My dissertation examines the transformation of Islamic legal discourse and the impact of that discourse on Muslim society. More particularly, it analyzes fatwas (religious legal edicts) over the course of Muslim history so as to determine how this legal mechanism was instrumenta…
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The purpose of this grant proposal was to develop a program, identify potential funding sources, and write a grant to fund an Afghan domestic violence program that offers culturally competent services to Afghan women survivors of domestic violence in the San Francisco Bay Area. …
Sex segregation, particularly one that is reinforced in the name of religion, is often blamed for fortifying gender discrimination in society as a whole. This dissertation examines this assumption in Islamic society and investigates how such segregation may actually benefit Musl…
The Islamic qas[dotbelow]s[dotbelow] (pl. qus[dotbelow]s[dotbelow]as[dotbelow] ) has been widely viewed as a teller of stories who gathered around him the uneducated public and filled their minds with fabulous stories while commenting on the Qur'an or while relating unreliable t…
Several Islamic organizations have experience major changes in their theological frames and political identities away from fundamentalist and revivalist theological orientation to one that embraces a progressive Islamic theology that synthesizes these norms with classical Islami…
The Shiite Imam--J`afar al-Sadiq (d. 765 AD) among many other fields of knowledge, such as law, theology, natural philosophy, and occult sciences, elucidated many spiritual teachings in his lifetime. He is one of the most vital and influential thinkers of the early centuries of …
This study analyzes the claims-making and counter-claims-making on citizenship and faith by American and Canadian Muslim political actors over the 2001-2008 period. It highlights the interactive processes by which competing discourses on citizenship and faith are negotiated to p…
Several criticisms regarding the treatment of women in Islamic Inheritance Laws have stated that these laws are in favor of males. The most common claim is that women receive half the share of men in the Islamic inheritance system. This thesis examines this issue from legal and …
When protests in Bahrain erupted on February 14, 2011, the Arab media covered the events as they unfolded. However, how the story was covered differed from one station to the next. This dissertation examines how five selected Arabic stations covered the protests over a period of…
Anecdotes about poetry in classical Arabic works of history and literature provide a picture of the role that poetry played in this history and the degree of influence exercised by poetry in the formation of social and historical events. In this study, I aim to discover the crit…
In France, 1995 marked the year of a series of bombs exploded in public areas including but not limited to crowded subway stations in both Paris and Lyon. The series of bombings testifies to France's lack of immunity in the postcolonial struggle over the future of its former col…
This paper explores the topic of religious conversion in relation to Pierre Bourdieu's theory of habitus, with a focus on Catholic Latina converts to Sunni Islam. Bourdieu suggests that these types of religious choices are not choices at all, but predetermined by an individual's…
Immigrant Muslim mothers is a rapidly growing population in the United States for which there seems to be little or no information about their health values and parenting practices. Approximately 4 million adolescents in the U.S. have Arab Muslim immigrant parents. The goal of t…
This cultural study critically investigates the mechanics of the revolutionary posters that were used for mobilizing the Iranian masses and later incorporated by the Islamic propaganda machinery to mark the continuity of the Iranian Revolution. The posters are organized thematic…
Although there was a simple way to practice credit reporting in the past, in its organized and developed form credit reporting is considered new to international society in general. The first act to regulate credit reporting was established in the last quarter of the twentieth c…
This research is concerned with understanding the nature of the relations between the Palestinian Authority (PNA) and the Islamic social/charitable organizations (ISOs) in the West Bank, and how these relations affect their provision of social services. The research utilized dif…
This study examines the means by which the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt was reconstituted during the years of Anwar al-Sadat's presidency (1970-1981), following a lengthy period of dismantlement and suppression. By including analysis of structural, ideological, and social develop…
This dissertation addresses two limitations in recent scholarship on the representations of Islam and Muslims in nineteenth-century British literature. It implements a literary critique of the epistemological nature and repercussions of some of these representations from a nuanc…
This qualitative research study reveals how Bangladeshi immigrant Muslim women adjust their religious practices in order to integrate themselves in their new context in St. John's, Newfoundland, and analyzes the meanings they attribute to these adjustments. There are five princi…