NELC University of Chicago Dissertations in Knowledge@UChicago

[First posted in AWOL 15 May 2020, updated 6 July 2025]

NELC University of Chicago Dissertations in Knowledge@UChicago

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1.	Multiple Files Godfearing: A Literary and Ethnographic Study of <i>Taqwā</i> in Early Islamic Texts and Contemporary Egyptian Preaching Atwell, Erin This dissertation examines early Islamic understandings of godfearingness (taqwā), and how these understandings shape efforts to renew religious discourse in p [...] 2024-08 | Anthropology; Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
2.	Multiple Files A Story of Resilience: Using Remote Sensing, GIS, and Geophysical Techniques to Reconstruct Paleolake and Settlement Development in the Egyptian [...] El-Behaedi, Raghda The Fayum, a naturally formed depression, is encircled by the Sahara Desert except for in the east, where a carrier canal from the Nile River (Bahr el-Yusuf) once fed its [...] 2024-08 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
3.	PDF A Sociolegal History of Judging Non-Muslim Communal Affairs in Early Seventeenth-Century Greater Istanbul Kaya, Betul This dissertation examines disputes over non-Muslim communal spaces in greaterIstanbul in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In Chapter 1, a historical b [...] 2024-06 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
4.	PDF The Islamic Maritime Frontier: Trade and Transformation along the Coast of Bilād al-Shām (Syria-Palestine) during the Early Islamic Period Morriss, Veronica The Arab conquest of Syria-Palestine in the seventh century CE transformed the coast of Bilād al-Shām (Greater Syria) into a maritime frontier, impacting patterns of tr [...] 2024-03 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
5.	PDF Kingship in the Everyday: Experiencing Royal Authority in the Middle Kingdom Osorio Guimaraes da Silva, Luiza The goal of this study, broadly speaking, is to better understand how Middle Kingdom (ca. 2055–1650 BCE) kingship worked from a non-royal perspective. Egyptological sch [...] 2023-08 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
6.	PDF Maddening Love: Islamic Thought and the Ethics of Desire in the Legend of Layla and Majnun Kanner-Botan, Allison Leigh From the protests of 1968 to the everyday expression of queer desire, love has the potential to be radical. While this radical dimension may be cross-cultural, most theor [...] 2023-08 | Divinity School Dissertations[...] | Dissertation
7.	PDF Post-Hellenistic Asia and Common Ethnographic Knowledge in Rome and China He, Yanxiao This dissertation examines how Rome and China simultaneously developed their ethnographic knowledge of the world beyond their borders, spanning from the Mediterranean to [...] 2023-08 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
8.	PDF Intercultural Communication and Miscommunication: Egyptian Diplomacy in the New Kingdom Period Wang, Ziting This dissertation delves into the diplomatic interactions of New Kingdom Egypt with other Near Eastern countries and provides a fresh perspective by examining these inter [...] 2023-08 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
9.	PDF Green Jars and Other Prohibited Receptacles in Early Islamic Law Harvey, Elon Qurʾān 5:90 is understood as prohibiting khamr (wine made from grapes). However, according to Ḥadīth traditions the Prophet permitted his followers the consumption o [...] 2023-08 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
10.	PDF The Morphological Means for Coding Modality in the Sumerian Verbal Complex Siegmund, Colton Grant This thesis examines the inventory of morphemes Sumerian utilizes to denote modal notions on the verb. Sumerian is an agglutinative linguistic isolate that was spoken in [...] 2023-08 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
11.	PDF Messianism, Occultism, and Poetics in the 15th-Century Persianate World: The Life and Writings of Āẕarī-yi Isfarāyinī (d. 866/1461-2) Winters, Zachary Paul This dissertation discusses the life and works of the poet, Ṣūfī, and occultist, Ḥamza b. ʿAlī Malik Āẕarī-yi Isfarāyinī (784-866/1382-1461 or 1462). Āẕ [...] 2023-06 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
12.	PDF Staging Kingship: A Performance-Oriented Approach to the Hittite 'Theatre of State' Lysen, Thalia Extant Hittite sources evoke the image of a society “obsessed” with the celebration of religious festivals. These festivals take place at the interplay between religi [...] 2022-12 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
13.	PDF Exploring Pain in Ancient Egypt Lee, Sunwoo This dissertation explores the meanings of pain in ancient Egypt by attending to various ways in which ancient Egyptian texts frame, articulate, problematize, and explain [...] 2022-08 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
14.	PDF The Maḥmūdīyah: The History of a Library, Its Books, and Its Readers Wynter-Stoner, Kyle In my dissertation I address the social, intellectual, and institutional history of the Maḥmūdīyah Madrasa Library, constructed in Cairo, Egypt in the year 797 A.H./1 [...] 2022-08 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
15.	PDF Islamic Bureaucrats in Late Antiquity: Administration and Elites during the Umayyad Caliphate (c.a. 661-750 C.E.) Longworth, Nicholas Kyle This dissertation examines the symbiotic relationship between state formation and the emergence of a religiously and ethnically diverse elite during the Umayyad Caliphate [...] 2022-08 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
16.	PDF Social Memory, Scribalism, and the Book of Chronicles Snoek, Doren G. This dissertation conducts an inquiry into the ways in which the biblical book Chronicles could interact with social memory. It first considers the state of social memory [...] 2022-08 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
17.	PDF Private Muftīs in a Postcolonial State: A Study of Legal Reasoning among Deobandī Ḥanafīs in Contemporary Pakistan Bashir, Aamir Broadly speaking, this dissertation examines how traditionally trained Muslim jurists respond to changes brought on by modernity. More specifically, this dissertation foc [...] 2022-08 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
18.	PDF Artūḫı Wept: New Approaches to Reading Emotions in Dānişmendnāme (The Book of King Dānişmend) Lachenauer, Isabel A fourteenth-century redaction of an earlier, now-lost text, Dānişmendnāme is a religious-heroic prosimetrum narrative well known for its themes of ġazā and confron [...] 2022-08 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
19.	PDF Slavery and Servitude in Late Period Egypt (c. 900 – 330 BC) Karev, Ella This dissertation defines the nature and extent of slavery in Egypt of the Late Period, from the end of the Third Intermediate Period (c. 900 BC) to the beginning of the [...] 2022-08 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
20.	PDF Contending with Crisis: Sacred Bodies and the Ottoman Quest for Order in the Long 17th Century (c. 1574-1720) Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali This dissertation explores the transformation of early modern Ottoman religio-politicaland religio-social thought and practice between the late 16th and early 18th centur [...] 2022-06 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
21.	PDF The Genres of Qur'anic Discourse Flowers, Adam The Qur'ān's employment of diverse modes of discourse is, perhaps, the text's defining literary feature. These discourses, ranging from apocalyptic, to narrative, to leg [...] 2022-06 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
22.	PDF Liberation as Revolutionary Theory and Praxis: The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the New Palestinian Left, 1967-1976 Peddycoart, Michael Histories of leftist and anti-colonial movements among revolutionaries in the Global South during the early second half of twentieth century have been extensively surveye [...] 2022-06 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
23.	PDF Hebrew Forms of Address: A Sociolinguistic Analysis Kim, Young Bok In this dissertation, I examine terms of address in Biblical Hebrew (BH) and Epigraphic Hebrew (EH). Every language has its own address system. These systems provide some [...] 2022-06 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
24.	PDF The Poetics of Plot in the Egyptian and Judean Novella Cross, Joseph John This dissertation contributes to the history of storytelling literature of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean and North African world and, more specifically, advances the [...] 2022-03 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation
25.	PDF Hidden Empires: Revolt, Leadership, and Underground Networks in the Emergence of Early Shiʿi Muslim Sectarian Identities Sagha, Mohammad This dissertation undertakes a comparative survey of Shiʿi revolutionary movements from the uprising of al-Mukhtār b. Abī ʿUbayd (d. 67/687) and the origins of the Ab [...] 2021-08 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation

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And see also: Dissertations in Ancient Near Eastern Studies Approved by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago