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Full-Text Articles in Near Eastern Languages and Societies
Notes On Contributors, Molly Lynde-Recchia
On Tasso In Prison By Charles Baudelaire, Sharon Fish Mooney
On Tasso In Prison By Charles Baudelaire, Sharon Fish Mooney
Transference
Translation of and commentary on Baudelaire's "On Tasso in Prison," which is an ekphrastic poem after Delacroix's painting of the same name.
Four Poems By Toshiko Hirata, Eric Hyett, Spencer Thurlow
Four Poems By Toshiko Hirata, Eric Hyett, Spencer Thurlow
Transference
Translations of "Is It February?" "Is It March?" "Is It November Again?" and "Is It December Again?"
Lullaby By Rainer Maria Rilke And Amen By Georg Trakl, Wally Swist
Lullaby By Rainer Maria Rilke And Amen By Georg Trakl, Wally Swist
Transference
No abstract provided.
Drops From Black Candles By Abdallah Zrika, Mike Baynham
Drops From Black Candles By Abdallah Zrika, Mike Baynham
Transference
English translation of Abdallah Zrika's "Drops from black candles" accompanied by an essay on the translation process which includes consideration of Laâbi's French translation of the same poem.
While Dreaming, While Writing (Excerpt) By Max Alhau, Patrick Williamson
While Dreaming, While Writing (Excerpt) By Max Alhau, Patrick Williamson
Transference
A free rendering of Max Alhau's "While dreaming, while writing," with commentary. The original source text is included.
Corona By Paul Celan, David Capps
Five Poems By Michael Krüger, Louise Stoehr
Two Poems By Charles Baudelaire, Arnold Johnston
Two Poems By Charles Baudelaire, Arnold Johnston
Transference
Arnold Johnston's translations of Baudelaire's "The Lovely Ship" and "Invitation to the Voyage."
Blue Crystal By Martha Hofmann, Paul J. Shlichta
Blue Crystal By Martha Hofmann, Paul J. Shlichta
Transference
A translation of a German poem by Martha Hofmann into English verse. The commentary includes a brief biography of Hofmann and a link to additional information.
Two Poems By Nohad Salameh, Susanna Lang
Two Poems By Nohad Salameh, Susanna Lang
Transference
Susanna Lang's translations of Nohad Salameh's "I Greet You, My Twin" and "Dance of the One/the Moon."
Four Sonnets By Feng Zhi, Emily Goedde
Four Sonnets By Feng Zhi, Emily Goedde
Transference
Translation of Feng Zhi's Sonnets 6, 12, 16, and 18 by Emily Goedde.
Persistence Of Memory After A Poem By Bashō, John Savoie
Persistence Of Memory After A Poem By Bashō, John Savoie
Transference
This piece merges a classic haiku of Bashō with a contemporary English poem, first as its own new creative piece, then contemplated further in the commentary.
Four Poems By Rainer Maria Rilke, Susan Mclean
Four Poems By Rainer Maria Rilke, Susan Mclean
Transference
Translations of four German poems from New Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926): "The Blind Man," "The Donor," "The Arrival," and "Lady on a Balcony."
From The Villa By Lucretius, James E. Fowler
From The Villa By Lucretius, James E. Fowler
Transference
"From the Villa" is an epistolary poem in hexameters whose argument is loosely based on the Lucretius's De Rerum Natura. It is addressed to Lucretius's putative dedicatee/patron Gaius Memmius, a contemporary politician and poet.
My Dear Double By Abdellatif Laâbi, Guillemette C. Johnston, Allan Johnston
My Dear Double By Abdellatif Laâbi, Guillemette C. Johnston, Allan Johnston
Transference
This translation of Abdellatif Laabi's poem "My Dear Double" is accompanied by an essay on the theme of the double in literature.
Foreword, Molly Lynde-Recchia
Transference Vol. 8, Fall 2020, Molly Lynde-Recchia
Transference Vol. 8, Fall 2020, Molly Lynde-Recchia
Transference
No abstract provided.
Efter Jobbet: En Inledande Diskussion Om Studiet Av Fritid, Leif Stenberg, Anders Ackfeldt
Efter Jobbet: En Inledande Diskussion Om Studiet Av Fritid, Leif Stenberg, Anders Ackfeldt
Faculty & Staff Publications
No abstract provided.
Warfare And Welcome: Practicality And Qur’Ānic Hierarchy In Ibāḍī Muslims’ Jurisprudential Rulings On Music, Bradford J. Garvey
Warfare And Welcome: Practicality And Qur’Ānic Hierarchy In Ibāḍī Muslims’ Jurisprudential Rulings On Music, Bradford J. Garvey
Yale Journal of Music & Religion
While much ink has been spilled by musicologists on the legal standing of music in Islamic jurisprudential scholarship, few scholars have offered as comprehensive a view as Lois Ibsen Al-Faruqi. Thirty-five years after her major works on this issue, this article seeks to reassess her model of musical legitimacy within Muslim scholarship. Al-Faruqi places Qur’ānic recitation at the apex of a unidirectional continuum of sound art, with genres less similar to the recitation of the Qur’ān located progressively further away from it. Based on fieldwork in the Sultanate of Oman in 2015-17 and engaging with recent reinvigorations on the anthropological …
The Video Camera Spoiled My Ethnography: A Critical Approach, Katherine Gregory
The Video Camera Spoiled My Ethnography: A Critical Approach, Katherine Gregory
Publications and Research
As videography and other media technologies are normalized in the field of qualitative methods for the purpose of data collection, there is a growing need to discuss the benefits and limitations of these data collection tools. This article chronicles an ethnographic video study focused on the experiences of Muslim adults living in the Netherlands, and why the author opted to end the project. Issues focus on reckoning with the imperial gaze of the camera, performative behavior of participants before the camera and interdisciplinary tensions the researcher faced from conflicting trainings as a qualitative methodologist and media practitioner.
Gender And Patriarchy In The Films Of Muslim Nations: A Filmographic Study Of 21st Century Features From Eight Countries, Candace Mixon
Gender And Patriarchy In The Films Of Muslim Nations: A Filmographic Study Of 21st Century Features From Eight Countries, Candace Mixon
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a book review of Patricia R. Owen, Gender and Patriarchy in the Films of Muslim Nations: A Filmographic Study of 21st Century Features from Eight Countries.
The Syrian Conflict: Proxy War, Pyrrhic Victory, And Power Sharing Agreements, Steven Heydemann
The Syrian Conflict: Proxy War, Pyrrhic Victory, And Power Sharing Agreements, Steven Heydemann
Middle East Studies: Faculty Publications
The Syrian conflict presents as a case that has been well-studied in the power-sharing literature. It is typically coded as an ethno-sectarian civil war moving towards a decisive military victory by an authoritarian regime and thus unlikely to end in a power-sharing agreement. Yet Syria’s experience offers important insights into the effects of new conflict environments on prospects for power-sharing in ‘hard’ cases. Syria’s conflict exhibits attributes and is unfolding in an environment that requires rethinking simplistic correlations between the military and political outcomes of civil wars. Moreover, the form of political settlement that emerges in Syria may also complicate …
The Performance And Patronage Of Baloch Culture Through Music (And Related Arts) In The Eastern Arabian Peninsula, George Murer
The Performance And Patronage Of Baloch Culture Through Music (And Related Arts) In The Eastern Arabian Peninsula, George Murer
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This dissertation is a study of Baloch musical—and ritual—idioms as cultivated (and variously innovated, embellished, patronized, and reconstructed) in the relatively prosperous and cosmopolitan urban environments of the coastal Eastern Arabian Peninsula—the third major concentration of Baloch population after Balochistan and Karachi. Due to historical and geographic particulars, the origins of Peninsular Baloch communities lie primarily in the Makran region that extends along the Arabian Sea coast and across the political boundary separating Iran and Pakistan. If musical activities play a significant role in orienting Baloch communities socially and politically, what are the presentational strategies implied in the foregrounding of …
Editor’S Preface, Tyler Harris
Why She Ran: Hebrew Bible Well Symbolism In The Protevangelium Of James 11.1–4, Rachel Huntsman
Why She Ran: Hebrew Bible Well Symbolism In The Protevangelium Of James 11.1–4, Rachel Huntsman
Studia Antiqua
There are aspects of the annunciation scene—as portrayed in the Protevangelium of James—which have not yet been examined by modern scholars. These issues are important when relating to the history of well symbolism in the Hebrew Bible, which symbolism continued in force through the Second Temple period. This paper examines the symbolism of wells, fertility, and marriage and how the author of the Protevangelium of James consciously knew about this symbolism and wrote his narrative in a way that distanced Mary, the mother of Jesus, from any ideas saying that she was less than virginal.
Taking Away The Sin Of The World: Egō Eimi And The Day Of Atonement In John, Jackson Abhau
Taking Away The Sin Of The World: Egō Eimi And The Day Of Atonement In John, Jackson Abhau
Studia Antiqua
The presence of Jewish themes and allusions in the Gospel of John has received much scholarly attention in recent decades. This study follows this trend, exploring several possible connections between the Day of Atonement and the Johannine narrative. In this paper, I argue that these connections—which include John the Baptist’s identification of Jesus with the Lamb of God, echoes of the scapegoat ritual, high-priest-like prayers, and the repeated use of the phrase egō eimi—were deliberately incorporated into the narrative by the author of John as pointed allusions to the Day of Atonement. For the original audience, as well as …
Raised Hands In Prayer As An Inducement Motif In The Psalms, Kelsie Cannon
Raised Hands In Prayer As An Inducement Motif In The Psalms, Kelsie Cannon
Studia Antiqua
Two hands raised in the air is a commonly portrayed gesture in the Hebrew Bible and broader ancient Near East. Synthesizing previous research done on the same topic, this paper will strive to examine the gesture in order to show that its purpose is to induce and elicit divine favor from a superior being—typically a deity or king-like figure. The conclusion will be reached by first generally surveying the raised hands motif in the Hebrew Bible and then specifically examining the gesture in Psalms. This study will be complemented by exploring relevant extrabiblical textual and iconographic evidence within the ancient …