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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 |
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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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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 |
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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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At its height, the Achaemenid Persian Empire (550-330 BCE) stretched from Egypt and the Balkans to Central Asia and the Indus. How was this continental empire able to en [...]
2021-06 |
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations |
Dissertation |
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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 |
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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 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 |
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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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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 |
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Indefinite pronouns (words like English anyone, anything, someone, something, etc.) have been recognized as components of Ugaritic grammar since 1934, but they have not y [...]
2021-08 |
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 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 |
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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 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 |
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Since Činggis Qan’s unification of various peoples on the Mongolian plateau in 1206, the Mongols quickly became a formidable force across Eurasia. After the death of [...]
2021-08 |
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations |
Dissertation |
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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 |
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Classical Semitic languages, with the exception of Akkadian, all display VSO (Verb- Subject-Object) either as the basic main constituent word order or as one of the most [...]
2021-08 |
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations |
Dissertation |
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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 |
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This dissertation identifies long term fluctuations in prices and wages in northern and southern Babylonia during the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian period (ca. 2000-1600 B.C. [...]
2021-08 |
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations |
Dissertation |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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The 5th and 6th millennia in the Near East, falling “between the revolutions” represented by the emergence of sedentism & domestication on the one hand, and urban [...]
2021-06 |
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations |
Dissertation |
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To date, no convincing explanation of the historical development of the internal passive verbs of Semitic has been proposed. This dissertation avoids obstacles that have [...]
2021-06 |
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 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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“Watching Whiteness Work: The Racialization of Jewish Women in Iraq and Israel/Palestine,” intervenes in scholarship on Jewish belonging in Iraq, Iraqi Jewish belongi [...]
2021-08 |
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations |
Dissertation |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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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 |
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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 |
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Despite a near-universal acknowledgement of the Prophet Muḥammad’s supreme eloquence in the Islamic tradition, ḥadīth (his recorded speech and deeds) is largely ab [...]
2021-08 |
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations |
Dissertation |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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In this thesis, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) was used to investigate the morphology of Middle Egyptian Hieratic, a cursive form of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphi [...]
2022-06 |
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations |
Thesis |
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When Činggis Qan died in 1227, the Mongol Empire was a confederation of steppe peoples engaged in conquests over other steppe societies as well as civilizations of Centr [...]
2021-08 |
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations |
Dissertation |
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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 |
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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 |
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