In this dissertation, I researched the following question: In what ways do Muslim African American women narrate their conversion experiences to Al-Islam, experiences within and outside their religious communities, and in what ways do they construct and negotiate culture, social…
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This dissertation examines the colonial relationship between Third Republican France and the Sultanate of Morocco through a social history of medical knowledge, 1877-1935. European science did not lead inevitably to European domination, for the sultans of Morocco appropriated Eu…
For the past century scholars have been studying privacy and the private sphere in the context of many societies. Surprisingly, no scholar has yet undertaken a comprehensive study of privacy as manifest in Islam. In this dissertation I argue that Muslim scholars had a notion of …
The main objectives of this study are to examine the status of women in Yemen compared with that of women in Indonesia and to explore how the status of women is related to fertility and the use of family planning methods in these two Islamic countries. Education, employment, age…
This thesis examines the politics of social movements in three different contexts: Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait. These modern Islamic movements advocate radical ideology as a way to reach power following the Western revolutionary model. They invented ostensible "Islamic …
This qualitative study explores the perceptions of Islamic educators in a southwestern state about the conflict between Islamic Secularism and Conservatism regarding the education of Muslim students. It also examines these educators' perceptions as to whether science, philosophy…
This dissertation seeks to understand the way in which Islam operated within colonial context by examining the production and transmission of Islamic knowledge reflected in sermons, edicts, speeches, and curriculum in South Sulawesi and Kelantan during the late colonial times (1…
This dissertation explores the contractual nature of the marital relationship as manifest in the writings of Muslim jurists from the formative period, approximately 150-300 hijri , or 775-925 CE. Focusing on the interdependent rights and duties of spouses in juristic reasoning, …
During the 1970s and 1980s, the Islamic world experienced a wave of Islamic revivalism. This religious revivalism was experienced more in some countries than in others. Malaysia is one of the Islamic countries that experienced a high level of Islamic revivalism. ABIM, Jamaat Tab…
Islamic banking is one of the emerging fields in the global financial market, growing at a very fast pace all around the world. This study is primarily concerned with the theory of Islamic banking and its practice in Saudi Arabia and Egypt. The research seeks to analyze the theo…
The present dissertation is fundamentally a critique of some of the prevalent ideologies of modernity, modernization, and globalization in the post-colonial Arab world, with a specific focus on the case of Morocco. More specifically, it provides a critical analysis of the work o…
In contrast to scholars of Western art who can make use of numerous handbooks on aesthetics and technical manuals such as those of Vitruvius, Alberti or Palladio, scholars of Islamic art have available to them only a limited number of pre-nineteenth century vernacular sources in…
Islamic financial institutions (IFIs) are late twentieth century institutions designed to help Muslims conduct business internationally while simultaneously upholding traditional Islamic values related to trade finance and currency movement. The basis for their existence is the …
This dissertation details how, through modern litigation in the courts of Cairo, the concepts and practices of the Islamic Sharia were shaped in ways that both expressed liberal legal sensibilities and yet threatened to undermine the professedly secular ideals of the legal syste…
Fatima Mernissi's memoir Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood elaborates a process of self-narration that entails self-construction and self-re-creation. This dissertation examines the multiple strategies this autobiography delineates for the construction of a feminist …
This dissertation investigates how people's beliefs formed the shape of their understandings of the world and how transformations in the material world changed people's perception over time from the Arab invasion of Iran in the seventh century to the Mongol invasion of Iran in t…
This dissertation analyzes the development of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a Muslim-American religious association, from the Iranian Revolution to the inauguration of our nation's first African-American president. This case study of ISNA, the largest Muslim-Ameri…
Histories of early Islam note the guiding motivation that The Garden or Heaven (al-janna ) and The Fire or Hell ( al-nar ) offered the Muslim community. Yet, no work explains the process by which Muslims came to believe in the afterlife or the manner in which their descriptions …
The topic of this book is one of the central tenets of Islamic faith. It is a belief that was preached by all prophets, and it is a belief that makes sense of a sometimes incomprehensible world. Belief in the day of resurrection and the final judgment brings benefits in this wor…