D N Mackenzie
Biographic Data
| ID | 697747 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D N Mackenzie |
| GIVEN NAMES | D N |
| FAMILY NAME | Mackenzie |
| SIGNATURE | MACKENZIE D N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Göttingen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Measuring Profit
Clinton, Mississippi, Friday, 20 April 2001. The Deep South: during the Civil War, Sherman based himself here when besieging the city of Jackson. Clinton’s streets are lined with historic buildings and shaded with old trees. Yet Clinton is also the New South, the site of the ultramodern corporate headquarters of a leading telecom company—a building that in the words of one reporter rises ‘like a dark steel mother ship’ (Ripley 2002).
Glossary
Subject Industry Studies Economics Microeconomics Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Eloge: David Owen Edge, 1932-2003
The Khwarezmian Element in the Qunyat al-Munya
The Social Shaping of Technology
Technological change is often seen as something that follows its own logic - something we may welcome, or about which we may protest, but which we are unable to alter fundamentally. This reader challenges that assumption and its distinguished contributors demonstrate that technology is affected at a fundamental level by the social context in which it develops. General arguments are introduced about the relation of technology to society and differ…
More thieves, fewer members
As Dr. Y. Yoshida, Kyoto, kindly points out to me, the Buddhist Sogdian Ýδ('k)h in P 3, 14, 87 which, following Benveniste, I took as 'limb, member' (BSOAS, XLVI, 3, 1983, 535) can as well, even more likely, also be translated 'wound', as in P 7, 64. This leaves SCE 119, 121 wxwšw Ýδ'kh as the only support for a Ýδ- '*limb'. There it translates indriya in , otherwise 'nδ"y. But, given the fact that the six senses are also described as 'six great …
Khwarazmian Language and Literature
Chorasmia, one of the provinces of the Achaemenian Empire (Huwārazmiš) , which provided a “dark blue stone” (turquoise?) to adorn the palace of Darius at Susa, yet receives only a late mention by name in the Zoroastrian scriptures (Yasht x. 14, X v āirizm). Many scholars, for various reasons, have explained this apparent eclipse of a flourishing country by declaring that Chorasmia was a part of the very heartland of the early Iranians, the airyan…
Sogdian thieves
Sogdian has two words for 'thief, robber', both of good Old Iranian pedigree. From Av. gaδ- there is B. γδ- /γaδ-/, attested in the pl. γδ'yšt, P 6, 14, SCE 312, and in γδ'wny 'theft', SCE 331, 426. More common, from SKr., Av. tāyu-, is B. t'y(h), VJ 239, P 2, 1113; 7, 138;24, 2, Chr. ty, C 2 51R.31, pl. S. t'yt (Man.) T i α 2 (Tales, 478), also L 61, 3; 103 R 2, and B. t'y'wny, P 9, 15, L 98a 1, Man. ṯ'ywnyy, BBB e 6'theft', B. t'y'yck', VJ 339 …
The Meritocratic Intellect: Studies in the History of Educational Research . James V. Smith , David Hamilton
The Visible College: The Collective Biography of British Scientific Socialists in the 1930s. Gary Werskey
Mani's Šābuhragā-II
The nearly complete 432 lines of the Šābuhragān presented in the first part of article come from a series, almost certainly unbroken, of 9 folios = 18 pages, each with 24 lines. It is possible that a whole folio, i.e. two pages, is missing between D v and E r, or between F v and G r, but the content of those pages makes it seem most unlikely. A question not yet considered is how the folios A-J were folded into a quire. A, B, C and E are double sh…
Parthian Economic Documents from Nisa. Plates I
Mani'sŠābuhragān
It is remarkable that, of the many more or less fragmentary Manichaean writings in Iranian languages discovered in Central Asia at the beginning of this century,1 one of the few texts directly attributable to Mani himself has still, three-quarters of a century after its first partial publication, not appeared in a full and satisfactory edition, with translation. 'Mani;apos;sŠābuhragān, in which he summarized his teachings in Persian for the enlig…
Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum. Part II: Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian Periods and of Eastern Iran and Central Asia. Vol. II: Parthian. Parthian Economic Documents from Nisa. Texts I
Shapur's shooting
The Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities of the British Museum has in its collections an inscribed plaque (BM 136772) which is intriguing for bearing not one but one and a half inscriptions, for being almost perfectly legible, and yet for having no obvious purpose. There is no information about its provenance (the plaque was in a European private collection for some considerable time) other than that it is said to have come, indirectly, from…
The 'Sūtra of the Causes and Effects of Actions' in Sogdian
A Fragment of a Khwarezmian Dictionary
The 'Sutra of the Causes and Effects of Actions' in Sogdian
The Khwarezmian glossary-IV
This fourth article brings us to the end of a preliminary survey of the main chapter (six-sevenths by length of what survives) of Das chwaresmische Sprach-material einer Handschrift der 'Muqaddimat al-adab'von Zamaxsari, as it is presented in the edition of Johannes Benzing. Notice is no longer taken of the underpointed spellings of words which have been met frequently before, of the type b'rwzd for p-, ǰrm for č-, etc., and in the first instance…
The Khwarezmian Glossary—II
As a preliminary, merely, to the long task of compiling a dictionary of ‘Islamic’ Khwarezmian, it is my purpose here to scotch as many as possible of the ghost-words and misunderstandings which mar the otherwise useful publication Das chwaresmischeSprachmaterial einer Handschrift der ‘Muqaddimat al-adab’ von Zamaxšarī , by J. Benzing. A beginning has been made, dealing with more than 150 such errors in the first 70 pp. of the chapter ‘Verbs’ (Ben…
The Khwarezmian glossary-III
In two previous articles, pp. 60-218 of Johannes Benzing's edition of Das chwaresmische Sprachmaterial einer Handschrift der 'Muqaddimat al-adab' von Zamaxśarī have been subjected to a close scrutiny. Benzing's work, a combined cornucopia and Pandora's box, holds the seeds of a number of tares which it is my endeavour to remove, before they nourish, from among the good seed of the certain or possible items of Khwarezmian glossary to be reaped fro…
Some Kurdish Proverbs
Christian Sogdian notes
VJ 741 ff. rty ZK pr"mn w'n'kw r'y'y' PZY šy ZK ššky ZKw šyšky rt β'y'p'y 'and the Brahman wept so much that his tears *rolled quickly one upon the other'. So runs Benveniste's translation, while his note suggests more closely the meaning 'succeed, follow' or 'be added'for the verb *'βy' p- (or *βry'p-) 'not otherwise known', with a tentative reference to pty'p- 'reach'. A very similar verb was to be found in ST, n, c 3, 12, however: cywyd pyd'r …
The Khwarezmian glossary-I
Khwarezmian linguistic studies have progressed but slowly since their inception in 1927, when A. Z. V. Togan published his discovery of some Khwarezmian (hereafter Xw.) sentences in an Arabic fiqh book. W. B. Henning's first article appeared after nine years and a quarter of a century later H. W. Bailey could still refer to 'the slowly emerging Chorasmian'. The latest bibliography cannot boast more than two dozen titles. It is our tragic loss tha…
Jewish Persian from Isfahan
In the new journal of the Faculty of Letters of Isfahan University there is an article by Aziz Pajand entitled “Purim”. It comprises facsimiles of two texts, two pages in square Hebrew script of Hebrew described as klâsik , and four pages in Rashi script of ‘ebri-ye maḥalli-ye Eṣfahân , with a close Persian translation of the latter, describing the origins of the festival of Purim to a Persian audience. Apart from its content, however, the text i…
Shapur's shooting
The Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities of the British Museum has in its collections an inscribed plaque (BM 136772) which is intriguing for bearing not one but one and a half inscriptions, for being almost perfectly legible, and yet for having no obvious purpose. There is no information about its provenance (the plaque was in a European private collection for some considerable time) other than that it is said to have come, indirectly, from…
Notes on the transcription of Pahlavi
The problem of the transcription of Pahlavi, inherently difficult enough, has for so long been complicated by factors of personal taste and interest that it will probably see many more jubilees. Amid the welter of differing transcriptions to be found, however, one persistent thread is to be observed, namely that of archaism. Bartholomae's endeavour to reproduce the earliest Arsacid pronunciation of Pahlavi, that of the third century B.C., has mor…
Zoroastrian Astrology in the Bundahišn
One of the interesting features of the Pahlavi Bundahišn, the great work on cosmogony and cosmology completed in the ninth century A.D., is the manner in which traditional, orthodox beliefs derived from the Zoroastrian scriptures appear side by side with later and even contemporary scientific opinions. While in some parts, notably the astronomical chapter II, the resulting incongruity is undisguised, in others there has been a conscious effort of…
The Social Shaping of Technology
Technological change is often seen as something that follows its own logic - something we may welcome, or about which we may protest, but which we are unable to alter fundamentally. This reader challenges that assumption and its distinguished contributors demonstrate that technology is affected at a fundamental level by the social context in which it develops. General arguments are introduced about the relation of technology to society and differ…
Mani'sŠābuhragān
It is remarkable that, of the many more or less fragmentary Manichaean writings in Iranian languages discovered in Central Asia at the beginning of this century,1 one of the few texts directly attributable to Mani himself has still, three-quarters of a century after its first partial publication, not appeared in a full and satisfactory edition, with translation. 'Mani;apos;sŠābuhragān, in which he summarized his teachings in Persian for the enlig…
Sogdian thieves
Sogdian has two words for 'thief, robber', both of good Old Iranian pedigree. From Av. gaδ- there is B. γδ- /γaδ-/, attested in the pl. γδ'yšt, P 6, 14, SCE 312, and in γδ'wny 'theft', SCE 331, 426. More common, from SKr., Av. tāyu-, is B. t'y(h), VJ 239, P 2, 1113; 7, 138;24, 2, Chr. ty, C 2 51R.31, pl. S. t'yt (Man.) T i α 2 (Tales, 478), also L 61, 3; 103 R 2, and B. t'y'wny, P 9, 15, L 98a 1, Man. ṯ'ywnyy, BBB e 6'theft', B. t'y'yck', VJ 339 …
Mani's Šābuhragā-II
The nearly complete 432 lines of the Šābuhragān presented in the first part of article come from a series, almost certainly unbroken, of 9 folios = 18 pages, each with 24 lines. It is possible that a whole folio, i.e. two pages, is missing between D v and E r, or between F v and G r, but the content of those pages makes it seem most unlikely. A question not yet considered is how the folios A-J were folded into a quire. A, B, C and E are double sh…
The 'Sutra of the Causes and Effects of Actions' in Sogdian
The Khwarezmian glossary-I
Khwarezmian linguistic studies have progressed but slowly since their inception in 1927, when A. Z. V. Togan published his discovery of some Khwarezmian (hereafter Xw.) sentences in an Arabic fiqh book. W. B. Henning's first article appeared after nine years and a quarter of a century later H. W. Bailey could still refer to 'the slowly emerging Chorasmian'. The latest bibliography cannot boast more than two dozen titles. It is our tragic loss tha…
An early Jewish-Persian argument
The Jewish-Persian manuscript Or. 8659 was brought to my attention by Dr. J. Rosenwasser of the British Museum, to whom I am most grateful for giving me the occasion to examine it closely and discover its great interest. Dr. Rosenwasser had rightly queried the description of the manuscript as 'a commentary on Joshua'. There are quotations from Joshua on fol. lr and v, it is true, but that is by no means the whole story. He also remarked that the …
Gender in Kurdish
It is not yet generally accepted in European works that a distinction of grammatical gender exists in Kurdish. In the Northern group of Kurdish J dialects the Izafe appears in a number of forms, e.g. a, ā, ē, ī, and the nominal 5 oblique case ending as -ē and -ī. An analysis of these forms into a clear system, with two declensions according to grammatical gender, has been made by members of the princely family of Bedir Xan. A comparison of all th…
Gender in Kurdish
It is not yet generally accepted in European works that a distinction of grammatical gender exists in Kurdish. In the Northern group of Kurdish J dialects the Izafe appears in a number of forms, e.g. a, ā, ē, ī, and the nominal 5 oblique case ending as -ē and -ī. An analysis of these forms into a clear system, with two declensions according to grammatical gender, has been made by members of the princely family of Bedir Xan. A comparison of all th…
Bājalānī
Between the River Tigris at Mosul and the first Kurdish villages some 20 miles to the east there is a strip of territory, extending approximately 40 miles from north to south, inhabited by a variety of peoples professing many religions. The least known of these are three extreme Muslim sects. The first to study them was Father Anastase Marie, in an article concerning the Šabak, the Ṣārlī, and the . These , ' Kurds ... calling themselves Allāhī', …
Pashto Verse
In, and since, the nineteenth century a more than passing interest inPashto verse, both literary and popular, has been shown in Europe, as thefollowing titles (not to mention a number of chrestomathies) testify
The Language Of The Medians
In his article 'Caucasica' Professor H. W. Bailey drew attention to an interesting article by A. Shanidze, 'The newly-discovered alphabet of the Caucasian Albanians and its significance for science', in a sadly inaccessible periodical. 'The discovery of the lost alphabet was made by I. Abuladze in an Armenian manuscript of the fifteenth century containing a miscellany of alphabets, Greek, Syriac, Latin, Georgian, Coptic, Arabic, and Albanian
The Okigins of Kurdish
Kurdish Dialect Studies-I
Zoroastrian Astrology in the Bundahišn
One of the interesting features of the Pahlavi Bundahišn, the great work on cosmogony and cosmology completed in the ninth century A.D., is the manner in which traditional, orthodox beliefs derived from the Zoroastrian scriptures appear side by side with later and even contemporary scientific opinions. While in some parts, notably the astronomical chapter II, the resulting incongruity is undisguised, in others there has been a conscious effort of…
Some Gorānī lyric verse
Since its début in 1881, when Charles Rieu's brief but masterly grammatical sketch appeared, the Gorānī koinĒ has become one of the Cinderellas of Iranian studies, literary and linguistic. Apart from a notice by E. B. Soane, of which more below, its only real outing has been in Professor Minorsky's compendious article on 'The Gūrān', containing an illustrated survey of all the epic, lyric, and religious verse then known in Gorānī. The surviving m…
Ad Judaeo-persica II Hafniensia
In Ada Orientalia , XXIX, 1–2 (1965), 49–60, J. P. Asmussen has published an excellent photograph, a transliteration, and an annotated glossary (with generous references to Professor W. B. Henning's way-making treatment of the text) of the Jewish-Persian Law Report from Ahwāz, but no consecutive translation
Notes on the transcription of Pahlavi
The problem of the transcription of Pahlavi, inherently difficult enough, has for so long been complicated by factors of personal taste and interest that it will probably see many more jubilees. Amid the welter of differing transcriptions to be found, however, one persistent thread is to be observed, namely that of archaism. Bartholomae's endeavour to reproduce the earliest Arsacid pronunciation of Pahlavi, that of the third century B.C., has mor…
Catalogue of Pashto Manuscripts in the Libraries of the British Isles
Jewish Persian from Isfahan
In the new journal of the Faculty of Letters of Isfahan University there is an article by Aziz Pajand entitled “Purim”. It comprises facsimiles of two texts, two pages in square Hebrew script of Hebrew described as klâsik , and four pages in Rashi script of ‘ebri-ye maḥalli-ye Eṣfahân , with a close Persian translation of the latter, describing the origins of the festival of Purim to a Persian audience. Apart from its content, however, the text i…
An early Jewish-Persian argument
The Jewish-Persian manuscript Or. 8659 was brought to my attention by Dr. J. Rosenwasser of the British Museum, to whom I am most grateful for giving me the occasion to examine it closely and discover its great interest. Dr. Rosenwasser had rightly queried the description of the manuscript as 'a commentary on Joshua'. There are quotations from Joshua on fol. lr and v, it is true, but that is by no means the whole story. He also remarked that the …
Some Kurdish Proverbs
Christian Sogdian notes
VJ 741 ff. rty ZK pr"mn w'n'kw r'y'y' PZY šy ZK ššky ZKw šyšky rt β'y'p'y 'and the Brahman wept so much that his tears *rolled quickly one upon the other'. So runs Benveniste's translation, while his note suggests more closely the meaning 'succeed, follow' or 'be added'for the verb *'βy' p- (or *βry'p-) 'not otherwise known', with a tentative reference to pty'p- 'reach'. A very similar verb was to be found in ST, n, c 3, 12, however: cywyd pyd'r …
The Khwarezmian glossary-I
Khwarezmian linguistic studies have progressed but slowly since their inception in 1927, when A. Z. V. Togan published his discovery of some Khwarezmian (hereafter Xw.) sentences in an Arabic fiqh book. W. B. Henning's first article appeared after nine years and a quarter of a century later H. W. Bailey could still refer to 'the slowly emerging Chorasmian'. The latest bibliography cannot boast more than two dozen titles. It is our tragic loss tha…
The Khwarezmian Glossary—II
As a preliminary, merely, to the long task of compiling a dictionary of ‘Islamic’ Khwarezmian, it is my purpose here to scotch as many as possible of the ghost-words and misunderstandings which mar the otherwise useful publication Das chwaresmischeSprachmaterial einer Handschrift der ‘Muqaddimat al-adab’ von Zamaxšarī , by J. Benzing. A beginning has been made, dealing with more than 150 such errors in the first 70 pp. of the chapter ‘Verbs’ (Ben…
The Khwarezmian glossary-III
In two previous articles, pp. 60-218 of Johannes Benzing's edition of Das chwaresmische Sprachmaterial einer Handschrift der 'Muqaddimat al-adab' von Zamaxśarī have been subjected to a close scrutiny. Benzing's work, a combined cornucopia and Pandora's box, holds the seeds of a number of tares which it is my endeavour to remove, before they nourish, from among the good seed of the certain or possible items of Khwarezmian glossary to be reaped fro…
The Khwarezmian glossary-IV
This fourth article brings us to the end of a preliminary survey of the main chapter (six-sevenths by length of what survives) of Das chwaresmische Sprach-material einer Handschrift der 'Muqaddimat al-adab'von Zamaxsari, as it is presented in the edition of Johannes Benzing. Notice is no longer taken of the underpointed spellings of words which have been met frequently before, of the type b'rwzd for p-, ǰrm for č-, etc., and in the first instance…
The 'Sutra of the Causes and Effects of Actions' in Sogdian
The 'Sūtra of the Causes and Effects of Actions' in Sogdian
A Fragment of a Khwarezmian Dictionary
Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum. Part II: Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian Periods and of Eastern Iran and Central Asia. Vol. II: Parthian. Parthian Economic Documents from Nisa. Texts I
Shapur's shooting
The Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities of the British Museum has in its collections an inscribed plaque (BM 136772) which is intriguing for bearing not one but one and a half inscriptions, for being almost perfectly legible, and yet for having no obvious purpose. There is no information about its provenance (the plaque was in a European private collection for some considerable time) other than that it is said to have come, indirectly, from…
Parthian Economic Documents from Nisa. Plates I
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