One does not have to read very far in the Old Testament to discover that war and warfare are frequently recurring motifs. Whether spiritualized, extolled in poetry, or reported in sparse narration, war is everywhere. One aspect of the ancient Israelite approach to war in the Bib…
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Mehdi Akhavān Sāles (1928-1990) is one of the most important figures in modern Persian literature. However, his poetry is little known in the West. Even in Iran, though held in high regard, his work is considered hermetic. There is no unambiguous message, no identifiable politic…
As a director and theatre artist, I want my creative work as a storyteller to illuminate myth. The beauty of myth transcends all cultural boundaries by revealing, through the art of storytelling, the universal within the particular, thus illuminating the foundation of our common…
This study is the first attempt to systematically examine the central role of economy, money and debt in the oeuvre of Shmuel Yosef Agnon—1966 Nobel laureate in literature—by offering a reading that combines perspectives from economic theory, semiotics, psychoanalysis, narrative…
My dissertation, Prosaic Conditions: Writing in the Modern Mode from Hegel to Bialik, investigates the terms prose and the prosaic as metaphors of modern political and cultural conditions, and as indices of the epistemological transformations and aesthetic sensibilities that for…
Apocalyptic Transmissions explores the significance of nineteenth and early twentieth century New Testament research in relation to current attempts to rethink the nature of modernity and its secular rationalities. The dissertation considers the work of Hegel, Nietzsche, and Hei…
As Indonesian Muslim depictions of Christianity have varied over time, this study is an attempt to provide a brief survey of the Muslim attitudes towards Christianity in modern Indonesia. It will set the stage by first investigating the Muslim depiction of Christianity as found …
India and Indians feature prominently in contemporary Anglophone fiction. The last quarter of a century has seen a boom in English language writing from and about Britain's Empire in South Asia. The Booker and Pulitzer prizes for prose fiction frequently consider and reward both…
Divided into four chapters, this dissertation focuses on six Royal Academicians from the late Victorian to the Georgian era. The first chapter examines the impact of the Orient on Frederic Leighton. An analysis of Leighton's eastern travelogue traces critical connections between…
This dissertation is a study of a monumental work written in 1925 by the Egyptian writer `Ali `Abd al-Raziq and entitled al-Islam wa Usul al-Hukm: Bahl fil Khilafa wal Hukumah fil Islam (Islam and the Basics of Governance: Research on the Caliphate and Government in Islam). The …
This dissertation discusses the Khawarij in modern Islamic scholarship. Chapter one discusses the rise of the Khawarij and the historical events that took place from the accession of 'Uthman until the death of 'Ali. A great deal of attention was given to 'Ali's reign since the K…
This dissertation examines the play of representations of religious and secularist discourses in a series of novels written from 1870 to the present moment, in Victorian England, colonial Ireland and India, and postcolonial India. I argue that the novels in question critique "re…
Challenging the conventional approaches to modernity, this work argues that sublimity, rather than diminishing, became a persistent feature of modern life. This work engages with the sublime by investigating late colonial Hindi and Urdu reinventions of the classical epic form. E…
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 thesis is an attempt to analyze and compare the methods of exegesis of `Abduh and Rid[dotbelow]a. The analysis focuses on their works of Qur'anic exegesis, especially their joint project Tafsir al-Manar . Their school of exegesis and principles of exegesis are a reflection …
This dissertation examines biblical fictions : short stories that derive their plot and characters directly from the Bible. These stories are distinguishable from others that use biblical archetypes or allusions but whose basic structure is not formed around a biblical narrative…
In this dissertation I explore the puzzle of why Egyptian secularists, many of whom were in positions of great power both inside and outside the state, have historically moved in an increasingly Islamic direction and failed to legitimize secularism as a discourse on its own term…
The complex interaction of historical forces that include the evolution of state institutions, global market consolidation, imperial expansion and the rise of a new diplomatic order has often been represented as a reflection of dichotomous social, economic and political factors.…
Conrad juxtaposes Western culture with its native counterpart in order to formulate a vision that can guide the alienated individual who has lost his connection with his own nature, his family, and his society. Unlike many of his contemporaries who only describe this miserable h…