PHOENIX ISSUE N. 2 table of contents Editors' PREFACE: In memory of Professor Mario Nordio PAPERS Giacomo BAGGIO Il trattato "Vacuità del non-assoluto" di Sengzhao: analisi e traduzione Testo con tabelle / fonts cinesi. Flavia CANGIÀ Performing the "Buraku Culture": Taiko Drums From Factory to Stage Matteo COMPARETI Some specimens of Central Asian decorative elements in Ajanta and Bagh paintings Serena DALLA VALLE Morocco's Legislative Elections of 2007: the Contradictory Trends in Terms of Transition Giovanni DE ZORZI The Art of Music and the Practice of Arts: Notes for a New Approach to the mevlevîye ('Whirling Dervishes')Sufi Brotherhood Tradition Lara ISKRA Tre importanti vakifi nella Mostar ottomana del XVI-XVII secolo: storia, mito, architettura Marco LAURI Identità nazionale indonesiana nei manifesti letterari (1925-1963) Matteo LUCCI La poetica del karumi nell'opera di Matsuo Basho Lucio T. MELE Khan as-Sebil vs. Khan al-Inqarata Luca MILASI A Meiji Writer's outlook on Chinese Literature: the case of Mori Ogai Serena OSPAZI Il Fiqh delle Minoranze islamiche in Europa: il Consiglio Europeo per le Fatwa e le Ricerche Alex PASSI Death Charms: Magical Mixtures from the Kaksaputa? Sofia SUNDSTROM The Bimaran Casket: A contribution to the discussion regarding its iconography Elzbieta SWIECICKA The Turkish Dictionary of Giovanni Molino, born Yovhannês from Ankara Vasil S. TOLE Odyssey and Sirens: A Temptation towards the Mystery of the Iso-polyphonic music regions of Epirus. A Homeric theme with variations Massimiliano TRENTIN The Regierungsberater in Damascus.The expertise of the German Democratic Republic in Syrian state-building: 1965-1972 Müserref YARDIM Les Communautés Religieuses Turques en Belgique:la Communauté Gülen BOOK REVIEWS Mattia GUIDETTI Bowersock, Glen Warren. Mosaics as History. The Near East from Late Antiquity to Islam. Cambridge, MA-London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006, 146 pp. Lucia SORBERA Nadje Sadij Al-Ali: Iraqi Women. Untold Stories from 1948 to ...