Thesiss

This dissertation presents an ethnography of a local moral world created by the intersection of a nunnery, a monastery, and a village within the Zangskar region of Himalayan Kashmir. These three entities are related within an economy of merit constituted by institutional practic…

The term ma'na ("meaning"; "image" or "literary conceit") has occupied a unique position as a category in both Arabic-Islamic literary criticism and rhetoric from their very inception. From the third century AH (Hijra)/ninth century CE (Common Era) up until the fifth century/ele…