This project discusses conceptualizations of post-67 discourse within the context of novelistic production in Syria. Although understood as a phenomenon that responds to a historical event, the discourse is also read as a response to a literary history dominated by ideological "…
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The translation of the postcolonial Arabic novel into English and French is an interesting case in which cultural representation can be examined in a way to shed light on its diverse aspects and repercussions as well as explore the role of the translators, among other agents, in…
L'imagerie de l'Orient dans la littérature occidentale a été bien étudiée dans le monde universitaire anglophone et francophone : comment l'Occident voit-il l'Orient, ou bien « l'Orient vu par l'Occident ». Cependant, les études qui partent dans la direction opposée, c'est-à-dir…
This dissertation studies the lyric poetry of 'Abd Allah Ibn al-Mu'tazz, the 'Abbasid poet, literary critic, and caliph of one day, with the aim of contributing to scholarly understanding of Ibn al-Mu'tazz's poetic practice in particular and lyric poetry in general. In surveying…
The state of Levantine Marxists today is one of exhaustion on both the political and intellectual fronts. Things have not always been this way. In the 1960's through the 1970's the Leftist scene was a vibrant one in terms of critical intellectual production and political activit…
For those who believe in a future resurrection of the body, there naturally arises the question of what happens after death but before the end of time. This condition is the intermediate state. For most Muslims, the intermediate state is called the barzakh . It is a fantastical …
Although Arabic literature has a rich heritage which exerted considerable influence upon the west, after the Middle Ages Arabic writers produced little in the way of prose fiction. When the printing press was introduced in Arabic-speaking countries in the nineteenth century, all…
The history of Iraq, especially since the establishment of the modern nation in 1920, has been a conspicuously violent one. The yoking together of Sunni, Shia and Kurds under an imported monarchy was a recipe for civil conflict, as was the corruption, authoritarianism and Britis…
Modern Persian literary histories generally characterize the decades leading up to the Iranian Revolution of 1979 as a single episode of accumulating political anxieties in Persian poetics, as in other areas of cultural production. According to the dominant literary-historical n…
This dissertation relies on scholarship on Saudi Arabia, as well as feminist and postcolonial theory, to explore how representations of Saudi women are constructed and deployed in the political sphere in both Saudi Arabia and the United States. It argues that these representatio…
In this dissertation, I analyze the representation of black otherness as an emerging trend within the new wave of Khaleeji literature from a historical and cultural point of view. I contend that the modern Khaleeji novel challenges systems of oppression by looking into the disco…
This dissertation examines, first, how novels by contemporary Arab women writers have been received in Western culture; their reception has for centuries been shaped by an orientalist discourse governed by institutionalized stereotypes of the Arab female as victim. Second, it ex…
This dissertation examines the literary corpus of the modernEgyptian short story writer Mohammad al-Makhzanjî. It provides a critical reading of approximately one quarter of the author's work. The fundamental issue linking the four chapters of the dissertation is the examination…
The present work examines the mixed-language macaronic poems, mulamma'at , of Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-1273), one of the greatest mystical poets of all times. Rumi's mixed language poetry, however, had received no significant scholarly or lay attention prior to this study. While …
The Sira of Ibn Ishaq, as an early record of the communal memory of the historical beginnings of Islam, contains a large number of reports about Muslim and polytheist women. These reports are not to be understood solely in terms of a literal representation of the historical real…
It has traditionally been taught that Iran, a Sunni state was converted to Twelver Shi'ism almost overnight when the armies backing the Safavid house conquered the country in 1501. In recent years, however, scholars have begun to question how, and how rapidly, the process of con…
This study examines the history of figural silk textiles from Safavid Iran (1501-1722) as transmitters of social information and focuses on figural silks depicting narrative scenes from the twelfth century author Nizami's epic poem, "Layla and Majnun." Safavid silks are renowned…
This work shows how a social organization might also be treated as a discourse network diachronically produced by a synergy between social and discursive structures. It contributes to recent efforts in bridging the gap between discursive and social structures on the one hand, an…
Abu Is[dotbelow]h[dotbelow]aq Ah[dotbelow]mad b. Muh[dotbelow]ammad b. Ibrahim al-Tha`labi's work, al-Kashf wa-al-bayan `an tafsir al-Qur`an , is one of the most important medieval Qur`an commentaries that has not been edited as yet. Although prominent scholars of Islam have bee…