...- tian theatrical movement-critics have been at odds with regard to its merits as a play.1 While most agree that it broke new ground for Ara- bic drama (both written and performed), quite a few have pointed out that, despite Idris’s claim to having rooted the play in the “Egyptian dramatic...

... and more from alchemy, but seldom dealing with the Egyptian basis of the myth? The decision to slight the myth in its original forms in favor o€ materials that were nearer to Nerval and more directly available to him is quite understandable. Given the state of Egyptology during his lifetime...

.... Pp. 157. P.T. 40; $1.00. This volume from the University of Cairo indicates that Egyptian scholars are concerned with much the same things about William Beckford as are English scholars. Fatma Moussa Mahmoud has, moreover, wisely prevented this collection from presenting solely...

.... WILLIAMB. TODD University of Texas Witliam Beckford of Fonthill, 1760-1844: Bicentenary Essays. Edited by FATMAMOUSSA MAHMOUD. Supplement to Cairo Studies in English, 1960. Pp. 157. P.T. 40; $1.00. This volume from the University of Cairo indicates that Egyptian scholars...

..., there is a movement among Berber nationalists to escape this either-or choice by reviving the long-dead Tifinagh script, derived from Egyptian hieroglyphics. Often important in cultural politics, scripts have had a particularly far-reaching impact on the production and circulation of literature, not only...

...” of universal proportions under the banner of “diversification,” as the nameless protagonist terms it in The Committee (Al-Lajnah, 1992), by the Egyptian novelist and intel- 1 See Simon Gikandi’s discussion in “Globalization and the Claims of Postcolo- niality,” South Atlantic Quarterly 100 (2001...

... relationships within the act, and by the relation- ship of the action to its Shakespearean model. Serapion’s opening speech, addressed to the audience as well as to Myris, provides an emblematic fkamework for Act I and introduces emotive “Egyptian” imagery of envelopment, submergence, and dis...

... of the ancient Egyptian theology, and to have been translated by Apuleius.” Among the few extracts that he printed are the fol- lowing : Good is voluntary or of its own accord ; Evil is involuntary or against its will. He who can be truly called man is a divine living thing...

... attempt to refute historians from Herodotus to the eighteenth- century deist John Toland who attribute alphabetic priority to the Egyptians, Chaldeans, or Phoenicians.’ But in arguing for the divine priority of Hebrew writing and Judaic culture, Defoe shifts the alpha- bet’s history from...

... “so vast a multitude of Animals, with a whole years provision of food for each of them.” Before offering his rejoinder to the scoffers, Wilkins reviews some earlier answers. Origen, Augustine, and others had argued that Moses, who had undergone Egyptian instruction, was referring...

.... Antony introjects the Roman attitude toward Cleopatra, feels guilt, and reverses the direction of his feelings: “These strong Egyptian fetters I must break, / Or lose myself in dotage” (I.ii.113-14). There is a differ- ence between seeing Antony’s behavior as “dual,” “disunited...

... (the philosopher Herakleitos spoke of men with “barbarian souls it served most often as a reference to a wide spectrum of non-Greek peoples, from the nomadic Scythians to the long-settled Egyptians. One major reason for the term’s neutrality was the Greeks’ awareness that the non- Greek civilizations...

... 33 1 Macbeth did, by contemplating how she would look in someone else’s play: Now, Iras, what think’st thou? Thou, an Egyptian puppet, shall be shown In Rome as well as I: mechanic slaves...

... maintained that Truth existed in veiled form among the Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians, the unveiled Truth would for him only have existed and been worshiped for any length of time among the Christians or the Jews. With regard to the iconography of the episode, Donald Cheney has already called...

... later used as burial places for kings6 In such a temple the Egyptian priest performed a ritual in which the king, and then eventually a beast-god substituted for the king, was killed that the power of life might be reborn. The religious beliefs of the ancient Egyptians re- quired that the dead...

... of his Saturn included certain Egyptian or oriental sphinxes. Thea is explicitly likened to “Memphian sphinWhy not Saturn also by implication ? The most “human” of the ancient sphinxes, to modern taste, are the sejant ones,l0 but the couchant ones are perhaps more familiar. Keats’s...

... in the October 1973 war, and by the Leba- nese civil war in the mid-­1970s. As the renowned Egyptian journal- ist Muhammad Hasaneen Haykal then famously put it, from thawra (revolution) to tharwa (wealth, money) (see Dawisha 2003: 256). For Palestinians, the end of this Arab revolutionary moment had...

... and eighteenth centuries came at a time of rich philolog- ical and philosophical speculation on the nature and function of lan- guage and writing. Study and discussion of Chinese characters blended in with the ongoing debates on Egyptian hieroglyphics and the quest for a “universal characteristic...

... of experience, between artistic forms and the struc- tures of social relations or identities. The style of Gothic facades comes to be an organic expression of the love of liberty and independence inherent in northern European mentalities and the culture of medi- eval Christianity; Greek, Egyptian...