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Of kings and clowns : representations of leadership in contemporary Egyptian theatre, 1967-2018

Manucharyan, Tiran (University of St Andrews, 2019-06-27) - Thesis

This research explores the development of the discourse of power and the role in the development of this discourse of the arts and artists as dramatised in contemporary Egyptian theatre from 1967 to 2018. While Egyptian ...
Cultural specific phenomena in classical Arabic phraseology : a case study on the works of Ibn al-Khaṭīb

Abdullah, Abdullah (University of St Andrews, 2019-06-27) - Thesis

The thesis is a study on classical Arabic phraseology on the basis of prose works by Lisān ad-Dīn Ibn al-Khaṭīb (d. 776/1374). It reinvestigates the linguistic concept of a phraseme from a theoretical perspective and adopts ...
A critical edition of Sharḥ al-Jumal li al-Zajjājī by Abū al-Ḥasan Ṭāhir b. Aḥmad b. Bābshād b. Mohamed Al-Naḥwī

Rejab, Ishak b. Mohamed Rejab (University of St Andrews, 1975-12) - Thesis

The present edition of Sharḥ al-Jumal li al-Zajjājī, written by Abū al-Ḥasan Ṭāhir b. Aḥmad b. Bābshād is mainly based on Ẕ MS. No. 1687. This manuscript consists of 312 folios and is divided into two volumes. This thesis ...
The compilation of pharmacological ideas during the Abbāsid Caliphate : with special reference to a section of 'Al-Hāwī' of Al-Rāzī

Taha, Mohamad bin (University of St Andrews, 1988-07) - Thesis

This is a study of the transmission of medical ideas of the ancient world into Arabian medicine. It is concerned with pharmacological ideas in particular, with special reference to al-Ḥāwī (Liber Continens) of al-Rāzī ...
The philological treatment of Qu'rān similes in the works of the philologists, exegetes, literary and rhetorical theorists

Shehab, Hana Mahmood (University of St Andrews, 1985-07) - Thesis

This thesis deals mainly with the philological aspects of the similes of the Qur'ān. It also deals with other aspects of Arabic science such as rhetoric, syntax and variant readings of some words in the verses containing ...