Near and Middle Eastern Studies (Theses and Dissertations)
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Doctrinal Sufism in the Sensual Poetry of Ibn al-ʿArabī’s Interpreter of Desires: Divine Self-Disclosure, Inherent Predisposition, and Human Love
Contrary to the opinion of both Ibn al-ʿArabī’s contemporary conservative critics and even some modern scholars, the sensual poetry of his collection, Interpreter of Desires (Tarjumān al-Ashwaq), evidences important elements ... -
SURVEY AND CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON OF WATER SYMBOLISM IN THE ANCIENT BABYLONIAN AND EGYPTIAN COSMOLOGICAL CYCLES
This thesis focuses primarily upon obtaining a greater understanding of Babylonian and Egyptian mythical environments, through the use of water symbolism within the physical and mythological frames of their cosmological ... -
The Judeans of Elephantine : an examination of the Elephantine communities in Egypt during the Persian period
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, 2014)The central question of this thesis is to determine the underlying reasons behind the destruction of the temple of Yahu in Elephantine. I intend to bring together an examination of the Judean community in the Egyptian ...