Journal of Tikrit University for Humanities

Utopia, the idea of a perfect society, has been a central theme in literature, philosophy, and art for centuries. The desire for utopia has inspired countless visionaries and reformers, who have sought to create a better world through various means, such as religion, ideology, science, or art. However, utopia has also been criticized and ridiculed as an impossible or even dangerous dream, that distracts us from the reality of our imperfect and flawed world.
Ngugi Wa Thing’o, a prominent Kenyan writer and activist, has addressed the theme of utopia in many of his works, including his play The Black Hermit. Written in the 1960s, at a time of great political and cultural upheaval in Africa and beyond, The Black Hermit offers a complex and nuanced exploration of the quest for utopia in the context of black theatre. Through the character of the Black Hermit, a revolutionary who withdraws from the world to live in solitude, Ngugi raises questions about the nature and meaning of utopia, and its relationship to the struggles and aspirations of black people.
The aim of this research is to deepen our understanding of Ngugi's work and thought by analysing The Black Hermit as a text that engages with the theme of utopia in a creative and thought-provoking way. It also examines how Ngugi uses the play to critique and challenge various utopia-building projects, and to propose his own vision of utopia as a process of becoming. The research also considers the relevance and significance of Ngugi's utopia to the contemporary world and the ways in which it speaks to universal human concerns.

This paper discusses the religious impact on Greene’ works and the conversion from Orthodoxy to the Roman Catholicism. Especially in the trilogy novels called: Brighton Rock 1938, The Power and The Glory 1940 and The Heart of the Matter 1948. This study reveals the urge insisting of Graham Greene’s desire to insert and restore the importance of human act through the religious sense to the English novel, whereas the decline of moral was much evident in that era.
This research examines the central theme in the selected novels and applies the (moral good theories), the theme is the conflict between good and evil. This theme developed with Greene’s acceptance and obsession with the Roman Catholic faith. This acceptance can be considered as a turning point in his profession, as well as his marriage from a Catholic girl Vivien Dayrell-Browning contributed to his obsession. Eventually, the religious sense is inseparable from Greene’s novels and its effect is quite evident on his literary works

This study deals with different translations ـــ by three most famous translators ــ of a limited number of active Participles in the Glorious Qur’an into English through discussing and analyzing them by identifying the accurate, inaccurate or incorrect translations, based on a scientific hypothesis made by the researcher from a previous study concerning the active participle and its translation in detail.
The study starts with an introduction then hypothesis, aims of the study, scope of the Study, and it also contains a brief explanation of the active participle in Arabic and its forms or types, with the practical method of translating it from Arabic into English, in addition to the data with a related discussion for each translation, then the results, conclusions and findings, and ending with a list of the references that were consulted for this research.