A group of mostly black converts to Islam attempted to overthrow the legitimate government of Trinidad and Tobago using both ethnic nationalist and Islamic fundamentalist rhetoric on July 27, 1990. Just twenty years earlier, the country experienced the Black Power riots which ra…
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The question whether Islam is compatible with American, or generally “Western”, values has now imposed itself on public debates, gaining more urgency and traction with every tragic act of terrorism committed in the name of Islam. In these debates Islamic identity is usually defi…
This dissertation is a comparative analysis of state policymaking to advance women's status toward gender equality in Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan from 1995 to 2004. I show that the diffusion of international norms of gender equality caused the establishment of women's policy age…
The intellectual history of Islam has been filled with heated controversies in the form of vigorous debates and strenuous criticisms. The debates, which mainly happened primarily because of the insistence of a particular group of Muslim scholars in holding a perspective to be th…
Taalibe Baay, or Disciples of the Senegalese Shaykh `Ibrāhīm (Baay) Ñas, form a transnational network defined primarily by relations of religious apprenticeship and co-discipleship. Whereas several major Islamic adherences in Senegal arose as quasi-political intermediaries betwe…
The Islamic-Byzantine frontier ( al-thughur ) traditionally has been described either as a "no-man's land" or as a closed fortified border dominated by a line of castles. Such perceptions convey a sense of propaganda and hyperbole, as the frontier was neither an empty wilderness…
This dissertation challenges a prevalent strain of contemporary western thought that reads Islamism as antithetical to modernity and globalization; that Islamism is a site of unabashed traditionalism in the wake of the secularism. I challenge this dominant western reading by ask…
The early modern period is often associated with the emergence of the autonomous subject and the Protestant triumph of inner faith over outer forms. This dissertation complicates such a trajectory by considering how England's increased contact with Muslim “Turks” around the turn…
This dissertation asks why are some states able to encourage peaceful Islamic mobilization and discourage violent Islamic mobilization while other states seemingly cannot. It contends that by providing channels for institutionalized participation, which may include elections, po…
This dissertation examines the life and works of the Timurid historian and intellectual Sharaf al-Din 'Ali Yazdi ( ca. 770s-858/ca. 1370s-1454), who is best known as the author of the Z[dotbelow]afarnama which is a biographical account of Timur (d. 807/1405), the founder of the …
Many communication scholars are very conscious of the Western ethnocentric bias in the discipline (especially in journalism). They acknowledge that the role and the influence of the press is interpreted along the Western understanding that the press is very influential with the …
For the purpose of cultural heritage preservation, the task of recording and reconstructing visually complicated architectural geometrical patterns is facing many practical challenges. Existing traditional technologies rely heavily on the subjective nature of our perceptual powe…
This study compares the legal theories of two 5th /11th century Islamic legal scholars, Abu Zayd al-Dabūsī (d. 430/1039) and Abu Sahl al-Sarakhsī (d. 483/1090). Both Central Asian Hanafīs who trace their ideological heritage through the Hanafī scholars in Baghdad, the two jurist…
Virtually from the outset of the 1978-79 Islamic Revolution in Iran, scholars began to study the event from different social, political and economic angles. Yet, the rapid speed of the Revolution, its predominantly Islamic character, and the numerous changes that have occurred d…
This dissertation examines the framing and counterframing processes involving the Islamic Welfare Party (RP), media, and state bureaucracy (the military and judiciary) in Turkish politics from December 1995 to January 1998. This period covers the electoral victory of the RP, its…
Development and social change have been the common challenge of both developed and developing nations. Various models are proposed by investigators of development and social change to meet these challenges. However, such models are inevitably associated with particular patterns …
The Twentieth century is considered to be the century of the linguistic turn. Because of the close relation between philosophy and religion, this recent philosophical interest in language has had a great effect on the understanding of religious language. The present work concent…
The Sokoto Jihad of 1804 C.E. in Hausaland produced a powerful Islamic state. Its leaders and thinkers were Islamic scholars who communicated with each other in classical Arabic and produced an unprecedented number of writings never before witnessed in Hausaland. Many of these w…