Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales

Haftarah Bereshit: Sociology of the Creation of the World Indexed on the Notion of Responsibility

Thesis. Creation is not a closed gift but an open mandate. Read alongside Isaiah 42:5–21, parashat Bereshit establishes that the breath received entails a responsibility; Lurianic Kabbalah turns this into an ontology of repair (Tikoun), and Kongo cosmology into an ethic of stewar...

Haftarah Lekh Lekha: The Metaphysics of Genealogy through Resilience

The haftarah of Lekh Lekha (“Go forth”), as read according to the nousakh (liturgical rite) of the Bnei Kongo Katiopa, is more than a consolation addressed to deportees. It reveals an ontological structure of resilience. This article argues that genealogy—as understood at once by...

Settlement and Landscape Transformations in the Khaybar Oasis From Late Antiquity to the Late Islamic Period

ABSTRACT Archaeological survey and targeted soundings by the Khaybar Longue Durée Archaeological Project ( Khaybar LDAP ) have provided the opportunity to reconstruct a first overview of settlement dynamics, land use and socioeconomic organisation from the late pre‐Islamic period...

Causative alternation in Tibetic and Trans‑Himalayan

Abstract The article revisits the causative voicing alternation attested in a restricted number of fossilised lexical pairs in various sub-branches of the Trans-Himalayan language family. I introduce linguistic facts from the Tibetic languages which have not been previously inves...

Locations, goals, and endpoints

Abstract This paper shows a structured functional split for the Mùwe Ké la-don (-‍na, -‍la, -‍ru/du), which previous work grouped under the umbrella term ‘Locative’. Drawing primarily on fifteen texts from elder speakers and authorities on the language, the study examines governi...