Dissertations from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Knowledge@UChicago

Dissertations from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Knowledge@UChicago

[n.b.: Some titles under embargo]

1.	PDF State, Province, and Temple in Kassite Nippur: A Case Study of the Livestock Economy of the EREŠ.DINGIR Priestesses Huang, Ami Scholarship on Babylonian administration during the Kassite period (ca. 1595–1155 BCE) has tended to paint the provincial government under the governor of Nippur (šand [...] 2020-08 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
2.	PDF Women on the Verge: Emotions, Authoritarianism, and the Novel in Italy and Turkey, 1922-1936 Peruccio, Kara A. Reading Italian authors Sibilla Aleramo (1876-1960), Grazia Deledda (1871-1936), and Maria Messina (1887-1944) together with Turkish writers Suat Derviş (1904/5-1972), H [...] 2020-08 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
3.	PDF Poetry and Pedagogy: The Homiletic Verse of Farid al-Din ʿAṭṭâr O'Malley, Austin M This dissertation examines ʿAṭṭâr’s didactic mas̱navis, especially his Conference of the Birds (Manṭeq al-ṭayr) and Book of Affliction (Moṣibat-nâma), fro [...] 2017-03 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
4.	PDF Zayn al-Dīn al-Khwāfī (757–838/1356–1435): The Life and Work of a Ṭarīqa-founding Sufi Kaya, Mustafa Ismail This dissertation is a study of the life and work of Zayn al-Dīn al-Khwāfī (d. 838/1435), a Suhrawardī Sufi of Herat active during the late fourteenth and early fifte [...] 2019-12 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
5.	PDF Crisis and (Dis)Order: Armenian Revolutionaries and the Hamidian Regime in the Ottoman Empire, 1887-1896 Altintas, Toygun This dissertation investigates two interrelated processes. The first is the development of official anti-Armenian policy and practice during the last quarter of the ninet [...] 2018-12 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
6.	PDF Hashemite Household Anxieties: The Amirate of Mecca, Arabism, and the Arab Revolt (1880-1919) Sweis, Sami Jiryis This dissertation analyzes the evolution of the Hashemite dynasty into two competing households during the late Ottoman period (1880-1919). Further, it explores how this [...] 2020-06 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
7.	PDF Ḫatti, Troy, and the Balkans: Anatolian-Balkan Interactions during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages (1300-1000 BC) Gama Sosa, Michele Rodolfo Xicotencatl This dissertation proposes an alternative explanation to the oft-cited Balkan migration narrative of the Early Iron Age as described in Herodotus. The multi-causal narrat [...] 2020-08 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
8.	PDF The Lives of Sām Mīrzā (923–75/1517–67): Dynastic Strife and Literary World-Building in Early Safavid Iran Beers, Theodore Samuel This dissertation is titled The Lives of Sām Mīrzā (923–75/1517–67): Dynastic Strife and Literary World-Building in Early Safavid Iran. It utilizes the career of a [...] 2020-08 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
9.	PDF Between Work and School: Leisure and Modernity in Hashemite Baghdad, 1921-1958 Olsen , Pelle Valentin The story of Iraq’s and Baghdad’s modern history and modernity can be, and has been, told in a number of different ways. “Between Work and School: Leisure and Moder [...] 2020-08 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
10.	PDF Households, Communities, and Dimensions of Social Identity in the Early Iron Age at Tall al-'Umayri Vincent, Monique Denise The Early Iron Age Southern Levant was a place in transition. The various Late Bronze Age city-states were collapsing and the New Kingdom Egyptian empire, part of a Medit [...] 2016 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
11.	PDF Revaluing the Price of Blood: Homicide in Islamic Jurisprudence and Ottoman Law Toft, Amir Armon This dissertation examines homicide in Ottoman-era Islamic jurisprudence. Broadly speaking, it aims to articulate a more comprehensive approach to studying criminal law i [...] 2020-08 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
12.	PDF Reconstructing Alamut: New Approaches to the Study of the Qiyāma and the Nizari Polity in Iran Hajiani, Shiraz Ali This research contributes new approaches and readings of the history and thought of the early Nizari Ismailis and their polity in Iran (fl. 1090-1256/483-654). Previous s [...] 2019-06 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
13.	PDF Painted Ceramic Traditions and Rural Communities in Hittite Anatolia Cannon, Josh This dissertation examines the 2nd Millennium BC pottery from Çadır Höyük, a multi-period archaeological site in Yozgat, Turkey. The research shows that a painted cer [...] 2020-06 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
14.	PDF On Blackness in Arabic Popular Literature: The Black Heroes of the Siyar Sha'biyya, Their Conceptions, Contests, and Contexts Schine, Rachel Nicole This dissertation offers the first in-depth study of racial difference, and specifically blackness, in premodern Arabic popular literature. I base my study primarily on t [...] 2019-08 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
15.	PDF No Empire for Old Men: The Young Ottomans and the World, 1856–1878 Elfenbein, Madeleine This dissertation explores the rise of the Young Ottoman movement in the 1860s as a product of the new geopolitical order that emerged in the wake of the Crimean War (185 [...] 2017-12 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
16.	PDF Syria at the United Nations, 1945-1955: The Struggle for Sovereignty and Territorial Claims in Palestine Rivera, Julio This study is an examination of the Syrian government’s strategic political engagement with the United Nations from 1945 to 1955. Specifically, this work provides an in [...] 2018-08 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
17.	PDF Worlds of the Imagination: Bīdel of Delhi (d.1720) and Early Modern Persian Lyric Style Mikkelson, Jane In 1670, Bīdel of Delhi was travelling through northern India. One night in Agra he had a visionary dream that would reframe and reconsolidate his entire life: he experi [...] 2019-08 | South Asian Languages and Civilizations; Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
18.	PDF The Shibanid Question: Reassessing 16th Century Eurasian History in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan Samie, August Nabe This dissertation investigates how post-Soviet Uzbekistan appropriated 15-16th century history and historiographies in constructing a national identity and a national his [...] 2020-08 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
19.	PDF Visions of Gods and Monsters: Levantine and Mesopotamian Iconographies of Divine Combat and Their Textual Impressions Richey, Madadh Pyrene Despite widespread agreement that narratives of divine combat with monstrous antagonists were politically and culturally important in the ancient Near East, scholars have [...] 2019-08 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
20.	PDF "All the Kings of Arabia are Seeking Your Counsel and Advice": Intellectual and Cultural Exchange between Jews and Muslims in the Later Middle Is[...] Yadgar, Liran In his 1955 survey of Jewish-Arab relations, 'Jews and Arabs: Their Contacts through the Ages,' S.D. Goitein, a leading scholar of Jewish history in the Medieval Islamic [...] 01 January 2016 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
21.	PDF Continuity and Change: A Reevaluation of Cultural Identity and "Egyptianization" in Lower Nubia during the New Kingdom Weglarz, Lindsey Rae-Marie Early in the 18th Dynasty, the Egyptian kings conquered their southern neighbors, the C-Group, Pan Grave, and Kerman populations of Nubia. After the conquest, there were [...] 2017 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
22.	PDF Emergence of the Global Armenian in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul Bastermajian, Harry This dissertation traces the origin and evolution of the “global Armenian” in the Ottoman Empire focusing upon the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Particula [...] 2017-03 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
23.	PDF By the Book: Conversion and Religious Identity in Early Islamic Bilād al-Shām and al-Jazīra Mutter, Jessica Sylvan This dissertation examines Arabic and Syriac writing on conversion among Muslims and Christians in early Islamic Greater Syria (Bilād al-Shām) and northern Iraq (al-Jaz [...] 2018-08 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
24.	Multiple Files Literary Genres in Poetic Texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls Pickut, William Douglas William Douglas Pickut,Literary Genres in Poetic Texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls,Abstract,December 8, 2016,Among the texts of the Dead Sea Scrolls, there are four literar [...] 2016 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
25.	PDF Price Formation and Fluctuation in Ptolemaic Egypt Hayden, Brittany This dissertation seeks to identify fluctuations and volatility in the prices of commodities in early Ptolemaic Egypt (332-186 BCE) and to explain the possible causes of [...] 2018 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
26.	PDF Innovation in Post-Biblical Hebrew Poetry: A Stylistic Analysis of the Hymns of the Dead Sea Scrolls Jobe, Eric Paul Amidst the various disputes and controversies in the history of Qumran scholarship, scholars have generally neglected the stylistic study of the poetic texts of the Dead [...] 2015 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
27.	PDF The Amorite Dynasty of Ugarit: The Historical Origins of the Bronze Age Polity of Ugarit Based upon Linguistic, Literary, and Archaeological Ev[...] Buck, Mary Ellen Representing a new approach to the field of Amorite studies, this dissertation, by analyzing the Middle Bronze Age history of the polity of Ugarit, specifically considers [...] 2018 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
28.	PDF Rethinking the Royal Ka Winnerman, Jonathan This dissertation reconsiders the theory of The Royal Ka, first proposed by Lanny Bell in 1985. This theory claimed that all aspects of ancient Egyptian royal divinity co [...] 2018 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
29.	PDF The Exploitation of Live Avian Resources in Pharaonic Egypt: A Socio-Economic Study Bailleul-LeSuer, Rozenn Fabienne Birds were symbolically and pragmatically incorporated into the lives of ancient Egyptians in multiple ways. They appeared as necessary offerings to appease both the gods [...] 2016 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
30.	PDF Anubis, Archer Figures, and Demotic Magic Scalf, Foy ; Ritner, Robert In the recent exhibition catalog Death Dogs: The Jackal Gods of Ancient Egypt by Terry Wilfong, there appeared as number thirty-two a papyrus inscrib [...] 2019 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Article
31.	PDF Reading A Radical Thinker: A Study on Sayyid Qutb Saud, Laith S. Reading a Radical Thinker: A Study on Sayyid Qutb,By Laith Saud ,This thesis examines Sayyid Qutb’s writings in various contexts in order to explicate more complex mean [...] 2017 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
32.	PDF "Word of the Old Woman": Studies in Female Ritual Practice in Hittite Anatolia Marcuson, Hannah Leigh The Old Women are well-attested as religious functionaries in the Hittite texts. There is extensive evidence documenting their ritual and divinatory practice: they pacifi [...] 01 January 2016 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
33.	PDF Narrative Representations of Abū Bakr (d. 13/634) in the Second/Eighth Century Akpinar, Mehmetcan Abū Bakr (d. 13/634) is regarded as one of the most preeminent companions of the Prophet Muhammad by the majority of (Sunni) Muslims. In the Islamic tradition, he is not [...] 2016 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
34.	PDF Passports to Eternity: Formulaic Demotic Funerary Texts and the Final Phase of Egyptian Funerary Literature in Roman Egypt Scalf, Foy The funerary literature from ancient Egypt has long been studied. However, the final manuscripts in this tradition have received negligible attention. In the first two ce [...] 2014-06 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Thesis
35.	PDF Astrology in the Service of the Empire: Knowledge, Prognostication, and Politics at the Ottoman Court, 1450s–1550s Şen, Ahmet Tunç This dissertation explores the intellectual, cultural, and political history of knowledge in the late-medieval and early modern Ottoman context by examining the fifteenth [...] 01 January 2016 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
36.	PDF Walls of the Rulers: The Development of Monumental Enclosure Walls in Ancient Egypt Prior to the New Kingdom Siegel, Oren This project investigates the emergence and development of monumental enclosure walls in ancient Egypt, drawing on a wealth of evidence from published excavation reports [...] 2020-06 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
37.	PDF An Arabian Qur’ān: Towards a Theory of Peninsular Origins Dost, Suleyman This dissertation aims to shed light on the Arabian context of the Qur’ān by using sources that securely predate the Qur’ān from in and immediately around the Arabi [...] 2017-06 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
38.	PDF Thresholds of Doubt: Negotiating Authorship in the Paratexts of al-Maʿarrī Blankinship, Kevin Mark This dissertation treats the controversial Syrian poet Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī (d. AD 1058) as a case study of medieval Arabic authorship. On one hand, readers have [...] 2018-06 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
39.	PDF The Literary Effects of Discourse Patterns in Hittite Texts Marineau, Robert Scholarly work on literary features in Hittite texts has been minimal and rarely incorporates results of literary theory from the last approximately hundred and twenty y [...] 2020-08 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
40.	PDF Demotic and Hieratic Scholia in Funerary Papyri and their Implications for the Manufacturing Process Scalf, Foy Many ancient Egyptian papyrus manuscripts inscribed with funerary compositions contain annotations within the text and margins. Some of these annotations relate directly [...] 2016 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Article
41.	PDF Emblems of Power: Ideology and Identity in Late Old Assyrian Glyptic Topcuoglu, Oya As markers of identity, social status, and administrative rank, seals and their designs functioned as one of the most important non-verbal identifiers for their owners in [...] 01 January 2016 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
42.	PDF Tribal poetics in early Arabic culture: The case of Ash'ār al-Hudhaliyyīn Miller, Nathaniel Ashton Ash'ār al-Hudhaliyyīn, the anthology of the Hudhayl tribe’s poetry, which dates to around 550-700 CE, is the only complete collection of tribal Arabic poetry from the [...] 2016 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
43.	PDF Calling Out to Isis: the Enduring Nubian Presence at Philae Ashby, Solange Calling Out to Isis: the Enduring Nubian Presence at Philae Solange Ashby Abstract The expansion of the cult of Isis throughout the Mediterranean world demonstrates the [...] 2016 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
44.	PDF Managing Risk for the Gods: The Middle Assyrian Ginau Agency Gauthier, Paul Edouard This dissertation reconstructs the activities of an administrative agency in the Middle Assyrian government that was tasked with producing a daily offering in Assyrian ca [...] 2016 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
45.	PDF The Role of Male Royal Offspring in 18th Dynasty Egypt Lorenz, Megaera Callisto This dissertation examines the political and ideological roles of King’s Sons during the 18th Dynasty. After a brief discussion of the nature of “sonship” in pharao [...] 2017 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
46.	PDF Deuteronomy and Treaty Texts: A Critical Reexamination of Deuteronomy 13, 17, 27, and 28 Polk, Nicholas O. This study critically reexamines claims that Deuteronomy 13, 17, 27, and 28 were influenced by ancient Near Eastern treaty texts or traditions. It has long been recognize [...] 2020-06 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
47.	PDF Aspects of Religious Administration in the Hittite Late New Kingdom Burgin, James Michael Administration of the Hittite Empire is a contentious topic among Hittitologists, with some arguing that most administrative activity took place on perishable records now [...] 2016 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
48.	PDF Socialism Mediated: The Soviet Mass Public in Uzbekistan, 1928-37 Roosien, Claire Nadine This dissertation examines the creation of a “state public sphere” (Rus. obshchestvennost’, Uzb. jamoatchilik), or a nexus of state-sponsored mass institutions and [...] 2019-08 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; History | Dissertation
49.	PDF Crafting Culture at Alalakh: Tell Atchana and the Political Economy of Metallurgy Johnson, Michael Alexander Tell Atchana, ancient Alalakh, was the seat of the territorial kingdom of Mukiš during the 2nd millennium BC with extensive trade ties to the wider Near East. Part of th [...] 2020-08 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
50.	PDF Lāhūtī: Persian Poetry in the Making of the Literary International, 1906-1957 Hodgkin, Samuel Gold This dissertation considers the career and verse of the Iranian Kurdish poet and revolutionary Abū al-Qāsim of Kermanshah, pen-name “Lāhūtī” (1887-1957), as a ca [...] 2018-12 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
51.	PDF The Late Chalcolithic 1 Period in Northern Mesopotamia: Tell Zeidan, Syria, in Regional Context Fisher, Michael T. Using recently excavated material from the large Chalcolithic site of Tell Zeidan, Syria, this dissertation considers a new approach to one of the most debated questions [...] 2017 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation