Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Arabic & Islamic Studies by Creator "Stetkevych, Suzanne P."

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Al-'Iqd (The Necklace) and Rhetoric of Restoration

Khansa, Enass (Georgetown University, 2015)

The present monograph is a study of al-‘Iqd (The Necklace), a twenty-five volume anthology purportedly compiled and written in Córdoba by Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ‘Abd Rabbih al-Qurṭubī (d. 328/940). Specifically, the study ...
Empire through Language: al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf al-Thaqafī and the Power of Oratory in Umayyad Iraq

Klasova, Pamela (Georgetown University, 2018)

This dissertation examines the speeches and the literary-historical figure of al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf al-Thaqafī (d. 714), the governor of Iraq under the Umayyad dynasty (661-750), to explore the role that public speech played ...