Islamic modernism

This work grew out of a moral puzzle. How can the many govern as one when they are divided on the most fundamental matters, matters that would directly inform the procedures and commitments of self-governance? Without a convincing answer to this question, the democratic ideals o…

This thesis examines the outbreak of violence between Muslims and Jews in the city of Constantine in August 1934. What has been termed a riot or a pogrom was, for the reformist ulama arguing for association with the French colonial state, a tragic rupture in the colonial civic o…