This dissertation re-examines a fatwa (formal response to a legal question) issued in 1491 C.E. by Ah[dotbelow]mad al-Wansharisi (d. Fez, 914/1508) confirming the obligation of Iberian Muslims to emigrate from their conquered homelands, which had become non-Muslim territory ( da…
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In 19th century British India, the celebration of the birth of the Prophet or mawlid became a contested ritual amongst the Muslim scholars. One such scholar Aḥmad Rażā Khān, founder of the Barelwī movement and a Sufi shaykh of the Qādiriyya fraternity, advocated strongly for its…
The legacy of the great Muslim Sufi master from the XII century, Muhy al-din Ibn al-'Arabi left broad, profound, lasting and polarizing impact on the development of Islamic mysticism in the centuries after his death. The underlying principles of Sufism such as the ideas of the t…
This thesis analyses the phenomenon of suicide bombings as manifested in the Palestinian landscape of conflict and attempts to construct a theoretical framework of analysis to study the phenomenon. It investigates Hamas, and most specifically its resort to suicide bombings, from…
This dissertation seeks to rekindle a discussion of late Sunni creativity and innovation through a study into the life and thought of Zakariyya al-Ans[dotbelow]ari (d. 926/1520), an influential Shafi'i legist and Sufi from Egypt's late-Mamluk period. It is driven by two fundamen…
This dissertation takes up the issue of ijtihad , creative legal reform, as defined and upheld by contemporary `ulama (traditionally educated Muslim religious scholars). It centers in on a particular issue--women's right to divorce--within a particular context--early 20th centur…