This thesis uses Critical Discourse Analysis to investigate the view of technology held by the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI). Understanding this view is important because it helps explain adopting communication policies with significant long-term political ramifications. It foc…
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During the Abdülaziz era (1861–76), the heavily westernized language of early nineteenth-century Ottoman architecture was replaced by an entirely novel and highly eclectic repertoire that was culled from the supposedly “authentic” sources of the Ottoman tradition. These sources …
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, a vast discourse on contemporary terrorism has emerged within 'Western' media. This thesis analyzes the discourse of contemporary terrorism, and highlights how the postcolonialist critique of Orientalism pioneered by Edward Sa…
Kata kunci: interaksi dokter-penderita, pola tutur, strategi kesantunan, wacana kedokteran Penerapan strategi kesantunan dalam komunikasi antara dokter dan penderita diperlukan karena mempunyai pengaruh positif dalam interaksi dokter dan penderita. Bukti menunjukkan bahwa penera…
The US "women's rights as human rights" doctrine continues to represent campaigns for international women's rights through the stories and images of Asian, African, and Latin American women. As both the idea of global human rights, and the place of women within the context of in…
This dissertation analyzes and interprets Ousmane Sembène's films. As a post-colonial African filmmaker, Sembène is known for the harshly satirical tone of his films that does not leave any aspect of African societies untouched. The recurrence of such themes as national liberati…
This study investigates the extent to which gender practices and discourse in political, social and economic spheres are conditioned by cultural taboos and contexts in the rural Esan society of Nigeria. An ethnographic approach was employed in the study. Extensive fieldwork was …
This research adds to the critical discussion and history of collecting by examining collectors and dealers of Moroccan carpets, flatweaves and textiles. Moroccan textiles operate within the general field of antique Oriental rugs and carpets where they circulate and are given va…
Al-Jazeera asserted itself in the global media scene shortly after the attacks of September 11th, 2001 in the United States. The station's regional prominence had already been entrenched in the new Arab media environment before it was overshadowed by the station's newfound globa…
Nationalism and nationhood are not authentic outcomes of a static ethnicity but are a contingent product of the nation-state era. Nations, nationality, and nationhood are socially-produced concepts, constantly contested, negotiated, reinforced, or rejected, by contending actors.…
This dissertation investigates how 'women' and 'Islam' are constructed in a postcolonial nation, Malaysia. Located in Southeast Asia, Malaysia is a multi-ethnic nation which is Islamic. It was colonized by the Portuguese, the Dutch and finally, the British. In a strategy common …
Islam and the West, a dualistic phrase that gained sudden ascendancy following the events of September 11, 2001, is used variously to refer to the mutual relationship between Muslims and those living in a sometimes ill-defined region called "the West." The binary phrase in quest…
In this study, we undertake a socio-cultural analysis of female existence in narrative spaces produced by African francophone writers of Muslim cultural background. We begin this analysis with the premise that one of the fundamental components of any culture is a set of values r…
In the development of Islam in India in the nineteenth century, the impact of the interaction between modernist Muslims and Christian administrators and missionaries can be seen in the writings of three Evangelical Christians on the role of the H[dotbelow]adith and the responses…
Can we reform Islam? Can we read the Qur'an anew in today's environment while holding to its founding principles? In particular, can we propose a reading of the Qur'an that is respectful of its spirit and also favourable to the Muslim woman? These are the questions that have bee…
In this dissertation I attempt to trace the trajectory of Islamic discourse under the New Order regime in Indonesia. By examining sermons and lectures in mosques and other fora in the city of Ujung Pandang (Makassar), South Sulawesi, I try to delineate the way Muslims came to di…
Chapter one outlines the historical spread of Islam in China through the Ming Dynasty. Chapter two chronicles the scripture hall educational system (jingtang jiaoyu ) and its spread into eastern China. Chapter three introduces the Han Kitab , a Sino-Islamic canon (c. 1600-1750),…
The study is the story of landscape ideologies and how they played out in the unstable milieu of East Africa as it became more deeply incorporated into a global imperial system. The dissertation covers the history of landscape discourse regarding Africa in general and the lower …
This dissertation examines both text and illustration in luxury Persian literary manuscripts made in the late fifteenth through the first half of the sixteenth centuries. It analyzes a trend in painting that dominated artistic production during the early Safavid period but was i…