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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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