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Hum 242 Final
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
12/17/2010

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Richard Cracroft
Definition
Modern Rennaissance
Writes on "Latter-Day Saint Humanist Dilemna"
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Al-Mutanabbi
Definition
Abbasid (Golden Age of Islam)
Wrote about Kings; battles. His poems are proverbial.Huge political ambitions and slightly egomaniacal
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Al-Ma'arri
Definition
Abbasid (Syrian)
Blind poet and philosopher, attacked dogma and monopoly of Islam, where Mutanabbi praised authority. Believed religion to be "A Fable invented by the ancients"
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Al-Ghazali
Definition
Abbasid
"Deliverance from Error": Incoherence of philosophers, Sufism, and ultimate oneness with God. Fruitional Experience.
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Rumi
Definition
Abbasid
"Mathnawi": Roots of Roots of Roots of Islam. Elephant, Moses and the Shepherd. Sufi thinking, and ultimate oneness.
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Naguib Mahfouz
Definition
Modern Renaissance
Egyptian novelist
"Children of Gebewali" allegory; freedom of thought, "Satanic Verses," Nobel Prize winner
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Majid Majidi
Definition
Modern Renaissance
Iranian Film maker: "Children of Heaven," "The Color of Paradise," "Song of Sparrows"
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Abu Nuwas
Definition
Abbasid
"1,001 Nights": Saucy love poetry, homosexuality, loved to shock with forbidden topics. Wine, revelry, and sensuality.
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Umm Kulthum
Definition
Modern Renaissance
Egyptian Singer/ Actress
Love, longing, and loss. Virtuoso.
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Farida Ben Lyzaid
Definition
Modern Renaissance
Female Moroccan Filmmaker "Door to the Sky," "Why Cinema?" She says" "Image is the language of the epoch"
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