This dissertation deals with the transformation of imperial Russia's Muslim communities, especially those in the Volga-Urals region, between the late-eighteenth and early-twentieth centuries, while paying particular attention to their interaction with the Russian state, Muslim c…
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This study examines the nature of state-'Ulama relations in Borno from c. 1470 to 1808 and the complex social and political processes that determined and modified the role of the 'Ulama in state and society. It begins with a reconstruction of the hierarchy of learned status in B…
The large Muslim communities of the Malay-Indonesian archipelago are situated on the periphery of the Muslim world, and this area is one of the least Arabicized. Despite this, religio-social changes among its Muslim communities are inseparable from those occurring in the Middle …
The nineteenth century was a time of tremendous change for Islamic intellectual traditions in South Asia in an era of colonialism, the decline of traditional authority, and the transformations of modernity. In spite of these challenges, Muslim scholars, theologians, and intellec…
The origins of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia date back to the alliance forged between the AlSaud and the preacher Muhammad Ibn AbdulWahhab in the 18th century, and the subsequent establishment of the first Saudi state. Since then, the religious scholars, or ulama, have played an i…
This thesis examines the outbreak of violence between Muslims and Jews in the city of Constantine in August 1934. What has been termed a riot or a pogrom was, for the reformist ulama arguing for association with the French colonial state, a tragic rupture in the colonial civic o…
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…
Based on a variety of largely unutilized printed, as well as documentary and manuscript sources collected from archives in the Middle East, North Africa, India and Europe, this dissertation is a longue durée study of the evolution of the conception and function of hadith transmi…
Ayatullah 'Ali Naqi Naqvi (1905-1988) is arguably the single most important religious figure of the twentieth century Indian Shi'ite Islam. Emerging out of a very well-known family of traditional scholars and the seminaries of India and Iraq, his religious and intellectual caree…
This study examines the transformation of undergone by `ulama or Muslim religious scholars of the Russian Empire's Volga-Ural region from the 1860s and to the eve of the Russian Civil War. Previous studies of Volga-Ural Muslims in this period have examined the activities of indi…
The ulama' in Egypt are still actively provide believers with the means of utilizing Islamic foundational texts in their every day lives. Even though their role as intermediaries has been curtailed in recent times, they have still been able to invent new ways to ensure their con…
This dissertation takes up the issue of ijtihad , creative legal reform, as defined and upheld by contemporary `ulama (traditionally educated Muslim religious scholars). It centers in on a particular issue--women's right to divorce--within a particular context--early 20th centur…
This thesis contends that a greater appreciation of the ulama will significantly enhance a historiographical analysis of Spain. The ulama were an elite class of individuals within medieval Islamic Spain, who controlled the majority of city administration. The administration of c…
This study analyzes an important and neglected factor in the French decolonization of North Africa, namely Islam and its institutions. After more than a century of French imperialism, Islam remained, for the majority of Algerians, the principal means of self-identification, the …
The transmission of reformist Islam in nineteenth century Indonesia was influenced significantly by intellectual network that was established in Mecca and Medina between key Indonesian and Haramayn `ulam a' . In the nineteenth century the holy cities attracted a number of Javane…
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 thesis presents a study of the social history of the group of eleventh-century Sunni religious scholars, the 'ulama', of Baghdad in the period of the transition to the madrasa system of education. Before dealing with the 'ulama' themselves, we shall describe the political, …