This thesis is a study of the Egyptian village novel from its origins, with Muhammad Husayn Haykal's Zaynab (1916) to its contemporary elaboration in the work of a selection of novelists from what has come to be known as "the generation of the sixties' in the critical literature…
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This dissertation provides the first in-depth study of the Lebanese-American immigrant writer, journalist, and translator ‘Afīfa Karam (1883-1924), an important contributor to the nahda, the Arabic cultural renaissance of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Karam published t…
The aim of this study is to examine key texts in the discourse on Arab male homosexuality--works that have helped shape contemporary Arab thoughts and attitudes towards male "homosexuality." The exploration of an Arab "homosexual identity" will not only be examined through the a…
This dissertation investigates Armenian literature in Turkish through the two authors Takuhi Tovmasyan and Migirdic Margosyan by analyzing their literary works with an emphasis on food. By putting the traumatic experiences and the memories of 1915 in the cultural contexts of dai…
This study is a cross-cultural interpretation of Midaq Alley and the difficulties it presents for Western readers. It explores the wide range of problems they face in reading an Arabic novel translated into English, whether these difficulties might be religion, language, or atti…
Arabic literature mirrors the aspirations, sufferings and hopes of the Arabic people from the past to the future. In 1920, the Exiled Arab men of letters from Syria and Lebanon formed a literary guild, al-Rabita al-galamiyya (The Pen League) which advocated innovation in Arabic …
This study looks at a growing trend in literature: memoirs written by women from Islamic countries. It will deal specifically with the cultural significance of these books in North American culture with special consideration of how the Muslim religion is depicted and therefore r…
Meta-poetry is a term that has often been associated with modern poetry of the twentieth century. This dissertation proposes to expand the study of meta-poetry to include the Abbasid age in Arabic literature which was a phase of poetic turmoil in which a new poetic taste and new…
This thesis offers a comparative study of The Sand Child and The Sacred Night by Tahar Ben Jelloun. Both novels were inspired by the true story of a woman in Egypt who was brought up male by her father. In the first novel, Ben Jelloun establishes a narrator and then proceeds to …
This research examined how Rumi's poetry impacts the lives of individuals who study his teachings, written 800 years ago in his masterpiece, Mathnawi. After teaching Rumi for the last15 years, I was aware of positive changes in my students' lives but wanted a more in-depth under…
This dissertation explores the dynamics of identity construction and nation building in Hebrew and Yiddish literature in Russia and Poland in the decade following the 1905 revolution. It examines these dynamics through a study of the poetry of Yaakov Steinberg between the years …
This dissertation explores the astronomical work of the fourteenth century Bukharan astronomer ʿUbayd Allah b. Masʿud Sadr al-Shari ah al-Thān\=\i\ (d. 1347 AD). Sadr al-Shari ah was a religious scholar who produced several renowned works, of which ``{ The Adjustment of the Conf…
This thesis will explore the concept of the patrimonial foundation of art in the Ottoman Empire and the relationship between the poet and patron by first examining the historical context to these phenomena. While discussing the notion of patronage, one of the significant questio…
This dissertation represents the first attempt at studying exclu- sively the problem of the translation of the Qur'an. The claim that it is impermissible to translate the Qur'an is discussed with reference to the primary sources, namely the Qur'an and Sunnah (traditions). The st…
Ameen Rihani (1876-1940) is known as a writer of the Emigrant School of Arabic Literature. He and others wrote in Arabic in the United States and sought to break Arabic literature away from its traditional forms and themes. He eventually became recognized as an important writer …
During the early-modern period, Persian was the language of the imperial court and a prestigious literary medium in South Asia. Not only did Persian connect the Subcontinent with intellectual and cultural trends across western and central Asia, but during the early-modern period…
The Desert Wisdom project investigates the spiritual practice and wisdom literature of the Middle East viewed in the context of an indigenous, ecologically-based tradition rather than of mutually-exclusive orthodox religions. It applies traditional Middle Eastern methods of tran…
Becoming Stranger: Identity and Estrangement in Contemporary Turkish Visual Culture is an analysis of the visuality of cultural politics concerning Turkey since the 1990s to present and the emergent effect of estrangement as a social and political critique. The period marks the …
The thesis presents a first edition and English translation of the Battalname (Battalname), an anonymous work of Old Ottoman literature. The manuscript used as a basis for the present edition is the earliest known manuscript dated AD 1436-7. It was established that it is itself …