Belief affects behavior and rhetoric has the potential to bring about action. This paper is a critical content analysis of the ideology and rhetoric of key Islamist intellectuals and the Islamist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir, as stated on the website http://english.hizbuttahrir.o…
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In France, 1995 marked the year of a series of bombs exploded in public areas including but not limited to crowded subway stations in both Paris and Lyon. The series of bombings testifies to France's lack of immunity in the postcolonial struggle over the future of its former col…
This dissertation is an examination of the UK's counter-terrorism policies and practices that have been adopted since the attacks of 9/11 in the United States. Using a theoretical framework of 'power' and 'hegemony' to guide the research, and an investigative research approach, …
The thesis aims at exploring the logic of political survival in Turkish politics with analysing the case of Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi-AKP). This study consists of two stages. The research methodology and literature review of this research are exam…
As many scholars have noted, in the immediate years after the First World War, the British Empire faced important challenges to its future survival, not least of which was the growth of three key movements: Bolshevism, Islamism and nationalism. This thesis examines how Britain c…
"Northern and central Nigeria have been engulfed in a violent insurgency campaign waged by Jama'atu Ahlis Sunnah Lidda'awati w'al Jihad, a.k.a. 'Boko Haram', and for a time, its splinter group 'Ansaru'. From its inception an inward-looking, almost parochial, movement, Boko Haram…
This dissertation analyzes diverging conceptions of Islam in the writings of Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (1904-1983) and Nurettin Topçu (1909-1975), and ensuing differences in their critiques of Turkish modernization and their views on the relationship between Islam and politics. It p…
British Muslim identity has often been conceptualised as a complex of multiple distinct sectarian, ethnic and familial associations discursively informed by authoritative individuals and institutions operating within Muslim communities and in wider society. As such, taxonomies r…
This study examines how Islamists are socially, discursively and linguistically represented in the Egyptian newspaper al-Ahram . The main question of this study is what would the Egyptian government do to halt the Brothers' political growth and potential threat? To answer this q…
The rise of political martyrdom in the contemporary world is not a new phenomenon but can be traced back to at least the early Twentieth Century with the rise of European Fascist movements. Both they, and the fascist-like movements of today, share a cluster of characteristics th…
This dissertation examines Islamic banking in Jordan. It is argued that institutions perceived as culturally authentic may play important political roles in a post-colonial society. Islamic banking in particular can both function in a modern, globalized economy and express cultu…
In view of the invisibility of Arab(ic)-Islamic rhetorics and the dominance of scholarship on Christian rhetorical traditions in rhetorical studies alongside an increased visibility of public rhetorics about Islamic women in American politics, this research explores the experien…
This study examines the notion of Monotheism in the Zoroastrian religion in the thought of al-Shahristani, by carefully analyzing the arguments he presents and comparing them to those of scholars and philosophers – both classical and contemporary – who studied the Zoroastrian, i…
This study is a comparative study of the Turkish Islamist movement Milli Görüs (IGMG) in Germany and the Netherlands. It is a qualitative and a quantitative inquiry about the nature (whether it is moderate or radical) of the Milli Görüs movement in these two countries. The centr…
I use an agent-based model to model a dynamic network that considers the rate at which Islamism will spread globally. I define Islamism as the organized political trend that seeks to solve modern political problems by referencing Muslim teachings. The trend is also associated wi…
By refuting the commonplace depiction of Islamists' anti-Westernism as a "war against modernity," this dissertation argues that modernization and emulating the West are two distinct socio-economic and political processes. Its central question is whether Islamism can be regarded …
Ruling Islamists’ interactions with ethnic minorities have been largely understudied and undertheorized. This research study examines ruling Islamists’ treatment of minorities, asking two questions. The first question is how do ruling Islamists treat minorities? And the second i…
In the late twentieth century, Turkey, like other Muslim societies throughout the Middle East and Asia, witnessed an upsurge in Islamist political mobilization. My research project explores support for the Islamist party in Istanbul, using survey and focus group data, through a …
This thesis is a postcolonial study of contemporary Islamist ideology which is calling for the restoration of Shari'a (Islamic law) as a mechanism to redefine Muslim identity and to reject imperialistic Western legal structures. Many Muslims worldwide are suffering from an ident…