The Pashtun population that straddles the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan has endured a history of conflict that continues to this day and has affected politics and governance in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. Amid complex tribal relations, the Pashtuns abide by a very strict…
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As the number of Islamic institutions increases in America, the need for greater understanding of the Muslim community, and the challenges faced by this minority, increases as well. This project seeks to provide such knowledge by exploring one of these rapidly growing institutio…
This case study describes the educational, social, and cultural experiences of three Arab Muslim high school students in the ESL program of a southeastern state of U.S. During the fall of 2009, the researcher spent an average of two days a week with the participants and their fa…
The experiences of immigrant mothers have been brought to light by different researchers, but insufficient attention has been paid to Muslim mothers' experiences of raising children. Phenomenological methodology was utilized to investigate Muslim mothers' experiences of raising …
The spread of digital technology has expanded how people engage with religious information. Religious activities are no longer restricted to physical spaces as the Internet allows users to customize their religious experiences. This study, grounded in the uses and gratifications…
We commonly assume that religion is simply part of a person's identity, a preference, or a choice. This is a result of the modern liberal rejection of all but empirical knowledge and the corresponding public rejection of metaphysics. This makes it impossible to make philosophica…
Since September 11, 2001, the United States and our Western allies have become greatly concerned by the threat posed by "homegrown terrorists" and the individuals responsible for their radicalization. These extremists no longer need to travel abroad to join a terrorist group and…
Within the context of contemporary politics, Christian, Muslim and Liberal traditions have been, in many instances, at odds with each other regarding how humankind's social political future should be ordered. Such a conflicting condition has been aggravated by the global circula…
Religiously based nonviolence varies in motive, intent and interpretation. John Howard Yoder outlines a variety of religious nonviolence in his book Nevertheless. Muslim nonviolence is not addressed in the book. Identifying a distinctly Muslim understanding of nonviolence requir…
This dissertation explores questions of religion, law and gender in contemporary Delhi. The dissertation is based on eighteen months of fieldwork I conducted in four types of Muslim family law institutions: sharia courts (dar ul qaza institutions), women's arbitration centers ( …
This thesis examines the striking disconnect between the extensive power wielded by women in medieval Cairo and the 'official' constructions of gender relationships articulated by the 'ulama'. The formal discourses produced by legal-religious scholars encouraged men to monitor, …
This work re-considers current descriptions of pre-colonial Swahili stone architecture by applying formal analysis to structures from the 'golden age' of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and the Swahili heartland regions of mainland Tanzania and Kenya. The results of this …
This Doctor of Ministry final project is a longitudinal impact study of the advanced Building Abrahamic Partnerships ( BAP II ) interfaith training course for Jews, Christians, and Muslims offered at Hartford Seminary in 2007, 2008, and 2009. As director of the Building Abrahami…
The lack of knowledge about the true values and tenets of Islam, coupled with the increased acts of terrorism committed by radical fundamentalists both in Europe and in the United States over the last decade, have led to a disconnect between the Western and Islamic cultures. The…
High fertility rates may not pose short-term threats to Pakistan's stability however, Pakistan's long-term survival largely depends on reducing the rate at which the population is expanding because this growth is outstripping economic development. This paper seeks to highlight a…
The common image that is associated with the religious atmosphere of the Middle Ages is paradoxical. On the one hand there is an aura of fervent religious piety, which also fueled religious animosity, most notably in the bloodshed and brutality of the Crusades. This overwhelming…
This dissertation treats the reign of the Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III (1703-1730) in the context of the European early enlightenment. Intellectual historians have generally placed the Ottoman Empire outside the Enlightenment movement, while Ottoman historians have viewed the early …
This thesis examines the rise of Islamism in Turkey over the last three decades. It explores the increasing role of Islamism in Turkey in society and politics in detail in the context of the religion and development. Moreover, it investigates if and to what extent the Kemalist s…
My dissertation provides an introduction to the poetry and mystical thought of Mirza Abd al-Qadir Bedil (1644-1720), perhaps the foremost representative of the so-called "Indian style" of Persian poetry, through the study of his first long narrative poem, Muh[dotbelow]it[dotbelo…