Eighteenth century

This study examines the extraordinarily prevalent images of oriental women in eighteenth and nineteenth century French and English literature and painting. Although many works have addressed the development of orientalism in this period, there has not been a study specifically d…

This is an inquiry into the history of scholarship of the Hebrew Bible in Germany in the mid-eighteenth century. Its central concern is the rise of an historical and scientific philology in this period and the extent to which a philology oriented toward a critical recovery of th…

My dissertation analyzes how eighteenth-century novels were still invested in the continuation of the romance and need to be read in the historical context of English interactions with other cultures, in particular those of the Ottoman Empire. Chapter One sets up the racial mode…

This dissertation examines the Arabian Nights' Entertainments . This was the first English version of Antoine Galland's Les Mille et une Nuits . The English Arabian Nights appeared in twelve volumes between about 1706 and 1721, and was so popular that it enjoyed more than eighte…

This regional history of Eastern Indonesia examines the sosolot trade network, a large web of historical relationships between the Central Malukan people of East Seram and their trade friends and kin in small settlements along the southwest coast of West Papua. For five hundred …

This study sought to facilitate the incorporation of Standards 8 and 9 of the National Standards for Music Education into the high school choral classroom. It was intended to remedy the problem that such Standards are frequently neglected in music performance classes. As such, i…

Transatlantic Retrospections revisits eighteenth-century culture through the lens of creative works by contemporary African and Caribbean writers who engage with the modes of storytelling that emerged in England during the heyday of the Atlantic Slave Trade. While these engageme…

This dissertation argues that throughout the long eighteenth century, the idea of China and the category of Chinese things were central to the process by which British culture reimagined itself as the culture of a nation more modern than and therefore at the center of a world of…

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries of American slavery, a minority of slaves were native African Muslims who were intelligent, literate, religious, and often of high status in their countries. They were recognized for their honesty, industriousness, and obedience, qualit…

In the last quarter of this century scholarship regarding the production of knowledge about the Other has widely flourished. This study investigates the negative portrayals of Arabs and Muslims in selected Eighteenth-century British fiction by applying Edward Said's original the…

While postcolonial readings of French and British Orientalist texts proliferate in a variety of literary and academic contexts, from literature to art history, there are rarely any readings that address simultaneously Orientalist and "Oriental" texts, French and British narrativ…

One can trace a relationship between how some eighteenth-century British authors construct negative representations about Middle Eastern others like Arabs, Moors, and Turks, in their texts, and how these constructions of predominantly derogative representations functioned primar…

My dissertation is the first comprehensive exploration of the life and religious thought of Khvajah Mir Dard of Delhi, s[dotbelow]ufi theologian and theoretician of a reformist spiritual path. A beloved Urdu poet and unique representative of the Naqshbandi Mujaddidi lineage, Dar…

This thesis focuses on one of the most important s[dotbelow] ufi figures of the 18th century, Shaykh Muh[dotbelow]ammad 'Abd al-Karim al-Samm an (1717/8-1775). This study examines al-Samman's metaphysical teachings as well as his views on ritual and devotion. In particular, we a…

In the late eighteenth century, a large urban redevelopment program was initiated by the Shi`i Isna `Ashari Muslim ruler As[dotbelow]af al-Dawlah in Lucknow, a city located in the prosperous, semi-autonomous north Indian region of Awadh. The development included four monumental …

This dissertation analyzes the eighteenth-century French Enlightenment's championing of rational philosophy and scientific methodology, rather than any form of traditional theology, as a way to comprehend truth. The French philosophes struggled to proffer their shocking ideas on…

This study seeks to analyze the function of Islamic athar (lit. traces, vestiges) in an eighteenth-century northern Indian context, and how their use in Indo-Muslim society had far-reaching significance for shaping socio-political identities. From an art historical methodology, …

This dissertation is a comparative study of the Ottoman and Castilian grain trade policies. It analyzes how the role of the state in the grain trade was redefined in the second half of the eighteenth century. Official price regulation in the grain sector had long been an establi…

The idea that some poets in eighteenth and nineteenth century Iran revived Persian poetry by returning to the styles of the classical masters, while poets outside of Iran did not, has left a deep impression on how Persian literary history has come to be written. This idea, known…