As a media of the representation of Arabness, Al-Jazira has become since 1996 a challenge from which Arabness continues to perceive itself and the modern world. It is in terms of communication and culture that this dissertation attempts to give an account of Arabness with its ep…
"873" Result
Sort By:
This dissertation, “The Inappropriable Voice,” is a theoretical exploration of voice that traverses written and oral Arabic works, North African and African-American texts. One of the major concerns of this comparative study is to examine what has been marked as Third World lite…
The purpose of this dissertation was to re-examine the question of Islamic influences on Dante's Divina Commedia, (which has been argued ever since the publication in 1919 of La Escatologia musulmana en la Divina Comedia, by Miguel Asin Palacios) through a comparative intertextu…
The present study deals with translating Arabic literature into English and French, its main aspects, issues and effects on the representation of Arab culture in the West. It is essentially inspired by Lawrence Venuti's ideas on translation and the “formation of cultural identit…
The purpose of our thesis is to show the important role of the woman in the novelistic autobiography of Léon l'Africain. Inspired by the Description de l'Afrique, written by the famous arab geographer Mohamed al-Wazzan ez-Zayyati, Maalouf converted this autobiography to a quest …
In this dissertation I propose a revisionary history of rhetoric that emphasizes the influence of Near Eastern cultures in the construction of Western rhetoric. I trace this influence from classical times through the Middle Ages, with particular reference to the Muslim commentar…
This dissertation is based on the K. 'Anqa' Mughrib fi Khatm al-Awliya' wa-Shams al-Maghrib which the great Sufi master, Ibn al-'Arabi (d. 638/1240) composed while still resident in his native Andalusia at the end of the sixth/12th century. The book (which has not been criticall…
The purpose of this thesis is to analyze Kitab al-Tajalliyat (The Book of Theophanies), a trilogy by the contemporary Egyptian author Jamal al-Ghitani. I will be situating my analyses within the context of contemporary Arab discourse about the relationship between al-turath (tra…
This thesis is an exploratory work. Informed by critical feminism and the sociology of literature, it attempts to develop a state-centered theoretical framework for a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary study of the literary productions of indigenous women writers from the sett…
This thesis consists of a commented translation of an excerpt from a ninth century C.E. letter by the celebrated Arabic translator Hunayn Ibn Ishaq. The epistle is addressed to one of his patrons, 'Ali ibn Yahya, and gives an account of the works of the Greek physician Galen as …
Among the oral narratives of the Turkic people, stories about the epic hero Koroglu (Blind man's son) are among the best known and most widely distributed. From Anatolia to Central Asia, the Koroglu stories exist in cycles, or series of stories, dealing with various adventures o…
Recently translation has emerged as a significant medium through which nations can recognize and understand each other, civilizations can assemble and communicate, and individuals can get an access to knowledge they have no other way to. In our global small world, translation re…
This dissertation examines how Israel is pictured as a nation in the mind's eye of its citizens their production/reception of local prose fiction. The study focuses on how the nation is imagined differently by members of its major constituencies through the role played by litera…
The first, major effort to translate the Hebrew Bible into another language occurred in the third century B.C. when the Greek Septuagint was born. As those translators worked, they left in their wake a pattern of decisions which affected both the linguistic and literary characte…
This dissertation argues that a broad commonality of thematic, aesthetic and structural concerns exists in the literature of minority authors writing within contemporary contexts of migration. The texts addressed in this study, recent works in German juxtaposed to examples from …
The study explores the political and social contingencies that Palestinian women face in defining their women's movement. The author proposes three questions for the movement: (a) What challenges limit Palestinian women in defining their movement? (b) How do Palestinian women de…
Interest in Joyce Mansour has centered mostly on the ambiguity and the lack of “subjective identity” in her poetic works. This dissertation proposes to investigate that notion and demonstrates that Mansour’s discourse is that of a woman poet’s assertive, complex, and universal v…
This dissertation focuses on the proems (petihta'oit) of Midrash Eicha Rabba. They constitute the introductory section of that book, comprising the first thirty-six chapters (thirty-four in the printed editions). The proem form is prevalent in rabbinic literature and is often fo…
Babylonian Poetic Accentuation (BPA) has been approached from a diachronic perspective. This dissertation, however, looks at BPA at one point in time, in one manuscript. Its concern is discovering what rules govern Early Babylonian accent placement. Working with the three major …