American Oriental Society Program of the 212th Annual Meeting

PROGRAM OF THE 212^th MEETING

Thursday, March 21^st

3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Meeting, Editorial Board, JAOS. Austin Room

Friday, March 22^nd

9:30 a.m.-12:00 noon. Meeting, Board of Directors. Austin Room

10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon. Morning Registration. Lamar Room

1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Afternoon Registration. Lamar Room

2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Book Exhibit. Lamar Room

1:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Friday Afternoon Sectional Meetings

A. Ancient Near East I: AOS/NACAL: Linguistics.
Jack M. Sasson, Vanderbilt University, Chair (1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.) Bexar Room

1.: Alan Kaye, California State University, Fullerton

: The Career of Carleton T. Hodge as Orientalist and Linguist

2.: Peter T. Daniels, Independent Scholar, New York, New York

: An Old New Approach to the History of Language Families: Kienast's Historische semitische Sprachwissenschaft

(Break )

3.: Herrmann Jungraithmayr, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

: Pi`el / parras in Central African Hamitosemitic / Afroasiatic?

4.: David Testen, Macalester College

: The Role of Kassite in the Development of Middle Babylonian

B. Inner Asia. Ruth I. Meserve, Indiana University, Chair (2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.) Navarro Room

5.: Ruth I. Meserve, Indiana University

: Bird Identification and Materia Medica in Inner Asia

6.: Denis Sinor, Indiana University

: On Iron in Pre-Modern Inner Asia

7.

Michael R. Drompp, Rhodes College

: The Question of Shamanism among the Early Türks

(Break )

8.

Ilya S. Yakubovich, University of Chicago

: Sogdian Documents on the Arab Conquest of Sogdia

9.: Daniel Prior, Indiana University

: Kirghiz Heroic Poetry in the Twilight Age

C. Islamic Near East I: Greek Science and Philosophy in Islam. Robert Morrison, Whitman College, Chair (2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.) Sam Houston Room

10.: Kevin van Bladel, Yale University

: Ab¯u Ma`shar's Sources for the Arabic Hermes Legend

11.: Glen M. Cooper, Brigham Young University

: Numbers, Prognosis, and Healing in Græco-Islamic Medicine

12.: Robert Morrison, Whitman College

: Us¯ul (Hypotheses) in Islamic Astronomy

(Break )

13.: Ahmed H. al-Rahim, Yale University

: Conception and Assent in the Avicennan Tradition

14.: Jon McGinnis, University of Missouri, St. Louis

: Fixing Motion: A Study of Ibn S¯in¯a's Definition of Motion

15.: Tony Street, University of Cambridge

: Avicenna and the Sh¯ir¯az¯i Questions

D. South and Southeast Asia I. Stanley Insler, Yale University, Chair (1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.) Hidalgo Room

Language

16.: Signe Cohen, University of Missouri

: Some Observations on Deciphering the Indus Valley Script

17.: Joshua T. Katz, Princeton University

: The Riddle of the sp(h)ij-

18.: Ashok Aklujkar, University of British Columbia

: The -indu-\'sekhara Titles of N¯age\'sa's Works

19.: Masato Kobayashi, Hakuoh University

: Rhythm Rules in South Asian Languages

(Break )

20.: Peter M. Scharf, Brown University

: Recognizing Speech Between Sound and Meaning

Avesta

21.: Stephanie Jamison, Harvard University

: An Anagram in the G¯ath¯as : Yasna 51.4-5

22.: P. Oktor Skjæ rvo, Harvard University

: Smashing Urine: About Yasna 48.10

5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. Cocktail Reception for Members and Guests. Hidalgo Foyer

Saturday, March 23^rd

8:30 a.m.-12:00 noon. Morning Registration. Lamar Room

8:30 a.m.-12:00 noon & 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Book Exhibit. Lamar Room

8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m. Breakfast for Graduate Students and Recent Ph.D.'s (Hosted by the AOS) Austin Room

9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Saturday Morning Sectional Meetings

A. Ancient Near East II: History I: The Bronze Age. Leo Depuydt, Brown University, Chair (9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.) Bexar Room

23.: Giorgio Buccellati, University of California, Los Angeles

: The Royal Palace of Urkesh: Recent Excavations

24.: Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati, California State University, Los Angeles

: Urkesh and Akkadian Royal Seals

25.: Tonia Sharlach, The University of Pennsylvania Museum

: The Hubris of Amar-Sin

(Break )

26.: Daniel E. Fleming, New York University

: Before Democracy: Collective Decision-Making in the Mari Archives

27.: Nicole Brisch, University of Michigan

: Sîn-idinnam Revisited: Court Literature in the Larsa Period

28.: Gary Beckman, University of Michigan

: A Small Town in Syria

29.: Jerrold S. Cooper, The Johns Hopkins University

: A Mittani Legal Document from Umm el-Marra

B. East Asia I: Early Chinese Thought and Religion. Timothy C. Wong, Arizona State University, Chair (9:30 a.m.-12:00 noon) Navarro Room

30.: E. Bruce Brooks, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

: Lord Sh¯ang's Military Thought

31.: Paul R. Goldin, University of Pennsylvania

: Han Fei's Doctrine of Self-Interest

32.: Dallas L. Mccurley, Queens College, CUNY

: The Theatre Cart of the Qin & Han Dynasties & Its Shamanic Significance

C. Islamic Near East II: What a Difference a Manuscript Makes: Research Projects about Middle Eastern Manuscripts. Dagmar Riedel, Indiana University, Chair (9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.) Sam Houston Room

33.: Niall Christie, Cornell University

: A Funduq Rental from 8^th/14^th Century Egypt

34.: Nikolai Serikoff, Wellcome Institute

: Real and Imaginary Remedies

35.: Dagmar Riedel, Indiana University

: Can't Tell an Author by his Manuscript: The Example of the Muh¯adar¯at al-udab¯a' Ascribed to al-R¯aghib al-Isfah¯an¯i (d. ca. 1050)

(Break )

36.: M. Amin Mahdavi, Institute of Ismaili Studies

: A Computational Model of Islamic Codicology

37.: James A. Bellamy, University of Michigan

: A Further Note on `¯Is¯a.

D. South and Southeast Asia II: Religious Texts. Stephanie Jamison, Harvard University, Chair (9:30 a.m.-12:00 noon) Hidalgo Room

38.: Timothy Lubin, Washington and Lee University

: Results of a Collation of Atharva\'siras Manuscripts

39.: Frederick M. Smith, University of Iowa

: Suggestions Regarding the Transmission of Possession Ritual from India to China: The Evidence from Sanskrit Manuscripts

40.: Hiroko Nagasaki, The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

: The Metre of the R¯amcaritm¯anas

(Break )

41.: Vidyut Aklujkar, University of British Columbia

: Who was V¯alm¯ki? Gender and Retribution in ¯Ananda-r¯am¯ayana

42.: Rebecca J. Manring, Indiana University

: B¯alyal¯il¯as¯utra: Nineteenth Century Forgery, or Mere Play

43.: John Nemec, University of Pennsylvania

: Vyavah¯ara in Som¯ananda's Sivaddrsti

1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Afternoon Registration. Lamar Room

1:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Saturday Afternoon Meetings

A. Ancient Near East III: Religion and Literature. Jerrold S. Cooper, The Johns Hopkins University, Chair (1:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.) Bexar Room

44.: Niek Veldhuis, University of California, Berkeley

: Babylonian Religion? The Example of Nanse and the Birds

45.: Fumi Karahashi, University of Chicago

: Fighting the Mountain

46.: Philip Jones, University of Pennsylvania

: Sacred Marriage in its Literary Context

(Break )

47.: Alan Lenzi, Brandeis University

: Secrets, Wisdom, and the Standard Babylonian Redaction of the Epic of Gilgamesh

48.: Ralph K. Pedersen, Texas A&M University

: The "Ark'' of Utnapishtim and the Shipbuilding Sequence of Tablet XI of the Gilgamesh Epic: A New Interpretation from the Perspective of Nautical Archaeology

49.: Richard E. Averbeck, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

: Text Structure, World Order, and the Gods in Sumer

B. East Asia II: Chinese Literature. Robert Joe Cutter, University of Wisconsin, Chair (2:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.) Navarro Room

50.: Paul W. Kroll, University Of Colorado

: What Chuang-Tzu Saw from the Hao Bridge

51.: Charles Yim-Tze Kwong, Lingnan University

: The Poetics of Chinese Philosophical Verse

52.: Timothy C. Wong, Arizona State University

: ``Renovation" or ``Transformation": The Xiaoshuo Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century

C. Islamic Near East III: Adab and Arabic. Shawkat M. Toorawa, Cornell University, Chair (2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.) Sam Houston Room

53.: Shawkat M. Toorawa, Cornell University

: Yafirru min al-man¯aziri in at¯ahu , or Ibn Ab¯i T¯ahir and (Never) Running from a Good ``Fight."

54.: Devin Stewart, Emory University

: A Religio-Political Interpretation of al-Hanaf¯i's Maq¯am¯at

55.: Joseph E. Lowry, University of Pennsylvania

: Ibn Ma`s¯um (d. 1120/1708): A Major Literary Figure of the 11^th/17^th-12^th/18^th Centuries

56.: R. Kevin Jaques, Indiana University

: How to Read Tabaq¯at : Their Structure, Modes of Argumentation, and Purposes

(Break )

57.: Steven Judd, Southern Connecticut State University

: The Theological Significance of al-Wal¯id's Rhyming Sermon

58.: Michael G. Carter, Oslo University

: Pragmatism and Contractual Language in Early Arabic Grammar, and its Implications for Law and Theology

59.: David R. Vishanoff, Emory University

: In Defense of Ambiguity: The Legal Hermeneutics of Ab¯u Bakr
Muhammad b. al-Tayyib al-Baqill¯an¯i (d. 403/1013)

D. South and Southeast Asia III. Joel P. Brereton, University of Texas at Austin, Chair (1:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.) Hidalgo Room

Philosophy

60.: Elliot M. Stern, Philadelphia

: Sankara the Naiy¯ayika and Vyomasiva

61.: Edeltraud Harzer, University of Texas at Austin

: Forgotten Methods of Knowing in the History of Indian Philosophy

62.: Andrew O. Fort, Texas Christian University

: Bad (and Good) Tendencies: V¯asan¯as in the J¯ivanmuktiviveka

63.: Robert A. Goodding, University of Texas at Austin

: Report on a New Edition of the J¯ivanmuktiviveka

(Break )

64.: T. S. Rukmani, Concordia University

: Rtambhar¯a-Prajn¯a in Pata�jali's Yogas¯utras: Is it One or Many?

Buddhism

65.: David B. Gray, Rice University

: Indian Buddhist Doxography and Social Taxonomy: An Exploration of Overlapping Discursive Fields

66.: Vesna A. Wallace, University of California, Santa Barbara

: A Problematic Nature of the Contemporary Mongolian Translations of Buddhist Texts

Sunday, March 24^th

8:30 a.m.-12:00 noon. Morning Registration. Lamar Room

8:30 a.m.-12:00 noon & 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Book Exhibit. Lamar Room

9:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Plenary Session: Poverty. Jerry Norman, University of Washington, Chair. Bexar Room

67.: Daniel C. Snell, University of Oklahoma (Ancient Near East)

: Poverty in the Ancient Near East

68.: Speaker To be Announced, University (East Asia)

: Title TBA

69.: Speaker To be Announced, University (Inner Asia)

: Title TBA

70.: Maria Heim, California State University, Long Beach (South & Southeast Asia)

: Poverty in Indian Intellectual History

11:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Annual Business Meeting. (All members in attendance are encouraged to attend.) Bexar Room

1:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Sunday Afternoon Sectional Meetings

A. Ancient Near East IV: History II: The Iron Age and Beyond. Daniel C. Snell, University of Oklahoma, Chair (1:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.) Bexar Room

71.: Paul-Alain Beaulieu, Harvard University

: Nebuchadnezzar at Larsa: A Story of Urban Renewal, Syncretism, and Eschatology

72.: M. Rahim Shayegan, Harvard University

: Bardiya and Gaum¯ata: An Early Achaemenid Enigma Reconsidered

73.: Richard N. Frye, Harvard University

: Cyrus and Darius: Really Related?

(Break )

74.: Leo Depuydt, Brown University

: The Day in Antiquity

75.: S. M. Luppert-Barnard, University of Chicago

: Finding "Marker Dates" in Mesopotamian Documentation

76.: Eden Naby, Harvard University

: Religion and Historical Record: The Process of Forgetting Assyrian History

B. Islamic Near East IV: Thought and Action in Islam.
Frank Griffel, Yale University, Chair. (2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.) Sam Houston Room

77.: Sebastian Guenther, University of Toronto

: Muhammad the Illiterate Prophet? An Islamic Creed in the Qur'¯an and Qur'¯anic Exegesis

78.: Walid Saleh, Middlebury College

: Al-Tha`lab¯i and the Transformation of Medieval Qur'¯anic Exegesis

79.: Richard M. Frank, Catholic University of America [Withdrawn]

: The Mu`tazilite Definition of Knowing

80.: Sandra Toenies Keating, Providence College

: The Problem of Tahr¯if in Hab¯b ibn Khidmah Ab¯u R¯a'itah al-Takr¯it¯i's Ris¯alah on the Holy Trinity

(Break )

81.: Frank Griffel, Yale University

: Al-Ghaz¯al¯i's Initial Accusation against the Fal¯asifa in the Tah¯afut

82.: Leila S. al-Imad, East Tennessee State University

: The Druze Religion in the Twentieth Century: Accommodation and Change... The Principles of Taqiyya in the Modern World

83.: Ilai Alon, Tel Aviv University [Withdrawn]

: The Role of Time in Negotiations in Arabic-Speaking Islam

C. South and Southeast Asia IV. Frederick M. Smith, University of Iowa, Chair (2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.) Hidalgo Room

Religion

84.: Jerome K. Bauer, Washington University

: Jaina Natalism and the Mythology of Maternal/Fetal Bonding

85.: Jarrod L. Whitaker, University of Texas at Austin

: Ritual Ontology and Metaphysics vs. Ritual Performance: An Account of Magic in the Atharvaveda

86.: Christopher Z. Minkowski, Cornell University

: N¯ilakantha and the Cosmology Problem

(Break )

Literature and Law

87.: Donald R. Davis, Jr., Bucknell University

: The Relationship of ¯Ac¯ara and Dharma in the Major Dharmas¯astra Texts

88.: Patrick Olivelle, University of Texas at Austin

: Critical Edition of the M¯anava Dharmas¯astra: A Progress Report

89.: Walker Trimble, University of Pennsylvania [Withdrawn]

: Artificiality and Rule-formation in Ancient Indian Technical Literature

3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Book Sale. Lamar Room

6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Social Hour (Cash Bar) Hidalgo Foyer

8:00 p.m.-10:30 p.m. Annual Subscription Dinner. Hidalgo Room

Presidential Address (Near the Conclusion of the Dinner, at approximately 9:15 p.m.)

90.: Edwin Gerow, Reed College

: Primary Education in Sanskrit

Monday, March 25^th

9:00 a.m.-12:00 noon. Book Sale Continues. Lamar Room

9:00 a.m.-12:00 noon. Monday Morning Sectional Meetings

A. Ancient Near East V: The Names of Gods and Men. Gary Beckman, University of Michigan, Chair (9:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.) Bexar Room

91.: George E. Mendenhall, University of Michigan

: The History of 'El-Shaddai [PAPER WITHDRAWN]

92.: Thomas Hentrich, McGill University

: Hosea 2, 19: What's in a God's Name?

93.: Richard S. Hess, Denver Seminary

: Onomastics and Culture in Cuneiform Texts from Middle Bronze Age Palestine

B. Islamic Near East V: Islamic History. Sebastian Guenther, University of Toronto, Chair. (9:00 a.m.-12:00 noon) Sam Houston

94.: Jacob Lassner, Northwestern University and Tel Aviv University

: Some Reflections on the Transfer of Cultural Artefacts and the Origins of Islam

95.: Michael Bonner, University of Michigan

: The Historical Tradition on the ``Markets of the Arabs"

96.: Deborah Gerber Tor, Harvard University

: The Transformation of the Jihad in the 8^th and 9^th Centuries: The Mutatawwi`a

97.: Christopher Melchert, University of Oxford

: S¯uf¯is, Proto-S¯uf¯is, and Other Renunciants in Ninth-Century Basra

(Break )

98.: Suleiman A. Mourad, Yale University

: In Search of a Master: The S¯uf¯is' Misappropriation of al-Hasan al-Basr¯i

99.: Paul L. Heck, Princeton University

: The Study of Human Civilization (`umran) before Ibn Khald¯un

100.: Barbara Kellner-Heinkele, Freie Universität Berlin

: Cevdet Pasha as Critic of Ottoman Society

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PROGRAM OF THE 212th MEETING

PROGRAM OF THE 212^th MEETING