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…
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In this dissertation, I review the history of translation theories and then propose a new theory of translation, which I call "transformance." I use Bakhtinian dialogics as the theory's base and incorporate insights available from poststructuralism and deconstruction, postcoloni…
The argument for a parallel in the social and material conditions under which both the Southern United States writer William Faulkner and post-colonial writers, particularly from Latin America and the Arab world, worked and wrote begins with the many influence studies, which obs…
This study provides a comprehensive account, based on Hanafi fiqh literature, of the Islamic law of evidence as it bears upon the role of witnesses in the judicial process. The act of witnessing (shahadah) is of special importance in the study of Islamic law because witnesses ar…
The Rrekontamiento del rrey Alisandre is an Aljamiado-Morisca version of the legend of Alexander the Great published in 1929 by A. R. Nykl and then largely forgotten. Throughout the work the narrator refers to the hero as Dzulcarnain, 'the two-horned one,' a name by which the Ma…
The purpose of this thesis is to examine Diana Abu-Jaber's memoir, The Language of Baklava, and its approach to the question of identity. To this end the thesis utilizes close reading of passages to explore the relationship between language and identity in the memoir. The thesis…
Considered in the multi-faceted Palestinian context, the concept of identity is particularly complex because of its political ramifications and national dimension. The books by Elias Sanbar and Racha Salah that this dissertation examines share a historical background and a visio…
This work treats the oral Palestinian poetry duel, a genre performed most commonly at weddings in Northern Palestine and Israel. It begins by tracing the history of poetry dueling both in Arabic generally and within the Palestinian dialect. The historical sketch is followed by a…
Gloss literature, the writing of multiple commentaries on Islamic religious works, used to be handwritten in manuscripts, transmitted from generation to generation within the framework of an oral-aural transmission of knowledge; it thus played an important role in the traditiona…
This study investigated the main motif of Ibn Battuta's travel account, the Rihla. The focus of the study, therefore, was on the Rihla itself, which has been regarded as an important source of medieval Islamic history and culture as well as of the beliefs and rituals of people o…
My dissertation is a study of the cultural status and evolving significance of The Thousand and One Nights in France. Since its first appearance in Europe with Antoine Galland's translation (1704-17), this collection of tales from the Middle East has been popular with European a…
In spite of the considerable attention devoted to the third/ninth century by scholars of Arabic literature, credit for the elaboration of the notion of adab in its wide, if imprecise, meaning of literary culture, is given to and concentrated upon only a handful of writers. The d…
This dissertation examines the representation of diasporic identity and consciousness in Arab diasporic narratives from Canada and the United States. With a focus on the genre of fiction, the primary works under consideration are contemporary novels by Arab Canadian and Arab Ame…
This study attempts to explain how and why the Twelver Shi'is adopted the guild-based system of jurisprudence first developed by the Sunnis. Drawing on Sunni legal and theological works, it first outlines a theory of legal heresy in Sunni Islam based on the concept of "violating…
The prosody of the stanzaic poems called madrasê, written in Syriac by Ephrem of Nisibis in the fourth century, has long been studied by scholars. Until now, these studies have focused on meter, but this has left many questions unanswered. The present study examines the intercla…
This dissertation examines the themes of rape and domestic violence in Zionist literature on the “Arab Question” published in Hebrew from the last years of Ottoman rule in Palestine through to the 1929 riots that erupted during the British Mandate. By bringing to light the impor…
This dissertation is a theoretical inquiry into how modern Arab identity was formed during nineteenth century Arab Renaissance or al-nahdah al-'arabiyah. The dissertation closely reads the fiction of Salim al-Bustani and Jirji Zaydan, and the non-fiction of Butrus al-Bustani, as…
This essay investigates Edward Said's construction of a method of representation towards a political visibility of Palestinians in After the Last Sky . I argue that After the Last Sky comes to articulate possible sites of representability, specifically in the relationship betwee…