Sunni

African American males form the largest category of converts to Sunni Islam in the US. This study aimed at understanding the ways in which the conversion process impacted social connections, both preexisting connections and creation and fostering of new ones post-conversion. Thi…

For the past century scholars have been studying privacy and the private sphere in the context of many societies. Surprisingly, no scholar has yet undertaken a comprehensive study of privacy as manifest in Islam. In this dissertation I argue that Muslim scholars had a notion of …

The topic of this dissertation is African American Sunni orthodox Islam and central to its focus is Imam Ahmad Tawfiq and the organization that he founded in 1967, the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood of Harlem New York. And through its elevation, it is asserted that more complex, …