This study provides a critical ethnographic examination of 4 full-time Islamic schools in order to examine the social, pedagogical and ideological functions of these alternative, religiously-based educational institutions in Canada. This research is based on the following three …
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In classical Islamic scholarly disciplines, a thorough knowledge of "technical concepts" is of paramount importance. These terms constitute a highly organized technical system within a complex network of multiple conceptual interrelationships in the cross-disciplinary context of…
This study tries to clarify the major religio-political problem of modern Muslim intellectuals and suggest what sufism might offer them, by analyzing the thought of one prominent Muslim Egyptian, Naguib Mahfouz (1911- ) as an intellectual who lives as a Muslim in the modern age.…
This study explores Islamism's interplay with higher education as the movement advances an agenda for worldwide reformation. Over an eighty-year period, Islamism has appropriated higher education institutions, professional associations, on- and off-campus organizations, and publ…
This study of contemporary Hausa literature analyzes the vast body of popular literature currently referred to as Kano market literature, known to Hausa speakers as Littattafan Soyayya ('books of love'). The popularity of this genre of popular romance fiction rests firmly upon i…
This dissertation examines the relationship between the medieval Sunni Islamic theory of the caliphate and the debate over the revival of the caliph in Egypt between the abolition of the Ottoman caliph by Ataturk in 1924 and the failure of the General Conference for the Caliphat…
The opening chapters of Islamic legal theory manuals offer extended discussions of the language of the Qur'an, and principles for its interpretation. This discourse takes the form of detailed analyses of specific verbal constructions--for example, when a command has the form "if…
This dissertation explores the ways in which the group of people identified as the Azd adapted to and exploited the changes of the seventh and eighth centuries associated with the rise of an ever more imperial caliphate occurring simultaneously with the massive and widespread se…
A major contribution to the development of modern Bengali literature in the nineteenth century is works of the Islamic sciences. My study concentrates on the role of these works in the formation of Bengali-Muslim identity, focusing specifically on the Islamic science of interpre…
This dissertation discusses the Khawarij in modern Islamic scholarship. Chapter one discusses the rise of the Khawarij and the historical events that took place from the accession of 'Uthman until the death of 'Ali. A great deal of attention was given to 'Ali's reign since the K…
This dissertation is a comparative textual analysis of the ways non-Islamic cultures are represented in early Islamic universal histories (9th -10th centuries). It analyzes the significance that early Muslim universal historians attached to non Islamic cultures in the context of…
Islamic courts in Zanzibar, Tanzania, have jurisdiction over family and personal status matters. This consists of marriage and divorce disputes, some types of inheritance claims, and child custody cases. Islamic judges, called kadhis , and Islamic courts have been present in Zan…
This dissertation examines the concept of contagion in Muslim and Christian thought during the Medieval and Early Modern periods, focusing on materials produced in Iberia and North Africa. Alternating between Muslim and Christian scholarship, it identifies debates in both tradit…
For generations, scholarship has attempted to determine the sources and authors of Islamic law and jurisprudence: first, the thesis that disengaged h[dotbelow]adith from Muhammad as contended by Ignaz Goldziher and Joseph Schacht; then, and most recently, the study conducted by …
This is an ethnographic study of moral personhood among Minangkabau people in the city of Bukittinggi, West Sumatra, Indonesia. The ethnography is based on field research carried out between January 2002 and November 2003. Data was gathered through participant-observation and th…
My motivation for pursuing this project is to address the legal injustices being perpetrated against women in Islamic societies that are justified as "manifestations of God's will." Injustices against women in Islamic societies are caused by a number of factors. In this project,…
Purpose. The purpose of this multiple-case study was to describe and compare the reported Islamic practices, college transition experiences, goals, and challenges of female Islamic high school graduates and the expectations that Islamic high school parents held in each of these …
This study seeks to describe transitivity as a basic image that is shared by humans qua humans, not simply as an inflectional phenomenon that involves the structure of a particular language. As an image, transitivity is studied in relation to other linguistic and non-linguistic …
This study aims to trace the development of Islamic theological discourse in Indonesia, from the early 1900s to the end of the twentieth century. It will focus on how modernist Muslims have constructed their theological thought throughout the century, which, in turn, reflects th…