Du Ponceau, assailing the doctrine of the "ideographic" character of the Chinese script.
It included studies of Arab music, of Persian cuneiform, and of Buddhism in India, and brought to a wide audience the then novel theories of Pierre E. The first volume, published in 1843-49, set the tone for all time in the broad scope of subject matter and the solidity of its scholarship.
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The regular serial publication of the Society, issued quarterly, is the Journal of the American Oriental Society. The essay concludes with an exploration of the embedding of these three Qurʾanic moments, each within the others, across the four intertwined modes of discourse. The Qurʾanic conception of spirit (rūḥ) is then sounded through recurrent polarities (day and night, odd and even, male and female) and through three key moments (creation, prophecy, and the yawm ad-dīn). These figures are heard to engender undertones of personification and animation in gender constructions that would otherwise appear merely grammatical, even as they modulate shades and degrees of emotion through an elusive phonic and semantic register. Special attention is given to sound figures, extended acoustical patterns that take on semantic, emotive, and gender associations or "charges" through their deployment within sūrat al-qadr and other parallel passages from the Qurʾan.
In turn, the analysis attempts to engage aspects of meaning. A close reading of sūrat al-qadr becomes the occasion for the exploration of the interplay of sound and meaning. This article explores the multidimensionality of meaning in the Qurʾan an as it is generated across four modes: semantic, acoustic, emotive, and gendered-the latter three of which are mostly lost in translation.