Until recently, the possibility of multiple understandings of post-colonial conflicts had not received proper attention in the field of post-colonialism. Colonial theorists, in their effort to bring to our consciousness the evils of colonialism, have all too quickly subsumed the…
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In the historical-critical analysis of the Hebrew Bible, the so-called "Yahwist" ("J") source of the Pentateuch has been regarded by most scholars as the oldest of the four major sources of the Pentateuch. Most scholars since Wellhausen have dated "J" to the pre-exilic period, p…
This thesis offers a thematic investigation of Saudi women's novels between 1958 and 2016, following the genetic structuralist approach developed by Lucien Goldmann in the 1960s. It thus establishes and provides a nuanced understanding of two strong relationships: one between th…
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…
My research examines the impacts of Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Simin Daneshvar and a selection of theirintimate intellectual circle on the hegemonic masculinity of their era as it approached the“unthinkable” Iranian Revolution of 1979. Given that Al-e Ahmad became so profoundlyinfluentia…
Çalışmamızda Abdülbâki Ârif Efendi’nin İstanbul Kütüphanelerinde Türkçe Tarih Coğrafya Yazmaları bölümünde 733 no’lu Arşiv numarasıyla kayıtlı bulunan Halet Efendi koleksiyonuna ait olan nüshayı inceledik. Bu nüshayı tercih etmemizdeki sebep, sayfa sayılarının düzenli ve takip e…
קורפוס עבודותיה של נעמי יואלי הינו רחב ומתפרש על פני כארבעה עשורים. מחקר זה מבקש לעקוב אחר שלוש יצירות עכשוויות המהוות את שכלול שפתה האמנותית העכשווית של יואלי: דודה פרידה: המוזיאון )2006 ,) אקס חמותי החורגת )2015 ,)ובשורות נעימות ומשיבות נפש )2016 .)הבחירה בהצגות אלו נעשתה כיוו…
Egyptian Compass is a collection of poems which explore issues of immigration, cultural identity and language. The impetus for the poems stems from my experience immigrating from Egypt to the United States at the age of eight and returning for a long period as an adult. The styl…
This dissertation throws light on the nature and function of the forty-two hatta idha occurrences in the Qur'an. The methodology used is inductive as the study begins with a philological analysis of hatta and idha, mainly according to the traditional Arab grammarians. These find…
This dissertation examines the applicability of western psychological thought, to an understanding of the shaikh/disciple relationship in Islamic mysticism (Sufism) and the role of this relationship in the disciple's progress. The analysis revolves around these aspects of Sufism…
A word's indeclinability in Arabic is determined by its similarity to the particles, which are considered to possess the defining characteristics of indeclinability. This similarity is found in four categories: similarity in terms of structure; similarity in terms of meaning; si…
Ontological and metaphysical issues are rarely associated with theatre because theatre emphasizes performance while questions of Being have been addressed primarily by philosophical inquiry. But philosophy and literature have traditionally intersected, because the meaning of exi…
This is a study of the 10th/11th century Syrian poet Abu al-'Ala' al-Ma'arri It answers many questions about his life and works which were still being raised, and highlights problems which have been left unattended not withstanding the impressive library that scholars from a var…
1963 marked the publication of a new edition by Roger Pack of Artemidorus' Onirocritica. The most recent edition had been that of Rudolph Hercher, produced almost a century earlier. Nevertheless, as no new witnesses had been discovered since then, Pack felt constrained in his pr…
In April 1960 the British daily The Manchester Guardian had accused Israel's prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, of “plunging the new nation into Levantinism.” Ben-Gurion himself promised his supporters during an election rally that he would “prevent the Levantinization of Israel!…
One of the perennial problems within the study of biblical Hebrew syntax is the meaning and function of the various types of clauses represented in narrative prose. How stories are shaped using only the five basic verbal clause types--QATAL, YIQTOL, WeQATAL, WeYIQTOL and WAYYIQT…
Biblical scholarship has reached a consensus with respect to the presence of a divine assembly of gods in Israel's faith. Prior to the sixth century B.C.E., Israelite religion underwent an evolution from an initial polytheism to a firm monolatry, where the other gods of the divi…
The tell of Ras Shamra on the Mediterranean coast of Syria has yielded thousands of cuneiform tablets which shed light on the scribal traditions of ancient Ugarit, a city-state which flourished during the latter part of the Late Bronze Age. This dissertation treats one aspect of…
Papyrus British Museum 10808, whose redaction dates to the Second Century AD, comprises a tripartite spell against sickness and is of Ptolemaic provenance as textual and thematic parallels show. Though written in Greek script (with some Demotic characters), the language of the p…