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Секция VIII 362 XXX Международный Конгресс по источниковедению и историографии стран Азии и Африки Haitham Sarhan (Qatar University, Qatar) Dialectic of Freedom and Captivity: On the Discourse of Begging ( Kudya ) and Wandering in Classical Arabic Narratives The journey in Arabic and Islamic culture is highly regarded as a quest through which travelers fulfill certain goals and convey specific communicative needs. It is, in addition, an aspiration for freedom and a desire against captivity in which travelers are always bordering the unknown, refusing as they do to conform to the cultural norms of their societies and its entrenched customs and traditions. This paper seeks to examine the representations of the journey in one of its most salient occurrences in classical Arabic literature — namely, the discourse of Begging ( kudya ) in the Maqamat . I argue that there exists an inseparable connection in the Maqamat between journey and kudya , on the one hand, and freedom and emancipation, on the other hand, for the beggar ( al-mukaddi) has always to travel and wander lest his identity identified and his ploy foiled. In other words, journeys offer the beggar in the Maqamat an opportunity to fulfill two strategic goals. First, he can always avoid being caught by the people whom he seeks to trick and therefore manages to be free from their captivity. Second, he can persist in his begging discourse, which involves subverting and unsettling cultural norms and enjoying the free position of the vagabond and the antihero in the society. In this journey, the beggar easily shifts identities and wears various masks as he moves from one place to the other, as though rejecting rigid and imposed constructions of manhood and knighthood in Arab and Islamic society. Alexander Storozhuk (FAAS, St Petersburg University, St Petersburg) Concept of Soul as a Substitute of a real Person in Chinese Short Stories Concept of a soul replacing a real person and acting as his substitute for a certain period of time can be already found in Chinese short stories of the Six Dynasties’ period. This soul can leave the body 1. As a result of magical acts; 2. During illness, disease or an extreme emotional disturbance; 3.As a consequence of a premature decease, not expected and having no Heavenly permission for. Most of these plots were comprehensively released in Tang short stories, col- lected in a great many prominent miscellanea, such as «Records of the Collected Wonders» ( 集異記 ) by Xue Yongruo ( 薛用弱 ), «Extensive Records of Wonders» ( 廣異記 ) by Dai Fu ( 戴孚 , 8 cent.), «Records from Xuanshi Hall» ( 宣室志 ) by