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A biblical mnemohistory of 'Egypt' : Exodus as the legitimation of Israelite continuity
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, 2015)The aim of this thesis was to chart the evolution of the tradition in the Hebrew Bible of a migration from Egypt as it relates to the development of Israelite identity, with a view to negotiating a position between the ... -
A CLERICAL LETTER BY RAFAEL AL-TUKHI FROM THE PRIZE PAPERS COLLECTIONS (1758)
(Open Book Publishers, 2021)The letter is part of the box HCA 32/212 in the National Archives. Analyses of this letter were previously included in the linguistic description in Wagner and Ahmed (2017). At the time, the authors gave this letter the ... -
A North African Judaeo-Arabic letter from the Prize Papers Collection
(2019)This paper presents an edition, translation and linguistic analysis of a Judaeo-Arabic letter from the Prize Papers Collection. The letter introduces previously unexplored Algerian Judaeo-Arabic documents from the Prize ... -
Six Leaves of the Arabic Kalila wa-Dimna in Hebrew Characters
(Brill, 2024)Kalila wa-Dimna is a collection of exciting moral stories written in a unique style, both in terms of narration and its technique of maintaining suspense.2 The stories in Kalila wa-Dimna are based on an imaginary dialogue ... -
Arabic Black Slave Narrative: Studies in the Emerging Phenomenon of a New Literary Form
This dissertation aims to investigate the emerging cultural phenomenon of novels about slavery in the Arab world and proposes a methodological framework for studying this topic. It focuses on a sample of six novels published ... -
Human rights & Islam in North-Western China : the effects of minority & religious policy in the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, 2016)The Uyghur, one of China's 55 officially recognised minority nationalities, bear a distinct ethno-religious identity that demarcates them from China’s majority nationality, the Han. The Uyghurs' unique identity as a minority ... -
Enūma eliš I and the issue of 'unobtrusive variants'
(Hamburger Studien zu Gesellschaften und Kulturen der Vormoderne, 2025)This paper uses the two most recent paper editions of the first Tablet (chapter) of the Babylonian poem Enūma eliš to investigate the significance of unobtrusive variants, i.e. the sort which tend to be ignored by editors. ... -
Doctrinal Sufism in the Sensual Poetry of Ibn al-ʿArabī’s Interpreter of Desires: Divine Self-Disclosure, Inherent Predisposition, and Human Love
Contrary to the opinion of both Ibn al-ʿArabī’s contemporary conservative critics and even some modern scholars, the sensual poetry of his collection, Interpreter of Desires (Tarjumān al-Ashwaq), evidences important elements ... -
SURVEY AND CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON OF WATER SYMBOLISM IN THE ANCIENT BABYLONIAN AND EGYPTIAN COSMOLOGICAL CYCLES
This thesis focuses primarily upon obtaining a greater understanding of Babylonian and Egyptian mythical environments, through the use of water symbolism within the physical and mythological frames of their cosmological ... -
The Judeans of Elephantine : an examination of the Elephantine communities in Egypt during the Persian period
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, 2014)The central question of this thesis is to determine the underlying reasons behind the destruction of the temple of Yahu in Elephantine. I intend to bring together an examination of the Judean community in the Egyptian ...
