Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo (1871-1949) was a Spanish-born polymath who, though mostly remembered for his historically inspired fashion designs, was first trained as a painter in Paris and would become a lighting and set designer, photographer, costume designer, and inventor. Work…
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This dissertation analyzes the integration of apologetics and evangelism in the ministry of Reuben Archer Torrey (1856–1928). Chapter 1 introduces Torrey's ministry through selections of his using apologetics in evangelistic encounters. Previous Torrey research is referenced to …
The last decade has witnessed an increasing number of middle- and upper-class urban Pakistani women actively turning towards Islam via Al-Huda, an Islamic school for women created by Dr. Farhat Hashmi in Islamabad in 1994, that aims to transform the women who engage with its dis…
This dissertation contributes to the study of American Christianity by tracing the apocalyptic thought of New England evangelical Calvinism from Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) to Lyman Beecher (1775-1863). Covering the period of the First Great Awakening in the eighteenth century …
Large numbers of urban Pakistani women are adopting sartorial and behavioral markers associated with the global Islamic revival and are participating in Islamic revivalist movements. Many Pakistanis find this increase troubling, and feel that it betokens an increase in "extremis…
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 is a social and intellectual history of Islamic revivalist movements in nineteenth-century Southeast Asia. I focus on one particularly active center of Islamic learning at Patani, on the Malay-Thai Peninsula, and how its people forged transnational scholarly ne…