The Organization of the Islamic Conference was founded in 1969 as an intergovernmental organization designed to represent the needs of the world's Muslim nations. Since 1979, this organization has been a battleground between two of its most powerful states, the Kingdom of Saudi …
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This study is based on a submission of anthropological, historical, and literary approaches. The ethnographic study of the Shi'a holy shrines between November 2011 and January 2012 is based on my visit to Iraq. The study lasted almost ten weeks, to include the two events under d…
The presence and participation of women as lawmakers, policymakers and narrators has often been limited by authoritarian institutions and frameworks who have not welcomed women into their realms. Islamic jurisprudence is no exception. As subjects of the law Muslim women have sel…
The first decades of the twenty first century have been defined by the "War on Terror." One important aspect of this war is how it is constructed through the media on both sides of the conflict. The al Qaeda social movement primarily uses the internet to communicate with enemies…
The Battle of S[dotbelow]iffin (36/657) is the flash point in the emergence of sects within the Islamic religion. This dissertation traces the presentation of the story S[dotbelow]iffin in a specific line of Arabic universal histories, starting with the establishment of the "vul…
This dissertation is a study of the thought of Elmalili Muhammed Hamdi [Yazir] (1878-1942), a jurist and scholar active in the politics and religious institutions of the late Ottoman Empire and early modern Turkey (ca. 1900s-1930s). The main focus of this dissertation is the int…
This dissertation is an ethnographic and genealogical study of leftist feminist subjectivity in the wake of the Islamic Revival in contemporary Morocco. It draws on two years (2004-2006) of field research amongst founding members of the Moroccan feminist movement whose activism …
This dissertation studies the production, circulation, and diffusion of apocalyptic prognostications by the Moriscos in sixteenth-century Spain.
This dissertation concentrates on the roles of Islamic business groups in creating opportunities to influence policy outcomes in countries with restricted political environments where secular regimes limited the space for Islamic groups to organize in both civil and political so…
Goethe's West-östlicher Divan often elicits contradictory responses - for some, it is a beacon of tolerance and engagement, and for others, an appropriating Orientalist discourse. In this essay I argue that both definitions apply to different portions of the work: the voice of d…
This dissertation studies the changing contours of an Islamic revivalist movement, the Tariqah-i Muhammadiyah in nineteenth century United Provinces and Bengal. Focusing on Karamat Ali Jaunpuri (1800-73), nineteenth century Bengal's most influential Sunni Muslim scholar of relig…
This dissertation challenges the prevailing rentier state interpretation of political life in the countries of the Arab Gulf, a theoretical framework little changed for more than a quarter century. It does so by evaluating for the first time the fundamental claim of rentier theo…
Within the international relations and political science literature about violent non-state actors claiming inspiration from the Islamic faith (frequently referred to as "jihadists"), there is a debate about whether religious ideas are a causal factor in motivating people toward…
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorism has been propagated as a seemingly unavoidable threat to our daily lives. However, the globally oriented anti-Western jihad movement peaked in the late 1990s and early 2000s and has since been in decline. Acros…
The purpose of this study was to examine and explore the meanings, structures and essence of the lived experience of Muslim women via an Islamic theoretical (Kalam) framework. The study's goal was to describe a detailed and comprehensive description of how Muslim women use Islam…
The pivotal role Islamism will play in the post-Arab Spring global dynamic drives this thesis. It analyses the various origins and ideologies of the most seminal Islamist movement, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. As Egypt serves as the socio-political fulcrum of the Middle East…
This dissertation explores the intersection of secular and historically Islamic forms in Iranian debates over the role of Muslim scholars in the modern world. I draw on textual publications (both print and online) that are intended for public consumption and authored by governme…
This dissertation traces the fate of groups in Indonesia who sought to make their country an Islamic state by transforming politics and society. Although these groups played a critical role in winning Indonesia's independence during the Indonesian Revolution (1945-1949), divisio…
This dissertation presents an ethnography of the ways in which an ideology and practices of "paying attention" (kolosi in Bamana and Maninka) pervade modes of sociality, knowing, and being among contemporary rural Muslims living in the Mande region of Mali, between Bamako and th…