Vol. 11 No. 3 September 2005
Manuscripta Orientalia. International Journal for Oriental Manuscript Research.
CONTENTS
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PRESENTING THE MANUSCRIPT - 3
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A. Fedeli. Mingana and the Manuscript of Mrs. Agnes Smith Lewis, One Century Later - 3
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TEXT AND ITS CULTURAL INTERPRETATION - 8
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A. Kudelin. Arabic Literature: Poetics and Stylistics. VI: Family-Matrimonial Relations in the 5th-7th Centuries Arabia and Their Reflection in the Early Arabic Poetry - 8
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V. Atnashev. Um Marup - a Folk Poem about the Beginning of Cham Islamisation - 13
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D. Samsonov. Korean Classical Story of the 17th- 19th Centuries as a Source for the Study of Korean Etiquette - 25
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PRESENTING THE COLLECTION - 28
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I. Williams. Nicholas of Russia Travels to the East. III: A gift en route - 28
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I. Alimov. Chinese Watercolours on Pith in the MAE RAS Collection: List of Subjects - 50
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E. Revunenkova. Batak Priests' Books in the MAE RAS Collection. II - 57
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BOOK REVIEWS - 71 |
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AUTHORS
Dr. Igor A. Alimov - Head of the Department of Far Eastern Asia of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian of Academy of Sciences, specialist in Chinese ethnography and literature, author of the series of works in the field.
Dr. Vadim R. Atnashev - Lecturer at the Institute of External Economic Relations, Economy and Law (St. Petersburg), specialist in ethnography, Islamic studies and international relations in the South East Asia, author of the series of works in the field.
Dr. Alba Fedeli - Director of the Fondazione Ferni Noja Noseda, Lesa (Italy), researcher in "earliest Qur'anic Manuscripts for the Amari Project", teacher of Arabic in the University of Milan (Universitа degli Studi di Milano), Italy.
Prof. Dr. Alexander B. Kudelin - Full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the World Literature Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), specialist in the history of the Arabic literature, author of the series of monographs in the field.
Dr. Elena D. Ogneva - Institute of the Oriental Studies, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (Kyiv), specialist in the history of the Tibetan literature, art and ethnography, author of the series of articles in the field.
Prof. Dr. Elena V. Revunenkova - Head of the Department of Australia, Oceania and Indonesia of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian of Academy of Sciences, specialist in ethnography and languages of Indonesia and Malaysia, as well as in shamanism, author of numerous publications in the field.
Mr. Denis A. Samsonov - M. A. in Korean Studies from the Faculty of Oriental Studies, St. Petersburg State University. Postgraduate student of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences. Fields of research: Russian travellers in late 19th-early 20th century, modern Korean history (Park Chung Hee's rule (1961-1979)), the Korean etiquette, history of Seoul.
Mr. Ifan Williams - After university was for eight years in the Overseas Civil Service in Northern Nigeria; then employed on various aspects of university administration in the UK. Late in life, set himself the task of finding public collections of Chinese watercolours on pith in Europe, hoping to throw some light on these neglected treasures. | 
