Thesiss

Bu çalışmada müminlerin son derece arzu ettikleri ve inanç esaslarından biri olan cennet hayatının, itikatta mezhep imamı olan Ebû Mansûr el- Mâtürîdî‟nin Te‟vîlâtü‟l-Kur‟ân adlı eserinde cennet hayatı ile ilgili âyetlere getirdiği yorumlar değerlendirilmiştir. Çalışma iki bölüm…

The notion of a primeval paradise is often associated with the absence of death for both humans and animals. Humans are envisioned as immortal, both humans and animals are restricted to a vegetarian diet, and all live together in perfect peace. This dissertation is an examinatio…

In this dissertation, I set out to achieve two primary goals: first, to construct a detailed description of ancient utopian expectations according to Greco-Roman and Jewish literature, and second, to read Revelation 21–22 in light of these utopian expectations. In order to const…

Reclaiming the word paradise to mean complete freedom, Es Probete, No Llenete: On Labor & Creating Paradise explores the American Dream, including the journeys and labor needed to achieve it. By questioning the concept of the American Dream and deciphering between what is inheri…

This dissertation excavates the Islamic presence in Toni Morrison's Paradise and highlights the narrative's intertextual evocation of the politics of the harem, a major proclamation of gender boundaries in Islam. In particular, this study shows how Morrison's Paradise initiates …

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…

The dissertation investigates changes in the social imaginary of the European aristocracy, which centered on the garden as a space of social and cultural production, to argue that first Islam and later China played an integral role in the formation of conceptions of both aristoc…