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Symbolists Beyond The Magic: Appropriation In The Art Of Elihu Vedder And Gustave Moreau, Rebecca B. Shalliker

Art & Art History ETDs

This thesis examines the paintings of Elihu Vedder and Gustave Moreau as examples of how the late nineteenth-century Symbolist movement drew on Eastern regions as aesthetic sources for representing the spiritual. Considering the iconographic and conceptual overlap with the Spiritualist movement, it explores how these groups contributed to constructing an image of the “East” as inherently mystical. While existing scholarship analyzes the Symbolist movement’s engagement with psychoanalytical concepts such as the subconscious and dream state, the role of cultural appropriation in shaping the Symbolist aesthetic has been largely overlooked.

The depiction of Eastern iconography as fantastical will be explored through …

Parallel Concepts Found In The Thousand And One Nights And Sufi Hagiography, Walaa Kamal Emam Kamel

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This thesis argues that The Thousand and One Nights functions as more than mere populist entertainment; rather, it constitutes a literary corpus imbued with Sufi mystical epistemologies that reflect the spiritual quests and Sufi concepts evident in hagiographical traditions. Through discourse and intertextual analysis of two Nights stories, “The City of Brass” and “The Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad,” alongside Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār’s Tadhkirat al-awliyāʾ, this study demonstrates how shared rhetorical strategies—specifically David Pinault’s Leitwörter analysis and L.A. Paul’s Transformative Experience concept—reveal a narrative and rhetorical emphasis on the metamorphosis of the self from worldly attachment toward …

Faik Tagirov And Tatar Constructivism: The Making Of A New Tatar Book, Miriam Akhmetshin

Scripps Senior Theses

Working in the style of constructivism, Faik Tagirov primarily designed book covers for Tatar agitational literature in the 1920s. Studying at VKhUTEMAS and working for numerous publishing houses, Tagirov participated in several domestic and international exhibitions with well-known artists like Aleksandr Rodchenko and El Lissitzky. Tagirov utilized photomontage, geometricism, and unique typographical designs to create potent materials for a Tatar population. Current scholarship fails to adequately acknowledge the diverse influences impacting the work of non-Russian artists such as Tagirov. Using visual and iconographic analysis, I argue for an approach that recognizes Tagirov's work as syncretic in nature, utilizing both indigenous …

Ottoman Wikālas In Cairo: Islamic Architecture Beyond The Mosque, Yumna Moussa

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis traces one of the largest architectural typologies in Cairo: the wikāla, a type of urban caravanserai unique to Egypt. Estimated to have reached more than five hundred buildings by the 18^th century, the wikāla was the building of choice for most patrons in Ottoman Cairo. This study initially investigates the evolution of commercial architecture within the Islamic city. It then explores the defining architectural features of Cairene wikālas built between the 16^th and 18^th centuries—their plans, decorative/iconographic programs, and urban distribution—based on waqfiyyas, chronicles, travelers’ accounts, and photographic archives. Since many of …

Oral Religious Mediation And Transmission Of Islamic Discourse In The Kazakh Steppe: Case Of Syrdarya Poets, Nurzhan Darkulov

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

This article investigates the role of Syr Darya poets as mediators of Islamic ethical and religious discourse in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Kazakh steppe. The analysis demonstrates that these poets occupied an intermediary position between broader Islamic traditions and local communities, translating ethical teachings, theological ideas, spiritual reflection, and social criticism into culturally accessible forms of oral expression. Their influence extended beyond literary activity, functioning as a socially recognized mode of religious mediation within a decentralized religious environment. The study argues that oral poetic performance constituted an important mechanism through which Islamic knowledge, moral norms, and religious values were …

Investigating The Relationship Between Noun Classes And Plant Folk Taxonomy In Chasu Language Of Kilimanjaro Region In Tanzania, Peter Rabson Mziray

Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

The current study investigates the relationship between noun classes and plant folk taxonomy in Chasu (G 22). The study focuses on two objectives: the first objective is to describe the plant folk taxonomy in Chasu and the second objective is to determine the relationship between noun classes and plant folk taxonomy in Chasu. Data were collected from rural villages in Same and Mwanga districts by using free listing, field interviews (jungle-walk-and-identify), and written texts containing Chasu plant names. The findings reveal that Chasu folk taxonomy reflects different ethnobotanical categories; including a unique beginner which is mmea/mimea ‘plant(s)’, and three life …

Moiré And Its Ineffable Liquidity: A Study Of Pictorial Watered Silk In The Works Of Andrea Mantegna, Giovanni Bellini And Raphael, Olivia Birkelund

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This study explores pictorial moiré in Renaissance Italian paintings, arguing that its liquid appearance held spiritual and humanist resonances beyond luxury. Through dissemblant facture, artists Giovanni Bellini, Mantegna and Raphael rendered a moiré with overtones of the Incarnation, sacred fluidity, and fertility, creating meditative sites of theological and cultural meaning.

Coins From The 1992 And 1995 Seasons Of Excavation At Ṣarafand El-Kharab, Nes Ẓiyyona, Robert Kool

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The Pottery Assemblage From The Excavations At Ṣarafand El-Kharab, Nes Ẓiyyona, Karin Singer

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Glass Vessels From A Salvage Excavation At Ṣarafand El-Kharab, Nes Ẓiyyona, Yael Gorin-Rosen

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The Cave Of “Yudan Sha’Ul” At Ḥorbat Kishor, Southern Judean Shephelah, Boaz Zissu

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A Site From The End Of The Byzantine And The Early Islamic Periods At Ṣarafand El-Kharab, Nes Ẓiyyona, Amir Gorzalczany

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A Burial Cave At Ḥorbat Indur, On The Slopes Ofgiv‘At Ha-Moré, Dror Barshad

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Vessel-Covered Mamluk-Period Tombs On The Israeli Coastal Plain, In Light Of The Excavation On Danny Mass Street, Ramla, Yossi Elisha, Amir Gorzalczany, Hagit Torgë

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A Mother And Child Reunion? An Unusual Ottoman-Period Bedouin Pit Grave At Rahat, The Northern Negev, Yossi Nagar, Noé David Michael, Oren Shmueli, Elena Kogan-Zehavi

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An Infant Jar Burial From Zarnūqa: Muslim Funerary Practices And Migrant Communities In Late Ottoman Palestine, Itamar Taxel, Roy Marom, Yossi Nagar

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Making The Invisible Visible: Burial Customs In Late Roman–Byzantine-Period Western Galilee, Based On Organic Remains Adhering To Metal Objects, Ádám Bollók, Ayelet Dayan, Naama Sukenik

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Bone And Ebony Figurines From Christian Burials In The Roman–Byzantine Necropolis Of Tel Malḥata, Noé D. Michael, Svetlana Talis, Yossi Nagar, Emil Aladjem

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A New Type Of Late Roman-Period Tomb From Yavne (East): The Side-Accessed Cist Tomb, Pablo Betzer, Daniel Varga, Yael Gorin-Rosen

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Pig Sacrifice And Feasting In Roman Funerary Practices: A Case Study Of The Roman Legionary Cemetery At Legio, Lee Perry-Gal, Greg Leyfirer, Matthew J. Adams, Yotam Tepper

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Unique Lion-Headed Handles From A Roman-Period Cist Tomb South Of Khirbat Ibreika, Elie Haddad, Elisheva Zwiebel

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A Wooden Coffin From The Incense Road And Other Wooden Coffins From Southern Israel, Tal Sapir, Tali Erickson-Gini

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The Cave Of Salome: A Second Temple Period Royal Burial Estate In The Judean Shephelah, Nir-Shimshon Paran, Vladik Lifshits

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Iron Age Ii Miniature Black Juglets From The Tombs In Mamilla, Jerusalem, Ronny Reich

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Front Matter & Editorial, Editorial Board, Assaf Nativ

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Tel Tanninim, Azriel Sieglman, Shalom Yanklevitz

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Late Roman-Period Burial Complexes At Zippori, Adam Druks

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Radiocarbon Dating Of Samples From The Village At ‘En Gedi, Israel Carmi, Dror Segal

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Remains Of Seeds, Fruits And Insects From The Excavations In The Village Of ‘En Gedi, Yoel Melamed, Mordechai Kislev

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Coins From The Excavations In The Village At ‘En Gedi: 1993–1995, Donald T. Ariel

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