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…
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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…
The reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II (r. 1876-1909) is one of the most controversial in today's historiography. Historians often depict him as a tyrant who instrumentalised Islam as a means of enhancing and expanding his personal authority. In this dissertation, I argue that such v…
South Asian Muslim American (SAMA) communities have a multi-generational presence in the United States. SAMA communities face old problems in new landscapes and new problems with traditional perspectives. One social-issue SAMA communities face is the increase of alcohol use and …
The contemporary religious revival in Turkey suggests the emergence of a new Islamic identity, which I term as "Muslimism". Neither a liberal adaptation nor a fundamentalist rejection, Muslimism is a hybrid identity embracing modern life while submitting that life to a sacred, m…
Natural disasters pose a ubiquitous threat to communities around the world. Communities perceive, understand, anticipate, and make meaning of disaster risks through the lens of their worldview. In many regions of the world, religious beliefs and practices contribute to the shapi…
The question of whether the door of ijtihad, is open, closed, or ever did close, has been around for centuries. The answer to this question is crucial for our times. The research will present a chronological overview of the historical development of the concept of ijtihad, how i…
In this dissertation, I have analyzed the rising influence of Islamic fundamentalist groups in Pakistan in its political, legal, cultural, and violent manifestations. In explaining this rise, I have questioned the widespread academic and journalistic notion that the rising tide …
This dissertation examines two educational piety projects competing for control over popular conceptualizations of piety and what it means to be a good Muslim, as presented by Al Azhar 31 Islamic Primary School and Luqman al Hakim Integrated Islamic Primary School in Jogjakarta,…
Often regarded as the first Islamic defense of political secularism, `Ali `Abd al-Raziq's Islam and the Foundations of Government provoked emotionally-charged repudiations that culminated in his dismissal from Egypt's corps of `ulama. Setting `Abd al-Raziq's work in historical c…
This thesis will explore the application of western intellectual property frameworks onto the Islamic culture of the Middle East through international intellectual property agreements such as the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) Agreement and the US-Jordan …
This dissertation is a social and intellectual history of Islamic revivalist movements in nineteenth-century Southeast Asia. I focus on one particularly active center of Islamic learning at Patani, on the Malay-Thai Peninsula, and how its people forged transnational scholarly ne…
Are Muslims incorporated into American politics? The use of both interviews and statistical analyses, I seek to provide an understanding of where Muslim Americans are in the process of political incorporation. By looking at several areas of political incorporation, I establish t…
The purpose of this dissertation is to use a Foucauldian lens to examine the nature and scope of the many challenges the British faced in southwest Arabia in the wake of the retreating Ottoman Empire at the end of the First World War. The subsequent power vacuum which ensued mea…