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Hines, Naseem Akhtar. "The Sufi elements in the Indo-Sufi masnavī, with specific reference to Maulana Daud's Cāndayān /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/11140.

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Campbell, Madeleine. "Translating Mohammed Dib : Deleuzean rhizome or Sufi errancy?" Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2014. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5105/.

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There is a conceptual resonance between the rhizomatic habit in the world of plants and the perennial errancy in the (meta)physical world of man traversed by Mohammed Dib’s writing. In so far as reflective research and the practice of translation can ‘mirror’ the surface of their object, this project is a rhizomatic endeavour. It is a fragmentary journey into the desert, in search of the mysterious at’lāl, the trace of the sign, drawn and effaced and redrawn again by Mohammed Dib to reveal ephemeral truths about the self and its others. Dib’s focus migrates from early realist ‘socio-ethnographic’ novels in the 1950s to metaphysical explorations described by critics as ‘hermetic’, ‘mystical’ or ‘surreal’. The historical and the mystical, however, are two facets of the same inexorable acts of deterritorialization and reterritorialization in a precarious, often oneiric, universe. The ‘visions’ expressed in his poetics are couched in the elemental vocabularies of light and shadow, fire and water, space and duration and draw their substance from Sufi mystical scholars and poets. I posit that Dib’s nomadic contemporary writing arises from the place that lies between the sensible and the intelligible in Sufi mysticism, in a secular transposition of the Sufi Imagination: Dib neither constructs nor deconstructs. Rather, his singular style serves to hone an acutely experiential expression. Further, there is a sense in which each ouvrage is a heterotrope whereby his poetry and prose collections are inextricably embedded in each other, thus one is always in the middle of his universe. The ubiquitous entry point to this universe lies in the middle of his metaphorical desert, an aesthetic landscape stripped of idiocultural signification. Central to its lines of flight is the sign, both ephemeral and enduring, and what is enveloped in the sign is the non-signifying impact of its expression. I argue that Dib’s perennial re-assembling of ‘ces chaînes aux mailles d’acier qui sont mots’ (those chains with links of steel that are words) doesn’t so much ‘give rise to thought’ as ‘give rise to affect’.
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Burgess, Linda Kathryn. "The Sufi teaching story and contemporary approaches to composition." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1999. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1533.

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Abdul, Nabi Saleh Ali. "The concept of the Sufi Saintly Miracle: A Literary Approach." University of Western cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7302.

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study analyses the concept of al-Karāmah al-Sūfīyah (the Sufi Saintly Miracle) in both its religious and literary dimensions. The researcher will shed more light on this genre of narrative literary phenomena by developing its definition and placing it in the social and historical context of the Sufi thought as a whole. Many communities in the Islamic world embrace and practice the Sufi doctrine and also believe in the Ṣūfī Sheikhs’ saintly miracles and its paranormal aspects, which they also consider to be parallel in its sacredness to the miracles of the Prophets. Furthermore, in this study the researcher will not only focus on the religious significance of the saintly miracle but also on their literary approach and aesthetic dimensions. In fact many of the contemporary Arab scholars and Litterateurs categorize this narrative discourse to fall under the cloak of al-Adab al-‘ajāibī (miraculous literature) due to the nature of its narrative style and structure from which it achieves its goals, such as: Myth – Legend – Superstition – Storytelling, etc. The study will be mainly qualitative. It is a content analysis study in the sense that the researcher will analyse the stylistic, formal and rhetorical techniques of the saintly miracles’ discourse with specific reference to extracts taken from al- Sheikh al-Hassan al- Shadili and al-Sheikh Abdelssalam Bin Machich. The study will use an eclectic theoretical and conceptual framework which combines the historical approach with the reception theory.
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Dreher, Josef Ibn Qasi. "Das Imamat des islamischen Mystikers Abūlqāsim Aḥmad ibn al- Ḥusain ibn Qasī (gest. 1151) : eine Studie zum Selbstverständnis des Autors des "Buchs vom Ausziehen der beiden Sandalen" (Kitāb Halʻ an-naʻlain) /." Bonn, 1985. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/19656.

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Yang, Wei-Yun. "Doris Lessing's use of Sufi teaching stories : a study of the literary treatment of the theme of transformation in some recent novels by Doris Lessing." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.309742.

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Saidi, Mustapha. "Ibn Arabi's Sufi and poetic experiences (through his collection of mystical poems Tarjuman al-Ashwaq)." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2005. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_2270_1183723387.

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This study is a theoretical research concerning Ibn Arabi's Sufi experience and his philosophy of the "
unity of being"
(also his poetical talent). I therefore adopted the historical and analytical methodologies to analyse and reply on the questions and suggestions I have raised in this paper. Both of the methodologies reveal the actual status of the Sufism of Ibn Arabi who came with a challenging sufi doctrine. Also, in the theoretical methodology I attempt to define Sufism by giving a panoramic history of it. I have also researched Ibn Arabi's status amongst his contemporaries for example, Al-Hallaj and Ibn Al Farid, and how they influenced him as a Sufi thinker during this time.


In the analytical study I explore the poems "
Tarjuman al Ashwaq"
of Ibn Arabi, of which I have selected some poems to study analytically. Through this I discovered Ibn Arabi's Sufi inclinations and the criticisms of various literary scholars, theologians, philosophers and also sufi thinkers, both from the East and the West. In this analysis I have also focused on the artistic value of the poetry which he utilized to promote his own doctrine "
the unity of being."

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Brodnicka, Monika Luiza. "The ancient wor(l)d of knowledge invoking Amadou Hampaté Bâ's living tradition in West African tales of initiation, Sufi practice, and literature /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2007.

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Prus, Erin S. "Divine presence, gender, and the Sufi spiritual path: An analysis of Rabi’ah the Mystic’s identity and poetry." Xavier University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1274714058.

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Karamustafa, Ahmet T. 1956. "Vāḥīdī's Menāḳıb-i Ḥvoca-i Cihān ve Netīce-i Cān : critical edition and historical analysis." Thesis, McGill University, 1986. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=74032.

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Camara, Samba. "Recording Postcolonial Nationhood: Islam and Popular Music in Senegal." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1510780384221502.

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Li, Daohe. "Sui shi min su yu gu xiao shuo yan jiu." Tianjin Shi : Tianjin gu ji chu ban she, 2004.

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La, Torre Perregrini Esperanza Luján. "Gli ispanismi nella lingua italiana e nei suoi dialetti, in prospettiva diacronica." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-161372.

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The use of Spanish words “ispanismi” in the Italian territory has been an active phenomenon for centuries. The geographical proximity between Spain and Italy, political-commercial and cultural relations throughout history as well as the similarity of the two languages have favoured the linguistic exchange between these two cultures. The aim of this thesis is to investigate these relations, when and how they occurred. It has been observed in this work that social-political-cultural relations between Italy and Spain initiated in the thirteenth century have enriched the Italian vocabulary as well as some of its dialects (Neapolitan, Sardinian). Many Spanish loan words and calques used in the past continue to be used today in various areas of Italian vocabulary.
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Bailey, Deborah. "Female Allegory as Anti-Nationalist Satire in "L'attaque du Moulin" and "Boule de Suif"." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2009. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1793.

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The year 1880 was rife with nationalist fervor and a general glorification of the French nation through imagery, literature and legislation. However, at this same time, Les Soirées de Médan, a collection of stories concerning the Franco-Prussian war also appear, bringing with them a distinctly anti-nationalist, harsh, and unforgiving view of the war and France's role in it. This thesis will examine personifications of France within L'attaque du Moulin and Boule de suif, the first two texts of Les Soirées de Médan, and their definite lack of the nationalist enthusiasm that characterized the time of their creation. The study of these allegorical representations reveals the place in the mentality of the French people of the concept they represent, a shorthand for a complex and evolving idea. Though others have mapped out the historical appearance and place of representations of France, I will delve into the possible reasons for the necessity of the feminine in this allegorization, the connotations and conventions that make it an effective tool for fighting nationalist tides for both Zola and Maupassant, and the historical and political context that allow us to trace a general shift in the concept of the nation through these female symbols. Furthermore, given the prevalence of female allegories at the time, and the monopolization of their usage for political purposes, the choice of these authors to employ allegory (a rhetorical mode characterized by its official status with the very regime they are criticizing) takes on further levels of criticism and satire. Exploring the opposition and relationship of these two literary female allegories to contemporary allegorical and visual representations will reveal how they relate to-and eventually criticize and reject-the prevailing political and nationalist discourse of their day.
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Pizarro, Edson. "Problemas de la Traducción Escénica de un texto no Dramático En base al poema sufi “Mantik Ütair” de Farid Ud Din Attar." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2008. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/109779.

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Reis, Lígia de Almeida Durante Correa dos [UNESP]. "Filosofia e estética na formação da criança: considerações a partir da novela filosófica Suki." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/90246.

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Este trabalho se foca na tentativa de responder às perguntas: Qual é o papel da estética no ensino de filosofia para crianças?; Quais as possibilidades para a formação da criança que podem ser vislumbradas a partir da união da experiência estética e da experiência do pensar? Para tanto analisou-se a novela Suki, de autoria de Matthew Lipman por ser o programa por ele definido para a Estética e dada à centralidade deste autor ao se falar em Filosofia para Crianças. Na busca de responder às perguntas acima expostas este trabalho apresenta o conceito de formação defendido pelos frankfurtianos e utilizado como categoria para análise do objeto deste estudo, bem como os conceitos de Indústria Cultural e semiformação. Enfim, a partir da defesa de uma infância plena, destaca-se a importância de unir a experiência do pensar e a experiência estética e, nesse sentido, são tecidos alguns comentários sobre a dimensão estética da proposta de Lipman. Conclui-se o texto apontando algumas possibilidades de união das experiências do pensar e estética sem redução dos elementos estéticos e da própria estética ou instrumentalização do pensar.
This paper’s focus is trying to answer the following questions: Which is the role of aesthetic in teaching philosophy to children?; Which are the possibilities to the children’s formation, that can be found through the union of aesthetic and thinking experiences? To answer them, the novel Suki, written by Matthew Lipman, was analyzed. This was due to the fact of this novel being the program defined by the author to the Aesthetic, and also, because of its author’s way of talking about Philosophy to Children. Trying to answer the questions mentioned above, this paper presents the concept of formation supported by the frankfurtians and used as category to the analysis of the object of the study, as well as the concepts of Cultural Industry and semiformation. Eventually, from the defense of a full childhood, we highlight the importance of joining the experience of thinking and the aesthetic experience and we also make some comments about Lipman’s aesthetic proposal. At the end of the text we present some possibilities of the aesthetic and thinking experiences’ union, without reducing the aesthetic elements, or the aesthetic itself, or the instrumentalization of thinking.
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Santos, Marisa Bispo dos. "Boule de Suif de Guy de Maupassant : transformação e permanência na adaptação de Paulo Mendes Campos para jovens leitores." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UnB, 2008. http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/6836.

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Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Letras, 2008.
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Estudos demonstram que parte significativa da literatura infanto-juvenil comercializada no Brasil é constituída de adaptações de clássicos da literatura universal. Atualmente dezenas de editoras veiculam coleções de adaptações para a audiência infanto-juvenil, uma das mais expressivas é a Scipione, no segmento da série Reencontro. A editora garante que uma das diretrizes principais do projeto editorial da série é manter a qualidade literária dos textos de partida nas adaptações. O objetivo deste trabalho foi examinar a coerência dessa diretriz na tradução e adaptação de Boule de Suif de Guy de Maupassant realizada por Paulo Mendes Campos, ou seja, examinar até que ponto a obra corresponde às expectativas de qualidade literária contidas no projeto de tradução e adaptação da série Reencontro. Em busca da resposta, realizou-se um estudo comparativo entre o texto de partida Boule de Suif e sua adaptação Bola de Sebo. Estudo que teve como aporte construtos teóricos da tradução literária relacionados à abordagem crítica e à recepção da tradução, considerando autores como Even-Zohar, Gideon Toury e André Lefevere. Foram considerados, ainda, os trabalhos do teórico da tradução Antoine Berman e do teórico da literatura Mikhail Bakhtin. O primeiro oferece uma metodologia de análise comparativa, o segundo, o modelo conceitual com sua abordagem semiótica. _________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT
Research has shown that a relevant part of the infant-juvenile literature sold in Brazil is made up of adapted classics of the universal literature. Nowadays, dozens of publishing houses issue collections of adapted texts for the infant-juvenile readers, one of the most expressive is the Scipione collection, in the segment of the ‘Reencontro’ editions. The publishing houses guarantee that one of the main guidelines of the editorial publishing project series is to maintain the literary quality of the source texts in the adaptations. The focus of this research was to examine the coherence of this guideline in the translation and adaptation of Boule de Suif of Guy de Maupassant carried out by Paulo Mendes Campos, in other words, to examine until what extent the translation corresponds to the literary quality expectations described in the project of the translation and adaptation of the issue Reencontro. In order to answer the research question, a comparative research was carried out between the source text Boule de Suif and the adapted text Bola de Sebo. The studies carried out was based on theoretical constructs of literary translation related to a critical approach and to the literary reception, considering authors such as Even-Zohar, Gideon Toury and André Lefevere.The works from the translation theoretician Antoine Berman and from the literary theoretician Mikhail Bakhtin are also taken into consideration. The first offers a methodology of comparative analysis, the second a conceptual model with its semiotics approach.
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Wang, Jianhui. "Sexual politics in the works of Chinese American women writers Sui Sin Far, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Amy Tan /." Open access to IUP's electronic theses and dissertations, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2069/51.

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Reis, Lígia de Almeida Durante Correa dos. "Filosofia e estética na formação da criança : considerações a partir da novela filosófica Suki /." Araraquara : [s.n.], 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/90246.

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Resumo: Este trabalho se foca na tentativa de responder às perguntas: Qual é o papel da estética no ensino de filosofia para crianças?; Quais as possibilidades para a formação da criança que podem ser vislumbradas a partir da união da experiência estética e da experiência do pensar? Para tanto analisou-se a novela Suki, de autoria de Matthew Lipman por ser o programa por ele definido para a Estética e dada à centralidade deste autor ao se falar em Filosofia para Crianças. Na busca de responder às perguntas acima expostas este trabalho apresenta o conceito de formação defendido pelos frankfurtianos e utilizado como categoria para análise do objeto deste estudo, bem como os conceitos de Indústria Cultural e semiformação. Enfim, a partir da defesa de uma infância plena, destaca-se a importância de unir a experiência do pensar e a experiência estética e, nesse sentido, são tecidos alguns comentários sobre a dimensão estética da proposta de Lipman. Conclui-se o texto apontando algumas possibilidades de união das experiências do pensar e estética sem redução dos elementos estéticos e da própria estética ou instrumentalização do pensar.
Abstract: This paper's focus is trying to answer the following questions: Which is the role of aesthetic in teaching philosophy to children?; Which are the possibilities to the children's formation, that can be found through the union of aesthetic and thinking experiences? To answer them, the novel Suki, written by Matthew Lipman, was analyzed. This was due to the fact of this novel being the program defined by the author to the Aesthetic, and also, because of its author's way of talking about Philosophy to Children. Trying to answer the questions mentioned above, this paper presents the concept of formation supported by the frankfurtians and used as category to the analysis of the object of the study, as well as the concepts of Cultural Industry and semiformation. Eventually, from the defense of a full childhood, we highlight the importance of joining the experience of thinking and the aesthetic experience and we also make some comments about Lipman's aesthetic proposal. At the end of the text we present some possibilities of the aesthetic and thinking experiences' union, without reducing the aesthetic elements, or the aesthetic itself, or the instrumentalization of thinking.
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Ciepielewska-Janoschka, Anna [Verfasser]. "PANCIATICHIANO-PALATINO 32 : Considerazioni ed ipotesi sul Libro di nouelle et di bel parlare gientile con note sui segni interpuntivi ed abbreviativi / Anna Ciepielewska-Janoschka." Aachen : Shaker, 2004. http://d-nb.info/1172609977/34.

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FERRACCI, GABRIELE. "On the River Road. In viaggio sui fiumi dell'Ovest, 1803-1861." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Genova, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11567/986267.

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From the Louisiana Purchase (1803) to the beginning of the Civil War (1861), travel writing about journeys on the Mississippi and its tributaries contributed to spread themes, motives, symbols and characters of paramount importance for American imagination. Traveling was already a key part in American identity and the Western Rivers represented a landscape element endowed with great mythopoetic power. The present thesis analyses actual and fictional accounts of journeys on the Western Rivers in order to establish fruitful links between major works of American literature and less known texts, drawing especially from the memoirs of travelers and the sketches of Southwestern humorists.
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Langer, Monika. "Der "Viaggio sul Reno" des Aurelio de' Giorgi Bertola : eine Diskursreise durch das 18. Jahrhundert /." Trier : Wiss. Verl. Trier, 2008. http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?u20=9783884769928.

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Baumgarten, Joseph Ephraim. "Combating the Banality of Evil: Portrayals of the Literary Female Villain in Günter Grass's Danziger Trilogie and Novella, Im Krebsgang." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2005. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/653.

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In Günter Grass's Danzig Trilogy and novella, Im Krebsgang, an antagonistic female type makes a repeated appearance. She appears in the guise of Susi Kater and Luzie Rennwand in Die Blechtrommel, and as Tulla Pokriefke in the other works, Katz und Maus, Hundejahre, and Im Krebsgang. This antagonistic female type is not like other women in these works. A review of Le Deuxième Sexe by feminist Simone de Beauvoir reveals several crucial components contributing to woman's position in society. Most essentially, a woman's natural attributes and (dis)abilities and the conventions of society have enforced her historical submission to man. This thesis analyzes how the antagonistic female type, or villain, compares and contrasts with other female figures in these works by Grass, according to a paradigm derived from Beauvoir's description of woman. From this analysis, a better understanding of the female villain's nature emerges. Indeed, such a comparison demonstrates that certain female figures in the works of Grass transcend their historically oppressed or subdued status by refusing to submit to those natural handicaps and societal restrictions identified by Beauvoir, and thus become a threat to man's status or security as an antagonistic female type, or villain. However, the villain figure is not always inherently evil, but possesses the capacity to change. The villain and victim can reconcile their differences and may even form a friendly relationship. This evolving villain-victim duality becomes most clear in Grass's work, Im Krebsgang, and suggests the possibility of assuaging contemporary conflicts as educators sympathize with the experiences of both extremist groups and victimized parties and help them come to terms with their differences.
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Kassim, Mohamed M. "Colonial resistance and the local transmission of Islamic knowledge in the Benadir Coast in the late 19th and 20th centuries /." 2006. 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:NR39017.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2006. Graduate Programme in History.
Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 331-350). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: 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:NR39017
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Wolfe, Michael Wehring. "The World Could Not Contain the Pages: A Sufi Reading of the Gospel of John Based on the Writings of Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn al-ʿArabī (1165-1240 CE)." Thesis, 2016. https://doi.org/10.7916/D89023RP.

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This dissertation addresses the question: how might the Sufi master, Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn al-ʿArabī (1165-1240 CE), have read the Gospel of John? Although the Gospel of John belongs originally to the Christian tradition, this dissertation is a contribution to Islamic Studies, endeavoring to illuminate Ibn al-ʿArabī’s distinctive manner of reading religious texts and to highlight features of his negotiation of a dual heritage from Jesus and Muḥammad. To set Ibn al-ʿArabī’s thought against an Islamic backdrop and situate it in an Islamic context, this dissertation adopts the device of constructing a commentary, guided by seminal passages in Ibn al-ʿArabī’s written corpus, on an Arabic translation of the Gospel of John: the Alexandrian Vulgate, widely circulated in the Arab world during Ibn al-ʿArabī’s time. This amounts not only to a comparison between Johannine doctrines and Ibn al-ʿArabī’s doctrines, but also a comparison between the latter and historical Muslim commentaries on the Christian scriptures—particularly the Biblical commentary (in circulation by the thirteenth century) attributed to the famed Sufi theologian Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī, and the fourteenth-century Muslim Biblical commentary by Najm al-Dīn al-Ṭūfī (d. 1316 CE). Part I of the dissertation establishes a foundation for the commentary, inquiring into Ibn al-ʿArabī’s general attitudes towards non-Islamic religions, then considering autobiographical accounts of his relationship to Christianity, the question of his familiarity with the New Testament, and illustrations of his creative engagement with Christian doctrines. Part II of the dissertation constitutes the commentary, considering Ibn al-ʿArabī’s possible views on a number of Johannine doctrines: Jesus’ claim to have been the son of God; Jesus’ claim to have been one with God; the doctrine that Jesus was the embodied Word; the expiatory and epistemic functions of the embodied Word (paralleled by a dialectic relationship between two divergent kinds of witnessing); and the rumor, at the end of the Gospel of John, that the Beloved Disciple would never die.
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Koerbin, Paul V. "I am Pir Sultan Abdal : a hermeneutical study of the self-naming tradition (mahlas) in Turkish Alevi lyric song (deyiş)." Thesis, 2011. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/507150.

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The lyric songs of Turkish oral tradition broadly understood by the term deyiş provide one of the richest perspectives on the historical construction, communal perceptions and creative impetus of Turkish Alevi culture. One of the most evident defining characteristics of the deyiş is the convention in which the poetic persona to which the lyric is attributed, known as the mahlas, is incorporated in the final verse. While this convention is ubiquitous in this lyric form it has received little scholarly attention particularly in regards to is role in expressive culture. This study approaches Alevi expressive culture by means of focusing on the interpretive force of the mahlas. The theoretical basis for this study is the tripartite model proposed for ethnomusicological study by Timothy Rice in 1987, by which musical experience may be understood as being historically constructed, socially maintained and individually applied. In applying this model my study pursues an interpretive approach both in terms of identifying interpretive practice and in suggesting interpretive perspectives. This approach follows Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutical perspective as an encounter that seeks not to understand the inner experience of people of another culture, but rather to understand the world that is suggested by music sounds, performance and contexts. The structure of this study follows this hermeneutical epistemology in terms of pre-understanding (encounters in text), explications (the analysis of the form and structure of the text and music) and experiences (interpretive encounters with expressive culture that suggest new understandings). Methods employed for this study include a broad reading and familiarity with Alevi related and initiated publications and scholarship (in Turkish and English); observation of Alevi (and more broadly Turkish) public expressive culture through audio and visual recordings and attending festivals and other events; and participation in Alevi expressive culture and critical reflection through learning the bağlama (Turkish lute) and performing Alevi deyiş informally and in public. This study begins by considering ‗pre-understandings‘ through the way the persona of the most influential of the Alevi poets, Pir Sultan Abdal, is presented in the pursuit of a historical identity as the lyrics or oral tradition attributed to him have become the basis of canonical textual collections. This chapter suggests the limitation of this approach to understanding while revealing the centrality of the mahlas as the object of study. The second part of the study focuses on explicating the deyiş lyric form and the mahlas as a defining characteristic of that form. These explications suggests the mahlas is more than merely a convention used to identify the author of the lyric but is, rather, a subtle and adaptable traditional textual integer that, while inherently meaningful, is not fixed in its meaning or purpose; and with its immanent associations provides interpretive and creative potential. The third part of the study considers the interpretive and creative potential of the Alevi deyiş and the immanent qualities of the mahlas in performance. Firstly, a context to Alevi public expressive culture is provided by examining a series of commercial recordings produced in the 1980s by Arif Sağ, a formative period when Alevis began to be more open and assertive in the articulation of Alevi culture. This is followed by an examination of the interpretive potential of performance through the description and analysis of a performance by Tolga Sağ at the 2002 Pir Sultan Abdal festival in the village of Banaz in central Turkey. The study further considers the application of the interpretive potential provided by the immanent and associative qualities of the mahlas through a critical reflective analysis of my performances of Alevi deyiş. Finally, this study includes the largest collection of lyrics by the major Alevi poet Pir Sultan Abdal yet to appear in English translations. These translations are included to demonstrate and reveal the hermeneutical challenge presented by this material as well as providing broader scholarly access to a substantial representative sample of the lyrics associated with this major Alevi figure. This study concludes that the mahlas is a richly meaningful textual integer that conveys, with communicative economy, immanent aspects of authority, lineage, communal identity and inclusion. As such, rather than being a simple convention to identify authorship, it is an adaptive yet critical element in the creative and interpretive expression of Alevi culture. This study aims to contribute to the understanding of a rich oral lyric tradition and creative expressive culture that has received relatively little scholarly attention, especially in the English language scholarship, and to reveal the mahlas in the context of oral and expressive culture as a subject deserving of further scholarly study.
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UNGERMANOVÁ, Tereza. "Deminutiva ve španělské dětské literatuře." Master's thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-155653.

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The goal of my diploma thesis is the detail analysis of the usage of diminutives in the Spanish literature, including the characteristics of their meaning and function. The theoretical part of my thesis is consisted of the basic information concerning this morphological phenomenon and its creation, function and interpretation in the text. It also includes definition of the children´s literature and various views on this subcategory of literature. There is mentioned the history of the children´s literature too, together with its evolution and literary performance. I pay special attention to linguistic features which appear in the children´s literature. The practical part is consisted of the qualitative and quantitative analysis of three books for children: Manolito on the Road, El príncipe que todo lo aprendió en los libros and El Conde Lucanor.The goal of this part of my thesis is the comparison of several linguistic approaches towards this morphological phenomenon. I also aim to determine eventual difference in frequency of using of different types of diminutive suffix, both from the diachronical and differential point of view. Last but not least, there is a qualitative analysis which elaborates individual contextual functions of diminutive suffix.
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"Redressing Immigration: Folklore, Cross-Dressing, and Un/Documented Immigration in Sui Sin Far's Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange." Master's thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.18031.

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abstract: This project examines the intersections between sexual/cultural cross-dressing and un/documented immigration from the point of view of folklore and immigration studies using Sui Sin Far's short story collection Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Karen Tei Yamashita's novel Tropic of Orange. Using the lenses of folklore theory and cross-dressing highlights aspects of immigration (and its intersection with gender and race) that are otherwise missed; it is necessary to examine the evolving ways in which fictionalized cross-dressers re-craft and occupy the spaces from which they are barred in order to address and redress questions of immigration today. Incorporating anthropology, history, folkloristics, and gender studies, this project shows that historical forms of cross-dressing and immigration lead to the development of unstable identities and pressures to "re-dress" and return to one's original space. More recent studies about gender, however, reveal a historical change in how cross-dressers negotiate their identities and the space(s) they inhabit. Therefore, it is crucial to inspect cross-dressing and immigration as both historical and contemporary phenomena. While Mrs. Spring Fragrance (published in 1912) represents more conventional ideas of cross-dressing and immigration, Tropic of Orange (published in 1997) offers alternative ways to navigate borders, immigration, and identity by using these concepts more playfully and self-consciously. Although sexual/cultural cross-dressing and un/documented immigration are not the same in every case, there are enough similarities between the two to warrant investigating whether some of the solutions reached by modern cross-dressers and gender-ambiguous people might not also help un/documented immigrants to re-negotiate their status, identities, and spaces in the midst of an unstable and at times hostile environment. In fact, an examination of such intersections can address and redress immigration by changing the perceptions of how, and the contexts in which, people view immigration and borders. Thus, this project contends that it is the combination of folkloristics, gender and immigration studies, Mrs. Spring Fragrance, and Tropic of Orange together that precipitates such a reading.
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M.A. English 2013
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