This paper is an exploration of al-Ghazali's attack on philosophy by way of an examination of his autobiographical epistle, "The Rescuer from Error." In this text written late in his life, al-Ghazali advises a young student about the best way to pursue knowledge. The thesis argu…
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In Canada, Muslim communities turn to Muslim spiritual caregivers, especially to imams, for help with various problems. Research has shown that many Muslim spiritual caregivers are familiar with the Arabic language and Islamic values but have limited practice in Islamic counseli…
In this study, I examine the oppositional configuration of public figures around the poles of "proper" Muslimness and "authentic" Kyrgyzness in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. I ask: Why are public actors defining their positions in opposition to the other? Why do such opposing positions t…
THE PROBLEM. This study first aimed to provide a holistic picture of the challenges faced by Muslim women in the United States. Second, it offered an explanation on the differences between Islam and culture. Third, it highlighted the status of Muslim women in Islam versus cultur…
This dissertation examines contemporary Islamic debates about the ethics and legality of Sufism (Islamic mysticism) within a globally influential movement based at the Islamic seminary (madrasa ) known as Dar al-`Ulum Deoband in northern India. Two overarching, and interrelated,…
This is an ethnographic study of what it means to be a Muslim woman in post-war and post-socialist Bosnia and Herzegovina. Almost two decades after the end of inter-ethnic wars that led to the dissolution of socialist Yugoslavia in the 1990s, Bosnia's inhabitants are undergoing …
In Indonesia--the world's largest Muslim-majority country and third largest secular democracy--fierce ideological battles are taking place between two groups of Muslims seeking hegemony in the nation. The first group, the conservative Muslims, believes that Islam offers the best…
While most studies of Islam in West Africa have focused on the spread and nature of Sufi Islam, there has been a recent dramatic transformation in the political and social influence of Sufi Islam long-believed to characterize "African Islam." The forces of globalization and soci…
The purpose of this research is to examine the Ahmadiyyat Muslims' understanding and acceptance of the justice of God and its correlated concepts of sin and sacrifice. This research is designed to compare Islamic teachings and Christian teachings from the anthropological view. T…
In this MA thesis, I examine the history of the princely state of Hyderabad from 1927 to 1951. Drawing from memoirs, newspapers, oral histories, and autobiographies, I find that in these years leading up to the forcible accession of Hyderabad to the Indian Union in a police acti…
In this dissertation I explore acculturation in a mixed-ethnic, mixed-nativity, Muslim American community located in a suburb of Chicago, addressing the question, "Muslim American acculturation to what?" Building on previous scholarship and my empirical findings, I put a spotlig…
Following September 11, 2001, America realized that we were no longer protected by our borders and that our enemies managed to extort our vulnerabilities. This event forever changed commercial aviation and transportation as a whole, as well as directly impacted how many of us vi…
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…