Sayyid Qutb is often rendered as a backward looking, anti-modern figure. This portrayal suggests a serious misunderstanding of his theory of history and, by extension, the relationship between the foundational sources of Islam and the life of the Muslim community. In broader ter…
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This dissertation investigates the role Islam plays inside Western modernity and asks how Muslims have remade themselves as Muslims within colonial and postcolonial migrations. The development of private belief was a founding moment for Western modernity. Yet, implicit in this m…
This dissertation is a study of how ideas and theoretical views about "the family" developed under the shadow of colonialism, nationalism, and state development on the island of Java between 1900 and 1945. These years spanned two colonial regimes, that of the Dutch (1900-1942) a…
This dissertation explores education as a critical yet hitherto neglected site for the construction of multiple, parallel, and occasionally competing narratives of national identity in Beirut, Lebanon. Spanning the period of the French mandate (1920-1943) and early decades of in…
While the general notion of madina is largely familiar to a broad audience, its central importance to the making of the modern city and its sustainability as a dynamic component of the process of urbanization is often overlooked and deserves closer attention . A close scrutiny o…
This dissertation is a historical ethnography of competing modes of legality in Northern Nigeria, considering specifically how they operated to create and constrain people's productive relationships in agriculture. It combines a historical investigation of Northern Nigeria's leg…
This dissertation is a comparative study of the effect that imperial conquest had on native etiologies of culture in the pre-modern Near Eastern and Mediterranean world. Following the Greek and Arab conquests of the region, some native elites glorified the cultural "firsts" of t…
Moroccan Colonial Troops: History, Memory, and the Culture of French Colonialism deals with the history of Moroccan colonial troops between 1912 and 1945. By concentrating on the Moroccan soldiers who were recruited under the French, this dissertation relates the history of colo…
This dissertation explores the impact of the French protectorate (1912-1956) on architecture and heritage management in Marrakesh, Morocco. It analyzes the changes adopted not only in architectural patterns and the way heritage is managed, but also the way space and heritage are…
My dissertation project explores the discourse and practices of Ottoman rule between 1872 and 1919 in geographical Yemen. Drawing on a broad range of archival and published sources in Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, and English such as government papers, travelogues, local petitions an…
This qualitative inquiry attempts to understand and interpret the characteristics of English as a school discipline in post-independence India. Three separate but interrelated strands--pedagogic materials, classroom methods and teachers' beliefs and perceptions--are investigated…
This dissertation explores how local ideas about racial difference developed in the Niger Bend region of Northern Mali in West Africa. Local prejudices based on skin color and physical characteristics existed in Northern Mali long before the arrival of Europeans. Local intellect…
My dissertation explores three interrelated fields in Moroccan history. First, it examines how French administrators and intellectuals developed racial archetypes and cultural myths about the indigenous populations of Morocco that allowed for tighter control over the colonial en…
My dissertation reexamines the relationship between imperialism and visual culture through an analysis of photography in Sharifian and French colonial Morocco. I begin with a dramatic shift in Franco-Moroccan relations that came in the guise of a photography lesson in 1901 when …
Hooked on Pharaonics: Literature and the Appropriations of Ancient Egypt, explores European colonialism in Egypt--and Egyptian nationalist responses--through a critical focus on the modern aesthetic regimes that sought to administer Egyptian antiquities. It isolates several poin…
The center of this project is the Luo Union, a socio-cultural organization founded amongst pockets of migrant workers in towns across East Africa. Riwruok e Teko (Unity is Strength) has been the mantra of the organization, for all of its nearly 60 year official existence. From i…
As a regional history, this dissertation examines Bengali Muslim politics of region, religion, and social justice from the 1840s to 1952. It argues that Bengali Muslim constructions of communitarian selfhood in the colonial and early post-colonial eras entailed a variety of appr…
This dissertation examines the colonial relationship between Third Republican France and the Sultanate of Morocco through a social history of medical knowledge, 1877-1935. European science did not lead inevitably to European domination, for the sultans of Morocco appropriated Eu…
This dissertation seeks to understand the way in which Islam operated within colonial context by examining the production and transmission of Islamic knowledge reflected in sermons, edicts, speeches, and curriculum in South Sulawesi and Kelantan during the late colonial times (1…