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Rahel Levin Varnahagen: Harnessing The Ability To Become, Mareena Smith Dec 2001

Rahel Levin Varnahagen: Harnessing The Ability To Become, Mareena Smith

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Rahel Levin Varnhagen: Influence of a Jewess on German Romanticism. Life is not always a box of chocolates, especially if one is part of a marginalized race, religion or gender. Since all three apply to Rahel Levin Varnhagen, one can easily imply that she did not live an easy life. She was raised as a Jewess in a time when Jews were welcome in society but not yet fully integrated into it. As a woman she was limited to a particular lifestyle as well, and yet she took advantage of her surroundings to make a place for herself in the …


Front Matter Nov 2001

Front Matter

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Full Issue Nov 2001

Full Issue

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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The Language Of God: Understanding The Qur'an, Daniel C. Peterson Oct 2001

The Language Of God: Understanding The Qur'an, Daniel C. Peterson

BYU Studies Quarterly

The faith of Islam, one of the three great "Abrahamic" religions, as they might be called, is closely akin to the other two, Judaism and Christianity. It is tightly bound to and thoroughly permeated by its holy book, the Qur'an. Strangely, though, despite the historical and contemporary importance of Islam and despite Islam's kinship with the faith that has dominated Western civilization, neither Islam in general nor the Qur'an in particular is well known in the West. Nor do Westerners typically know very much about the founder of Islam, the Prophet Muhammad. Yet the story of Muhammad is a dramatic …


Behind The Arabesque: Understanding Islamic Art And Architecture, Cynthia Finlayson Oct 2001

Behind The Arabesque: Understanding Islamic Art And Architecture, Cynthia Finlayson

BYU Studies Quarterly

God is the light of the heavens and the earth. A likeness of His light is as a pillar on which is a lamp—the lamp is in a glass, the glass is as it were a brightly shining star—lit from a blessed olive-tree, neither eastern nor western, the oil whereof gives light, though fire touch it not—light upon light. God guides to His light whom He pleases. And God sets forth parables for men, and God is Knower of all things.

Qur'an 24:35


Al-Ghazali, A Muslim Seeker Of Truth, Brian M. Hauglid Oct 2001

Al-Ghazali, A Muslim Seeker Of Truth, Brian M. Hauglid

BYU Studies Quarterly

In conjunction with some noted Islamicists and under the leadership of Daniel C. Peterson, associate professor of Asian and Near Eastern Languages at BYU, several significant Islamic texts are being or will be translated into English and published in order to make these texts available to the West. The first published volume of the Islamic Translation Series: Philosophy, Theology, and Mysticism is The Incoherence of the Philosophers (Tahafut al-Falasifa), written by al-Ghazali (d. 1111). It seems fitting to begin such a series with a work by al-Ghazali, as he holds an esteemed place in the Islamic world. However, Latter-day …


Muslim Perspectives On The Military Orders During The Crusades, William J. Hamblin Oct 2001

Muslim Perspectives On The Military Orders During The Crusades, William J. Hamblin

BYU Studies Quarterly

On July 4, 1187, the armies of Saladin, sultan of Egypt and Syria, surrounded thousands of Crusaders surmounting the Horns of Hattin (fig. 1) near Tiberias in Galilee. Exhausted by heat, thirst, and days of marching and fighting, the Crusaders were forced to surrender. Thousands of the resulting prisoners were sold into slavery, but not all. While King Guy and the Frankish aristocrats who had led their followers to disaster were allowed for the most part to ransom themselves, the knights of the Military Orders faced a different fate. After his triumphant victory, Saladin singled out the captive Templars and …


Photographs Of Jerusalem, 1903, Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Thomas R. Wells Oct 2001

Photographs Of Jerusalem, 1903, Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Thomas R. Wells

BYU Studies Quarterly

In 1903, just before the dramatic changes of the last century engulfed Palestine, Salt Lake City photographer Charles Ellis Johnson (1857-1926) found himself in Jerusalem, Johnson was the earliest Mormon professional photographer to capture views of the city and its inhabitants and thus freeze a unique, peaceful moment in time.


Medieval Texts For A Modern Audience: The Islamic Translation Series At Byu In Light Of Two Early Antecedents, D. Morgan Davis Oct 2001

Medieval Texts For A Modern Audience: The Islamic Translation Series At Byu In Light Of Two Early Antecedents, D. Morgan Davis

BYU Studies Quarterly

Since the publication of its first volume in 1997, the Islamic Translation Series at Brigham Young University has gained recognition as a significant academic endeavor. From a historical perspective, however, the series, which seeks to make available to a new audience texts from the medieval efflorescence of Islamic civilization, is hardly unprecedented. Indeed, when compared with past undertakings, it is quite modest. This essay traces the outlines of two earlier translation movements, one centered in Baghdad from the mid-eighth to the tenth centuries C.E., the other in Spain during the twelfth century. These movements resulted in the transference and augmentation …


The Incoherence Of The Philosophers: A Parallel English-Arabic Text Translated, Introduced, And Annotated By Michael E. Marmura Al-Ghazali, David Paulsen, Eric Madsen Oct 2001

The Incoherence Of The Philosophers: A Parallel English-Arabic Text Translated, Introduced, And Annotated By Michael E. Marmura Al-Ghazali, David Paulsen, Eric Madsen

BYU Studies Quarterly

Al-Ghazali, The Incoherence of the Philosophers: A Parallel English-Arabic Text Translated, Introduced, and Annotated by Michael E. Marmura. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2000. xxxi, 258 pp. Notes, index. $29.95.


Brief Notices, Morgan Davis, Steven Bitner, Doris R. Dant Oct 2001

Brief Notices, Morgan Davis, Steven Bitner, Doris R. Dant

BYU Studies Quarterly

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Index, Byu Studies Oct 2001

Index, Byu Studies

BYU Studies Quarterly

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Full Issue, Byu Studies Oct 2001

Full Issue, Byu Studies

BYU Studies Quarterly

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T.S. Eliot And The American Tradition, Karl Rees Oct 2001

T.S. Eliot And The American Tradition, Karl Rees

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Irish Identity In Seamus Deane's Reading In The Dark, Peter Jasinski Oct 2001

Irish Identity In Seamus Deane's Reading In The Dark, Peter Jasinski

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Education At Hogwarts: Colonizing The Muggle, Christian Sorensen Oct 2001

Education At Hogwarts: Colonizing The Muggle, Christian Sorensen

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Tanka, Laura Stott Oct 2001

Tanka, Laura Stott

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Angel's Landing Zion Canyon National Park, Laura Stott Oct 2001

Angel's Landing Zion Canyon National Park, Laura Stott

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Vacationing In Koosharem, Utah, Melanie Hinton Oct 2001

Vacationing In Koosharem, Utah, Melanie Hinton

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Excerpt From Origins, Xochitl M. Anson Oct 2001

Excerpt From Origins, Xochitl M. Anson

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A Waitress Replies, Melanie Hinton Oct 2001

A Waitress Replies, Melanie Hinton

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Permanent, Jeremy Rigby Oct 2001

Permanent, Jeremy Rigby

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Full Issue Oct 2001

Full Issue

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Preserving The Rhetorical Nature Of Writing Centers When Going Online, Lisa E. Peabody Oct 2001

Preserving The Rhetorical Nature Of Writing Centers When Going Online, Lisa E. Peabody

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United By Our Sympathies: Nineteenth-Century Mormon Women Read George Eliot, Sheree M. Bench Oct 2001

United By Our Sympathies: Nineteenth-Century Mormon Women Read George Eliot, Sheree M. Bench

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When Freshmen Give You Lemons...: How To Put Your Students' Cliches To Good Use, Ted Barnes Oct 2001

When Freshmen Give You Lemons...: How To Put Your Students' Cliches To Good Use, Ted Barnes

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End Matter Oct 2001

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Front Matter Oct 2001

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Chivalry, Love Physiology, And A Reevaluation Of Sir Gawin's Sin, Daniel Brough Oct 2001

Chivalry, Love Physiology, And A Reevaluation Of Sir Gawin's Sin, Daniel Brough

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Front Matter Oct 2001

Front Matter

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