Barbara Michalak-Pikulska, Marek Piela, Tomasz Majtczak, Preface

Part 1: Literature

Sharief Al Jayyar, Tawfiq Al Hakim and Charles Dickens. A comparative study between Al Hakim’s The Return of the Spirit and Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities. 15

Roswitha Badry, The Ghost of al-Ḥallāj by Maqbūl al-ʿAlawī. Only a novel on envy and ill will, rivalry and intrigues in past and present societies? 25

Hülya Bayrak Akyildiz, Representation of women in early republic era Turkish novels. 37

Krešimir Krnic, Partitioned state of undivided mind. The life and time of Saadat Hasan Manto. 47

Magdalena Kubarek, “To lift up people’s hearts and enlighten their minds.” The series of historical novels by Ǧurǧī Zaydān and Józef Ignacy Kraszewski. 55

Teresa Miążek, Hindi writer on civilization. Ajñeya’s critique of sabhyatā. 67

Renata Rusek-Kowalska, Where will The Address lead us this time? On the hermeneutical labyrinths Sohrāb Sepehri’s poem tempts us to enter. 79

Anna Zalewska, What makes a tanka poem a tanka? Modern approaches to form and versification in Japanese tanka poetry. 91

Part 2: Linguistics

Ivan Andrijanić, The authorship of the Chāndogyopaniṣad-Bhāṣya. A stylometric approach. 103

Arkadiusz Jabłoński, Japanese nominal elements. Why morphology? 117

Iwona Król, Marek Piela, Looking for God. The translation of a biblical metaphor into Polish and Arabic. 127

Tomasz Majtczak, What’s in a poem? Some remarks on Classical Japanese “names of things”. 143

Agnieszka Pałka-Lasek, Let’s talk globally, let’s talk locally – how to overcome communication problems. Arabic and French linguistic contacts in the discourse on the Moroccan Internet media. 159

Kinga Paraskiewicz, Persian dishes in the 13th century Kitāb al-ṭabīkh by al-Baghdādī. 173

Ewa Siemieniec-Gołaś, New Turkish vocabulary in Sadik Bey Agabeyov’s Turkish grammar (1930). 191

Part 3: History

Marek M. Dziekan, Has the son outgrown his father? The life and work of Ǧaʿfar Ibn Aḥmad an-Nāṣirī as-Salāwī (1893–1980). 203

Marcin Gajec, Emirs of Malikšāh and their struggle for power over Syria 1092–1098. 213

Svetlana Kirillina, Dialogue or confrontation. The Egyptian religious elite and the French occupation authorities (1798–1801). 223

Taras Y. Kobishchanov, On The Eve Of Colonialism. Arab rulers and Russian authorities at the last third of 18th century. 233

Dmitry R. Zhantiev, The chronicle of Nikula al-Turk as a source on the history of the campaign of Bonaparte in Syria in 1799. 241

Part 4: History of Oriental Studies

Ewa Dziurzyńska, Kraków in the life of Tadeusz Kowalski. 249

Elżbieta Górska, Studies in Arabic linguistics at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Areas of interest and state of research. 257

Marcin Grodzki, Reaching back to the Qur’ān’s literary (pre-)history. Source text for the critical edition wanted. 265

Iwona Milewska, Andrzej Gawroński and his forgotten translations of the songs from Aśvaghoṣa’s Buddhacarita and Saundarananda. 275

Part 5: Culture and Science

Ewa Machut-Mendecka, The work of Yūsuf Šahῑn – Egyptian filmmaker. 287

Katarzyna Pachniak, Muslim science in medieval and Renaissance Poland. Hypothetical influences. 295

Part 6: Religion and Philosophy

Pavel Pavlovitch, Karīma bint Aḥmad al-Marwaziyya and the transmission of Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī’s al-Jāmiʿ al-ṣaḥīḥ. 307

Katarzyna Pejda, Concepts of xin 信 and cheng 誠 in early Confucian texts. 317