settlement

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…

This dissertation examines the history of one branch of the Muridiyya Sufi order in Senegal in West Africa founded by Shaykh Ibrahima Faty M'Backé (Maam Cerno). The Murids, the only indigenous Sufi order in sub-Saharan Africa, began to coalesce in the late 1870's just prior to F…