaping a Poem: Some Remarks on Paul of Krosno and His Horatianism Elwira Buszewicz 12 Le scritture esposte e il latino in Italia fra XIV e XV secolo Nadia Cannata 13 Commenter Quinte-Curce au xvie siècle : Premières observations Lucie Claire 14 Bernardo Michelozzi e Francesco Pucci, amici di penna Claudia Corfiati 15 The Bird-Catcher’s Wiles: Pietro Angeli da Barga’s De Aucupio Ingrid A. R. De Smet 16 La tradición latina renacentista del De simplicium medicamentorum facultatibus de Galeno Marina Díaz Marcos 17 Aspects of Nature and People in Early Travel Literature (Fifteenth to Sixteenth Centuries) Roumpini Dimopoulou 18 Bonaventura Vulcanius in Spain: Some Poems Ignacio J. García Pinilla 19 La versión latina del tratado aristotélico De sensu (Parva naturalia) de Sepúlveda Paraskevi Gatsioufa 20 The Practicing Poet: Petrarch, Dedalus, and the Dynamics of Poetic Creativity in the Bucolicum carmen Donald Gilman 21 The Epigrammata Antiquae Urbis (1521) and the Muses: a Little-Known Chapter in Sixteenth-Century Latin Poetry Gerard González Germain 22 La figure du tyran dans les Adages d’Érasme Lika Gordeziani 23 From Caesar to the Rantzaus: Allegory, Fiction and Reality in Heinrich Rantzau’s De obitu nobilissimae matronae Annae Rantzoviae Domini Ioannis Rantzovij coniugis Ecloga Trine Arlund Hass 24 Epigramme et épopée : quelques exemples tirés de l’épigramme lyonnaise des années 1530–40 Sylvie Laigneau-Fontaine 25 Ovidio neo-latino tra Cinque e Seicento: un percorso italo-europeo Marco Leone 26 Nunc erit beatior … L’homme et la nature dans la troisième épode de Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski Maria Łukaszewicz-Chantry 27 L’art de conférer chez Érasme Eric MacPhail 28 Mankind’s Public and Private Roles in Collectanea Moralis Philosophiae (1571) Ana I. 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Martins 29 Prefazioni e dediche nelle edizioni degli storici greci tra politica e divulgazione Maria Stefania Montecalvo 30 Dutch Late Humanism and Its Aftermath: the Reception of Hugo Grotius’ Biblical Scholarship Henk Nellen 31 The Merging of Linguistic Idioms in the Commentary Genre: the Case of Alejo Vanegas of Toledo (1542) Daniel Nodes 32 La quaestio An terra moveatur an quiescat di Giovanni Regiomontano Pietro Daniel Omodeo e Alberto Bardi 33 Los cuatro epigramas latinos de Alonso García en alabanza del Libro de la melancholia (Sevilla, 1585) de su discípulo Andrés Velásquez Joaquín Pascual-Barea 34 Amato Lusitano: El relato patográfico del morbo gálico María Jesús Pérez Ibáñez 35 Nuevos retos para el estudio de la poesía jesuítica latina del siglo XVIII Carlos Ángel Rizos Jiménez 36 Fonti scientifiche in contesti scolastici: La metafora medica nei commenti a Persio del Secondo Quattrocento Federica Rossetti 37 Continuidad y variación en el tratamiento de la rabia: de Gratio (s. I) a Aurifaber (s. XVI) María de Lourdes Santiago Martínez 38 Magnetism’s Transformation from Natural Phenomenon to Literary Metaphor Raija Sarasti-Wilenius 39 Natural and Artificial Objects in Conrad Gessner’s Book on “Fossils” Petra Schierl 40 Educazione e politica nelle lettere di Costanza da Varano Margherita Sciancalepore 41 Städtelob und Zeitkritik: Die Frankfurt-Episode im Iter Argentoratense (1544) des Humanisten Georg Fabricius Robert Seidel 42 Seven Types of Intertextuality, and the Emic/Etic Distinction Minna Skafte Jensen 43 A Dowry Recovered after Three Decades: Diego Gracián’s Spanish Editions of Ioannes Dantiscus’ Hymns Revisited Anna Skolimowska 44 Neo-Latin and Russian in Mikhail V. Lomonosov’s Panegyric for Elizaveta Petrovna (1749) Anna Smirnova 45 De interpretibus Iacobi Vanierii e Societate Jesu sacerdotis inter poetas Hungaros László Szörényi 46 The Weaver of Light: Divine Origin of Nature and Natural Science in Carlo Noceti’s Iris Irina Tautschnig 47 Notas sobre la correspondencia manuscrita de Christoph Sand Pablo Toribio 48 Cum Apolline Christus: Personal Mottos of Humanists from the Czech Lands Marta Vaculínová 49 Lettere alla corte aragonese: L’epistolario di Antonio Galateo, i re di Napoli e l’Accademia Sebastiano Valerio 50 The Latin and the Swedish Versions of J. Widekindi’s Historia Belli Sveco-Moscovitici Decennalis: the Nature of the Differences Arsenii Vetushko-Kalevich 51 Il bestiario “non inutile e giocondo” dell’umanista Pier Candido Decembrio Éva Vígh 52 Der Humanist in der Krise: Zur Rolle der Poesie im Leben des Rigaer Humanisten David Hilchen Kristi Viiding 53 Nepenthes – Trank der Helena: Die umstrittene Identität eines ‚homerischen‘ pharmakon in gelehrten Debatten des 17. Jahrhunderts Benjamin Wallura 54 Martinus Szent-Ivany’s Notion of scientia: Some Preliminary Notes on the Semantics of Neo-Latin Science Svorad Zavarský Index
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Brill Ranks of the Divine Seekers: A Parallel English-Arabic Text. Volume 1
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2021 Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding (category: translation from Arabic into English) This is an unabridged, annotated, translation of the great Damascene savant and saint Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya’s (d. 751/1350) Madārij al-Sālikīn. Conceived as a critical commentary on an earlier Sufi classic by the great Hanbalite scholar Abū Ismāʿīl of Herat, Madārij aims to rejuvenate Sufism’s Qurʾanic foundations. The original work was a key text for the Sufi initiates, composed in terse, rhyming prose as a master’s instruction to the aspiring seeker on the path to God, in a journey of a hundred stations whose ultimate purpose was to be lost to one’s self (fanāʾ) and subsist (baqāʾ) in God. The translator, Ovamir (ʿUwaymir) Anjum, provides an extensive introduction and annotation to this English-Arabic face-to-face presentation of this masterpiece of Islamic psychology.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2021 Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding (category: translation from Arabic into English)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Translation Notes Translator’s Introduction 1 Madārij and Its Author 2 The Formation of Sufism 3 Sufism and Antinomianism 4 Sufism and Mysticism 5 Defining Sufism 6 Al-Harawī and Manāzil 7 Madārij’s Reverential Critique of Manāzil 8 The Problem of Ontology: Annihilation (fanāʾ) 9 Causality and Ethics 10 The Problem of Epistemology 11 An Egalitarian and Accessible Path 12 Conclusion Selected Bibliography Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, Madārij al-Sālikīn: Text and Translation Prolegomenon 1 Merits of the First Chapter of the Qurʾan, The Opening 2 The Opening Affirms All the Three Types of Divine Unicity 3 The Five Pivotal Names of God Affirm His Attributes 4 Ten Levels of Divine Guidance 5 The Opening Heals Hearts as well as Bodies 6 Refutation of Heresies 7 Exegesis of “You we worship and You we supplicate for help” 1 The Stations of the Journey 1 The Station of Awakening 2 The Station of Insight 3 The Station of Purpose 4 The Station of Resolve 5 Interlude: On the Ordering of the Stations 2 The Station of Reflection 1 Interlude: The Station of Annihilation 2 Three Types of Annihilation 3 The Causes of Experiential Annihilation 4 The Essence of Experiential Annihilation 5 The Dangers on the Path of Annihilation: Antinomianism 6 Volitional Annihilation: The True Goal of the Righteous 3 The Station of Self-Reckoning 1 The First Pillar 2 The Second Pillar 3 The Third Pillar 4 The Station of Repentance 1 Repentance and The Opening 2 The Conditions and Realities of Repentance 3 Legitimate and Illegitimate Excuses for Sins 4 The Inner Realities of Repentance 5 The Finer Points of the Inner Realities of Repentance 8 Interlude: Affirmation of the Ethical Value of Acts and Causality 9 Levels of Repentance: The Commoners 10 Some Rulings Concerning Repentance 11 The Full Meaning of Repentance 12 Sins: The Object of Repentance 13 Twelve Kinds of Sins in the Qurʾan 14 Perspectives on the Nature of Sin and Repentance Index
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Brill Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in
Book SynopsisThis volume, the 37th year of published proceedings, contains five papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during 2022. Topics: Plato: Phaedo, where Socrates undermines his explicit arguments for immortality with quotes from his predecessors; Statesman, with Socrates’ impending death an occasion to reconsider the roles of dialectic, expertise, myth, image and law; Aristotle: De Caelo, examining inclination, natural places, and the elements, with a strong dissent in the comment; Metaphysics N that differentiate mathematical features from natural explanation, with the comment raising challenging anomalies. Finally, Plotinus on union with the One and human happiness, as frequent and common. The comments challenge or sustain the theses in the main papers.Trade Review"The Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy is known for scholarship of the highest caliber." F. A. Grabowski, (Rogers State University) in CHOICE, vol. 53, no. 5 (2016)
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Peeters Publishers Ars: Etude Semantique De Plaute a Ciceron
Book SynopsisCet ouvrage etudie le semantisme du mot ars dans la litterature latine, depuis les origines jusqu'a l'epoque ciceronienne incluse, dans une perspective a la fois lexicographique et historique. Apres une enquete etymologique, qui met en valeur les notions d'ordre et de capacite a agencer une multiplicite, les divers sens d'ars sont classes et hierarchises selon les methodes de l'analyse componentielle. L'evolution de cette structure semantique est envisagee en deux temps: a l'epoque preclassique, puis au premier siecle av. J.-C., domine par la personnalite et l'oeuvre de Ciceron: apparaissent alors de nouveaux developpements ( "science particuliere", "technique, methode", "theorie, systeme" et "traite" ), essentiellement calques du grec techne qu'ars sert a traduire, notamment dans les oeuvres de rhetorique et de philosophie. Ces signifies nouveaux n'eclipsent pas pour autant les sens anciens ( "habilete" et "facons d'agir" d'une part, "habilete technique, savoir-faire" et "metier" d'autre part): le pluriel artes bonae, qui peut etre synonyme d'artes liberales ( "disciplines qui forment l'homme libre" ), est employe concurremment pour designer les "vertus" romaines traditionelles, par opposition aux uirtutes grecques. Enfin ars, comme d'ailleurs techne, ne se limite pas a la notion de "connaissance pratique", mais permet d'exprimer les aspects les plus divers du savoir humain.
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Peeters Publishers Mythologie et Religion des Semites Occidentaux:
Book SynopsisL'ouvrage pretend mettre en relief l'unite et continuite fondamentales des conceptions mythologiques et religieuses des Semites occidentaux anciens au sein du monde semitique en general. A cet effet differents specialistes analysent leurs traditions, depuis Ebla jusqu'au monde phenicien, en passant par Mari, Emar, Ougarit, Canaan-Israel, Aram et l'Arabie du Sud, sur la base des temoignages epigraphiques que ces peuples nous ont laisse. Ce parcours permet de constater la specificite et l'evolution de ces conceptions, aussi bien que leur influence sur la mythologie et la religion des Semites orientaux d'un cote, et la persistance de certaines de ces idees et symboles dans la tradition religieuse du monde semitique judeo-islamique, de l'autre. Toutes ces syntheses se basent en grande mesure sur des temoignages textuels decouverts les derniers soixante-dix ans, qui sont encore en train d'elaboration, et dans certains cas (Mari) meme inedits. On offre ainsi un apercu d'ensemble qui permet envisager la particularite du symbolisme religieux des Semites occidentaux par rapport a celui des orientaux, et les echanges mutuels entre ces deux mondes.
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Peeters Publishers Viking Attacks on Paris: the Bella Parisiacae
Book SynopsisIn 885 AD, the Vikings laid siege to Paris, to which a young monk named Abbo, of the abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Pres, stood as witness. Later, he came to make a record of what he saw, heard and believed in a verse chronicle, the "Bella parisiacae urbis". His often stirring account speaks of the relentless and ingenious attacks of the Norsemen, the selfless heroism of the defending Frankish warriors, and the misery and terror of the besieged Parisians. But his canvas is far larger than this single occurrence, for he hints at greater things yet to come, such as the final disintegration of Carolingian rule, the eventual establishment of the Capetian line of monarchs, and the creation of a French Danelaw, namely, Normandy. Ultimately, however, Abbo is not concerned with an impartial narration of events, but rather with salvation through history - of the individual and of the nation of the Franks. The macaronic style of his chronicle very much appealed to the sensibilities of the time, thus ensuring that Abbo's work would endure.
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Peeters Publishers The Lash of Ambition: Plutarch, Imperial Greek
Book SynopsisIn this volume, various aspects of Plutarch's view of 'philotimia' are analysed in detail and compared with the position of several authors of the 'Second Sophistic'. This confrontation challenges the often implicit and unquestioned consensus that Plutarch occupies as a singular figure 'his own space' apart from the 'Second Sophistic'. The broad approach and focus of this volume includes problems of textual criticism, comparative analysis, careful semantic studies of the occurrences of the term 'philotimia' in the different authors, moral-philosophical reflection on ambition, a study of philosophy as a field of honour, and the dynamics of the author's own 'philotimia' placed in the contemporary cultural context. The novel assessments of the different authors that are presented in this collection contribute to a proper understanding of their own (rhetorical/philosophical) culture and of their cultural environment. As a result, the monograph will be of interest to those studying Plutarch and the history of philosophy, rhetoric and the 'Second Sophistic'.
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Peeters Publishers Anaphore, cataphore et deixis chez Plaute: Les
Book SynopsisCet ouvrage constitue la première étude systématique de l’anaphore, de la cataphore et de la deixis chez Plaute. L’étude porte spécifiquement sur les mécanismes anaphoriques, cataphoriques et déictiques mis en ÷uvre par les pronoms-adjectifs is, hic, iste, ille et par les adverbes faits sur le même thème. Le choix de l’÷uvre intégrale de Plaute a été dicté par l’archaïsme de sa langue et par le registre de langue familière qui ajoute des connotations spécifiques aux emplois des pronoms-adjectifs et des adverbes déictiques. Une analyse approfondie de l’ensemble de leurs emplois a permis un affinement de leur sens et, par là même, un affinement de leur traduction, qui, si elle est mécanique, laisse échapper d’importants effets de sens. L’analyse proposée s’appuie en premier lieu sur les faits de grammaire mais aussi sur l’interprétation scénique du texte; cette interprétation permet de dégager des nuances importantes dont il faut rendre compte dans une approche discursive. L’étude des emplois anaphoriques des pronoms-adjectifs montre que is est un authentique anaphorique, doté d’une valeur neutre. Ce pronom sert aussi à assurer la continuité narrative dans le passé. En revanche, hic est employé pour relier le présent au passé dans le déroulement du récit. Hic partage avec ille une fonction «résomptive»: celle de resumed topic. Ille sert aussi à marquer la focalisation contrastive. Les emplois cataphoriques de is, hic, iste, ille introduisent des phrases, des propositions relatives avec lesquelles ils sont en corrélation, des complétives ou encore des propositions exprimant soit la temporalité soit la restriction. Le rôle de ces pronoms-adjectifs est alors d’attirer l’attention de l’interlocuteur sur ce que le locuteur va énoncer. Les emplois déictiques de hic, iste, ille, qui sont des symboles indexicaux incomplets, confirment leur assignation traditionnelle aux "personnes grammaticales" et leur valeur en rapport direct avec les rôles discursifs.
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Peeters Publishers La Geste d'Alexandre le Grand: Version latine de
Book SynopsisLe Roman d'Alexandre raconte les hauts faits d'Alexandre le Grand, puisant pour ce faire tant aux ouvrages historiographiques qu'à la tradition populaire. Ce texte est connu au travers de nombreuses versions différentes, élaborées au fil du temps dans les langues les plus diverses. Elles ont peu à peu contribué à façonner l'image légendaire du souverain macédonien. Ce livre a pour objectif d'offrir un accès aisé à la première version latine connue de ce monument littéraire, traduction d'un original grec perdu, mise au compte d'un certain Julius Valerius par les manuscrits qui la transmettent. Une traduction en français, précédée d'une introduction générale à l'÷uvre et à son auteur, permet de redécouvrir ce roman trop négligé; un appareil de notes, centré sur la langue et le style de l'auteur, met en évidence ses spécificités lexicales et syntaxiques.
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Peeters Publishers The Greek Figure Poems
Book SynopsisThe earliest European specimens of visual poetry are found in the literature of the ancient Greeks: these are six famous technopaegnia, which were composed between the end of the fourth century BC and the first half of the second century AD by poets such as Simias of Rhodes, a scholar-poet and precursor of Callimachus, or Iulius Vestinus, an important official at Hadrian's court. The present book provides an edition of the six Greek figure poems, which is accompanied by an extensive commentary and the introduction to various aspects of this mini-genre. This is the first such comprehensive treatment of the six technopaegnia in 125 years.
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Peeters Publishers Properce, Élégies, livre IV: Texte établi,
Book SynopsisCe commentaire du Livre IV, qui fait le point sur l'état actuel de la recherche dans les études propertiennes, offre un texte original et un apparat critique, accompagnés d'une traduction en prose. Le texte retenu, qui se fonde sur les travaux de Marc Dominicy, attribue au manuscrit T une place importante, mais secondaire par rapport à N, à la différence des éditions récentes qui favorisent l'hypothèse d'un stemma à trois branches. La première partie fournit, pour chaque élégie, une synthèse qui la replace dans son contexte et fait le point sur ses enjeux littéraires, historiques et sociologiques. Les commentaires ad uerbum, qui proposent une analyse fouillée de chacune des élégies, s'inscrivent dans cette perspective. Properce ne se borne pas, en effet, à refaçonner la fiction élégiaque de la puella et ses modèles, comme dans les trois premiers Livres. Il accorde une place majeure aux realia, à commencer par les monumenta de Rome, en articulant le réel contemporain et l'imaginaire à travers le prisme du mythe et de l'idéologie. Le poète élégiaque se démarque de la nouvelle conception du pouvoir politique, adossée à la tradition romaine, et qui s'incarne dans le mythe de la fondation chanté par Virgile et Horace. This commentary on Book IV, while describing the current state of the art in Propertian studies, provides an original text as well as a critical apparatus, together with a translation in prose. Unlike recent editions that favoured the hypothesis of a third branch, the text edited here, based on Marc Dominicy's works, attributes to Manuscript T an important yet secondary role, as opposed to N. In the first part, a critical synthesis places each elegy into context and reviews the literary, historical and sociological issues it may raise. This general perspective paves the way for the detailed ad uerbum analyses that follow. Indeed, Propertius does not only reshape the elegiac fiction of the puella and its models, as happened in the first three Books. He also focuses on realia, such as Rome's monumenta in the opening poem. His writing strategy consists in using the prism of myth and ideology in order to bridge the gap between contemporary reality and imagination. The elegiac poet takes a critical view on the emergence and development of a new conception of political power based on the revival of Roman tradition and the foundation myth sung by Virgil and Horace.
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Peeters Publishers Les manuscrits syriaques de parchemin du Sinaï et
Book SynopsisL’ouvrage est consacré à une petite partie du riche patrimoine livresque de la bibliothèque du monastère de Sainte-Catherine au Sinaï : les manuscrits syriaques écrits sur parchemin. Bénéficiant de l’apport des « Nouvelles découvertes » de 1975 et de l’identification d’un grand nombre de membra disjecta présents dans les bibliothèques étrangères, l’auteur s’emploie à reconstituer l’état de ces manuscrits, tel qu’il devait être au début du 19e siècle, avant que ne s’opère un important processus de fragmentation et de dispersion. De contenu presque exclusivement religieux (biblique, patristique et liturgique), ces manuscrits sont des témoins précieux des usages du livre dans les communautés chrétiennes de langue syriaque ; leur copie s’étend sur une période de huit siècles (de l’extrême fin du 5e s. à la fin du 13e s.). Le travail de reconstitution ici entrepris donne une vue d’ensemble de la part ancienne du fonds syriaque de Sainte-Catherine, bien plus précise que l’inventaire sommaire d’Agnes Smith Lewis paru en 1894, et marque une étape importante vers la réalisation d’un catalogue moderne. Il met en relation des fragments maintenant conservés à des milliers de kilomètres de distance. Il offre aux spécialistes (éditeurs de textes, biblistes, liturgistes, historiens, codicologues) une base renouvelée et plus sure pour de futures recherches.
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Bouma's Boekhuis B.V. Apuleius Madaurensis, Metamorphoses, Book IV,
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Stockholm University Press Ars Edendi Lecture Series, vol. V
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Motilal Banarsidass Publications Asvaghosas Buddhacarita
Book SynopsisThe Buddhacarita is the most famous work of Asvaghosa, the well-known Buddhist poet-philosopher supposed to have been a contemporary of King Kaniska of the early 2nd century A.D., of the twenty-eight cantos of the epic poem a little less than half is now available in the original, but complete translations in Chinese and Tibetan have been preserved. This edition consists of three parts. The first part contains the Sanskrit text and the second the translation of the first fourteen cantos, filling up the lacunae in the Sanskrit from the Tibetan, together with an introduction dealing with various aspects of the poet''s works, with notes which discuss the many difficulties of text and translation and an Index. The third part contains translation of Cantos XV-XXVIII based on the available Tibetan and Chinese versions so as to arrive as near the meaning of Asvaghosa''s original text.
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Alpha Edition Northern Travel: Summer and Winter Pictures of
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Prakash Books The Best of Homer
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors The Sanskrit Epics
Book SynopsisIn this long overdue survey work the author synthesizes the results of previous scholarship in the field. Herewith a coherent view is built up of the nature and the significance of these two central epics, both in themselves, and in relation to Indian culture as a whole.
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Double 9 Books The Forest FarmTales of the Austrian Tyrol
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Lector House Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin: Edited By
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Kardamitsa Publications Logos Into Mythos: The Case of Gorgias' Encomium
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American School of Classical Studies at Athens Homer at the Gennadius Library
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Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Greek and Latin Authors on Jews and Judaism,
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MCCM Creations Legends from the Swiss Alps
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