This dissertation discusses the cultural commonalities and interchange between Central Asia under the Uzbek khanates and Mughal India during the 16th and 17th centuries and the corresponding mental geography of the Muslim inhabitants of these contiguous areas. During this period…
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This thesis analyzes English representations of Muslims between 1575 and 1625, charting a chronology of intersections of material, political, and cultural interests. Although the focus is upon representations of Islam drawn from the general culture of London, in order to decode …
This dissertation examines the history, function, and debates surrounding legal maxims ( qawa'id fiqhiyya ) and concepts of doubt and ambiguity in Islamic law. Legal maxims are succinctly stated principles that jurists use as key interpretive tools when applying texts and settle…
The first half of the sixteenth century marks a seminal period in the history of Ottoman poetry, as it witnessed the rapid growth of Turkish poetry written in the high Islamicate cultural tradition. Scholars have attributed this growth to the patronage activities of the court. C…
This study aims to analyze how Hanafi law defined sharecropping and tenancy agreements, and tenant/landlord rights and obligations in the context of Ottoman Syria from the late sixteenth through the early nineteenth centuries. With the increasing prevalence of sharecropping arra…
The Moriscos, that is to say, the Muslims who remained in Spain after the fall of Granada in 1492, can be said to have lived a double life. Forced to live publicly as Christians, the Moriscos attempted to follow the precepts of Islam in secret. In spite of their dismal circumsta…
The Safavid royal gardens of the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th centuries are representatives of a culture and a style representing a long tradition of the art of the garden dating back to Persian antiquity. These gardens, representing an idealized world (paradise…
The number of cartographical depictions and narratives of different geographical regions increased in the sixteenth-century Ottoman Empire. This dissertation seeks to understand these new visual and textual narratives within the broader context of the political and intellectual …
The present study examines three Jewish scholars, Elijah Levita, Azariah de Rossi, and Moses Provencali, and their writings on the Hebrew language. Their scholarship illustrates the variety of attitudes towards Hebrew that circulated among Jews in the sixteenth century. The subj…
Between the 1499 Safavid rise to power in Iran and the 1517 Ottoman conquest of Mamluk Egypt, the Nile to Oxus region was characterized by extreme violence and political instability. In the midst of this commotion, debates concerning Islamic identity, belief norms, and correct g…
