The Metacolonial State is a genealogical project that is concerned with understanding the nature of political space in contemporary Pakistan. My contention is that political Islam, and specifically the Deoband and Taliban `ulama, have taken on an increasingly biopolitical charac…
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What do religions do and how do they do it? In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Émile Durkheim claims that religions are “grounded in and express the real” and center upon a set of ritualized practices that enact and embody in a distinctively intense and potentially trans…
Today, suicide is often pulled into the orbit of discussions about mental health and depression. However, voluntary death has proved to be a cultural constant across the history of the West as a subject of ethical debate. Currently, the pertinent ethical question is what makes s…
This dissertation represents an attempt to understand the self, what it is, what it means, and how it provides subjective identity. These concerns are situated within a personal narrative that describes the loss of self and its rediscovery subsequent to that loss. In critically …
In order to enable individuals to pursue their goals freely, liberal societies require a high degree of ambiguity regarding the meaning of mortality. This ambiguity and underlying anxiety are the price of the social peace and political stability at which liberalism aims, and the…
In recent decades, there has been renewed interest in the fifteenth-century philosopher and theologian Nicholas of Cusa, especially as a figure offering insights into the genealogical development, the possibilities, and the challenges of modernity—topics expounded in the twentie…
The dissertation explores what key perspectives within the fields of comparative history of religions, philosophy, and science and religion can contribute to the understanding of a central, self-identity issue in the study of religion and interreligious dialogue: How does one de…
The Question of Being between Avicenna and Heritages investigates Avicenna's (Ibn Sina's; 980-1037) ontological, epistemological, mystic, and linguistic accounts of being (al-wujud ) while at the same time accounting for Martin Heidegger's critique of the history of metaphysics.…
This work explores questions of God and faith in the context of Martin Heidegger's phenomenological ontology, as developed in Being and Time . One problem with traditional philosophical approaches to the question of God is their tendency to regard God's existence as an objective…
The study examines three myths endemic to Western culture, autochthony (indigenousness), promised land, and exile, taking as figurative representations Athens for autochthony and Jerusalem for promised land. The myth of autochthony is found in ancient Greek literature and the my…