This dissertation addresses a range of questions about language and the body through an ethnographic study of cassette-sermons in Egypt. Three dimensions of cassette-sermon practice were central to my project. First, I examined cassette-sermon listening as an ethical exercise ai…
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This dissertation undertakes an examination of conceptions of human equality in Islamic law. The dissertation uses the history of slavery and its abolition in several Muslim locales as a vehicle for uncovering juridical and sociolegal factors that play a role in shaping ideas ab…
In 203/818, 'Ali b. Musa al-Rid[dotbelow]a, eighth Shi`i Imam and heir apparent of the `Abbasid caliph al-Ma`mun, passed away in the Iranian province of Tus. Mashhad, the place of his burial, emerged as a site of visitation during the late tenth century, and assumed increasing i…
This dissertation presents a discussion of home-based Islamic study circles among Muslim communities in New York City. It explores the importance of study circles as critical sites for the learning and development of what it means to "be Muslim" when living in a Western, non-Mus…
The main question of this dissertation is how Islamic identity is defined and contested in the expressive culture and what the term "Islam" comes to mean in different economic, political, and social situations in Indonesia. In the era of capitalism, since the New Order promotes …
