This dissertation studies specific features of the Ottoman administration of justice in Anatolia during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In particular, it examines the functions and responsibilities of Islamic courts within the framework of the Ottoman provin…
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Cette thèse a deux objectifs: celui de décrire les pratiques juridiques en Valachie au XVIIe siècle—en se concentrant sur celles qui concernent la transmission du patrimoine, qui ont laissé le plus de traces documentaires; et celui de comprendre comment ces pratiques juridiques …
This study focuses on the legend of St Mary the Egyptian from Spanish literary sources from the Early Middle Ages to the Golden Age. Dating from the 6th century in Greece, this legend has had an immense and enduring popularity, which is manifested by hundreds of existing manuscr…
The centrality of religion in the English Revolution has been recognized with similar force, but analyzed very differently, in the three dominant historiographical visions of the period--whig, Marxist, and now revisionist. The most obvious difference, however, is between a whig/…
The seventeenth-century Ottoman-Habsburg frontier in Hungary was the scene of constant conflict. The defenses of both empires were based on a line of fortresses. This dissertation addresses how the Ottomans organized and administered their frontier by investigating the military,…
My dissertation considers the 17th-century female portrait as an outgrowth of the practice of social typing by means of which women at the English, French, and Italian courts were identified and understood. Through a case study of the written and painted portraits of Hortense Ma…
The large Muslim communities of the Malay-Indonesian archipelago are situated on the periphery of the Muslim world, and this area is one of the least Arabicized. Despite this, religio-social changes among its Muslim communities are inseparable from those occurring in the Middle …
In order to serve the Muslim community, the Ottomans built nuclei which included educational and social services around the mosque. A nucleus of these was called a 'kulliye'. Facilities in kulliyes can be categorized under four main areas: religious, educational, social, and pri…
This dissertation focuses on developments in the Ashkenazic rite, the liturgical rite of most Central and Eastern European Jewry, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This is an especially interesting period in the development of the Ashkenazic rite, for it witnessed …
Elisa` ben Semuel's Sahzadeh va S[dotbelow]ufi or "The Prince and the Sufi," is mentioned in practically every published survey of JP literature. It has been recognized as a major JP work as well as an important branch in the genealogical tree of Buddha biographies; yet no criti…
This study reconceives Milton's Semitic studies as a paradigmatic example of "Christian Hebraism," a comprehensive intellectual movement involving many of the major figures of the seventeenth century. Utilizing the Hebrew Bible, along with lexicons, grammars, and the rabbinic co…
Most critical works on the seventeenth-century European representations of the Mughal empire, following Said's discourse of "Orientalism," argue that the natives are represented as barbaric/exotic "others". Further, like Said's, these approaches entail a homogenous idea of the "…
The present dissertation studies the Islamic nature of the Acehnese state in the seventeenth century--a subject much neglected by area scholars and Islamicists alike due to the hybrid nature of Southeast Asian Islam. It examines not only the state's Islamic institutions but also…
This dissertation discusses the cultural commonalities and interchange between Central Asia under the Uzbek khanates and Mughal India during the 16th and 17th centuries and the corresponding mental geography of the Muslim inhabitants of these contiguous areas. During this period…
Amidst the large body of contemporary studies on cross-cultural encounters, those between the French and Chinese (or Europeans and Chinese) during the late 17th and 18th centuries (precisely when China is considered a greater civilization) are notably absent. Only critics of Chi…
This dissertation aims to examine the book endowments of three donors. As with many histories of the book, the focus is on material culture--books and written documents, their production, dissemination, organization, and effect. However, this dissertation extends these issues to…
The Moriscos, that is to say, the Muslims who remained in Spain after the fall of Granada in 1492, can be said to have lived a double life. Forced to live publicly as Christians, the Moriscos attempted to follow the precepts of Islam in secret. In spite of their dismal circumsta…
The Safavid royal gardens of the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th centuries are representatives of a culture and a style representing a long tradition of the art of the garden dating back to Persian antiquity. These gardens, representing an idealized world (paradise…
In 203/818, 'Ali b. Musa al-Rid[dotbelow]a, eighth Shi`i Imam and heir apparent of the `Abbasid caliph al-Ma`mun, passed away in the Iranian province of Tus. Mashhad, the place of his burial, emerged as a site of visitation during the late tenth century, and assumed increasing i…