Thesiss

This thesis explores the Khaterat (Memoirs) written by Taj as-Saltane (1884-?), a Qajar princess who was a daughter of Naser ad-Di n Shah (1848-1896) and a sister of Mozaffar ad-Di n Shah (1896-1906). These Memoirs, which were probably written in the 1920's, belong to a traditio…

Within the vast field of dramatic performance, scholarship has focused to a grossly disproportionate degree on the small percentage of drama that is accorded literary status; much the rest is relegated, along with forms of performance having no claim as drama, to the catch-all g…

The thesis "Tuba: an African eschatology in Islam" adopts afrocentric hypotheses for the study of Islam. First, the thesis demonstrates how certain phenomena specific to Islam in Africa, those usually qualified as products of religious syncretism, are on the contrary indicative …