Wed 24 Jun 2020

Volume 5, Issue 2 of Philological Encounters

The new issue of Philological Encounters, consists of the following articles:

Sound across Languages, by Ronit Ricci

A Padshah like Manu: Political Advice for Akbar in the Persian Mahābhārata, by Audrey Truschke

Between Polite Economy and the Gift: Nineteenth-Century British Travelers and Persian Excess, by Niloofar Sarlati

Philology for an Enchanted World: Motoori Norinaga and the Study of Japanese Language and Literature in Early Modern Japan, by Emi Foulk Bushelle

Arabic Philology at the Seventeenth-Century Mughal Court. Saʿd Allāh Khān’s and Shāh Jahān’s Enactments of the Sharḥ al-Radī, by Christopher D. Bahl

Reading the Arabian Nights in Modern Hebrew Literature: Judaism, Arabness and the City, by Avi-ram Tzoreff

The journal Philological Encounters (PHEN) is dedicated to a historical and philosophical critique of philology and promotes critical and comparative perspectives with the aim of integrating textual scholarship and the study of language from across the world.

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Philological Encounters welcomes innovative and critical contributions in the form of articles as well as review articles of usually two to three related books, preferably from different disciplines. It is open to contributions from all disciplines studying the history of textual practices, hermeneutics, philology, philological controversies, or the global history of writing, archiving, tradition-making and publishing. An overview of previous issues and a more detailed overview of the submission process can be found on the journal's webpage.

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