This thesis develops a theory of translation in architecture, and explores the history of cross-cultural exchanges that transformed the residential culture in Turkey and Germany through the agency of immigrants, travelers, collaborating local architects and international student…
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This dissertation aims to aid in re-thinking outdated conceptions of the narrowness of religious reasoning and of the inherently secular and immanent reasoning in the human sciences. It does so by undertaking a comparative, dialogical reading, grounded in Hans-Georg Gadamer's "d…
This dissertation deals with the transformation of imperial Russia's Muslim communities, especially those in the Volga-Urals region, between the late-eighteenth and early-twentieth centuries, while paying particular attention to their interaction with the Russian state, Muslim c…
Two of the most important authors on Islamic civilization, historian Bernard Lewis and cultural critic Edward Said, have opposite views as to how scholars should approach the study of the Islamic civilization. On Lewis's side, a modernist style, without regard to ideological pro…
Throughout Indonesia (which has the largest Muslim population in the world) local notions of religion and tradition are being re-examined. This work explores this process of re-evaluation in Demen, an urban community ( kampung ) located in Ampenan, a port-town in West Lombok, In…
To read nineteenth-century Arabic, Persian and English literary works has often meant to value these texts in accordance with their assimilation into the trajectories of novelistic writing and nationalist discourse: a predicament here termed the nationalist-novelist paradigm of …
This project redresses the comparative absence of sustained critical attention to two Anglophone African writers and, specifically, the space that Islam occupies in their corpus. The novels of Somali-born Nuruddin Farah and Tanzanian-born Abdulrazak Gurnah make crucial contribut…
In the past forty years the fluid Uyghur muqam song tradition has been transformed into a cultural canon used to represent the Uyghur ethnic group within China and on the world stage. Traditional muqam performers have provided the magma of songs that scholars and politicians hav…
This dissertation examines the ways in which meanings and practices of gender are changing for Bosnian Muslim refugees in Vermont, and it argues that the changes are mediated both by ideals of modernity and by the particular context of exit and reception this group has experienc…
The purpose of this dissertation is to describe and contextualize post-colonial negotiations among contemporary Muslims by using science as a case. This research project contributes to both the anthropology of science, technology, and medicine and science and technology studies …
This study ethnographically examines modern transformations of Arabic poetic forms, focusing on the scene of Palestinian poetry during the last seven decades. In their quest to modernize their poetic tradition, and in conjunction with wider Arabic poetic transformations, Palesti…
This study examines the relationship between ideas about decadence and the discourse of Orientalism in French and Arabic literature and society since the nineteenth century. By tracing the genealogy of French Orientalism in the Arab world, this dissertation shows how colonial mo…
This dissertation is the first extended critical study to explore constructions of race in the art of Thomas Eakins (1844-1916), the pre-eminent American realist painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. My central contention is that Eakins creatively adapted…
This dissertation investigates the role Islam plays inside Western modernity and asks how Muslims have remade themselves as Muslims within colonial and postcolonial migrations. The development of private belief was a founding moment for Western modernity. Yet, implicit in this m…
The Turkish Republic has experienced a rise in Islamic influence in contemporary politics and in society, culminating in popular support for the Islamic Justice and Development Party and their new Prime Minister in the 2002 elections. This influence questions the 'project of mod…
In this dissertation I explore social identity, secularism, and Indian Muslims' conceptions and experiences of living in a secular state while debating among themselves the meanings of ethical Muslim selfhood. Through participant observation and interviews based on over 15months…
This dissertation examines a discourse of Japanese images constructed in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish primary literature at the turn of the twentieth century in order to discern the prevailing understanding of "Eastern" modernity among members of Ottoman society in one particular …
Modern, Western, secularist legal systems are, in actuality, religious legal systems. The religious bedrock underlying secularist legal systems is the same as the transmuted, and therefore immanentist, faith and creed that underlies the essential mindset and spirit of modernity.…
This study examines the ways in which Malay Muslim ("Nayu") residents navigate their lives in the southeastern border region of Thailand. Drawing upon fieldwork conducted in Nayu communities in Sungai Kolok district in Thailand as well as in Kelantan and Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia…