In this dissertation, I ask what happens to our understanding of transnational jihadism, and specifically the work of al-Qaeda if we enter into dialogue with jihadists on what they advance and elide in their use of martyrdom operations qua politics through the use of comparative…
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The dissertation addresses the social and political experiences of Muslim-Americans within the Muslim community and as part of the larger pluralistic society. It focuses specifically on experiences of distrust and disenfranchisement and the challenges they pose to social and pol…
The Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906-1911 was a complex event with diverse ideological orientations. It established Iran's first elected parliament (the Majlis ), which included members of various social classes and also succeeded to ratify Iran's first Constitution, wh…
This dissertation addresses the Insider Movement paradigm in ministry to Muslims by assessing to what extent Muslims who come to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ may permanently retain Muslim identity. This research presents data from Islamic literature on Muslim identity, as well…
This thesis analyzes Shia-Sunni sectarianism in the northern tribal areas of Pakistan, and the role of Iran in exacerbating such violence in recent years. The northern tribal regions have been experiencing an unprecedented level of violence between Sunnis and Shias since the ris…
This dissertation evaluates the political history of Islam through the prism of the Sunni conception of authority. It finds an historical red thread that explains the legal and political evolution of different types of Islamic government that have, instead of a European-type sov…
My dissertation asks how influential is Islam for political participation in Indonesia. I examine the varied ways in which Islam presents itself in contemporary Indonesian politics, particularly at the level of the masses, and the conditions under which Muslim Indonesians engage…
This thesis examines the need to revisit ijtihad (critical and interpretive reading of Islamic law and religious texts) in order to effectively deal with contemporary dilemmas and challenges to globalization. Contemporarily, Muslim majority countries are facing conflict, ethical…
This phenomenological study describes the subjective experiences of three white American males' conversion to Islam. The study explored the experiences prior to and following the participants' conversion, as well as looked specifically at how their whiteness and masculinity infl…
Scholarly research on African American based Mosques in Baltimore City is minute when compared to scholarly works done on African American based Churches. Masjid Al Haqq, which was previously called Mosque Six, has been a mainstay for African Americans seeking Islamic guidance i…
As a powerful opposition movement in Egypt the Muslim Brotherhood has a large influence on politics and takes the stance that it speaks for the majority of Egyptians in upholding their cultural and religious values. This thesis will analyze both the push for greater participatio…
It is important that scholars use a variety of researching methods when analyzing the effect of the Crusades, how they affected Islamic perspectives of the West during the period 1095-1291, and their imprint on today's world. Western scholars with a Euro-centric point of view ha…
The Badayi' al-vaqayi' of Zayn al-Din Mahmud b. Abd al-Jalil Vasifi is an early sixteenth century memoir and historical work written from a unique perspective, that of a non-elite, well-educated member of what we might refer to as "the middle class". This dissertation will argue…
This thesis project focuses on the concept of halal (the category of permissible things according to Islam) as a concept important to understanding contemporary Islam. It is constructed around two questions: first, what is the concept of halal as used in the halal industry and h…
As Sufism becomes more established in North America, observers note the difficulty in making sense of a tradition with such a beguiling diversity of form, ranging from Sufi orders characterized by their Islamic practice, to Sufi orders with little in the way of explicit Islamic …
In this dissertation, I assess the political, social and economic foundation, unfolding and impact the surveillance apparatus traced from Western surveillance blueprints French authorities implemented to monitor the Hajj from colonial Senegal beginning in 1895. I focus mainly on…
Although the study of college student development has progressed during the last decades to address various aspects of identity development across a wide range of diverse populations, there is a noticeable gap in the literature about Muslim-American college students and how the …
This paper assesses how Muslim women's roles in society proved a topic of central concern for three prominent female Muslim intellectuals, Fatma Aliye (1862-1936), Halide Edip (1884-1964), and Sâmiha Ayverdi (1905-1993). Collectively spanning the course of a century, their disco…
Based on a variety of largely unutilized printed, as well as documentary and manuscript sources collected from archives in the Middle East, North Africa, India and Europe, this dissertation is a longue durée study of the evolution of the conception and function of hadith transmi…