There is a dearth of literature on Black Sunni Muslims in the field of psychology. More so, there is no literature specifically analyzing the influences upon Black religiosity. The literature has established that personality has significant influence upon religiosity. The litera…
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Islam is often viewed as the religion par excellence of divine transcendence. God is khilaf al-`alam , "the absolute divergence from the world" and this characteristically Islamic doctrine of mukhalafa "(divine) otherness" precludes divine corporeality. In as much as this latter…
The 1991 uprisings in Iraq's southern governorates following Operation: Desert Storm - and the decade of trauma that followed them - were the "Big Bang" that begat the modern era of Iraqi sectarianism and the Sunni-Shi'a divide. The memory of the 1991 intifada created new Iraqi …
The removal of Saddam Hussein’s Ba’athist regime in Iraq gave rise to a plethora of non-state actors, sub-state political factions, warring ethnic groups, and terrorist organizations all seeking to fill the political power vacuum. Using theories from academic literature on coali…
During the period of Mongol occupation, Baghdad, a long established center of learning in the Islamic world, emerged as a site of intense intellectual debate and dialogue between Shi`i and Sunni scholars. Shi`i and Sunni scholars participated extensively in the transmission of k…
This dissertation challenges the prevailing rentier state interpretation of political life in the countries of the Arab Gulf, a theoretical framework little changed for more than a quarter century. It does so by evaluating for the first time the fundamental claim of rentier theo…
This dissertation traces the multi-generational, interregional and transnational experiences of Sunni Punjabi migrants who moved from the Indian subcontinent to East Africa during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and then to Canada after the 1970s. In particular, …
The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the lives of Muslims living in an Islamic village through their own perspectives, experiences, and lives in accordance with Islamic beliefs and customs. This study was important because the Muslim population is growing rapidly…
The topic of this dissertation is African American Sunni orthodox Islam and central to its focus is Imam Ahmad Tawfiq and the organization that he founded in 1967, the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood of Harlem New York. And through its elevation, it is asserted that more complex, …
This dissertation examines the relationship between the medieval Sunni Islamic theory of the caliphate and the debate over the revival of the caliph in Egypt between the abolition of the Ottoman caliph by Ataturk in 1924 and the failure of the General Conference for the Caliphat…
African American males form the largest category of converts to Sunni Islam in the US. This study aimed at understanding the ways in which the conversion process impacted social connections, both preexisting connections and creation and fostering of new ones post-conversion. Thi…
For the past century scholars have been studying privacy and the private sphere in the context of many societies. Surprisingly, no scholar has yet undertaken a comprehensive study of privacy as manifest in Islam. In this dissertation I argue that Muslim scholars had a notion of …
This dissertation seeks a better understanding Sunni Islamic Intellectual History through an investigation of what I call the archetype of the pre-modern Muslim scholar. The archetypal scholar was a jurist/theologian/mystic--with affiliations to established schools of law, theol…
In the Levant, (Greater Syria, Arabic al-Sham ), the fifth/eleventh to seventh/thirteenth centuries was a time of great religious enthusiasm. The depredations of Crusader forces, a movement for the revival of Sunnism (ih[dotbelow]ya' al-sunna ), and the political claims of new, …
This dissertation analyzes the stance the `ulama of the four Sunni madhahib took during the political confrontation between the Ayyubids and the Mamluks in the late Ayyubid and early Mamluk period, 637-676 A.H./A.D. 1240-1277. Struggles for power among members of the Ayyubid fam…
This is an analytical study of the most known technical manual treating h[dotbelow]adith criticism: Nukhbat al-Fikr fi Mus[dotbelow]t[dotbelow]alah[dotbelow] Ahl al-Athar by Ah[dotbelow]mad ibn c Ali ibn H[dotbelow]ajar al-c Asqalani (773-852/1372-1449). In defending the positio…
Mahdism, the nearest Islamic analog to messianism, is generally seen by scholars as operative within Shî`ism but not within Sunnism. To the extent that the existence of Mahdism within Sunnî Islam is acknowledged, it is usually portrayed as being primarily the province of the pas…
The past two decades have witnessed a dramatic growth in Middle Eastern satellite television. The corresponding diversification of content and restructuring of media power in the region raise many important questions for research. This dissertation is a case study of Huda TV, an…
This dissertation is a study of the theory and practice of punishment in medieval Islam in the context of Saljuq society in Iraq and Persia during the 5th /11th and 6th /12 th centuries. Punishment, which for the purpose of this study is defined as the use of legitimate force in…