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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 article investigates the fifteenth-century Ming diplomat Chen Cheng’s travel accounts by situating them against the backdrop of Islamic and Mongol history. The firs [...]
03 November 2023 |
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations |
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Following a brief introduction, this article has two parts and an appendix. In the first part, I examine the passage prohibiting intoxicating ṭilāʾ (cooked grape juic [...]
16 June 2023 |
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations |
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This article discusses the literary representation of religious leadership in the Siyar al-bīʿa al-muqaddasa, also known as “History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria [...]
03 November 2023 |
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations |
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This paper analyzes the plans and layouts of Chinese ceramic workshops from the Tang to Ming periods (seventh to seventeenth century AD) to understand how ceramic product [...]
31 January 2024 |
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations |
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This paper argues, in contrast to some previous scholarship, that debt bondage was not practiced in Egypt’s Late Period (c. 8th–5th centuries BC). The phenomena of se [...]
27 November 2023 |
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations |
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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; Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations |
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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<p>The density of epidermal ridges in a fingerprint varies predictably by age and sex. Archaeologists are therefore interested in using recovered fingerprints to le [...]
26 July 2023 |
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations |
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Two markers of regional exchange in the Eastern Mediterranean during the first millennium BCE are the White Painted and Bichrome Wares from Cyprus’s Cypro-Geometric and [...]
30 November 2016 |
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations |
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In this essay, I use the numerous extensive quotations from Mālik found in al-Shāfiʿī’s Kitāb al-Umm to reconstruct what might be called al-Shāfiʿī’s recensio [...]
16 July 2021 |
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations |
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The 177-verse Arabic Poem of the Intellect (Qaṣīdat al-ʿAql) composed by the Indian Fatimid-Ṭayyibī Dāʿī al-Muṭlaq Sayyidna Taher Saifuddin (d. 1385/1965) bre [...]
23 May 2023 |
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations |
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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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Studies of ancient Mesopotamian cities have long focused on their institutions. Here, instead, the authors draw on recent investigations at the third-millennium BC site o [...]
31 March 2023 |
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations |
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Architectural reuse was common in ancient Egypt. Modern interpretations of this practice, particularly in royal contexts, usually ascribe it either a practical or ideolog [...]
17 January 2023 |
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations |
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This article studies the ways in which Arab intellectuals in Egypt and the Levant wrote about modern anti-Semitism during the four decades preceding the demise of the Ott [...]
2021-01 |
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations |
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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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Despite important work on issues of gender and representation with regard to women’s history in Mesopotamia over the past generation or two, less direct attention has b [...]
08 July 2022 |
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations |
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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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