Dissertations / Theses: 'Islamic civilization in literature'

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Cishtī, Muḥammad ʻAbdulḥalīm. "Islāmī kutub k̲h̲āne." Lāhaur : al-Faiṣal, 2000. http://books.google.com/books?id=SdLgAAAAMAAJ.

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Hunter, Teresa Irene 1950. "The concept of center as a cultural manifestation of Islamic ideals as translated into architecture." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/277235.

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Architectural historians have always seen the Islamic city and Islamic house as unsystematic in design and layout. In this work I show that there is a basic spatial symbolism predating, and then adopted by, Islam, based on three major concepts. The first is that there is a residual notion of center as something sacred; secondly that instead of dichotomies or binary oppositions space in Islamic architecture is a continuum and lastly that the center of the center, whether or not it has any visible symbolism, (fountain for example) is an axis mundi, or vertical axis to the heavens. These features are seen not just in urban and housing designs, but also in mosques, madrassas, and garden layouts.

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Haveric, Dzavid, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Islamisation of Bosnia: Early Islamic influence on Bosnian society." Deakin University. School of Social and International Studies, 2004. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20051123.133900.

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This Masters thesis examines the process of the Islamisation of Bosnia from the eighth century to the end of the fifteenth century. This era of early Islamic influence has not previously been systematically studied, and remains an area little understood by many medievalists. The major foci of the analysis are the pre-Ottoman era and early Ottoman periods. This thesis raises the following research questions: When and how did the first Islamisation of the Balkan Slavs (including Bosnians) occur? How did Islam influence Bosnian society and culture, and where were the Bosnian Muslim settlements established? This thesis includes a detailed historical investigation that makes use of a range of bibliographic materials. These consist of fragmentary works, archival and administrative documents and other relevant factography collected from a research field trip to Bosnia between June 27 and July 24, 2003. The main findings reveal the complexity of this culturo-religious process in terms of both the early Islamic influence and contemporary cultural diversity. While different theoretical approaches to cultural representation and social space assist in exploring the hybrid nature of Bosniak identity, the primary and secondary data analyses highlight the significance of the phenomenon of the early Islamisation of Bosnia

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Musaji, Zahra. "The development of the translation movement." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0006/MQ43922.pdf.

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Doffing, Rebecca. "Betwixt East and West: Turkey's prospects for mitigating intercivilizational clashes." Thesis, Boston University, 2008. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/28562.

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Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.
PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
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Ahsan, Syed Aziz-al. "Islamization of the state in a dualistic culture : the case of Bangladesh." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=74603.

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This study examined the interaction of religion and politics in Bangladesh in light of the hypothesis that the nature of the particular process of Islamization of the state of Bangladesh, leading to its present semi-Islamic status, has been a function of three independent variables: the specific nature of Islam in the society; the configuration of political interests; and the international environment. The study found that the semi-Islamic status of the state in Bangladesh achieved under military rule is a consequence more of the manipulation of Islam by the military for the sake of legitimacy and of the influence of the Middle East, particularly the flow of remittances, rather than changes in the value orientation of the people of Bangladesh.

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Wardeh, Nadia. "The problematic of Turāth in contemporary Arab thought : a study of Adonis and Ḥasan Ḥanafï." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=115652.

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The central theme of this study is the question of turath (cultural heritage) as perceived by contemporary Arab thinkers since the Arab defeat by Israel in 1967. The diverse understandings of turath have raised various questions with respect to it, yielding a plethora of opinions that make it difficult to come up with a common definition. This unstable view of the phenomenon has led to what may be called "the problematic of turath." This study asks whether turath has the roots of the problematic or whether it is mainly the positions on it that have led to its problematization. An attempt to explore the term reveals that the contemporary meaning assigned to turath is ideological in nature, such that it is perceived as a tool for either progress or decline. To understand how this ideologization operates, the study looks at two antithetical positions on turath: that of the Islamic-modernist, H&dotbelow;asan H&dotbelow;anafi (b.1935) and that of the secular-modernist, Adonis (b. 1930). Their positions are described in the light of their intellectual and ideological backgrounds, and analyzed in view of their primary texts. The study concludes that their "imagined" visions of turath reflect biased thinking, an understanding of turath that is adapted to their own ideological stance. As an Islamic phenomenologist, H&dotbelow;anafi perceives Islamic revelation as a phenomenon present to consciousness, regarding it as authoritative due to its presumed "uncorrupted" character. This makes it suitable to any place and time and renders it the only legitimate source for renewal and progress. However, the fact that he feels a rereading of turath is necessary to achieve this goal reflects a paradox in his discourse, whereby the same turath becomes simultaneously the chief problem and the chief solution for Arab-Muslim society. By contrast, Adonis, as a secular deconstructionist, looks at the inherited turath as a "text" with a static/dynamic dualism, and tries to show that the static elements of turath, which always appear stable, logical and capable of achieving progress, make it otherwise. For him, divine revelation --- which is responsible for the predominance of the static and hence an obstacle to human freedom, creativity and progress --- must be deconstructed. This paves the way for his own agenda of replacing the static, i.e., religious elements, with dynamic or secular elements, which alone can enable the reconstruction of a new civilization. But in the process, Adonis may only be replacing the religious with the secular and merely setting in place a new static dimension.

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Fletcher, Jonathan. "Violence and civilization in the work of Norbert Elias." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.284000.

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Muhamad, Fuad bin Abdullah Muhamad Fuad bin. "The influence of Islam upon classical Arabic scientific writings : an examination of the extent of their reference to Quran, Hadith and related texts." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1995. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=124305.

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Science and Islam. Interest in this subject by mainly Muslim contemporary writers, is evident from the amount of literature seeking to link scientific phenomena to Islam. While the trend to relate scientific facts to Quran, Hadith and related Islamic texts is confirmed by the amount of literature cited, whether or not there has been such an approach by scientists in the history of Muslim civilisation is the question this thesis seeks to answer. Historical contribution to science by scientists within the domain of Muslim civilisation is well recognised. Although the vital role played by Muslim civilisation in the transmission of ancient science, especially that of the Greek, to mediaeval Europe is generally acknowledged, the exact role of Islam as a religion in this scientific development is not clear. This thesis explores an aspect of the history of Muslim civilisation which may contribute to elucidate the role of Islam in Muslim science.

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Biparva, Mohsen. "Masks of authenticity : visual representation of the self, self-stereotyping, and the question of visibility in the age of neo-imperialism." Thesis, University of London, 2012. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.549606.

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Heck, Paul L. "Construction of knowledge in Islamic civilization : Qudāma b. Jaʻfar and his Kitāb al-Kharāj wa-ṣināʻat al-kitābaẗ /." Leiden ; Boston ; Köln : Brill, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb390374679.

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Machcinski, Kathryn F. ""Civilization is Going to Pieces": Crime, morality, and their role in The Great Gatsby." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1386665184.

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Leonard, Bradley. "How the apes saved civilization: Antropofagia, paradox and the colonization of "La Planete des singes"." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28414.

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The 1968 Hollywood film Planet of the Apes is an adaptation of the 1963 French novel La Planet des singes and the strategy used to transform the book into an American film reveals some contradictory tendencies. On one hand, the film effaces any evidence of the story's French roots, thus suggesting colonialist objectives. On the other hand, its subversive message, a reflection of the tumultuous political and social climate of the U.S. in the 1960s, seems to support the theory of antropofagia, a radical Brazilian approach based on the metaphor of cannibalism developed to counteract economic and cultural colonialism in Brazil. The inclusion of certain aspects of each of these two translation strategies creates a paradox that says a great deal about American hegemony, Hollywood's treatment of foreign works and marginalization.

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Pang, Lai-kei, and 彭麗姬. "History as a form of narrative dreaming from war and peace to one hundred years of solitude." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31951090.

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Al-Barkuli, al-Hudayri H. A. Al-R. "An edition of 'Lubb al-Lubab wa Nuzhat al-Ahbab' by Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Ibrahim al-Ash'ari." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.355188.

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Al-Bishri, Ismail Muhammad. "A critical edition of Al-Dībāj Al-Khusruwānī Fī Akhbār A 'Yān Al-Mikhlāf Al-Sulaymānī by Al-Ḥasan B. Aḥmad 'Ākish (d. 1290/1874), with detailed introduction." Thesis, Durham University, 1988. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1547/.

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Hayman, Sarah. "Re-veiling and occidentalism four case studies /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2007.

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Hemming, Ann J. McBride Lawrence W. Holt Niles R. "The evolution and dissemination of the modern concept of civilization." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9720806.

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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1996.
Title from title page screen, viewed May 30, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Lawrence W. McBride, Niles Holt (co-chairs), Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, John Freed, William Archer. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 260-283) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Lima, de Sousa Helen Marie. "Beyond Indianism : the different faces (and races) of civilization and primitiveness in Brazilian romanticism." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.608115.

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Qutbuddin, Aziz K. "Tahmid : a literary genre? : a study of the Arabic laudatory preamble, with a focus on the Fatimid-Tayyibi tradition." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2009. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29295/.

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This thesis follows the emergence and development of Tahmid, the Arabic laudatory preamble, as a literary genre in the Arabic tradition: a genre that imaginatively presents the distinct worldview (weltanschauung) that its author embraces and a genre that not only features as a standard introduction for an infinite number of texts, but is also, in and of itself, a rich source of meaning. The dissertation proposes a literary approach for unearthing its depths of knowledge, termed the 'relational approach'. This approach identifies and focuses on the various relations and associations, highlighted and evoked by a Tahmid despite its usual conciseness, which are the source of its vitality. Drawing upon a broad range of samples, the study also delineates the common characteristics and trends of the Tahmid tradition as a whole, and focuses on its distinctiveness and significance in Fatimid-Tayyibi literature ('Fatimid-Tayyibi' refers to Ismili Musta'lian Tayyibi Shiites in Fatimid Egypt as well as their spiritual successors in Yemen and India, commonly known as the Da'udi Bohras). Following the introduction, the thesis is structured on a chronological basis in three parts. Section-I (chapters 1-3) traces the development of Tahmid from its origins to maturity as a distinct genre in Arabic prose. Section-II (chapter-4), building on the literary-history presented in the previous section, presents a methodology for the analysis of Tahmid and applies it to a selection of examples. Section-III (chapters 5-7) focuses on the unique characteristics of Fatimid-Tayyibi Tahmids and presents an analysis of a number of examples. The section ends with a case-study of a Tahmid in one of the Fatimid-Tayyibi Da'i Syedna Taher Saifuddin's (d. 1385/1965) risalahs. The question posited in the title of this thesis, 'is the Tahmid a literary genre?' is answered in the Conclusion. An appendix of Tahmids referred to in the thesis and illustrative samples, especially from the Fatimid-Tayyibi manuscripts, accompanies the dissertation in a separate volume.

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Pourhosseini, Parisa. "Zurvainism and post Islamic Persian literature: with Ferdusi as a case study." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/12449.

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There are many challenges about Iranian pre Islamic religions. Neighbouring religions such as India for parallels in the early period, classical, Syriac, and Armenian influenced for much of their material in Parthian, and Sassanian era. The cult of Zurvanism describes a sect of the Persian that considered space- time as the beginning of the world. Zurvanism described the Zurvan as a father of the rivals Oromasdes of light and Arimanius of darkness. There are three types of Zurvanism which considered time to be the origin of all beings. Combining with Zoroastrianism during its development and having merged in the following religions and beliefs, one cannot clearly describe the legacy of Zurvanism in the following centuries and especially after Islam. This study will describe briefly all issues around the heresy in particular and after, the term of Zandik in common. The intellectual traditions of Iran, whose the texts are mostly written after the emergence of Islam, literature plays an important role, and taking a Demonian Approach (who argued that literature is the source of ideology in each period of history) I assume that Khorasani school of Persian literature is the best means of recognizing the pre-Islamic influence of thought (specially Zurvanism) on post-Islamic thought. It is increasingly important to explore religious influences in literature. Human beings live in diverse, multicultural, technical, and globalized world. In these days, exploring cultural development and relationship with religion provide access to the mystery of other cultures which can itself be an investigation on the philosophical questions concerning life and death, love and hate, time, space, history, subject and object. The study of the influences of Zurvanism on Shahnameh can be an exploration into the fact that how religion as a cultural and historical phenomenon moves across time and spaces and becomes a determining part of art and literature. The transmission and definition of Shahnameh with its myths, history, and religions from one generation to the next lies at the heart of cultural practices. This study gives comprehensive and balanced analyses of the Zurvan religion and also the term of Zandik within the famous Persian poem. The aim of this study is to explore the influences of Zurvanism on the Persian literature in post Islamic era. This research pays especial attention to the doctrine of Zurvanism. The principal question is that whether Zurvanism had a significant influence on Iranian literature? Or generally, what was the reflection of zurvanism, as a pre Islamic religion, on post Islamic literature. The structure of this thesis contains of five main chapters along with the introduction and the conclusion. In chapter one, it was tried to review the Zurvanism philosophy. Second chapter demonstrates the study which will be shaped around understanding of the history of Persian literature from pre Islamic era and post Islamic time by focusing on Ferdusi and his great work Shahnameh. In this respect, firstly, it will focus on the presentation of Samanid Persian literature school in post Islamic era. Then, the important poets and their works will be described. The third chapter could be as a comprehensive literature review on Persian and Western’s studies in this particular title. I assume that this complementary literature review chapter will be helpful for understanding the findings of this research. In a way, it maps out the possible routes of influences of Zurvanism philosophy on post Islamic literature by focusing on Shahnameh. As the method of this study, next section clarifies the methodological tools and techniques used in this study. Finding of this research consists in the two chapters. Final part demostrates that Zurvanism different doctrines had a certain influences among the post Islamic Iranian poets in common and particularly on Ferdusi.

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Trejling, Maria. "Discontent with Civilization in D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Avdelningen för språk och kultur, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-111778.

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The essay examines the concept of revolt in D.H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover through an analysis of its portrayal of society, oppression, and violence, as well as love, tenderness, and the body. Sigmund Freud's essay Civilization and Its Discontents is used as a theoretical framework.

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Barker, Elaine M. "Civilization in the wilderness : the homestead in the Australian colonial novel, 1830-1860 /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1989. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armb255.pdf.

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Olivier, M. "Ghosts in the machine : nostalgia and technology under the Ancien Régime /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8290.

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Crowder, Melissa Ann. "ALL OF MY WORDS: CREATING ISLAMIC FEMALE IDENTITY THROUGH IRANIAN LITERATURE AND FILM." NCSU, 2007. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-03182007-144619/.

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This thesis examines the state of Islamic feminism in Iran through Iranian fiction and film and supporting Islamic texts. In this study I shall examine Dariush Mehrjui?s Leila, Tahminah Milani?s The Hidden Half, and Shahrnush Parsipur?s Women Without Men, along with Azar Nafisi?s Reading Lolita In Tehran in order to limn the tension of female experience and female oppression in a religiously controlled environment and the innate desire for intellectual, emotional, and physical freedom. Though they do not speak for all women, these three works do offer a compelling breadth of the female experience in Iran. I shall likewise examine the complexities of the experience of female oppression in Iran. Through the examination of these works, a conversation begins in which begins with the fact of female oppression and ends with possibilities for female freedom, a freedom that comes from writing.

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Elhefnawy, Nader. "D.H. Lawrence and civilization: a study of D.H. Lawrence's "leadership" novels, Aaron's rod, Kangaroo and the plumed serpent." FIU Digital Commons, 2002. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3135.

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D.H. Lawrence's "leadership" novels, namely Aaron's Rod, Kangaroo and The Plumed Serpent, dealt with the ramifications of industrial civilization. This thesis uses a "Tofflerian" approach, drawing on the works of the futurist Alvin Toffler's "trilogy" of noted books on the rate, direction and consequences of "civilizational" change, Future Shock, The Third Wave and Powershift. This thesis argues that Lawrence recognizes the demise of the "love-urge" that had sustained civilization in Aaron's Rod; seeks and fails to find a solution in the political movements of his time in Kangaroo, demonstrating the impossibility of a modem solution to inherently modern problems; and in The Plumed Serpent, seeks an answer in a way of life apart from industrial civilization entirely.

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Grimes, Jodi Elisabeth Upchurch Robert K. "Rhetorical transformations of trees in medieval England from material culture to literary representation /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2008. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12130.

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Todorov, Boris Atanassov. "The Bulgarians between the two Romes the discourse of power in medieval Bulgaria /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1397899921&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Gupta, Priyadarshini. "Reincarnations of Neo-Orientalism: Islam and its Representations in Post-9/11 Literature." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1502146148540323.

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Jensen, Anna M. "Modernity and the Good Death : Heidegger and Jose Clemente Orozco's Epic of American Civilization /." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2009. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1905.

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This thesis will analyze José Clemente Orozco's mural The Epic of American Civilization in terms of the problem of suffering. It will focus specifically on two panels, “Human Sacrifice in Ancient Times” and “Human Sacrifice in Modern Times.” This analysis will comprehend not only the works of art within their historical context, but also within Martin Heidegger's philosophical discussion of the question of suffering. Heidegger presents a unique perspective on the question of human suffering when he writes that Western humans have forgotten how to “dwell.” This dwelling is defined by Heidegger's novel conception of ontology as relational rather than individualistic. According to this theory, humans must identify themselves through their associations, both with other people and with things. Without these associations, humans are not be able to escape the anxiety associated with suffering and death brought about by the isolating effects of Western modernity. A discussion of Mexico provides a practical example of the complexities of the question of dwelling in Western thought. At the time Orozco was painting his mural, Mexican identity was rapidly fragmenting. In the decades after the Mexican Revolution, many artists wrestled with the concept of Mexican identity, and it was in this time of flux that Orozco offered his interpretation of the cyclical progress of humanity. The two paintings depict two forms of suffering, which this paper will refer to as a “good” and a “bad” death. This nomenclature is not strictly accurate as neither form could be said to be desirable in any concrete way. Consequently a Rivera painting (“Revolution – Germination”) will also be presented that suggests an ideal death. However, the focus will remain on Orozco's paintings. Of course, in his own paintings Orozco is not endorsing the act of human sacrifice. However, because of differences in their composition, they suggest not only a cyclic pattern to human history, but also a downward progression where the persistent problems of violence and suffering in human societies have grown more difficult and complicated since the advent of modernity. As Orozco's paintings seem to suggest and Heidegger will argue, the solution to the isolating ‘bad death’ is learning to live relationally. These relationships comprehend the social and the cultural, but the focus will be on the ecological and the divine, because, as several critics will argue, these are the greatest deficiencies in modernity.

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Zamaron, Alain. "Représentation des civilisations disparues dans la littérature d'aventures fantastiques de la fin du XIXe siècle et du début du XXe." Villeneuve d'Ascq, France : Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 1998. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/40674686.html.

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Laycock, Rona. "Mindful of ghosts." Thesis, Swansea University, 2010. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa42724.

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This poetry collection explores the concept of memory as a function of identity and is based on the ten years or so that I spent living and working in Islamic countries during the 1970s and 1980s. It is an attempt to create a record of a life lived in unfamiliar territories where cultural and social norms are very different from those with which I was brought up. The collection comprises four sections, each having a distinct character, attributable in part to the use of poetic forms chosen to complement specific periods and places. I experimented with haibun, haiku and prose poetry as well as free verse to achieve the desired effect. Themes of memory, place, people and social comment are woven throughout this collection to create a sense of unity within the whole. The accompanying critical essay, 'Writing Mindful of Ghosts', considers the processes involved in such a venture and refers to some of the poets whose work interests and inspires me, as well as offering information on the places and times that informed the poems.

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Haman, Brian. "Perpetuum mobile? : literature, philosophy, and the journey in German culture around 1800." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2012. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/55510/.

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Scholarly interest in travel literature has increased substantially in recent years. However, there has been a lack of sustained, cohesive commentary on the journey motif in German Romantic culture, particularly its origins and manifestations in literature and philosophy. My doctoral research fills this gap through a philosophically- and historically-informed reading of German Romanticism. The thesis examines 1) the paradigmatic template of the literary journey established by Goethe in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, 2) metaphors of movement and mobility within the Idealist philosophy of Kant and Fichte and their role, 3) the manner in which these metaphors migrate into the theoretical and prose writings of Novalis, 4) Tieck’s notion of the sublime and its relevance for the Romantic journey, and 5) the late Romantic satirization of the journey motif within Eichendorff’s prose. Additionally, the thesis serves to show how philosophical discourse of the Enlightenment had reached something of an impasse in its use of the journey motif, with the subject unable to evolve and renew itself beyond the strictures of particular models of subjective cognition. The Romantics thought literary practice was to supersede philosophy and it was mobility in the form of the journey as both metaphor and process, which helped bring about this transition and created a flexible self-authoring and self- renewing model of the subject. The study also recounts a particular history of Romanticism which charts, via the history of the journey, the movement’s youthful idealism, the fear of the pitfalls of human subjectivity, and its eventual self-distanciation through parody.

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Pang, Lai-kei. "History as a form of narrative dreaming from war and peace to one hundred years of solitude." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13787317.

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Lloyd, Amanda. "Reverse Orientalism: Laila Halaby's Once in a Promised Land." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1337792460.

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Arcara, Stefania. "Constructing the south : Sicily, Southern Italy and the Mediterranean in British culture, 1773-1926." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1998. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/36389/.

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In the past few years a number of critical studies have been entirely or partly devoted to an analysis of the role played by the Mediterranean in British literature and culture during the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. These studies include Robert Aldrich's The Seduction of the Mediterranean (1993), James Buzard's The Beaten Track (1993), and John Pemble's The Mediterranean Passion (1987). In Paul Fussell's Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars (1980), which may be considered a precursor to these, the author observes that "to sketch the history of the British imaginative intercourse with the Mediterranean in modern times is virtually to present a survey of modern British literature"; he goes on to stress that "the Mediterranean is the model for the concept south, and it is a rare Briton whose pulses do not race at the mention of that compass direction". It is the concept "south" in this statement, situated in the area of literary and cultural studies, which constitutes the focus of this thesis.

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Rosenqvist, Mathias. "Waiting for “the black flower of civilization to bloom” : Shades of Modernity in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians." Thesis, Stockholm University, Department of English, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-8233.

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Huntsman, L. F. "In margins and in longings ...: the beach in Australian life and literature." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/12333.

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Al-Qaisi, Fayez Abdel-Nabi. "Islamic Almeria : its historical background and its Arabic literature during the 5th A.H./11th century A.D." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.283175.

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Schulz, Ulrike-Marianne. "Liebe, Ehe und Sexualität im vorreformatorischen Meistersang Texte und Untersuchungen /." Göppingen : Kümmerle, 1995. http://books.google.com/books?id=6L1bAAAAMAAJ.

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Khattak, Shaheen Kuli Khan. "Images of Islam : a study of the differences between Islamic and Victorian conceptions of certain Muslim practices and beliefs." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1999. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/images-of-islam--a-study-of-the-differences-between-islamic-and-victorian-conceptions-of-certain-muslim-practices-and-beliefs(7aefb186-bd3d-4899-aa46-6d4830240702).html.

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Shams-Esmaeili, Fatemeh. "Official voices of a revolution : a social history of Islamic republican poetry." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b6f2561b-fd26-4064-88b8-f365d7abf2e4.

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This thesis is primarily concerned with the literary aspects of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Its immediate focus rests on the evolution of the Islamic republican poetic trend, encompassing both the disillusioned and conformist voices that rose to prominence in the course of the 1979 Revolution and their on-going engagement with the ruling political power. In this vein, this thesis investigates the various cultural policies of the state, as well as select political transformations of the past three decades, all of which played a pivotal role in this literary evolution. The thesis shows how the official poets that emerged during the 1979 Revolution, and which proved significantly active throughout the immediate history subsequent to that event (war with Iraq, the death of Ayatollah Khomeini and the rise and fall of the reform movement), evolved over time and thereby either received political support for their commitment to the state ideology or became gradually excluded from official cultural institutions. Finally, this thesis reviews the manner in which state strategies have shaped an institutionalised form of poetry that is monitored and reinforced by the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic and official cultural authorities. It demonstrates how an innate linking of the project of Islamic republican literature to underlying ideologically defined notions such as 'religious verse', 'legitimate poetry' and 'commitment' was and continues to be an intrinsic part of the literary foundations of the ideological apparatus of the Islamic Republic.

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Yuningsih, Yeni Ratna. "The mystical element in Mīkhāīl Nuaymah's literary works and its affinity to Islamic mysticism /." Thesis, McGill University, 1999. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=29848.

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This thesis investigates the mystical elements in Mikha'il Nu`aymah's literary works and their affinity to Islamic mysticism, elaborating in particular on the notions of oneness of being and the transmigration of soul. These two themes are the more prevalent ones in Nu`aymah's mystical thought when compared to such other themes as love and asceticism, which can also be found in his works.
However, the notion of oneness of being seems to be the basis of his mystical concepts as well as the goal to which other themes are directed. The notion of the transmigration of soul is therefore developed by Nu`aymah in the context of the idea of oneness of being. The mystical thoughts of Mikha¯'il Nu`aymah concerning the two notions above, are to be found in a number of his works, such as Zad al-Ma'ad, al-Marah&dotbelow;il, The Book of Mirdad, Liqa', his autobiography Sab`un and his collections of poems Hams al-Jufun .

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Musselwhite, Matthew Henry. "ISIS & Eschatology: Apocalyptic Motivations Behind the Formation and Development of the Islamic State." TopSCHOLAR®, 2016. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1611.

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The goal of this thesis was to analysis the Islamic State’s apocalyptic nature by studying both classic Islamic eschatology and the Islamic State’s online magazine Dabiq. In order to conduct this research, I separated my thesis into two separate angles of approach. The first angle (chapters one & two) exclusively looked at Islamic eschatology, classic apocalyptic texts, shifts in how literature was written over time, and on examples of modern messianic revolutions occurring. In this way, I attempted to emphasize how extra-Qur’anic texts have played a large part in providing details for what Islamic eschatology entails. I also looked at modern examples of messianic movements, including in Mecca and Sudan. I concluded by analyzing the shift modern apocalyptic literature underwent beginning in the late 20th century. This highlighted how apocalyptic literature stated focusing on the actions of Western forces—much like the Islamic State has done today. The second angle of approach derived from the final chapters. I looked at the foundation and development of the Islamic State beginning in the early 21st century with Al-Qaeda in Iraq. I proceeded to emphasize how messianic speculation influenced the actions and strategies of Islamic State in Iraq and later ISIS. The final chapter, the crux of my thesis, was an analysis of the Islamic State’s written primary source, Dabiq. I researched all thirteen issues of the magazine for evidence of apocalyptic nature existing.I highlighted how Dabiq is filled with apocalyptic references and classic apocalyptic hadiths. The objective of this thesis was to provide a multifaceted analysis of the Islamic State. It attempted to approach the Islamic State from two different angles to show why apocalyptic thought first arises, how it has led to revolution, and how the Islamic State mirrors those cases. With the Islamic State, a wide variety of interpretations have formed on what it wants and what it is fighting for. Whereas religious motivation has often been dismissed, I used this thesis to emphasize that both religious and apocalyptic motivation have been one of many influences behind the formation and development of the Islamic State.

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Lange, Sven. "Revolt against the West : a comparison of the Boxer Rebellion of 1900-1901 & the current war against terror /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2004. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/04Jun%5FLange.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2004.
Thesis advisor(s): Lyman Miller, Donald Abenheim. Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-103). Also available online.

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Tamouro, Abdessamad. "Le rôle fondateur de la notion de "ilm"(science) dans la pensée arabo-musulmane jusqu'au Xème/IVème siècle." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/212117.

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Urbano, Arthur P. "Lives in competition : biographical literature and the struggle for philosophy in late antiquity /." View online version; access limited to Brown University users, 2005. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3174686.

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Hauenstein, Hanne. "Zu den Rollen der Marke-Figur in Gottfrieds "Tristan" /." Göppingen : Kümmerle-Verl, 2006. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0710/2006483030.html.

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Hemingway, Ben. "The dream in classical Greece : debates and practices." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d0d272ee-e293-44bf-b8c2-02b68304d22f.

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This thesis aims to address the Greek attitude to their dream experience in the classical period, as it was conceived in theories and engaged with in dream practices. The emphasis is on the relationship between these elements and the wider cultural frames which surrounded them, in order both to illustrate the manner in which culture influences the conception of dreams, and also to use dreams themselves as a mirror to reflect parts of Greek culture. As a study it has been heavily shaped by the approaches to dreams developed by anthropologists, outlined in Chapter 2, who have emphasised the importance of studying dreams intra-culturally. In Chapter 3 I analyse the language that the Greeks used to express their dreaming experience, drawing from it the important way in which language was both determined by, and determined, the Greeks' understanding of the phenomenon. This forms a base for engaging with dream theories in Chapter 4, both the implicit allusions in literature and explicit explanations proposed by philosophers and medical writers. I then explore the theories at work within Greek culture via dreams as we see them active in the lived religion of the polis: I examine in Chapter 5 the dedications set up by individuals on account of spontaneous dreams, and in Chapter 6 the practice of incubation. I then turn to examine specific relationships: in Chapter 7, the association of dreams with status, i.e. the possibility that powerful people would have equally powerful dreams; in Chapter 8, dreams and gender, assessing the possibility that women considered their dreams to be more important than their male counterparts. In Chapter 9, I position dreams within the context of the other divinatory practices of the period, which allows us to see the unique ways in which dream practices functioned in comparison to the other divinatory forms.

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Wood, Gary. "Islamic Imaginings: Depictions of Muslims in English-Language Children's Literature in the United States from 1990 to 2010." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78103.

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This research examines changes in the depiction of Muslims in Islamic-themed children's literature over two time strata, one decade before and one decade after the events of September 11, 2001. Random sampling with replacement across the two strata yielded a total sample of 59 books, examined at three coding levels: bibliographic data, story/plot data (genre, rural/urban setting, time epoch, conflict type, conflict context, religious instruction), and primary character data (age, culture/ethnicity, and gender). Content is examined using both quantitative comparisons of manifest characteristics and qualitative comparison of emergent themes. Mann-Whitney U tests revealed no statistically significant changes regarding the quantities of manifest features, while additional qualitative analyses suggest six substantive latent thematic changes identified with respect to genre (3), time epoch/setting (1), conflict type (1), and gender related to conflict type (1). Regarding genre, while the quantity of books with humor, with Arabic glossary additions and those employing non-fiction are consistent, the kinds of humor, the nature of glossaria and the subject focus of non-fictions are believed to have changed. With respect to a story's setting, shifts are identified in the treatment of rural and urban spaces, even while most books continue to be set in rural locales. Finally, with respect to a story's conflict type and the primary characters engaged in that conflict, it is believed that changes are evident with respect to self-versus-self conflict type and that female characters are generally lacking in stories of self-identity discovery.
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