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This thesis is an analytical exploration of the influence of medieval theology on contemporary scholastic traditionalist polemics within Sunni Islam. Intra-Sunni sectarian polemics as an emerging area of study is relatively untouched as opposed to sectarian violence. A detailed …

This thesis addresses the relationship between sectarianism and state-making and nation-building in Iraq. It argues that sectarianism has been an enduring feature of the state-making trajectory in Iraq due to the failure of the modern nation-state to resolve inherent tensions be…

The fundamental question addressed by this dissertation is how Sunnism became a sectarian articulation of Islam. While previous studies have credited this phenomenon to the short texts of a few theologians and jurists, we argue that the most appropriate texts for understanding t…