Bu çalışma, 16. yüzyıl hükümdarı, Muhibbî mahlaslı Kanuni Sultan Süleyman’ın Divan’ının 2000-2500. gazellerinin bağlamlı dizin ve işlevsel sözlük çalışmasıdır.
Araştırmamız giriş ve üç bölümden meydana gelmektedir. Giriş bölümünde araştırmanın konusu, önemi, amacı, takip edilecek metodu ve kaynakları üzerinde bilgiler verilmektedir. Birinci bölüm iki kısımdan oluşmaktadır ki birinci kısımda müfessir Zemahşerî’nin hayatı ile ilgili özet…
Despite a near-universal acknowledgement of the Prophet Muḥammad’s supreme eloquence in the Islamic tradition, ḥadīth (his recorded speech and deeds) is largely absent from the earliest discussions of Arabic grammar. The standard explanation for this absence, forwarded by the 8t…
This dissertation examines the themes and poetic techniques of 'Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati, one of the leading contemporary Arab poets, as they evolve during four phases of his literary career; the romanticist, the realist, the socialist realist and the revolutionary. Central among…
During the eighth and ninth centuries, in the Islamic empire governed from 'Abbāsid Baghdad, a new body of Christian literature appeared: theological treatises written in Arabic rather than in Syriac or Greek, and composed with the express purpose of articulating Christian doctr…
The composition of Deut 27-28 is shaped by its ritual and performative function and by the narrative device of a script within a speech: the oral and ritual performance of the covenant ceremony by the Levites is framed within the speech-command of Moses. Studies of Deut 28 have …
This dissertation examines the representation of space in the fiction of seven members of the sixties generation in Egypt. Focusing upon the novels of Jamāl al-Ghītānī, Muhammad al-Bisāt ̇ī, ‘Abd al-Hakīm Qāsim, Bahā’ Tāhir, Yahya Tāhir ‘Abdallah, Ibrāhīm Aslān, and Sun‘allah Ibr…
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This study investigates the prosimetric style of a renowned contribution to Arabic narrative, the Maqamat of Badi' al-zaman al-Hamadh ani (358–398/969–1008). Al-Hamadh ani's Maqam at corpus contains fifty-two short tales that are centered on the words and deeds of a fictitious b…
This dissertation consists of an annotated translation of a unique medieval Arabic work entitled al-Had\bar a y\bar a \ wa al-Tuhaf, commonly known as al-Dhakha'ir wa al-Tuhaf, an introduction, a conclusion, and a glossary. The text is a selection from the existing parts of a mu…
This dissertation comprises a literary analysis of selected tales from the Alf laylah wa-laylah (The Thousand and One Nights), in which I collate texts from the nineteenth-century editions of MacNaghten (Calcutta II) and Bulaq and compare these two editions with the recently pub…
A partial translation of ʿAyn al-Vaqayiʿ (Wellspring of Events), the third of twelve works in Bahr al-Fava'id: Kuliyat-i Riyazi (Unlimited Benefits: The Complete Works of Riyazi) of Muhammad Yusuf. The work was lithographed in Mashhad about 1908 A.D. ʿAyn al-Vaqayiʿ is one of fe…
Influenced by the basic human rights movement in the West, and the independence and nationalism movements in Egypt in late nineteenth and twentieth century, women's issues in Egypt as well as other Arab countries, have become an important social concern and have been discussed f…
This study addresses a vital form of the religious expressive experience: madih nabawi (poetry in praise of Prophet Muhammad). It is an intensive examination and analysis of the roles madih poetry plays in the lives of two northern Sudanese riverain communities; the Bidairiyyah …
Since Julius Wellhausen's synthesis of the Documentary Hypothesis—and no doubt owing in part to the Protestant Reformation—dominant portrayals of the Priestly material have described a self-interested legist with little or no concern for those outside the Levitical ranks. Though…
This paper provides an analysis of the Arabic language used in two of the post-revolutionary works of Tawfiq al-Hakīm. The dialog of the 1952 short story, "I've Got It, I've Got It," from the collection, The Art of Literature, is examined along with the dialog from the 1956 play…
This dissertation is an attempt to write an intellectual biography of the Persian astronomer and Qur'an commentator Niz[dotbelow]am al-Din al-Nisaburi (d. 1329 A.D.). It is primarily devoted to tracing Nisaburi's intellectual development from his first texts on astronomy to his …
Abū Ishāq al-Husrī died in Qayrawān in 413/1022 and gained renown as an adīb through his mentorship of the youth of Qayrawān, including Ibn Rashīq (d. 456/1063) and Ibn Sharaf (d. 460/1067), and through his authorship of several works, most notably the Zahr al-ādāb wa-thamar al-…