This dissertation is an attempt to explain how different jurisconsults (muftis ) throughout the Ottoman domains perceived, constituted, and negotiated their jurisprudential authority over the course of the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries. The debates and exchanges betwee…
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This master's thesis is a rhetorical analysis of eight fatwas issued by the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, intended to legitimate the actions taken by the Saudi Government in regards to the first Persian Gulf War. Using Burke's redemptive cycle of rhetoric, this thesis analyzes th…
This dissertation explores why some Muslim clerics adopt the ideology of militant Jihad while others do not. I argue that clerics strategically adopt or reject Jihadi ideology because of career incentives generated by the structure of cleric educational networks. Well-connected …