Hobbes wrote Leviathan in response to the horrifying prospect of a civil war rooted largely in factions' differing conceptions of religious duty. His proposed absolutist, authoritarian remedy and prophylactic for such disorders seeks to cause subjects through extensive education…
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The goal of this research was to examine how inner jihad is an essential inner practice on the path of Islamic Sufism. The Arabic term jihad translates as effort, struggle, or striving. This effort and striving is an integral aspect of the transformation of the nafs (self) that …
Power, while often ignored, permeates the Christian, Islamic and Hindu just war traditions. First, because all three rely on a stable order in which to pursue their visions of the good life, the just war traditions seek to preserve order and stability both vertically among actor…
This dissertation critically examines competing views of man and nature in mainstream, or "neoclassical," economic theory and Islamic economics. Ironically, the contemporary literature in Islamic economics often uncritically adopts the key philosophical presuppositions of neocla…
Several armed Islamist movements have shown remarkable behavioural and ideological transformations towards non-violence. The "de-radicalization" processes of these movements removed tens of thousands of former militants from the ranks of al-Qa'ida's supporter and acted as disinc…
This project is an examination of the War against al-Qaeda from the field of religious ethics. In response to September Eleventh, the United States has spent the last decade fighting a war against a diffuse and elusive network of militant Islamists. These events have not been ne…
In this thesis, I probe into the ways in which the much-debated word Jihad lends itself to multifarious meanings within the Mourid Sufi Order and examine the foundations of the principles of peace and non-violence that informed the relationships between Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba, the…
In the figure of 'Abd Allah b. al-Mubarak (118/736-181/797), we find a paragon of the fields of h[dotbelow]adith, zuhd, and jihad, as attested to by the contents of the large number of references to him in the classical Islamic texts. His superior rank as a h[dotbelow]adith tran…