War is so omnipresent in our contemporary world that the story of war is too important to be left to fiction writers to frame and give meaning for. This dissertation provides an analysis of two dominant patterns in contemporary Iraqi and American prose fictional representations …
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Periphery with its subjectivities and particularities is invisible in world literature studies today. Peripheral literatures are seen as homogenized, and the literary works are seen as substitutes for each other. A literary work that has not been translated into the languages of…
In 1987, the Bunyad-i Tarikh-i Inghilab-i Islami-yi Iran (Foundation of the History of the Islamic Revolution of Iran) published a two-volume biography by Ali Mudarrisi of the Iranian cleric, politician and patriot Ayatu'llah Hasan Mudarris (1868-1938). In my dissertation, I com…
This thesis investigates the mystical elements in Mikha'il Nu`aymah's literary works and their affinity to Islamic mysticism, elaborating in particular on the notions of oneness of being and the transmigration of soul. These two themes are the more prevalent ones in Nu`aymah's m…
The Jewish-Persian poet ʿEmranì (1454- c. 1536 C.E.) is considered the second most prominent poet in the Judeo-Persian literary tradition. Nevertheless, no detailed study of his life and work has so far been undertaken. This dissertation consists of a study of ʿEmranì's life and…
Islamic legal theory appears to prohibit new churches and syna- gogues, allowing them to remain in existence only if they antedate Islam and are located in a place which capitulated peacefully during the Islamic conquest. Many scholars prohibited repair of any church or synagogu…
In my dissertation I address a gap in scholarship on contemporary Iranian women by using a selection of artworks as the lens through which to explore the gendered experience of exile and diaspora. More specifically, I examine the embodiment of personal and political space since …
This study is an analysis of the development of early Persian mysticism with specific reference to the ninth-century Islamic mystic Bayazid Bist[dotbelow]ami. The study contains historical, political, social, religious, and literary background of Bayazid in Islamic thought. A co…
Reading literary texts has always been problematic. It is especially problematic when subject of study is a literature from another time and place. Modern Persian literature exemplifies this situation because it has been the subject of multiple and at times contradictory reading…
The depiction of women in Persian ethical texts is a subject that has not yet received the attention it deserves. These texts contain precious materials on the qualities required in a woman, as well as her role in the household and her duties towards her husband, which enable on…
The 10th century Persian poet, Rudaki, is considered to be the father of Persian poetry because he was the first major poet to write in New Persian. This dissertation argues that Rudaki holds a central position in the re-emergence of Persian identity following almost three centu…
This dissertation examines the life and work of Gülten Akin (b.1933) as a pioneering woman poet of contemporary Turkish literature. Akin is a highly original poet with a distinct voice, which is clearly that of a woman. Over the past fifty years, she has continuously presented t…
This dissertation focuses on a poet who has remained virtually unknown in his homeland, let alone anywhere outside it. Mirza Ali Mo'juz of Shabustar (1874-1934) was an Iranian Azeri poet of the early twentieth century who chose to write his poetry not in Persian, the dominant la…
This dissertation is designed to trace the influence of Ephrem the Syrian on the Greek-speaking Christianity through the corpus of the Greek Ephrem. Despite Hemmerdinger-Iliadou's extensive study and Géerard's classification (CPG), studies of the Greek Ephrem has been meager. Th…
A new Persian literary form, the filmnameh (film book), has emerged in the last few decades. Existing in parallel to filmmaking in Iran, it is unlike a screenplay intended for eventual production ( scenario ). Instead, it is a screenplay, published primarily for reading that has…
During early ʿAbbasìd times Persian cultural influence was enhanced by the formation of the position of the vizierate, the appearance of secretaries in the political hierarchy, the proliferation of Arabic translations of Persian works, the change of the capital from Damascus to …
The era of the Timurids, the dynasty that ruled Transoxiana, Iran, and Afghanistan from 1370 to 1506 had a profound cultural and artistic impact on the history of Central Asia, the Ottoman Empire, and Mughal India in the early modern era. While Timurid fine art such as miniature…
The ancient Arabs used poetry not only to entertain themselves in the midst of their harsh life in the Arabian desert, but also to proclaim their cultural values, which were the moral-spiritual and material basis of their nomad society. Composing poetry therefore was almost a sa…
Throughout the period 1800-1906, education played a central role in the conflicts between tradition and change, and in the dilemmas involved in the process of modernization and westernization. Questions regarding the desirability or even the possibility of divorcing European lea…