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This work examines ethnic group identities among the Muslim population in the Iberian Peninsula, or al-Andalus, between 881 and 1110 C.E. It specifically addresses three moments in Andalusi history in which ethnic conflict erupted into the political sphere: 1) The revolt of Ibn …
This research looks at attempts by the Egyptian polymath Jalal al-Din al-Suyut [dotbelow]i (d. 1505) to frame his authority as a jurist in his legal writings. The research aims to access the multi-faceted legal persona that the author constructs through his use of the written wo…
Due to the kidnapping incident of Korean short-term missionaries in Afghanistan in 2007, increased discrimination following the September 11 attacks, and the physical appearance of Muslim foreigners, Korea has an overwhelmingly widespread misunderstanding, a distorted image, and…
This thesis assesses the mitigating impact of repentance upon the fixed punishments for brigandage (hiraba ), theft, and the accusation of fornication (qadhf ) under Islamic law, focusing on classical sources of Qur'anic exegesis (tafsir ), law (fiqh ), and legal theory (usul al…
In this study, an Islamic perspective was used to examine the development of disability organizations in Saudi Arabia. As disability research in Saudi Arabia has most often been approached from a medical perspective, the purpose of this study was to focus on a social model of di…
The study of the eastern dynasties that ruled Khurasan and Transoxania during the third/ninth and fourth/tenth centuries - most notably the T[dotbelow]ahirids (r. 205-259/821-873), S[dotbelow]affarids (r. 247-393/861-1003), and S[dotbelow]amanids (r. 204-395-819-1005) - has trad…
This dissertation examines the development of an internal debate among Muslim minorities living in Western Europe and North America in contemporary time to establish a specific form of Islamic jurisprudence, fiqh al-aqalliyy at , that strikes a balance between Muslim's religious…
Much has been written about Qur'anic references to Jesus (`Isa in Arabic), yet no work has been done on the structure or formal analysis of the numerous references to `Isa in the Hadith, that is, the collection of writings that report the sayings and actions of the Prophet Muham…
The Organization of the Islamic Conference was founded in 1969 as an intergovernmental organization designed to represent the needs of the world's Muslim nations. Since 1979, this organization has been a battleground between two of its most powerful states, the Kingdom of Saudi …
This study is based on a submission of anthropological, historical, and literary approaches. The ethnographic study of the Shi'a holy shrines between November 2011 and January 2012 is based on my visit to Iraq. The study lasted almost ten weeks, to include the two events under d…
The presence and participation of women as lawmakers, policymakers and narrators has often been limited by authoritarian institutions and frameworks who have not welcomed women into their realms. Islamic jurisprudence is no exception. As subjects of the law Muslim women have sel…
The first decades of the twenty first century have been defined by the "War on Terror." One important aspect of this war is how it is constructed through the media on both sides of the conflict. The al Qaeda social movement primarily uses the internet to communicate with enemies…
The Battle of S[dotbelow]iffin (36/657) is the flash point in the emergence of sects within the Islamic religion. This dissertation traces the presentation of the story S[dotbelow]iffin in a specific line of Arabic universal histories, starting with the establishment of the "vul…
This dissertation is a study of the thought of Elmalili Muhammed Hamdi [Yazir] (1878-1942), a jurist and scholar active in the politics and religious institutions of the late Ottoman Empire and early modern Turkey (ca. 1900s-1930s). The main focus of this dissertation is the int…
This dissertation is an ethnographic and genealogical study of leftist feminist subjectivity in the wake of the Islamic Revival in contemporary Morocco. It draws on two years (2004-2006) of field research amongst founding members of the Moroccan feminist movement whose activism …
This dissertation studies the production, circulation, and diffusion of apocalyptic prognostications by the Moriscos in sixteenth-century Spain.
This dissertation concentrates on the roles of Islamic business groups in creating opportunities to influence policy outcomes in countries with restricted political environments where secular regimes limited the space for Islamic groups to organize in both civil and political so…
Goethe's West-östlicher Divan often elicits contradictory responses - for some, it is a beacon of tolerance and engagement, and for others, an appropriating Orientalist discourse. In this essay I argue that both definitions apply to different portions of the work: the voice of d…