Drawing on both the Pew Research Center's Muslim American Survey of 2007 and a series of original in-depth interviews with young Muslim American women in northern New Jersey, this dissertation seeks to learn more about these women and their motivations for covering and its meani…
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The purpose of this research was to identify children used as weapons of war and terrorism through acts by Nigerian radical Muslim group Boko Haram. The matter of child weapons posed significance in the fight against terrorism. Historically, child weapons faced warfare but in di…
Based on ethnographic fieldwork, textual analysis, and data culled from interviews, this manuscript explores how Islamic ethics shape the epistemic approaches of Muslim intellectuals to liberal democracy and corollary paradigms of western modernity. Specifically, it examines a c…
Following the horrific events which occurred on September 11, 2001, the U.S. has become the target of an increased number of domestic attack plots involving homegrown Islamic extremists. In particular, the years between 2008 through 2010 revealed an uptick in U.S.-based attack p…
Les démocraties libérales contemporaines, culturellement diverses, exigent de réfléchir aux enjeux que soulèvent les tensions qui existent entre l'égalité et les différences fondées sur l'origine ethnoculturelle. Dans cette optique, notre démarche cherche à éclairer certaines di…
Ce mémoire tente de cerner les orientations idéologiques du Hezbollah à travers les discours de son principal leader, Hassan Nasrallah. Notre objectif de recherche est d'identifier les positions idéologiques de ce parti et d'en évaluer les transformations entre 2000 et 2010. Nou…
Why do people in the United States become radicalized to Sunni militant terrorism? Are the mechanisms and processes which lead to radicalization different for Muslim converts and those who were born and raised as Muslims? Between September 11, 2001 and December 2010 there were n…
The events of September 11, 2001 increased occurrences of prejudice and discrimination toward Muslims and individuals identified as Muslims. In 2010, a proposal of an Islamic Center near Ground Zero sparked controversy and opinion polls indicated Americans experienced negative o…
This dissertation is an analysis of the development of dialectic and argumentation theory in post-classical Islamic intellectual history. The central concerns of the thesis are; treatises on the theoretical understanding of the concept of dialectic and argumentation theory, and …
By their very nature, city streets provide opportunities to create life "in-between" the more strongly defined entities of home, school, office, and markets. In this space, one can easily appear to be on his or her way to somewhere, but never actually be going anywhere. The act …
Since 1994, an increasing number of persons fleeing persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender request asylum in the United States, yet few empirical studies explore their experiences from flight through resettlement. Muslims in these categories, shouldering the ad…
The purpose of the qualitative exploratory case study was to explore and identify obstacles Muslim Americans in the United States working within the legal field experienced in advancing to leadership positions and the influence of mentoring. The two cases included 10 Muslim Amer…
Storefront mosques are a unique, emerging type of vernacular architecture that has been adapted into sacred space. A typical commercial storefront is a first-floor space facing on the street, its entrance typically flanked by glass windows for merchandise display. Muslim immigra…
This research analyzes the umma as a concept in the Qur'ān and the Sīra in order to decipher its significance in the socio-political sphere. First, a close study of relevant Qur'anic verses is performed to excavate internal Qur'anic perspectives on the concept of the umma. This …
Maintaining trends of resistance movements, activist agendas, and advocacy campaigns initiated in opposition to the Islamization period and the dictatorship of General Zia-ulHaq (1977-1988), contemporary expressions of resistance in Pakistan have also begun to include 'activist …
Igniting the Tinderbox is intended as a nonfiction book and teacher's guide for middle school students to supplement the texts in the social studies curriculum. The book is a snapshot of Afghanistan between 1989 and 1996 as seen through the eyes of a middle school-aged Afghan bo…
Jihadi terrorism in Europe is a growing and ever-changing threat. Radicals embracing a militant brand of Islam were once an external threat, planning missions abroad before traveling to their Western targets. Jihadi terrorism has since evolved into an internal threat with the em…
Our war is not against Islam.....Our war is a war against evil... -President George W. Bush. Despite President Bush's rhetoric attempting to separate Muslims in general from terrorists who adhere to the Islamic faith, the policies of the War on Terror have generally focused on M…