This dissertation excavates the Islamic presence in Toni Morrison's Paradise and highlights the narrative's intertextual evocation of the politics of the harem, a major proclamation of gender boundaries in Islam. In particular, this study shows how Morrison's Paradise initiates …
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In this dissertation, I set out to achieve two primary goals: first, to construct a detailed description of ancient utopian expectations according to Greco-Roman and Jewish literature, and second, to read Revelation 21–22 in light of these utopian expectations. In order to const…
Bu çalışmada müminlerin son derece arzu ettikleri ve inanç esaslarından biri olan cennet hayatının, itikatta mezhep imamı olan Ebû Mansûr el- Mâtürîdî‟nin Te‟vîlâtü‟l-Kur‟ân adlı eserinde cennet hayatı ile ilgili âyetlere getirdiği yorumlar değerlendirilmiştir. Çalışma iki bölüm…
The notion of a primeval paradise is often associated with the absence of death for both humans and animals. Humans are envisioned as immortal, both humans and animals are restricted to a vegetarian diet, and all live together in perfect peace. This dissertation is an examinatio…
The dissertation investigates changes in the social imaginary of the European aristocracy, which centered on the garden as a space of social and cultural production, to argue that first Islam and later China played an integral role in the formation of conceptions of both aristoc…
