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Closing Plenary Session Lothar Ledderose:
Colleagues and friends, the last day of our Congress has arrived; we have gathered here for the Closing Plenary Session before we say farewell to each other. Let us first listen to the report of the Secretary General.
Albrecht Wezler:
Dear colleagues and friends,
it is with no litde pleasure that I now take the word; for though once again I have to make nothing but announcements just as in the Opening Plenary Session, this time I can look back upon a week of most fruitful deliberations and discussions, and with the knowledge that the conviction of the Organizing Committee that our Congress will be a success has fully come true.
As to the announcements themselves, very dry as they have to be: we were in all no less than
890 scholars and students assembled, and of these about 650 came from abroad; you will
agree with me that these are numbers we can be most grateful for. The number of papers read to us totalled 705, and this means that we have been no less industrious in the course of the
preceding week than we were in Tokyo and Kyoto.
A duty I fulfil with particular pleasure is to acknowledge with thanks the considerable number of publications participants have take the trouble to present to the Organizing Committee, and
our thanks are due to them all the more, because the occasion for quite some of these
publications was our very Congress.
May 1 now pass on to a few admonitions: I should like to remind you all that the summaries
of your papers should reach me by the end of November; you should address them to me
personally at the Indological Institute of Hamburg University; above all, please make sure that they don't exceed five hundred words.
Further, don't forget to have a look at the message board at the entrance of the hall we are now in; there may quite conceivably be messages still awaiting you.
In conclusion may I thank you all in the name of the Organizing Committee; for without your sustained interest in our Congress, above all by contributing papers and taking active part in
the discussions they provoked, we couldn't have achieved anything substantial. We of the
Organizing Committee feel that by your efforts our own have been fully rewarded. I thank you.
Lothar Ledderose:
The next point is a short report on the activity of the Consultative Committee which I should
now like to read to you. As you know, we formed this Committee in accordance with our
rules, its members representing the various regions and fields of study covered by the
Congress. The Committee met on Tuesday evening and discussed two proposals. One was
submitted by Mrs. Gabrielli who suggested that the next Congress include Sibiria as another
special area of study. This proposal was forwarded to the Secretary General of the
Intemational Union for Oriental and Asian Studies, Monsieur Bazin, and he will in his tum
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place it before the Organizers of the next Congress. The Committee then discussed the
question of the venue of the next Congress. We have received an official invitation from the
University of Toronto which I may be now allowed to read to you: "To the XXXIInd
Intemational Congress of Asian and North African Studies. Dear Colleagues, the University
of Toronto wishes to extend an invitation to have the XXXIIIrd Intemational Congress of
Asian and North African Studies take place in our campus in Toronto. As Canada's largest university and with our commitment to the study of all the major regions of Asia and North
Africa covered by the Congress we will be happy to host such an event. Because of our
cosmopolitan city and our govemments commitment to multiculturalism we believe Toronto
is a good venue. Having the next Congress here will be beneficial both to the participants and to our university and city. We eamesüy hope to hear a word of favourable response. Yours sincerely, Brian Merrilees, Vice-Provost."
The Consultative Committee discussed this proposal and voted unanimously that we accept
the invitation. [Applause] Thank you very much for your endorsement. 1 would now like to
ask Professor Ching and Professor Oxtoby from Toronto to address you.
Julia Ching:
There is littie left to say except to welcome you to Toronto, and we hope it will be in the third week of August three or four years from now. The precise year will be decided after consultation with the colleagues in Toronto.
Willard G. Oxtoby:
We expect that the meeting will be held on the campus of the University of Toronto. The
advantages of this: the campus is central in the city, but there are dormitory residents' rooms which will in all probability be available at one fourth the price of hotels. So you will have
a choice: those of you who wish to live for the moment may enjoy the hotels and those of
you who wish to have something left may enjoy the University. And as far as the emphasis
of the Congress is concemed, this is the first time that the suggestion has been made to
include Sibiria, but we will do our best to accommodate. In all probability, one of the theme
emphases of the Congress will be Contacts between Cultures. This is important not only
because of the historical contacts which helped to hold our interests of diverse fields of Asian and North African studies together. It is also of interest because of the fact of migration to Canada and to other places in the West. Canada is a country with many Asian communities.
We have sizeable East Asian and South Asian and West Asian communities in Toronto, and
these communities I am sure will be ready to welcome you also and to display to you what it is like to maintain an Asian cultural tradition in the West. Therefore, we will have both the historical and the contemporary dimensions of cultural contact to explore.
Julia Ching:
We have a variety of cuisines; I haven't investigated as to the Tibetan variety, but it may very well be present. We also have the Niagara Falls about two hours drive from us, and a range of Canadian and American cities within access. So it is only for us to welcome you, and since Canada is a bilingual country let us say: Soyez les bienvenus ä Toronto.
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Willard G. Oxtoby:
Finally let me say that we think it is a good time for this congress to retum to the westem hemisphere, to the North American continent and to Canada in particular, since the congress
has never before met in Canada. Canada welcomes you. Willkommen in Kanada!
Julia Ching:
Wir danken unseren deutschen Kollegen für ihre Gastfreundschaft.
Lothar Ledderose:
Thank you very much Professor Ching, Professor Oxtoby. The reaction of the audience has
shown you that we will all assemble in Toronto. The next point is an announcement which
Professor Arvind Sharma is going to make on behalf of the President of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy.
Arvind Sharma:
Dear friends and colleagues. My name is Arvind Sharma, and I teach at the University of
Sidney in Australia. I would like to talk to you, or say a few words to you about the next
Intemational Conference of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy. Now this
society first met in Honolulu in 1984. Its next meeting will be held in Sydney from the 8th to the 13th of August in 1988. I know it is quite a few years in advance, but I would just like
to draw your attention to the fact that such a conference will be held. On behalf of the
Conference Committee, I would like to extend an invitation to all of you to attend this
Conference. For any further information about the Conference please feel free to write to the Department of Religious Studies, The University of Sydney, Australia. Before I close I would like to thank the organizers of this Conference for providing the opportunity to me for making
this announcement. Thank you all and see you in Sydney in August 1988.
Lothar Ledderose:
Thank you very much. Now we will ask Professor Spitaler who will announce the winner of
the Lidzbarski Medal.
Anton Sprr aler:
Meine Damen und Herren, Ladies and Gendemen. Als das deutsche Mitglied des Intematio¬
nalen Lidzbarski-Komitees darf ich im Auftrag dieses Komitees Ihnen folgende Mitteilung machen:
Ladies and Gentlemen, as the German member of the International Lidzbarski-Committee 1
have the honour and the pleasure to make the following announcement:
Wie die Semitisten und semitistisch Interessierten unter Ihnen wissen werden oder sich
erinnem, hat der bedeutende deutsche Semitist Mark Lidzbarski in den zwanziger Jahren
unseres Jahrhunderts in seinem Testament eine Stiftung gemacht, aus deren Erträgnissen unter anderem eine Goldmedaille finanziert werden sollte, die einem verdienten Gelehrten auf dem
Gebiet der semitischen Sprachen verliehen werden sollte, und zwar in der Regel im
Zusammenhang mitden periodisch stattfindenden Internationalen Orientalistenkongressen. Ein
vierköpfiges internationales Komitee, das von Deutschland, Frankreich, England und den
Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika gewählt wurde, wurde damit beauftragt und hat heute noch
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den Auftrag, sich um die Belange der Stiftung zu kümmern. Im gegenwärtigen Augenblick
sind die Vertreter dieser Stiftung die Herren Professoren Andre Caquot für Frankreich,
Edward Ullendorff für England, Franz Rosenthal für die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika
und meine Wenigkeit für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
The semitists and Ancient Near East scholars among you will remember that the great
German semitist Mark Lidzbarski established in the twenties of our century in his will an
endowment the income of which was to be used inter alia to award a gold medal to a
distinguished scholar in the field of Semitic languages. An Intemational Committee of four
members appointed by the Oriental Societies of Germany, France, England and the United
States was and is intmsted with the selection of the recipient. At present the members are
Prof Andre Caquot, France, Edward Ullendorff, England, Franz Rosenthal, United States
of America, and myself for the Federal Republic of Germany.
Durch den zweiten Weltkrieg und seine Folgen ist das Stiftungsvermögen verloren gegangen;
durch die Mithilfe der deutschen Bundesregierung ist es aber möglich geworden, die
Goldmedaille weiterhin zu finanzieren, und dadurch ist es auch möglich geworden, daß bei
diesem Kongreß eine Goldmedaille verliehen wird. Ich habe die angenehme Pflicht, Ihnen,
meine Damen und Herren, mitzuteilen, daß das Lidzbarski-Komitee einstimmig beschlossen
hat, die Goldmedaille in diesem Jahr an Prof Manfred Ullmann von der Universität
Tübingen zu verleihen, und zwar für seine zahlreichen, wichtigen und weiterführenden
Arbeiten auf dem Gebiet der Geschichte der islamischen Wissenschaften, Naturwissen¬
schaften, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, aber auch für seine Verdienste um die arabische
Philologie, hier ganz besonders wegen seines enormen Einsatzes und seiner Tätigkeit an der
Weiterführung des von der Deutschen Morgeniändischen Gesellschaft vor langer Zeit
initiierten Belegwörterbuchs der klassischen arabischen Sprache, eines Untemehmens, dessen bisher 1500 erschienene Seiten fast ausschließlich sein persönliches Verdienst sind.
I have the pleasant duty to announce to you that the Lidzbarski Committee has unanimously
decided to award the Gold Medal this year to Prof Manfred Ullmann of the University of
Tübingen for his important publications in the field of Islamic Science and Civilization, in
particular for his unique contribution to Arabic Philology — in fact the Wörterbuch der
klassischen arabisehen Spraehe breaks new ground for Arabic Lexicography and the 1500
pages that have appeared so far are nearly exclusively his own work.
Da Professor Ullmann bei unserer heutigen Veranstaltung nicht anwesend sein kann, wird ihm die Medaille zugestellt. Ich mache mir mit Ihrer und des Lidzbarski-Komitees Zustimmung das Vergnügen, ihm die Medaille in nächster Zeit in Tübingen zu überreichen.
Regrettably, Professor Ullmann is not able to be here with us today so that the medal cannot be presented to him personally in this room. With your permission and that of the Lidzbarski Committee I shall present it to him in Tübingen in the near future. Thank you very much.
Lothar Ledderose:
Thank you very much, Professor Spitaler. The Congress has received several presents, but
I am not going to list them in detail. I just wish to show you one scroll of calligraphy which
was written for the Congress and given to the Congress by Professor Tsou Heng from the
Archaeological Department of Beijing University ... This is the calligraphy (holding it up for all to see)! It is a quotation from the Tao te king, and the Lao tse text means something like
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"Through study you can gain daily". This is certainly an appropriate comment on our Congress, although there are philological difficulties into which I don't want to enter now.
The Consultative Committee probably has to think about the problem where to preserve this scroll. Well, then the next point is, Professor Hamam Singh Shan would like to address the
Plenary Session and say a few words. May I ask Professor Hamam Singh Shan to do so.
Harnam Singh Shan:
Mr. Chairman and friends! It is a matter of great pleasure and proud privilege for me to
move this motion of thanks on behalf of all of you along with poor Shan for the hospitality, the help, the generosity shown by the Organizing Committee to all of us during our stay here.
Particular thanks are due to the worthy President, Professor Ledderose. This leamed and
worthy scholar has enabled us to be here at this Intemational Fomm of Orientalists. I have no words to express my deep sense of gratitude for the Secretary General, Professor Wezler, who has been all the time working for its success.
To add a personal note, I may forget other events, happenings associated with my participa¬
tion in this session. I have already attended a number of sessions of this Congress. But the way he received me here and took my bag all the way to the hotel himself I can never forget
in my life. This happened once in Canberra too when we reached there in connection with
the Australian session of this Congress. The president of the Congress, the most leamed
Professor A. L. Basham, was there to receive us with a team of volunteers to help us. He is dead and gone, but till I close my eyes I can never forget: he told all his friends, members of the faculty, not to touch the baggage of Harnam Singh Shan. 'I will take it myself to the hotel'. So Professor, Secretary General of this Congress, as they say, history repeats herself,
you have done much more than that.
I have also to thank the office secretary of this conference. I am sorry for not being in a position to read names in the correct German pronounciation: Mrs. Janietz is probably her name. I have seen her working so devotedly and dedicatedly, I dare say that any Congress can be a success if it had a Secretary General like Professor Wezler and also a secretary like Mrs. Janietz.
1 have also to thank the German Oriental Society as well as all those young scholars and
members of the faculty, the students who have all along been helping us, guiding us, assisting us and seeing that we are comfortable during our stay here.
I also beg to thank the German Foundation for Intemational Development in Bonn which has
helped a number of us to be here in this connection. And at the end I thank the entire
Organizing Committee whose allout help and hospitality, whose devotion and dedication to
the cause, whose push and drive have made it a success. 1 wish everyone of them the best in
life, and all of you too. May God and Gum bless you more, much more, still more.
Lothar Ledderose:
Thank you very much. Now Professor Masao Mori will take the floor and come to the
microphone.
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Masao Mori:
Honorary Presidents, Professor Dr. Herbert Franlce and Professor Dr. Bertold Spuler,
President, Professor Dr. Lxjthar Lxdderose, Secretary General, Prof. Dr. Albrecht Wezler, distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen! I feel it a great honour to have been given the opportunity to say a few words on behalf of the foreign participants in my capacity as the board chairman of the Toho Gakkai, the academic organisation for Oriental Studies, similar to the Deutsche Morgenländische Geseiischaft, and also as a delegate of the Science Council of Japan. First, please allow me to mention my personal experience. About thirty years ago I was studying the languages and the history of the ancient Turkish peoples at the University of Hamburg. When I arrived in Hamburg a week ago after the life of thirty years my first impression was that many modern buildings newly constructed have considerably changed the external appearance of the city. However, within a few days I realized that the basic character of this city has not changed at all. The city of Hamburg amply retains its time honoured brilliant traditions as one of the most important cultural and academic centres in Germany.
It is of great significance that the XXXIInd International Congress for Asian and North
African Studies was held in this beautiful city having a long cultural tradition. At this
Congress as many as 890 scholars from fourty-seven countries have gathered, reported the
results of their studies, actively participated in discussions, regardless of the differences in
nationalities, religions and social systems, and exchanged the valuable opinions and
information in a friendly atmosphere. I firmly believe that this will greaUy contribute towards
the further development of Asian and North African Studies as well as the further
strengthening of friendly relations among participating scholars and eventually towards the attainment of the peace of the world.
Ladies and gentiemen, taking this opportunity I should like to express my heartfelt gratitude and deep respect for the strenuous effort and the scholarly enthusiasm of the officers of the
Congress' Organizing Committee, and the conveners of the sectional meetings and panels,
without which the smooth and efficient organization of this Congress would not have been
possible. I also appreciate from the bottom of my heart the cordial hospitality German
scholars have shown us and congratulate them for the remarkable success of the Congress.
The memory of the XXXIInd icanas in Hamburg will remain long with us. Thank you very
much.
Lothar Ledderose:
I am very grateful to Professor Harnam Singh Shan and to Professor Masao Mori for their
kind words. It certainly was a great pleasure to work for this Congress and an even greater pleasure to have you all here. Now it is just my last duty to say a few words of thanks to all
those who worked so hard for two years to make this Congress possible and who have
worked so hard during the last week. We have also to thank the University of Hamburg for
placing its Lecture Halls at our disposal, and the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe as well as
the Museum für Völkerkunde as well as the Universitätsbibliothek for organizing special
exhibitions and special guided tours for the members of the Congress; I have to thank Mr.
Italiaander also who opened his Museum Rade as a friendly gesture towards our Congress.
All this has made the Congress more interesting and more enjoyable.
I also have to thank our colleagues of the Organizing Committee who worked really hard,
especially Professor Albrecht Wezler and the Vice-Secretary General Professor Emst
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Hammersclimidt. But I should also like to say that Professor Wezler was aided by his wife, and all of you who strolled into his office during the Congress and saw her buried under piles of paper must have realized that it was more than just moral support which she gave him.
Professor Hamam Singh Shan has already mentioned Mrs. Janietz, but 1 too should like to
thank her for her remarkable work as secretary to the secretary, behind the scenes, and as
you know, every congress really depends on such a person who is always there to answer
questions, to receive compliments, but also to listen to complaints and who is able to handle them with equanimity. But I don't want to forget the sub-chairmen and our young colleagues and the students who ran the projectors and poured out coffee and tea, thus keeping up our spirits. But last but not least 1 want to thank all those who read papers, the chairpersons and
the conveners of the panels. Each of you made a special personal effort and a special
contribution in making this Congress a success. Thank you very much! It only remains for
me to say that I am looking forward to seeing all of you in Toronto, and I now declare the
XXXIInd Intemational Congress of Asian and North African Studies closed.
xxxv Academic Programme'
Section 1: Art and Archaeology
(Convener: Prof. Dr. Roger Goepper)
August 25, Monday
Congress Centre Hamburg - Room 8 - 1st Floor
Afternoon Session only Chair: Goepper, Roger
14.30 - 15.00 Keith N. Schoviile: Literacy at Lachish [p.l]
15.00 - 15.30 Karlheinz Spreer: Ein Spielbrett aus dem Königsfriedhof von Ur (U.9000:
Woolley, Ur-Excavation, 1934) [p.6]
15.30 - 16.00 Karol My^liwiec: Some Ancient Egyptian aspeets of Hellenistic cults in Aüiribis [p.l6]
16.30 - 17.00 Jean Leclant: Researches on the pyramids with texts at Saqqara [p. 20]
17.00 - 17.30 Ronald T. Marchese: Northern Carla: Shifting settlement systems in antiquity [p.22]
16.30 - 18.00 Th^rfese Metzger: La decoration de la Bible hebraique au moyen äge: de
l'Orient ä I'Qccident [p. 24]
18.00 - 18.30 Mendel Metzger: An illuminated Jewish prayerbook of the 16th Century. The
ms. Smith-Lesouef 250 in the Bibliotheque nationale (Paris) [p. 39]
August 26, Tuesday
Congress Centre Hamburg - Room 8 - 1st Floor
Mortung Session Chair: Schoviile, Keith
9.30 - 10.00 Firouz Bagherzadeh: Persian Iconography: A question just 800 years old. A
simple answer [p. 55]
10.00 - 10.30 Jennifer K. Zimmer: A stylistic analysis of a series of early Islamic gold
bracelets and anklets [p. 58]
Jennifer K. Zimmer: A first millenium B.C. Iranian-Caucasian bronze belt in an Australian collection [p. 59]
11.00 - 11.30 William Trousdale: The Saffärid city of Sistän (Afghanistan) [p. 61]
11.30 - 12.00 Elisabeth C.L. During Caspers: Harappan temples — Fact or fallacy? [p. 64]
12.00 - 12.30 S. R. Rao: Discovery of submerged Dwarka [p. 69]
12.30 - 13.00 S. R. Rao: Bet Dwarka inscription — A Link between Indus and Brähmi Scripts lp.70]
Afternoon Session Chair: Zimmer, Jennifer K.
15.00 - 15.30 Vibha Tripathi: Development of iron technology vis-ä-vis economic growth in
India during the first millenium B.C. [p. 71]
15.30 - 16.00 Y. K. Mishra: Pre- and proto-historic Afiga [p. 74]
16.30 - 17.00 Purushottam Singh: The rise of cultures in Saryupar plain with special reference to excavations at Narhan [p. 76]
' The titles of the papers are those given by the authors in their 'summaries'. An asterisk in square brackets indicates dial no 'summary' was received.
