Astrology in literature: how the prohibited became permissible in the Arabic poetry of the mediaeval period [PDF]
This thesis is concerned to position the art of astrology within the context of classical Arabic poetry, primarily by investigating and elucidating attitudes to the notion of qadar (fate) and the ideology in which it was embedded.
Al Abbasi, Abeer Abdullah A
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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press
ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
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Arabic Criticism of Colloquial Poetry
Ph.D.The study of Arabic poetry has long been confined to the study of works composed in Classical Arabic, nowadays commonly known as fuṣḥā. Since the beginnings of Arabic literary criticism, poetry composed in colloquial varieties of Arabic has been ...
Fakhreddine, Mohammad Jawdat
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Translating Saddam: ideology, intertextuality and communicative equivalence in Arabic-English translation [PDF]
This thesis is concerned with a particularly problematic area of Arabic-English translation, an activity likely to expand considerably as this century continues, and especially in non-literary domains. The past decade has seen increasing attention being
Moreton, John Evelyn
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A Speculative Poetics of Tammuz: Myth, Sentiment, and Modernism in Twentieth Century Arabic Poetry
In this paper, I attempt to read the poetic principle behind the Tammuzi movement of modern Arabic poetry through the lens of speculative poetics. While speculative-poetic accounts of modern poetry, such as those provided by Allen Grossman, blazed new ...
Hamad Al-Rayes
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ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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The translation of collocation into Arabic problems and solutions [PDF]
This research claims to differ from previous researches undertaken on collocations in that it considers collocations from the point of view of translation.
Ibrahim, Yaser
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“Diwan”: Constructing the Largest Annotated Corpus for Arabic Poetry
In recent years, Arabic natural language processing has achieved remarkable advancements, particularly with the advent of large language models that have enhanced the analysis of diverse Arabic texts, including literary and artistic works such as poetry.
Badriyya B. Al-Onazi +2 more
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Mulammaâ (Macaronic) Verse: The Link between Persian and Arabic poetry [PDF]
  âMacaronicâ literally refers to an attribute for a thing which possesses two colors or two dissimilar qualities, and âmacaronic verseâ, in Arabic rhetoric, points to a kind of poem whose words in one hemstitch or in the whole stitch are ...
Ali Asghar Ghahramani Moqbel
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