Seventeen years have passed since the Somali state collapsed in 1991. Yet, although the international community, employing liberal approaches to peacebuilding, has made repeated attempts to end the civil war, all of the externally imposd solutions failed to establish neither dur…
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This dissertation presents cultural alterity and universalistic interaction as a postcolonial alternative to Euro-centrism. I analyze the Anglo-Egyptian/Misri oriental and colonial discourses before and during the colonization of Egypt (1800-1952). The dissertation also investig…
This research examines the root causes of Islamism among the sedentary Fulbe of Northern Cameroon. The study attempts to draw the implications for the development of contextual theological responses to Islamism. The author begins with issues pertaining to the related theoretical…
This study explores the appeal and limitations of Islamic revivalism in Morocco. The research is based on historical documents and qualitative interviews with officials, ordinary Muslims, and Islamists. The study traces the birth of the Islamist movement, its early manifestation…
How do norms and discourses travel across cultural difference? How do actors negotiate the constitutive norms of liberal global governance at the juncture of the domestic and the international? This project provides an answer to these questions by developing a performative accou…
Moderation theory posits that inclusion in the political process will lead extremist parties to abandon violence and play by the rules of the political game. Despite voluminous literature on the subject, relatively little has been written about moderation theory as it relates to…
Over the last twenty years, once it was commonly understood that a significant number of Muslim immigrants had created a stable presence in the West, most European and North American governments felt the need to find individuals and organizations that could be identified as repr…