This dissertation explores how and why scholars in Rhetoric and Composition, who study religious topics, choose to disclose (or not) their positionalities in relation to their research. Included in this investigation are scholars of atheist rhetorics, as well. Through interviews…
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This study investigates aspects of the history and doctrine of the Z[dotbelow] ahiri madhhab . Due to the lack of primary sources from any Z[dotbelow]ahir i scholar other than Ibn H[dotbelow]azm al-Andalusi, it seeks to identify what is knowable about the madhhab and Dawud ibn '…
During the period of Mongol occupation, Baghdad, a long established center of learning in the Islamic world, emerged as a site of intense intellectual debate and dialogue between Shi`i and Sunni scholars. Shi`i and Sunni scholars participated extensively in the transmission of k…
Educational provision in Scotland was revolutionised in the fifteenth century through the foundation of three universities, or studia generale, at St Andrews, Glasgow and Aberdeen. These institutions can be viewed as part of the general expansion in higher education across Europ…
This dissertation examines the experiences of U.S. women who traveled to Egypt as tourists, scholars, and missionaries during the period 1854–1914. Like most travelers, women were interested in Egypt for its antiquities and Biblical associations. They wrote prodigiously about th…
Historians perceive classical Islamdom as monolithic and modern Islam as divided in nations. These perceptions, in spite of contributions to the field of Islamic history, have left untreated the history of cultural fusions in the classical period and its supra-national implicati…
This longitudinal inquiry into the academic literacy practices of ten Turkish scholars of International Relations (IR) attempts to answer three broad questions: what factors have affected the participants' acquisition and maintenance of academic reading and writing skills; what …
The purpose of my research is to understand how a socially diverse group of spiritually-minded activist scholars integrate their spirituality into their academic activities in the Canadian university context. My primary goal here is to make visible the experiences of spiritually…
The result of intercultural interactions, in particular the case of individuals traveling to another country for a certain period of time, often leads to intercultural stress, commonly referred to as culture shock. This is due to the changes in the environment, the differences b…