FOLIA ORIENTALIA
VOL. XXXV  1999

CONTENTS

Articles

Adam BIENIEK, Claudius Ptolemaeus in the Eyes of the Arabs in the Example of al-Qazwini  5
Renata CZEKALSKA, Nirala (On the 100th.Anniversary of the Poet's Birth)   23
Tomasz GACEK, Diacritics in the Analysis of the Middle Persian Book Script  35
Jan-Peter HARTUNG, A Contribution of Islamic `Revivalists' to Modernity: The Gama’at-i islami as a Practical Approach for the Realization of an Islamic Concept of History 41
Anna KRASNOWOLSKA, Sab-e Celle 55
Agnieszka KUCZKIEWICZ - FRAS, About the Suffix -ci in Hindi 75
Edmondo LUPIERI, Sex and Blood: Some New Approaches to the Apocalypse of John           85
Barbara MICHALAK - PIKULSKA, Gibran Khalil Gibran's Signifıcance and Role in Arabic and World Literature and His Creative Reception in the World  93
Barbara MICHALAK - PIKULSKA, Looking at the Problem of Iraqi Agresion on Kuwait on the Basis of "Mudakkirat gundi Iraqı” 101
Bozena PROCHWICH - STUDNICKA, The Mystical Dimension of Salah `Abd As-Sabur's Poetry 107
Dariusz ROZMUS, Al-Baranis  119
Yousef SH'HADEH, To Live in Exile in the World of Illusions (The Alienated Hero in the Early Stories of Ghassan Kanafani)         129
Ewa STALA, The Possible Origins of Spanish “Camiz”           137
Danuta STANULEWICZ, Multi-Category Morphemes and Relational Elements in Chinese       141
Diane STEIGERWALD, La mystique de Jalal al-Din Rumi (m. 672/1273) par la danse cosmique des derviches tourneurs      147
Gábor TAKÁCS, History of Pero k in Afro-Asiatic Perspective               157
Gábor TAKÁCS, Marginal Remarks on the Classifıcation on Ancient Egyptian within Afro-Asiatic and Its Position Among African Languages 175
Gábor TAKÁCS, An Additional Note to the Discussion on the Obscure Words of Papyrus Ebers 99,10-12  197

Review  articles

Bruno W. W. DOMBROWSKI, The Most Important Trait of the Seleucid Kingdom's History?     199
Bruno W. W. DOMBROWSKI, Qumranologica VlII       207
Edward SLAWINSKI, The Newest Handbook on Uralic Languages      225

Reviews

Metin Akar, Doğu Akdeniz - Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi, Band 1 (1998)  (by Elif Dilmaç)       251
Çağdaş Türk Edebiyatına Eleştirel Bir Bakış (by Grazyna Zajac)        254
Larry Clark, Turkmen Reference Grammar (by Marek Stachowski          258
Steve Seegmiller, Karachay (by Ewa Siemieniec - Golas)           260
Studia Judaica l, No. 1 (1998) (by Zdzislaw J. Kapera)         262

Chronicle

Barbara MICHALAK - PIKULSKA, 35th International Congress of Asian and North African Studies, Budapest, 7-12 July I997   264
Barbara MICHALAK - PIKULSKA, XIX Congress of Union Europeenne des Arabisants and Islamisants, Halle - Germany, August 30 –September 3, 1998   265
Felipe SEN, First Egyptological Meeting at the Autonomous University of Madrid 267
Felipe SEN, XXXV Annual Assembly of the Spanish Orientalist Association and IV Symposium on Oriental Cultures      268
Janusz RYDZEWSKI, Exposition "Toutankhamon des steppes de l'Ukraine" dans le Musée Archéologique de Cracovie      269