colonialism

This dissertation illustrates how crucial the domicile, both real and ideal, and its inhabitants were to the construction of an independent body politic in turn-of-the century Egypt. The family politics of the 1919 Revolution, the roots of which lie in nineteenth-century colonia…

The dissertation renders a comprehensive account of the economic, social, and political implications of the Great Depression of the 1930s for colonial Northern Nigeria, focusing particularly on how various groups of Northern Nigerians—farmers, workers, traders, chiefs, and the e…

This study offers an explanation for the frequent disregard for sovereignty and the principle of noninterference among states in the contemporary Middle East State-System. Current scholarship on this topic has reached an impasse through its reliance upon static and unchanging no…

The study examines Tunisian students and the role that they played in Tunisia's struggle for independence from French colonial rule. An analysis of a nationalist movement from the students' perspective, illuminates an element of society which had been neglected by scholars befor…

This ethno-historical analysis of everyday life in contemporary Aleppo, Syria predicates its interpretational method of urban meaning on the contention that antagonistic practices over local space reflect and render significant conflicts in Syrian society as a whole. Because loc…

This dissertation examines the process of decolonization in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan from the perspective of the most important colonial official in the condominium government, the Civil Secretary. Challenging conventional interpretations which focus on the primary role of indig…

The Adoption of the Maqāṣid al-Sharī`ah, (Purposive Objective of the Law) a principle orientated approach to Islamic law, is increasing being presented as a panacea to relieve the tension arising from the intersection of classic Islamic law, derived in a historical context of cl…

This article seeks to account for the different relationships between the central government and Berber populations in Morocco and Algeria—The first case being largely integrative and the other frequently conflictual. Through a comparative historical analysis, it highlights the …

This dissertation examines late 19th- and early 20th-century Arabic literary texts on China to challenge the Eurocentric scholarly assumption that writers in the Nahda period drew their models of modernity solely from Europe. Surviving only in fragmented and unexplored archives,…

Western education in Nigeria, initiated by the British during its early occupation of the country in the 19th century, was shaped to suit the purposes of an occupying colonial power. With the coming of Nigerian independence the need to reconsider its place within the new framewo…

An historical account of Welsh, Basque, Algerian, and Quebec nationalist movements suggests a comparative framework through which the recent "reawakening" of Estonian nationalism may be best analyzed. The relationship between the social construction of nationalism and the mainte…

My dissertation examines the settlement of Arabs in Java after the imposition of Dutch rule in 1800 until their politico-religious awakening between 1890 and 1924. I show that "Arabs," initially part of an ethnolinguistically fluid trading world, became a community awkwardly bou…

This dissertation explores the possibilities of Islamic statehood in post-colonial Pakistan through the works of three figures involved in framing the idea of the Islamic state: W.C. Smith, Muhammad Asad, and Muhammad Munir. Each of these three thinkers owes their position and p…

This thesis shows how Russia’s culture can be construed as a hybrid space because it is both central and peripheral, not simply East or West. From a cultural point of view, the center and the periphery were and are a kind of slippery palimpsest throughout the nation's history si…

Ransoming, or the returning to freedom of a captive in exchange for payment, has been practised in many cultures and time periods throughout the world. In Africa, Muslim jurists and intellectuals had discussed the issue of ransoming from the medieval period, as reflected in the …

This dissertation examines the determinants of nationalist mobilization in the 20th century French colonial empire. The resonance of nationalism in the context of imperial rule is often taken for granted, yet nationalist mobilization in the colonial world was not omnipresent, no…

In this dissertation, based on German-language primary documents found in the German and Tanzanian National Archives, I examine the spatial strategies of resistance in the colony German East Africa. I argue that German policies on transportation, labor, Islamic practice, and edu…

This study examines issues surrounding the colonial transition in the Malay world by focusing on the history of Johor between 1784 and 1818. It attempts to locate this transition and the different Dutch imperial projects in the region in the context of earlier and parallel forei…

This thesis examines the effect of the Indian nationalist movement on the Egyptian nationalist movement. The central argument of this work is that the Egyptian nationalist movement was consciously inter-nationalist, in that the nationalist activists were not only seeking an end …

The conventional understanding of German expansion abroad, between unification (1871) and the First World War (1914), is that Germany established colonies in Africa, the Pacific Islands, and to a lesser degree in China. This colonialism began in 1884 with the recognition of Germ…