This dissertation deals with the biblical scholarship of Jerome of Stridon (347–419), in particular with his commentaries on the Prophets. It argues that Jerome developed his commentarial method in the context of an attempt to present biblical exegesis as a mode of ascetic self-…
This dissertation examines the role that Catholic missionary movements in the Ottoman Empire and Persia played in fostering the growth of science and learning in early modern Europe. The Ottoman Empire's alliance with France, solemnized in the Capitulations, opened the Ottoman E…
There are around 80,243 Saudi Arabian students are now studying in the United States under the King Abdullah scholarship program (M. Alshaalan, personal communication, May 5, 2013).This research will focus on finding the challenges faced by Saudi ESL scholarship students and how…
A major contribution to the development of modern Bengali literature in the nineteenth century is works of the Islamic sciences. My study concentrates on the role of these works in the formation of Bengali-Muslim identity, focusing specifically on the Islamic science of interpre…