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Review Of Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography: Harun Al-Rashid And The Narrative Of The ʿAbbasid Caliphate By Tayed El-Hibri, Abed El-Rahman Tayyara

World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications

Review of Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography: Harun al-Rashid and the Narrative of the ʿAbbasid Caliphate by Tayed el-Hibri, Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Islam: An Introduction And Bibliography, James A. Toronto, Cynthia Finlayson

BYU Studies

Long before the events of September 11, 2001, BYU Studies began working on this special issue focusing on Islam. The authors and editors who worked on this issue have tried to capture the spirit of a religion that provides guidance to the lives of millions of people worldwide. The ever expanding influence of Islam extends to the prominent and often controversial role that Islam plays in contemporary politics. In addition, Muslim theology, scripture, art, science, and communal values have made significant contributions to world civilization. And in quiet yet significant ways, dialogue and contact between Latter-day Saints and Muslims have …

Jerusalem's Role As A Holy City For Muslims, Chad F. Emmett

BYU Studies

When Pope John Paul II made his historic March 2000 pilgrimage to the Holy Land, he did so with the hopes of building bridges and fostering peace. While in Jerusalem, he scheduled a meeting with Jewish, Christian, and Muslim leaders to symbolize his ongoing desire for religious reconciliation. The meeting turned out to be less than conciliatory, especially in regard to Jerusalem. When Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau of Israel's Ashkenazic community praised the pope for his "'recognition of Jerusalem as its united, eternal capital'," some audience members shouted out that the pope had not recognized Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem. …

The Celestial Element, Loai Omran

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Establishing An Arabesque Center In Gamalia, Walid Adham Salem

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Bahri Mamluk Wooden Ceilings, Jasmin Wardani

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Is There An Arab State?, Jeneen Hazem Ezzat

Theses and Dissertations

The nature of the Arab state has been one that has perplexed many scholars.

A Comparative Study Of Desert Novels Of IbrāHīM Al-KūNī And ʻAbd Al-RahṃAn MunīF, Hala Mohammed Hassan Hassan El Ganayni

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Living Units In Cairene Houses In The Ottoman Period: Towards A New Understanding Of Cairene Domestic Architecture, Ahmed Maher Hassaballah

Archived Theses and Dissertations

Cairene domestic architecture comprises a variety of housing types, responding to the needs of different socioeconomic classes of society. Of these types, two are studied in detail herein, namely, palaces and mansions of the grandees and middle-class houses. As suggested by Hanna, the latter were divided into separate unequal living units. The study in hand investigates the existence of similar living units in the palaces and mansions'. This is accomplished through analyzing living units in some middle-class houses to determine their structure, types and organization. These characteristics are used to define similar units in palaces and mansions.

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Early Egyptian Bone And Ivory Inlaid Woodwork, 700-1200 A.D., Balsam Abdul-Rahman Saleh

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Monumental Quranic Inscriptions On Cairene Religious Monuments, Dina Mahmoud Hamdi Montasser

Archived Theses and Dissertations

Since Quranic inscriptions dominate the epigraphic decoration of Cairene Islamic religious monuments, the target of this thesis has been to investigate the Quranic inscriptions of some selected religious monuments of each main era of the Islamic history of Cairo: Fatimid, Mamluk and Ottoman. The questions examined are the following: what was the frequency of utilizing Quranic inscriptions compared to other types of inscriptions? What are the common architectural locations of Quranic quotations compared to other types of inscriptions? Regardless of the form of the script, whether naskhi or kufic, what were the common stylistic visual forms of inscriptions on religious …

Histories Of The Muslim Hero: Medieval And Modern Perceptions Of Al Zaher Baybars, Amina A Elbendary

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Gender Problems: A Sociolinguistic Study Of The Grammatical Gender Problems That Face The Learners Of Arabic As A Second Language, Nohad Hemmoudeh

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

The aim of this sociolinguistic study is to examine the grammatical gender difficulties that non-Arabic speakers face when they learn Arabic as a second language (ASL) This work concentrates on English and French speakers and compares the errors each make while learning Arabic. The choice of these two languages resulted from two factors: (1) since the author is fluent in English and French, she conducted her research on speakers of both languages; (2) since both Arabic and French are considerably more marked morphologically than English, the researcher is interested in examining the type of errors made by the speakers of …

The Urban Development Of The Azbakiyya Perimeter, Magdy Albert

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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The Qur'an, A Holy Message Delivered, May Kaddah

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Al-IshâRâT Al-IlâHiyya By Abû HayyâN Al-TawhîDî, Maha Mahmoud Zaki Saleh

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Gordes Carpets In Egyptian Collections, Ahmed Mohamed Dabbʻ

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Penguasaan Kata Ganti Nama Bahasa Arab Di Kalangan Pelajar-Pelajar Di Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Agama, Tuan Rashid Tuan Mat

Student Works (2000-2009)

Setiap bahasa mempunyai keistimewaan dan kelebihan serta peminatnya yang tersendiri. Bahasa Arab juga mempunyai keistimewaan ini. Ia adalah bahasa rasmi agama kepada Islam yang menjadi anutan ramai penduduk dunia. Uahasa Arab menjadi bahasa yang dibanggakan olch setiap orang yang mengaku dirinya Islam. Bahasa ini sentiasa digunakan oleh mereka sejak zaman permulaan Islam hingga ke hari ini, dan lnsya Allah ia akan kekal menjad i kebanggaan orang-orang Islam hingga ke akltir zaman. Salah satu keistimewaan bahasa Arab yang tiada pada bahasa lain ialah bahasa ini tidak mengalami banyak perubahan dan sentiasa difahami walau pun ia telah melalui tempoh masa yang lebih …

Naqshbandiyya In Damascus: Strategies To Establish And Strengthen The Order In A Changing Society, Leif Stenberg

Book Chapters / Conference Papers

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Ali Pasha Mubarak's Philosophy Of Education And Its Relationship To The Emergence Of A Modern Bureaucracy In Egypt, Mariam Ahmad Shouman

Archived Theses and Dissertations

This thesis. entitled'" Ali Pasha Mubarak's Philosophy of Education and Its Relationship to an Emergent Modern Bureaucracy was completed at the American University of Cairo by Mariam Shouman under supervision by Dr. Michael Reimer. The main focus of the work is an attempt to pinpoint ·Ali Mubarak's philosophy of education as presented in his own works. al-Khitat and 'Alam al-Din. These works have been examined and translated in some detail to reveal indications of this important figure's perception of the role education should play in individual lives as well as its importance to the bureaucracy at large. While these writings …

Early Ottoman Architecture In Cairo, Seif Eldin Mamdouh El Rashidi

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Sentence Structure In Egyptian Journalistic Arabic. A Quantitative And Comparative Study In Al Ahram Newspaper From 1937 To 1997, Gehane Hamdy El Hakim

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Developing Arabic Multimedia Computer-Assisted Language Learning Materials For Teaching Listening Skills, Mohd Feham Md Zalib

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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The Manzara: Its Form And Function In Fatimid Egypt, Jehan Ismail Reda

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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The Perception Of Arabs And Media's Influence, Abdou Nader

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of Arabs by American students. The study sought to answer three questions. These questions focused on the perceptions of Arabs by American students and the influence that mass media and specifically TV has on students.

The literature reviewed in this study indicated that historical events played an important role in shaping the current relations between Arabs and Americans. Further, the literature discussed the relationship between television exposure and the creation of consumer social reality and perceptions. According to the literature review, there was no conclusive evidence that media shaped stereotypes …

Marble Paving In Mamluk Cairo, MuhạMmad ʻAbd Al-WahhāB

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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The Northern Cemetery Of Cairo, Hani Hamza

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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From Crisis To Catastrophe: Epitaph For E.T. (Egyptian Theater), Mahmoud Ahmed El Lozy

Faculty Book Chapters

The second of two issues, this volume covers aspects of Egyptian society. Contributors include: Donald Cole, Soraya Altorki, Asef Bayat, Eric Denis, Enid Hill, Ziad Bahaeddin, Malak Rouchdy, Linda Herrera, Jim Napoli, Hussein Amin, Mahmoud al-Lozy, Cynthia Nelson, and Shahnaz Rouse.

Speaking Of The Raj: Kipling, Forster, And Scott On The English Language In British India, Victoria K. Tatko

Masters Theses

In my thesis I examine how language, particularly the English language, participated in the Raj, as depicted thematically in Rudyard Kipling's Kim (1901), E. M. Forster's A Passage to India (1924), and Paul Scott'sThe Raj Quartet (1966-1975): The Jewel in the Crown (1966), The Day of the Scorpion (1968), The Towers of Silence (1971), and A Division of the Spoils (1975). I show that all three authors portray language as central to British colonialism in India; the connection between the English language and the Empire grows increasingly problematic as the linguistic situation becomes a metaphor for the state of …

The Urban Evolution Of Roda Island (Ca. 21h/641ad-1335h/1917ad), Ahmed Mohamed Sabry

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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