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Umm Salama And Her Hadith, Yasmin Amin 2021 The American University in Cairo AUC

Umm Salama And Her Hadith, Yasmin Amin

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Narrations by notable Islamic personalities are a significant part of the Islamic religious edifice. However, these narrations are of variable quality and authenticity. To evaluate these narrations, standards and tools were developed and used. This study will look into whether or not it is possible to add a new tool that might aid in evaluating the narrations of an individual muḥaddith, using the example of Umm Salama. The study investigates Umm Salama from multiple perspectives to draw a rich picture of her. A detailed review of Umm Salama's life is presented, her genealogy reviewed, her character explored, her contributions to …


The State Mosques Of The Arabian Gulf: Bridging Tradition And Modernity In The 20th, Yasmine M. A. Mohamed 2021 The American University in Cairo AUC

The State Mosques Of The Arabian Gulf: Bridging Tradition And Modernity In The 20th, Yasmine M. A. Mohamed

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The architecture of the state mosques of the Arabian Gulf in the 20th century is an overlooked subject. Their various styles of Islamic architecture, lavish details, luxurious decoration and enormous scale are all intended to convey a message of elegance and power. While some research has been carried out on the Gulf States as part of modern urban development in general, little has been done on State Mosque architecture in particular, and few have been studied or even published in detail. Nevertheless, this region underwent more major changes in its contemporary mosque architecture from its traditional architecture than any of …


The Development Of The Darb Al-Ahmar, Cairo, 969-1517, Lucy Seton-Watson 2021 The American University in Cairo AUC

The Development Of The Darb Al-Ahmar, Cairo, 969-1517, Lucy Seton-Watson

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The Domestic Architecture Of Jordan-Palestine In The Early Islamic Period: An Archaeological Approach, Sandra Ahn 2021 The American University in Cairo AUC

The Domestic Architecture Of Jordan-Palestine In The Early Islamic Period: An Archaeological Approach, Sandra Ahn

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The Mosque Of Qijmas Al-Ishaqi, Gazbeya El-Hamamsy 2021 The American University in Cairo AUC

The Mosque Of Qijmas Al-Ishaqi, Gazbeya El-Hamamsy

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Tabari's Re-Presentation Of Women During The Madina Period, Kendra C. Hathaway 2021 The American University in Cairo AUC

Tabari's Re-Presentation Of Women During The Madina Period, Kendra C. Hathaway

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This thesis analyzes Abu Jaâ far Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabariâ s chronicle (d. 923) History of Prophets and Kings using a gender perspective. It focuses on al-Tabariâ s representation of women during the Madina period, arguing that through such a representation al-Tabari projects his Abbasid gender norms on the women of this period. The thesis focuses on four main subjects in relation to al-Tabariâ s text: the image of rebellious non-Muslim women, â Aâ ishaâ s involvement in the Battle of the Camel, and women as rational and emotional players in the Madina period.


The Prefixes In Urban Arabic Dialect In Gaza: A Morphological Study, Nedal Fayez El-Shorbagy 2021 The American University in Cairo AUC

The Prefixes In Urban Arabic Dialect In Gaza: A Morphological Study, Nedal Fayez El-Shorbagy

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Understanding The Poem Of The Burdah In Sufi Commentaries, Rose Aslan 2021 The American University in Cairo AUC

Understanding The Poem Of The Burdah In Sufi Commentaries, Rose Aslan

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The Term According To Ibn‎Malik In The Writing Of ‎‎“Explanation Of Umdat Al-‎Hafiz Waadat Al-Lafeth”‎ ‏, Mustafa Al-Hiyadara 2021 Irbid Private University, Jordan

The Term According To Ibn‎Malik In The Writing Of ‎‎“Explanation Of Umdat Al-‎Hafiz Waadat Al-Lafeth”‎ ‏, Mustafa Al-Hiyadara

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

Search on terms concerning it's beginning, rules of coining, development, circulation and ‎constancy is not an easy job but, at the same time, it may help us to draw up an idea to solve ‎the terminology problem at the persent time. We can investigate old terms along with their ‎establishing rules and the factors which have helped them to spread out in order to coin ‎modem scientific terms. This paper has been devoted to investigating terms aduced by Ibn‎Malek in his book "sharhUmdat El - Hafez waidatu El- lafez" It also presents an exposition of ‎early phases of terms along …


The Phenomenon Of Load On ‎The Position, Qasim Saleh 2021 Jerash University, Jordan

The Phenomenon Of Load On ‎The Position, Qasim Saleh

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

The present study deals with the issue of placing grammatical diacritics on the appositive and ‎parsing it on the basis of its original position as related to another noun which is followed by it ‎in apposition and disregarding its pronunciation. The study also distinguishes between this ‎phenomenon and other similar ones such as placing diacritics according to pronunciation, ‎meaning and self-delusion. Moreover, it dis-cusses the disagreement among the grammarians ‎with respect to the conditions they put to approve this phenomenon. Ten syntactic issues which ‎have been the opject of the grammarians interest and controversy show the aspects and ‎branches of …


Qustaki Al-Homsi And Pioneering ‎The Historical Approach In Modern ‎Arab Criticism, Ahmed Al-Aroud 2021 Jerash University, Jordan

Qustaki Al-Homsi And Pioneering ‎The Historical Approach In Modern ‎Arab Criticism, Ahmed Al-Aroud

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This study provides a clarification of the role of Kistaki AL - Hemsi. (1858-1941) ,in the process ‎of the modern Arabic criticism discourse, in terms of the change in the nature of the discourse , ‎to wards the European criticism discourse, on one side ,and the pioneer ship in the historical ‎approach in the modern Arab criticism on the other side The researcher views that AL- Hemsi‎proceeded Ahmad Daif (1880 -1945), and Taha Hussein (1889 -1973), in exploiting this ‎approach , in his critical studies


Shukri Ayyad As A Stylistic ‎Critic, Hussam Ayoub 2021 Jerash University, Jordan

Shukri Ayyad As A Stylistic ‎Critic, Hussam Ayoub

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This research paper consists of an introduction and three themes, The themes are:‎‎1-‎ The factors.‎‎2-‎ The principles of stylistic theory.‎‎3-‎ The application.‎‎ The introduction covers the significance of this research paper and the approach followed in ‎the study.‎The first theme discusses most of the factor which participated in the coinage of the ‎stylistic theory of ShukriAyyad such as Arabic Theories, modem linguistics and the ‎translation of modern stylistic studies.‎‎ The second theme discusses the principles of Ayyad stylistic theory such as the ‎relationship between stylistics and literary criticism the concept of stylistic ‎phenomenon and the standards used in observing its …


Adonis And Modernity In Arab Criticism, Abdul Rahim Marashda 2021 Jerash University, Jordan

Adonis And Modernity In Arab Criticism, Abdul Rahim Marashda

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This research aims at clarifying the problem of modernity as influential term in the contemporary movement of the Arab literary to and critical scripts. Hence, it has become necessary to pursue the roots of this term throughout the Arab critical history. Adonis is ‎considered one of the most prominent names in the Arab critical field which contributed ‎to fixing this tern in the mentality of the Arab critics and literary people in the fifties and ‎sixties approximately through his constant writings bingeing with his publishing on the ‎‎"Arab" magazine which went in parallel with writings , passing through his critical …


The Sociology Of Ancient Arab ‎Criticism And The Impact Of Authority ‎On The Critical Rule, Dawood Salloum, Mohamed Rabie 2021 Jerash University, Jordan

The Sociology Of Ancient Arab ‎Criticism And The Impact Of Authority ‎On The Critical Rule, Dawood Salloum, Mohamed Rabie

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This paper adressed, for the first time, the topic of how the power of the Caliphs and Princes ‎influenced the theory of Criticism. It revealed that critics and Scholars of rhetoric’s laid down ‎the principals in their books according to the wishes and the whims of the rulers of Islamic and ‎Arabic society. ‎ Most poets in their praise poetry‏ ‏obyed the advices of the critics which were in fact the wishes ‎of the state itself


Metaphor And Rhythmic Repetition In ‎Al-Akhtal Al-Saghir Poetry, Wijdan Al-Sayagh 2021 Mousel University, Iraq

Metaphor And Rhythmic Repetition In ‎Al-Akhtal Al-Saghir Poetry, Wijdan Al-Sayagh

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

Metaphor and Rhythm of Repetition in the poetry of Al - Akhtal As - Sagheer. ‎ The inner rhythm has endowed the metaphorical image in the poetry of Al - Akhtal As - ‎Sagheer with its sound and music in view of the fact that this rhythm has enlightened the ‎meanings as well as the feeling in the structure of the metaphorical image , therefore , it has ‎emerged more active and effective , especially the phenomenon of repetition which ‎manifests itself in repeating the two sides of metaphor or the verbal phonetic ) contexts ‎whether these contexts are nouns …


The Poetic Image In The Poetry Of ‎Tarfa Ibn Al-Abd: Its Subject And ‎Source, Ismail Al Alem 2021 Yarmouk University, Jordan

The Poetic Image In The Poetry Of ‎Tarfa Ibn Al-Abd: Its Subject And ‎Source, Ismail Al Alem

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This study attempts to uncover Tarfa Ibn al- ' Abd's thought and artistic vision of his ‎surroundings. Since poetic image can lead us to examine the emotional experiences within the ‎poet's soul, we have chosen to consult the subjects through which poetic images were ‎created, and to consult the resources that helped to build up those images; the treatment of ‎the subjects of images and their resources leads us to find out the meanings that preoccupied ‎the poet, meanings which he certainly experienced and lived through actual life and milieu. It ‎is hoped that the study of the subject through …


A Reading In Iben Al-Faredeh’S Poem ‎‎“Al-Ayniyiah”‎, Abdul Aziz Shehadeh 2021 Yarmouk University, Jordan

A Reading In Iben Al-Faredeh’S Poem ‎‎“Al-Ayniyiah”‎, Abdul Aziz Shehadeh

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This research studies Ibn Al-Faredh's poem “Al A'yniyyah "from a rhythmical ‎viewpoint. It emphasizes the significance and weight attached to vowels, sounds, ‎and consonants, pointing out the revelations transmitted to the reader through ‎these values.‎ The paper also intends to explore Ibn AlFaredh's longing to give his Hijazi past experience the immediacy of the pesent and a trition in the future.‎ In addition, this study discusses how the poet exploits the old Arabic pre-Islamic tradition to express his mystical vision


The Structural Spatial Formation Of The ‎Phenomenon Of Repetition In Jarir's ‎Poetry, Ismail Al-Alam 2021 Yarmouk University, Jordan

The Structural Spatial Formation Of The ‎Phenomenon Of Repetition In Jarir's ‎Poetry, Ismail Al-Alam

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This paper has discussed the issue of repetition in Jarir's poetry from three ‎perspectives, as seen in its structural types, its space dimensions, and its ‎relationships of linguistic structures of poetic context with the words of repeated ‎structures, in order to explore the stylistic characteristics that was established in ‎the poet's production though repetition


‎“Al-Duo’ Al-Lame’” By Al-Sakhawi”‎, Hassan ‎Rababaa 2021 Jerash University, Jordan

‎“Al-Duo’ Al-Lame’” By Al-Sakhawi”‎, Hassan ‎Rababaa

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

The study took up “AL-DW AL-LAMI”, through the following topics *“AL-DW AL-‎LAMI” as a title and script. * Sakhawi's academic personality and the factors that ‎formed these factories. * Presentation of contents. *Sources * Critical views ‎Evaluation of the source, as conclusion. The first part the study gave ‎preponderance to the most correct title over the correct one, in light of reviewing ‎the book's various titles scattering in the different libraries. The second part ‎reviewed Sakhawi's academic personality and the factors that formed his ‎personality, with their impact on his criticism through his autobiography in “Al-DW ‎AL-LAMI” such as his …


The View Of Fadwa Touqaan On Western ‎Civilization: A Study In The Dof Poetry ‎And Biography, Khalil Al-Shaik 2021 Yarmouk University, Jordan

The View Of Fadwa Touqaan On Western ‎Civilization: A Study In The Dof Poetry ‎And Biography, Khalil Al-Shaik

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This Study aims, through a comparative approach. At exploring the different ‎views of FadwaTuqan towards western civilization as envisaged in her poetry ‎and her autobiography called “A Mountainous Journey A-Difficult journey”. ‎However the study to trace the similarities or defence’s between her poetry and does not mainly aim ‎autobiography, but rather to explore the "Weltanschauung” of the poetess ‎towards this civilization. The study shows that there is a discrepancy in the nature ‎of view between her poetry and autobiography. While the western image in her ‎poetry was negative, whether politically or culturally, this image was beautiful and ‎positive in her …


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