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The work of the Persian poet Mas'ud Sa'd Salmân (d. 1121 C.E.) is studied by situating him in his appropriate historical and cultural context, while exploring the idea that writing at the frontier of empire contributed to various types of innovations in his poetry. There is a pe…

This position paper explores information on military background and mental health status of criminal defendants. Focusing on Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, the link between military service, post-traumatic stress disorder and criminal behavior is thoroughly examined. De…

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…

This thesis examines the office of poet laureate, and the wider cultural role of the court by whom the laureate was employed, in the long eighteenth century. This was the period in which the laureateship first came into being (1668), developed from an honorific into a functionar…

After thirty-nine years of uneasy coexistence between Israel's civil legal system and state religious authorities, in the late 1980s the High Court of Justice (HCJ) began to challenge state rabbinical authorities in a conflict so heated that, by the mid-1990s, the President of t…