This dissertation explores the relationship between the compendios de castigos brought into Castilian during the last years of the reign of Fernando III and the first four years of Alfonso X's rule and the socio-political milieu in which they were circulated. The first two works…
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This dissertation explores the emergence of a golden age of Arabic encyclopaedic literature in the scholarly centers of Egypt and Syria during the Mamluk Empire (1250–1517). At the heart of the project is a study of Shih ab al-Din Ahmad b. `Abd al-Wahh ab al-Nuwayri's (d. 1333) …
This study centers on Sahl b. Harun, an intellectual of ninth-century Baghdad (d.215/830), who was a personality of note, labelled a shu'ubi (anti-Arab), and famed for his avarice. He played a role on both the literary and political stages, authoring some seventeen works (all bu…
Whereas the study of the genre of early Arabic adab literature known as "Mirror for Princes" (Mirror ) is usually limited to illuminating political ideas surrounding early leadership in Islamic societies, The Thousand Nights and One Night ( Nights ), in comparison, is rarely con…
The aim of this dissertation is to explore how Iranian identity maintains its continuity throughout its history. Despite changes in sovereignty and in religious thought, certain aspects of Iranian cultural identity have persisted from ancient times until now. The spheres of reli…