Chapter 2. This essay examines the effect of the state's institutionalization of Islam in governing and the legal system on regime type. The influence of the institutionalization of Islam is compared to the effect of other economic, institutional, and cultural determinants of re…
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Democracy's promises of political equality, communal peace, and economic prosperity were forsaken when Nigeria's fourth attempt at democratic governance in 1999 led to four years of acute religious, ethnic, and regional bloodshed. To disclose the discursive dynamics underlying t…
This thesis offers an interpretation of the Qatar-based Egyptian Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi's contribution to 'tajdid al-fiqh,' the 'renewal' of the Islamic fiqh tradition. In the wake of the transformations wrought on the fiqh tradition during the colonial period, it is the 'mode…
This study explores the concept of accountability in Islamic Banks (IB), which may achieve through disclosure. It aims to measuring the bank's disclosure levels which contains Sharia, Social and Financial (SSF) as well as determinants and consequences of this disclosure. It more…
This dissertation explores the process, effects, and results of codification of Egyptian personal status laws as seen through the eyes of the 'ulama'. The codification process began in the mid-1800s and continued until the abolishment of the Shari'a courts in 1955 with the absor…
This dissertation examines the reasons behind the rise and fall of the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) in Somalia. The UIC was born out of the chaos of the Warlord Era in Southern Somalia from within the fabric of Somali Society. The peace and stability that the UIC brought to the…
The aim of this research is to investigate the implications of unfair dismissal within the boundaries of Omani labour law with particular relevance to the role of Shari’a. Shari’a itself does not provide a legal code, contract law, or a law of tort as yet but it does provide exa…
Based on observational fieldwork and interviews carried out in Boston in ten Islamic community centers and mosques, supplemented by archival research in Suffolk County court records and surveys of relevant literature, this ethnography investigates how various communities and sec…
My dissertation examines a wide range of social and political impacts that have emerged from the state implementation of Syari’ah (Sharia) in the Indonesian province of Aceh within the last two-decades. Syari’ah is Islamic way of belief and practice but in Aceh it was initially …
This dissertation examines the religious transformation of the Volga-Ural Muslim community during the long nineteenth century with a special focus on the ulama and shari'a . It argues that these Islamic institutions as well as the Muslim population have experienced important cha…
This dissertation evaluates the political history of Islam through the prism of the Sunni conception of authority. It finds an historical red thread that explains the legal and political evolution of different types of Islamic government that have, instead of a European-type sov…
In liberal democracies, debates about the status of women and debates about the authority of religious legal-moral systems often converge in the area of family law. Focusing on domestic violence, I show a patriarchal bias pervades both Islamic and liberal moral discourse. In ord…
In 1998, the U.S. government made the promotion of religious freedom official policy. This policy has often been met with skepticism and hostility from foreign governments and publics. In the Muslim-majority world, it is commonly seen as an attempt to discredit traditional cultu…
This study investigated how shari'a regulations diffused across different jurisdictions in Indonesia. The focus of this study was on the process of the diffusion, looking at three different aspects of diffusion: factors, actors, and mechanisms. It addressed these questions: What…
This dissertation details how, through modern litigation in the courts of Cairo, the concepts and practices of the Islamic Sharia were shaped in ways that both expressed liberal legal sensibilities and yet threatened to undermine the professedly secular ideals of the legal syste…
This research examines, through a detailed analysis of the way in which laws were implemented, the changing strategies that the Qing Empire employed to govern Xinjiang from 1759, when this area was annexed into the empire, to 1911, when the Qing dynasty collapsed. Focusing on th…
The relationship of textual authority and individual reasoning forms the basic dynamic found in the work of classical Islamic jurists. Using primary sources drawn from websites, blogs, and online messageboards, I will explore the ways in which digital fiqh alters the prescriptiv…
This dissertation assesses the achievements of the early codification movement in the Middle East in comparison to the historically indigenous law of Sharia. It proves the claim that the Ottoman and the Egyptian civil law codification models of 1878 and 1949 respectively failed …
For years, particular Jewish and Christian groups in Ontario had had the option of opting out of the secular court system with respect to uncomplicated cases of divorce, child custody, and inheritance rights (among other things), instead allowing clerical courts to settle the ma…