The Middle East Viewed from the North

Papers from the First Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern Studies, Uppsala 26-29. January 1989

Edited by Bo Utas and Knut S. Vikør

Contents

• Introduction (v)

Articles

• Saphinaz-Amal Naguib : Mother of the God, Daughter of the God, Spouse of the God. The celibacy of priestesses in Egypt from 900 B.C.E. to early Christianity (1)
• Anders Hultgård : Zoroastrian myth in Bahman Yasht (15)
• Jaakko Hämeen-Antilla : Interchange of labials in Classical and Pre-Classical Arabic (27)
• Gudmar Aneer : Kingship ideology and Muslim identity in the 11th century as reflected in the Siyasatnama by Nizam al-Mulk and in the Kutadgu Bilig by Yusuf Khass Hajib (38)
• Fridrik Thordarson : Religion and nationalism in Northern Caucasus (49)
• Heikki Palva : Typological problems in the classification of Jordanian dialects: bedouin or sedentary? (53)
• Marina Stagh : A critical review of a contemporary work on the literary history of Egypt (63)
• Elisabeth Özdalga : East and West as symbols of good and evil. Turkish Muslim intellectuals facing modernity (73)
• Tuomo Melasuo : The problems and contradictions of land conflicts in Algeria (85)
• Annika Rabo : Educating "development": schools and mass media in Jordan and Syria (92)
• Inge Demant Mortensen : On the development and role of the Ta`ziya play in popular Islam. (102)
• Jan Henningsson : Egyptian responses to Khomeini (112)
• Marc Schade-Poulsen : Major trends in the scientific explanations of the Islamic revival (123)

Summaries of current research

Language Studies (135)

• Anna-Karin Guindy : Can you find my camels? Problems and games as serious means of teaching Arabic
• Stig T. Rasmussen : Rearrangement of Semitic dictionaries on semantic principles: connotational lexicography
• Bo Utas : On the origin of New Persian
• Judith Josephson : Ergative constructions in Iranian languages
• Carina Jahani : The development of a standard literary Balochi language
• Finn Thiesen : Participles and verbal nouns formed from the derived forms of the Arabic strong triliteral verb and their treatment in Urdu
• Bernt Brendemoen : TINWE - "Turkish in North Western Europe"
• Birigt Nilsson Schlyter : Turkish linguistics

Philological and Historical studies (146)

• Elzbieta Swiecicka : Dragomans - interpreters in the Ottoman empire
• Håkon Stang : Power of literary tradition - from oi 'rousioi to Russia via an Arabic (no longer) missing link
• Stig T. Rasmussen : Provenances of the Near and Middle Eastern manuscripts in the Royal Library, Copenhagen
• Einar Thomassen : The correspondance of Ahmad b. Idris
• Anders Åkesson : The origin of armed Muslim forces in a religious historical perspective

Archaeology and Art History (153)

• Rostislav Holthoer : The ancient monuments of Egypt ­ a waggling equilibrium
• Lars Birkner : The architecture and the decoration of mosques
• Karin Ådahl : Islamic art history at Swedish universities

Studies in the social sciences (160)

• Sune Persson : Palestinian elites in Jordan
• Lars Wåhlin : Recent socio-geographical transformation in Rural Jordan
• Alain Lefebvre : Socio-cultural identity and economic development in Pakistani villages
• Sigrid Kahle : An interview with Dr. Hassan al-Turabi, Head of Al-jabha al-qaumiyya al-islamiyya, Khartoum, Sudan, in September, 1986
• Omar Sheikhmous : The Kurds in exile
• Borhanedin Yassin : The Kurdish question 1941-1947
• Martin Hvidt : The Turkish success story - prospects for the future?
• Hossein Dadfar : Industrial buying behavior in the Middle East: a cross-cultural study

Research Aids (177)

• Knut S. Vikør : Practical Arabic on the computer

The Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies (180)
Rules for the Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies (182)

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