hagiographical

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Given its hagiographical presentation of a surpassingly gentle and wise Muhammad and a combative Aisha, why should Muslims object?

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  • Biographer of other consciousness-burdened poets such as Hart Crane, Robert Lowell, and John Berryman, Mariani here expands his problematically hagiographical franchise across the Atlantic and back to the nineteenth century, only to retrace in Hopkins the same correlation between mental instability and a talent for tremendous formal innovation in the English poetic medium that he recognized in his other subjects. —  VQR
  • Dr Elizabeth Andersen: German medieval literature with particular interests in the intertextuality and narrative structures of Arthurian romance, the articulation of voices and identity in women's mystical and visionary writing and the influence of the hagiographical on secular subjects in vernacular writing —  Press Office : Press Releases
  • The director is the radical German feminist Margarethe von Trotta, responsible for the hagiographical 1986 —  Andrew Cusack
  • Pucelle_, p. 272 (a document of doubtful authority owing to its hagiographical character).] —  The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2
  • The hagiographical character of the passage is obvious.] —  The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2
 

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