The short story is the most highly developed form of modern Persian literature, but despite its importance for the cultural and literary history of Iran, it has yet to be examined comprehensively. As a preliminary step for such an effort, this dissertation presents a bio-bibliog…
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This work addresses aspects of narration and style in the fiction of the Hebrew modernist writer Uri-Nissan Gnessin (1879-1913). It draws the outlines of Gnessin's modernist identity by examining how the system of narration and representation in his fiction deviates from a preva…
By coins and texts this dissertation explores the theory, structure, and technique of monetary policy south of a line running from the Black Sea to the Himalaya mountains from its invasion by the Mongols with Chingiz Khan in 616/1220 to the mid-reign of Uljaytu in 709/1309. Sinc…
The Mukhtasar was the first precis of Hanbali figh. Various Hanbalis over the years studied this work. Some studied it directly under al-Khiraqi and transmitted it subsequently. No text of Hanbalism was so much commented upon as the Mukhta sar, a comprehensive treatise covering …
This work is divided into an introduction and three parts. The first part is sociological, and consists of an overview of Nabati poetry in the context of pre-modern Arabian society and culture. It is intended to give the reader a glimpse of life in pre-modern Arabia and to demon…
The purpose of this dissertation is to compare the narrative temporal technique of the Succession Narrative and the Keret Epic. The methodology is an integration of newer literary critical tools and comparative study of two texts. Comparative study of the biblical and the Ugarit…
This study argues that the novel is to be perceived as an imaginary resolution of a real social contradiction, its rhetoric as a manifestation of latent ideology and its opening as a master-narrative for the text's political unconscious. The thesis makes use of M. Bakhtin's assu…
This thesis explores the Orientalist discourse in four of Edgar Allan Poe’s poems and two of his prose essays. The major aspects of Orientalism examined in Poe’s works rely on the theortical ideas of Edwad Said’s Orientalism and other ideas developed by important Arab writers. S…
Modern historiography of the Ottoman Empire in the period following the death of Sultan Suleyman in 1566 is dominated by a paradigm of decline, a crucial element of which has been an assessment of the decline of the timar system. Reconstruction of the timar organization on the b…
Commentaries recognized that two pericopae in the Gospel of John, viz. John 1:43-51 and 4:1-42, allude to stories about the Hebrew patriarch Jacob. This dissertation probes the theme of Jacob in these two pericopae and compares it with the theme as it occurs in the Jewish Bible …
The study of Arabic poetry has been seriously retarded by the paucity of detailed studies of the works of individual poets. Existing editions are primarily concerned with matching passages from the poems to incidents in the poets' biographies and cataloguing the themes they trea…
Building on the recent studies in Hebrew poetry and on continuing work in "rhetorical criticism" (following Muilenburg), the dissertation develops a method of poetic analysis and applies it to Isaiah 2-12 as an example of prophetic rhetoric within a complex literary corpus. The …
The Egyptian author Yusuf ldris (b. 1927) is a leading short story writer in the Arab world. Whereas the first decade in his literary activity (1954-1964) is marked by social realism, the works of the later decades (1965-1982) show highly symbolic and surrealistic features. It i…
Ephrem the Syrian is the single most influential figure in the history of Syriac-speaking Christianity. His literary legacy testifies to catechetical, exegetical, and liturgical activities which had an inestimable impact on the churches of the Syrian East. In spite of the format…
This research deals with the Syriac version(s) as a respectable text in and of itself. Many have tried to show how the Syriac favors the Septuagint and/or the Targum, is reliable or unreliable or is useful or not for textual critical study. This paper handles many of the lexical…
Although the Psalter has been extensively studied, an area within the Psalter which has received proportionately less attention is the small collection of psalms with the heading syr-hmʿlwt (Pss 120-134). It is usually noted that the poetic parallelism of these psalms contains a…
This work, which addresses the phenomenon of intertextual variation in the orally transmitted early colloquial poetry of Najd, is divided into two volumes. Volume I is divided into three parts. Chapter I contains the introduction and a general overview and description of the cor…
The focus of this study is the Syriac Psalter (SyrPss) which is attributed to Paul, the bishop of Tella. A total of ten Mss have been collated for the edition of SyrPss produced for this study. Their descriptions are found in chapter one. Chapter two contains the text of Ms Mila…
Scope and method of study. Ghassan Kanafani's works emerge as a significant contribution to Arabic literature, especially in the genre of short fiction; he is one of a small group responsible for bringing Palestinian literature into the modern era. Combining his experience as a …