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Islamic And Middle East Area Studies Librarianship, Walid Ghali, Waseem Farooq, Paul Auchterlonie, Arnoud Vrolijk 2020 The Aga Khan University

Islamic And Middle East Area Studies Librarianship, Walid Ghali, Waseem Farooq, Paul Auchterlonie, Arnoud Vrolijk

Abdou Filali-Ansary Occasional Paper Series

The three papers collected here are based on a seminar on Islamic Studies Librarianship held on 31 January 2019 at the Aga Khan Library (AKL), in conjunction with the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC). Curators, area studies directors, and collection librarians, who are currently involved in this field, gathered to discuss common challenges and to identify strategic areas for collaboration.


Texts, Language, And History In The Madhab-Law Tradition: A Study Of The ShāfiʿĪ School, Tarek Ghanem 2020 American University in Cairo

Texts, Language, And History In The Madhab-Law Tradition: A Study Of The ShāfiʿĪ School, Tarek Ghanem

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis advances the study of the legal literature from the madhhab-law tradition by way of studying the Shāfiʿī literary tradition and its two most authoritative classics. These two works are al-Nawawī’s (d. 676/1278) digest Minhāj al-ṭālibīn and Ibn Ḥajar al-Haytamī’s (d. 974/1567) commentary on it, Tuḥfat al-minhāj. This study will provide a typology of the development of the Shāfiʿī juristic texts. The typology is based on an indigenous and coherent periodization centered around an analysis of the intellectual and social developments within the Shāfiʿī legal tradition, not the classical Eurocentric periodization scheme. The main objective of this typology is …


Sounding The Nile: River Politics, Environment And Nubian Musical Expression, Regan L. Homeyer 2020 University of New Mexico

Sounding The Nile: River Politics, Environment And Nubian Musical Expression, Regan L. Homeyer

Music ETDs

ABSTRACT

In the mid 1960s, almost 100,000 Egyptian Nubians, people Indigenous to the Nile River Valley, were removed from their ancestral homeland due to the creation of the Aswan High Dam. In the years surrounding their displacement, Nubian musicians in Cairo and villages in new settlement areas gathered traditional Nubian songs and composed new songs to form a distinctive Nubian musical repertoire. This thesis addresses contemporary Nubian musical performance and the role of these reclaimed and newly-written songs in maintaining and revitalizing not only Nubian languages and culture, but especially senses of self in relation to place and, above all, …


Editor's Preface, Samuel Mitchell 2020 Brigham Young University

Editor's Preface, Samuel Mitchell

Studia Antiqua

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Front Matter, 2020 Brigham Young University

Front Matter

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Full Issue, 2020 Brigham Young University

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Synthetic Ignatius: Recovering Pagan And Johannine Influences In The Ignatian Epistles, Samuel Mitchell 2020 Brigham Young University

Synthetic Ignatius: Recovering Pagan And Johannine Influences In The Ignatian Epistles, Samuel Mitchell

Studia Antiqua

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Josephus's Blunting Of Amalek And Phinehas The Zealot In Jewish Antiquities: A Statement Against Nationalism, Jacob Inman 2020 Brigham Young University

Josephus's Blunting Of Amalek And Phinehas The Zealot In Jewish Antiquities: A Statement Against Nationalism, Jacob Inman

Studia Antiqua

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Evaluating Deafness In The Hebrew Bible: A Semantic Analysis Of Iiחרשׁ, Tyler Harris 2020 Brigham Young University

Evaluating Deafness In The Hebrew Bible: A Semantic Analysis Of Iiחרשׁ, Tyler Harris

Studia Antiqua

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Canidia: Meta-Muse Of Anti-Elegy, Hanna Seariac 2020 Brigham Young University

Canidia: Meta-Muse Of Anti-Elegy, Hanna Seariac

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Judahite Aniconism: A Determining Factor In Tensions Between The Am HāʾĀreṣ And The Haggôlāh, Jacob Fuge 2020 Brigham Young University

Judahite Aniconism: A Determining Factor In Tensions Between The Am HāʾĀreṣ And The Haggôlāh, Jacob Fuge

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Pomegranate Imagery: A Symbol Of Conquest And Victory, Makayla Bezzant 2020 Brigham Young University

Pomegranate Imagery: A Symbol Of Conquest And Victory, Makayla Bezzant

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Greatest Among Gods And Men: The Reception Of Xenophanes’S Theology By Anaxagoras And Diogenes, Zakarias D. Gram 2020 Brigham Young University

Greatest Among Gods And Men: The Reception Of Xenophanes’S Theology By Anaxagoras And Diogenes, Zakarias D. Gram

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Editor's Preface, Haley Wilson-Lemmón 2020 Brigham Young University

Editor's Preface, Haley Wilson-Lemmón

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Front Matter, 2020 Brigham Young University

Front Matter

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Full Issue, 2020 Brigham Young University

Full Issue

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The Family Of God: A Christian Tradition As A Greco-Roman Phenomenon, Haley Wilson-Lemmón 2020 Brigham Young University

The Family Of God: A Christian Tradition As A Greco-Roman Phenomenon, Haley Wilson-Lemmón

Studia Antiqua

No abstract provided.


Approaching The Joseph Smith Translation: A Comparative Study Of Matthew 4:1–12, Julia Chiou 2020 Brigham Young University

Approaching The Joseph Smith Translation: A Comparative Study Of Matthew 4:1–12, Julia Chiou

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Editor's Preface, Haley Wilson-Lemmon 2020 Brigham Young University

Editor's Preface, Haley Wilson-Lemmon

Studia Antiqua

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Front Matter, 2020 Brigham Young University

Front Matter

Studia Antiqua

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