The philosophical system elaborated by the Fatimi Ismaʿili daʿi Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani strongly recalls the scheme of ten separated intellects laid out by his non-IsmaʿRiipredecessor, Abu Nasr al-Farabi The resemblance is striking, but not absolute: At a crucial point, al-Kirma…
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This study examines the role of rhetoric in two early accounts of the conquest of Mexico: Hernan Cortes's Cartas de relacion (1519-1526) and Francisco Lopez de Gomara's Historia de la conquista de Mexico (1552). Although rhetoric, understood in Aristotelian terms, owes allegianc…
The traditional scholarship on Mamluk architecture has concentrated most heavily in the matter of description of specific monuments--the approach of Briggs and Creswell, amongst others. The strength of this approach is in its archaeological documentation of the specifics of each…
The Sokoto Jihad of 1804 C.E. in Hausaland produced a powerful Islamic state. Its leaders and thinkers were Islamic scholars who communicated with each other in classical Arabic and produced an unprecedented number of writings never before witnessed in Hausaland. Many of these w…
Muhammad ʿUthman Jalal was the prolific translator of a number of French literary texts during the period usually referred to as the nahda or cultural renaissance of Egypt in the nineteenth century. This dissertation examines his complete extant corpus, which includes the transl…
Since the late nineteenth century, modern Palestinian resistance poetry has been an expression of the Palestinian peoples’ national culture and their historical struggle for self-determination and a homeland. This study examines Palestinian resistance poetry written during the t…
Within the vast field of dramatic performance, scholarship has focused to a grossly disproportionate degree on the small percentage of drama that is accorded literary status; much the rest is relegated, along with forms of performance having no claim as drama, to the catch-all g…
This study is addressed to two audiences: Western and Iranian academics as well as the Iranian social thinkers and activists. This study presents a sociological analysis of the theological writings of Ayatollah Sayyed Mahmoud Taleqani of Iran. Taleqani developed his thought over…
Mukhtasar siw an al-hikma is a work hikma (wisdom literature) compiled by the twelfth century qadi-philosopher 'Umar b. Sahlan al-Sawi. This work, which has been until now in a manuscript form, is actually an abridgment of the famous but lost Siwan al-hikma, attributed tradition…