This thesis problematizes the capitulation tale of the Nahda by showing how Nahdawis in the earlier phase of the Arab Renaissance voiced autonomy, self assurance, and optimism. To strengthen its argument, the dissertation utilizes the example of Rifa’a Al Tahtawi who represented…
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Sayyid Qutb's conceptions of man and society inform and are themselves informed by his theory of human and divine knowledge. Our aim in this dissertation is, first, to highlight the intricate relationships between Qutb's ontology and his epistemology, and, second, to point to th…
The integration of Islamists into Tunisia's post-Arab Spring democratic landscape has brought about a renewed interest in the mechanisms that govern political party behavior. The moderation of political parties has long been a topic of debate in the literature, yet recent Islami…
Foucault's archaeology of discursive formations and his genealogy of knowledge/power and ethics discourse are assimilated with research on Collective Action Frames and social movements as a historically and culturally heuristic devise to explain the functions and efficacy of dis…
The end of the Cold War has not ushered in an era of global peace. Conflicts continue, albeit without the Cold War façade. Many of those conflicts involve insurgent movements seeking to topple incumbent regimes. In the post-Cold War era insurgents can no longer count on superpow…
The majority of studies on terrorist groups in the past have been conducted from the perspectives of political science, sociology, or psychology. This historical comparative study examines two terrorist organizations through a human resource development (HRD) lens. The study's g…
This dissertation uses a case-study method to explore to the episode of internal political violence occurring in Egypt from 1992 until 1997 led by the Islamist group, al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya . This work examines the confluence of factors leading to the group's emergence, peak, an…
What factors explain the persistence of monarchical authoritarianism in Morocco? This dissertation argues that the monarchy's religious authority and its use of rituals of power limit the ability of Islamist and non-Islamist opposition groups to contest the monarchy's legitimacy…
This dissertation is a study of the political career and thought of Said Halim Pasha (1865-1921), a prominent Islamist thinker and eminent Ottoman statesman, set against the historical and ideological background of his time. The period covered in this study extends from the twil…
This study explores Islamic and Islamist revivalism in Ba ́thist Syria. It addresses how the secular regime of both Hafez al-Asad and Bashar al-Asad paradoxically paved the way towards Syria's current Islamization. The study examines the following questions: Who are today's Syria…
This dissertation examines the justification for using armed force throughout Islam's history. Special emphasis will be made to the following three terms, harb, jihad, and qital. These three words translate into war, struggle, and fight respectively. Not only are these terms the…
This dissertation examines the ways in which commitment to the state--treated as a measure of Islamist "moderation" within the literature on democratic transitions--can be made through appeals to the non-state. Examining the generative binaries of institutions/discourse and stru…
Muslim countries have experienced wide variation in levels of Islamist political mobilization in the contemporary period, both across geography and across time. Islamist political mobilization is manifest in multiple forms, including electoral mobilization in support of Islamist…
This dissertation is an anthropological investigation of the political culture of Indonesian Islamist students. There has been a tendency among Western analysts and particularly policy makers to assume that religious activism and democratic principles are incompatible, that with…
This study examines the nature of the relationship between Islamist social movement parties and tribes. Specifically, it is argued that, in countries with strong tribal heritages and free elections, Islamist movement parties will seek to integrate tribal networks and attend to t…
This dissertation is a study of the process of democratization and its interaction with Islamism in Morocco, a Muslim state since the seventh century with a history of French colonialism. It presents a discussion of the relevant democratization literature and an analysis of the …
Based upon twenty-two months of ethnographic research in the southern suburbs of Beirut, this dissertation describes how Islamist Shi'i Muslims engage with and deploy various discourses of the modern, presenting themselves as piously modern. In this community, spiritual progress…
This dissertation was begun with two overall purposes in mind. First, we wanted to test statements by theorists like Huntington and Fukuyama about characteristics of Islam which impede the development of democracy. Both Huntington and Fukuyama said that Islam is not compatible w…