Sufism, iḥsān, or tazkiyah are terms referring to the spiritual dimension of Islam. Islam consists of creed, law, and a spiritual and/or character building and ethical component. The spiritual, character building and ethical component deals with the state of the heart and how to…
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Based on observational fieldwork and interviews carried out in Boston in ten Islamic community centers and mosques, supplemented by archival research in Suffolk County court records and surveys of relevant literature, this ethnography investigates how various communities and sec…
17. yüzyıldan bu yana var olagelen deizme kültürden kültüre farklı tanımlamalar ve yüklemeler yapılmıştır. Batı dünyasında aydınlanma ile başlayan seküler (dünyevi) bir algı olarak ortaya çıkarken bu tanımın İslam dünyasındaki karşılığı Tanrı'nın varlığını ve alemin ilk sebebi o…
This study argues that the hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, served as a key connective node in the early modern world which served as a site of encounter between both pilgrims and empires constructing new and contested notions of imperial power and crafting both communities…
This work examines the theological and Christological pronouncements in the Qur’ān in order to identify the Christian theological beliefs that are being addressed from among the wide spectrum of orthodox and heterodox theological constructions about God and Christ appearing in h…
It seems like an obviously true claim that people can reasonably disagree. But we should wonder whether it is rational for people to continue to believe what they believe knowing that what they believe is controversial. Under normal circumstances, this question can be satisfacto…
In theory, all that are involved in same-sex practices in Islam based on the common and mainstream interpretation of the story of the people of Lut are treated the same. In reality, however, and in the Arab world today, the penetrated and penetrator are not equally abnormal and …
The Qur’anic concept of ittiba’ – usually rendered as followership- is one of the core themes in the sacred book. Applying the methodology developed by Toshihiko Izutsu, this study conducts a semantic analysis of the concept of ittiba’ and it is use in the Qur’anic discourse. Th…
Muslim American youths are often confronted by negative stereotypes of their religion in the United States, making the process of religious identity formation for this group especially complicated. This dissertation explores the religious identity development of Muslim American …
Most contemporary scholarship affirms that the Christian and Islamic medieval political imperative was about the preservation of order and stability. We considered this characterization insufficient, given the treatment of the concept of religious and political justice by mediev…
This thesis presents a critical analysis of the contemporary Islamic discourse of interfaith dialogue (IFD) founded on normative examinations of the Qur'an and hadith. Expanding from this baseline, theories of religious universalism and particularism are engaged as well as under…
My thesis argues that in 1982-2008, "state Islam" created a pluralistic Indonesia and an anti-pluralistic Malaysia. The rubric of "state Islam" is a political alliance of secular politicians, religious bureaucrats, and Islamic socio-religious organizations. During these twenty-f…
This dissertation focuses on the work of Muslim cultural producers in the United States, paying particular attention to the ways in which they interact with the three processes of 1) relating to the Islamic tradition, 2) building new networks, and 3) representing Muslim communit…
Since the early 1970s, when the third major historical wave of democratization began, the Muslim world has seen little evidence of improvements in reaching for this new wave of political reform. As more and more countries around the world are embracing openness, transparency and…
This dissertation aims to evaluate the utility of democracy promotion in the Middle East to U.S. foreign policy; in particular, it asks why the Arab-Islamic world has proven uniquely resistant to liberal democracy. The overall argument is that an inadequate theoretical understan…
Since the departure of the UN Transitional Authority (UNTAC) in 1993, the Cambodian Muslim community has undergone a rapid transformation from being an Islamic minority on the periphery of the Muslim world to being the object of intense proselytization by foreign Islamic organiz…