The rise of religious politics throughout the world has called into question the assumption that political secularization would inevitably occur with modernization, and has created the impression that this political challenge represents a dichotomous conflict between the religio…
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This dissertation examines the determinants of women's rights under military regimes. It does so by comparing the policies pursued by two military regimes in Pakistan: the regimes of General Ayub Khan (1958–69) and of General Zia ul-Haq (1977–88). Existing studies indicate that …
Contrary to earlier depictions of an Islamic city as religiously isolated and economically stagnant, Sarajevo's emergence as in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries is emblematic of a unified new Muslim community whose conversion to Islam and booming socio-economic growth …
Dört sünnî amelî mezhepten biri olan Mâlikî Mezhebi, Medine’de İmam Mâlik’in ders halkasında temelleri atıldıktan kısa süre sonra, henüz Mâlik hayatta iken Mısır ve Kuzey Afrika üzerinden Endülüs’e ulaşmış; burada resmî mezhep olarak kabul edilmiştir. Zamanla Endülüs’te dikkate …
During the seventh century A.D. what is now known as the Arab Conquests took place in Syria and other regions of the Middle East and North Africa. Invading Muslims encountered other peoples and cultures, much different than their own. In Syria, the Muslims came into contact with…
This dissertation is an interpretive research in which diverse voices of American Muslims describe their America Muslim community as they negotiate and express their Muslim identity together in dialogue. The study integrates a Muslim perspective to analysis with Western communic…
This dissertation examines how religious values and belief systems were used in the political contest between Malaysia's two principal political parties: (a) The United Malay National Organization (UMNO), which holds governmental power, and (b) the Political Party Islamic (PAS),…
Through a multi-faceted research strategy incorporating ethnographic, literary, and historical exploration, the dissertation documents living and literary Qadiri traditions and popular traditions of devotion to Sufi saint Muh[dotbelow]yiuddin `Abdul Qadir al-Gilani in the Tamil-…
This dissertation explores the ways in which the Islamic Fethullah Gülen community engages with science as a response to globalization and modernity. Framed with the theoretical discussions on multiple modernities, it investigates how the community contests for hegemony in the f…
This thesis undertakes a feminist deconstructive reading of the discourses of state-sponsored Islamization and the feminist response to it in an attempt to answer the question: What does it "mean" to be a "woman" and a "citizen" in Pakistan at this juncture? Going beyond the ont…