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A Comparative Re-Reading of the Quran Interpreters' Views of the 11th Verse of the Sura Faussilat [PDF]
Received: 2021-02-23 | Accepted: 2020-06-12 In the field of Quran scholarship, one of the controversial topics concerns the phenomenon of language as referred to in the Holy Quran, that is to say, whether it was real or symbolic.
Abbas Sharifi, Gholamreza Khoshniyyat
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Historically and systematically, the word and the number are closely related in many ways. The number often represents the stable, rational and literally calculable super-sign, while the word is associated with impermanence and indeterminacy.
Susanne Strätling
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Caged Bodies, Raging Minds, Dissident Voices: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn and Taslima Nasreen
This paper aims to analyse the mental state of Taslima Nasreen and Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, writers that are primarily celebrated for their rich casket of fictional narratives, through poems written at a juncture in their lives when they were dealing with ...
Ananya Bhattacharyya
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Minding Literature’s Business: Cultivating a Sense of Evanescence Within Political Affairs [PDF]
The paper investigates the relationship between political oratory and literature in Romania during the second part of the 19th century. Extending the theories of Jacques Rancière, Fredric Jameson, Slavoj Žižec, and Leonidas Donskis, I analyze the ...
Patraș, Roxana
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Littérature dissidente ou tributaire de la polémique réformée ?
Three well-known cases of sixteenth-century dissidence, Jacques Gruet, Noël Journet and Geoffroy Vallée, are examined for the resemblance their attitudes bear to reformed polemic in order to suggest that they represent less of a break with mainstream ...
George Hoffmann
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Gendered Geographies of the European East in the American Cold-War Literary Imaginary
In the American Cold-War imaginary, the representation of Eastern Europe was strongly influenced by male intellectuals and writers from the region, whose works were celebrated in the US not only for their artistic merits but most of all for their ...
Martyna Bryla
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The Politics of Location and Sexuality in Leila Ahmed’s and Nawal El Saadawi’s Life Narratives [PDF]
This article explores Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage, and Nawal El Saadawi’s Memoirs from the Women’s Prison, A Daughter of Isis, and Walking Through Fire. It contrasts their works and argues that location and genderawareness play an important role in
Aouadi, Leila
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Bubble, Critical Zone and the Crash of Royal Ahold [PDF]
Our analysis of financial data, in terms of super-exponential growth, suggests that the seed of the 2002/03 crisis of the Dutch supermarket giant AHOLD was planted in 1996.
Broekstra, G. +2 more
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Power through Language, the Language of Power: Equatoguinean Emixiles Facing Lingua Franca
In 1968 Equatorial Guinea became independent from Spain but inherited its cultural architecture. Current identity claims made by Equatoguinean emixiles (Ugarte’s term, 2010) are rooted in the social and territorial exclusion suffered by ethnic groups ...
Catalina Iliescu-Gheorghiu
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À partir de l’examen des modalités d’émergence de certaines figures issues des panthéons héroïques dominicain et haïtien dans la littérature (Enriquillo, Anacaona et le Marron inconnu), et en replaçant l’étude dans le cadre d’une réflexion plus globale ...
Marine Cellier
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