This dissertation explores religion and secularity in higher education through the case of Muslim students at an elite, residential, and secular campus on the West Coast of the United States. Based on three years of qualitative research including participant observation, ethnogr…
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Bu çalışma, özelde İslam’da kadınla ilgili, -şahitlik, mirastan pay alma, evlenme-boşanma, kocaya itaat, şiddet, çok karılılık, örtü ve fitne unsuru olma gibi- ihtilaflı bazı konuların modern yorumlamalarında kadının yeri ve statüsünü; genelde, dinin teşekkül ettiği Arap toplumu…
Cehmiyye Allah’ın zatı, haberî sıfatlar, halku’l-Kur’ân, ru’yetullah, Allah’ın ilmi gibi konularda fikir beyan etmiş olan bir fırkadır. Naslara yaklaşımda daha çok te’vîl metodunu esas alan Cehmiyye’ye karşı hadis tarihinde pek çok reddiye yazılmıştır. Çalışmamız, hicrî ikinci a…
The Kashmir dispute has been dominating the India-Pakistan relationship ever since the birth of the two states in 1947. It has also played a significant role in border disputes between China and India over Askai Chin which continues to date. Kashmir lies between three of the mos…
Vakıf müessesesi, İslam medeniyeti ve Müslüman toplumlarda geçmişten günümüze en köklü kurumların başında gelmektedir. Hz. Peygamber döneminde “sadaka-i cariye” hadisiyle temelleri atılan ve Müslümanlar arasında hüsnü kabul gören vakıf kültürü zamanla gelişip sistemleşmiş ve İsl…
Previous research on Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer (LGBTQ) and religious identity has generally focused on psychological conflict and reconciliation. Social scientific studies have examined why queer and trans religious individuals experience identity conflict and how t…
Islamic art is a diverse field, but it is commonly miscategorized and undervalued as a result of Western bias in both historical and contemporary contexts. As a response to this limitation in the scholarly study of Islamic Art, the following study analyzes the impacts of the his…
This thesis studies the constitutional and legal transformation of Bangladesh from a secular democracy (1972) to a secular state with Islam as the state religion, ‘Islamo-secularism’ (2011). The state claims this self-styled secularity to be congruent to the sensibility of its m…
The contemporary shape and speed of globalization is contributing to an acceleration in the phenomenon of cross-border migration. Similarly, visibility and incorporation of women in the process of migration has led to the feminisation of migration. This research is about Pakista…
This paper focuses on al-Azhar's role in renewing religious discourse after the 2011 Egyptian revolution. I will focus on whether or not the religious discourse is changing in al-Azhar (the Sunni Islamic institution) and its role in spreading religious awareness to engage with e…
With the large influx of refugees into Lebanon, since the beginning of the Syrian crisis in 2011, fear of changes in demographics are putting pressures on an already fragile government infrastructure and an unreliable system of governance, which in turn, impacts the sensitive re…
In this dissertation I bring clarity to debates on the meaning and history of religion with a linguistically and anthropologically informed approach that maintains a clear distinction between language and ontology and seeks to avoid the traps of both nominalism and essentialism.…
The Christian doctrine of divine Triunity is one of the most intractable and controversial issues in Muslim-Christian relations, prompting Muslims and Christians alike either to resort to hostile polemics or to “agree to disagree” – despairing of any common ground. The polemics …
This dissertation considers the concept of walāyah, commonly translated as guardianship, within Islam in terms of theology, hermeneutics, religious law, and praxis. These applications are analyzed for the ways in which they lend themselves to an authoritative application of walā…
This thesis traces the Morisco experience and resulting Crypto-Islamic identity duringthe late medieval through early modern period in the Iberian Peninsula using language, law,popular culture, and the results of DNA research. The Crypto-Islamic Identity took rootbefore their of…
Umma Expressions: Community, Origins, and Representations in Contemporary Muslim American Literature explores how Muslim Americans articulate their “Muslimness” while situating themselves within the Umma or Muslim community. I explore how Muslim writers (re)imagine their plural …
Kıbrıs Adası, tarihin farklı dönemlerinde birçok medeniyet ve kültüre ev sahipliği yapmıştır. Bugün adada yaşayan iki büyük topluluk Rumlar ve Türklerdir. Bunun yanında küçük gruplar halinde Ermeniler, Marunîler, Latin Katolikler, Anglikanlar, Yahudiler ve yeni dini oluşumlardan…
Müslümanlar tarafından Endülüs’te inşa edilen İslam medeniyeti hem İslam tarihi hem de Avrupa tarihi açısından büyük öneme sahiptir. 711 yılında başlayan ilk fetih hareketlerinden 1492 yılında Gırnata Benî Ahmer Emirliği’nin yıkılmasına kadar İber Yarımadası’nda varlık gösteren …
Mezarlıklar sadece ölülerin defnedildiği ve huzur içinde yattıkları temenni edilen mekânlar değildir. Bundan daha fazla olarak mezarlıklar, içinde bulundukları sessizliğe rağmen, tarihin Ģahididirler. ÇalıĢma konumuz olan Bülbüldere ve Feriköy Mezarlıkları da bir asrı aĢkın geçm…