The article examines the influence of relations with India on Pakistan’s 2018 election campaign. It compares the programs of major political parties, their portrayals of India and the prospects for implementing the proposals of the winning party.
Keywords:
imagology; the enemy image; Pakistan; India; election campaign
The article examines the spread of Jama’ah Tabligh in Southeast Asia since the 1960s, focusing on its missionary activity in Malaysia, Indonesia and southern Thailand and on the movement’s adaptation to local religious practices and Muslim communities.
Drawing on travel accounts by Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi and Muhammad Kibrit, the article compares two seventeenth-century Muslim pilgrims’ experiences in Ottoman Cairo and their contacts with its religious and intellectual circles.
Keywords:
Ottoman Egypt; Islam; cult of knowledge; rihla; hajj; ziyara
The article examines collective terms in the records of the early modern Venetian Jewish community, especially “ghetto synagogues”, and shows how culturally distinct congregations understood themselves within a shared communal space.
Keywords:
Venice; Jewish community; record books; congregations; sixteenth century; seventeenth century; Levantine Jews; Italian Jews
Based on the journal Shura, the article examines early twentieth-century debates among Tatar Muslim intellectuals about Quranic exegesis. Some writers rejected reliance on authoritative tafsirs, while others valued them for historical context.
Keywords:
Islam in Russia; Tatar periodical press; Shura journal; Quran; tafsirs
Using official publications of the Japanese Governor-General in Korea, the article examines colonial governance from 1910 to 1945, including policing and ideological measures adapted to changing circumstances and Korean traditions.
The article examines Cao Zhi’s ‘Letter to Yang Dezu’ as a work of early Chinese epistolary prose. It considers the letter’s reflections on literature, thematic range, rhetorical strategies and value as a historical document.
Keywords:
Chinese literature; Jian’an literature; prosaic message; rhetoric; motive
The final part of a Russian translation of Musa Jarullah Bigiev’s commentary on al-Fātiḥa and the opening verses of al-Baqara. It presents his treatment of Quranic history, grammar, vocabulary, variant readings and hermeneutics.
Keywords:
Musa Jarullah Bigiev; “Fiqh al-Qurʼān” (The Understanding of the Qurʼān); sūra “The Opening One” (al-Fātiḥa); Quranic exegesis (tafsīr); Quranic hermeneutics; Islam in Russia
A review of a book about Japanese food culture, published by the Japanese Culinary Academy in 2016 as the first volume in a series on Japanese cuisine.
Keywords:
japanese cuisine; japanese culture; japanese food; japanese history
The article examines the structural and linguistic means used in Swahili mediatexts, drawing on the online Tanzanian newspaper Mtanzania. It considers how selection of information and lexical and grammatical choices serve to inform and influence readers.
Keywords:
Swahili; mediatext; linguistic analysis; grammatical tools; metaphors; borrowings; concept
The article examines the ethnocultural, linguocultural and semantic properties of Chinese phraseological units with zoomorphic components. It identifies and systematizes these units and considers the role of zoomorphic components in their meaning.
Keywords:
linguocultural studies; cultural codes; semantics; zoomorphism; phraseological units
