Taqi-l-Di n Ahmad ibn Taymiyyah (d. 728/1328) was a Hanbali theologian and dogmatic follower of the Ahl al-Hadit (the people of the Prophet's traditions). Seeking to reform Muslim society beset by various turmoils, he maintained the need for Muslims to purify their beliefs and a…
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This Study shows that the Shehu's social writings are the reflection of his concept and method of implementation of tajdid. The basic goal of the tajdid was to recreate what he considered the ideal Sunni Islamic society. In order to achieve his objective he unfolded a plan of ac…
This dissertation examines changes in Fatimid legitimacy upon the establishment and then transfer of their state to Egypt in the 4th/10th century. Through an analysis of Fatimid literature on imama (or leadership of the community), it argues that the process of transition from a…
Is the writer's role simply to create art for art's sake or do writers have to utilize their talents for the good of society. Ngugi wa Thiongo of Kenya and Ousmane Sembene of Senegal, like many other African writers, are of the opinion that in a society such as the one in which …
This thesis consists of an original translation, annotation, and analysis of Karl Barth’s Academic lectures on Ephesians, delivered in Göttingen, winter semester, 1921-1922. The translation is composed from a typescript of Barth’s handwritten manuscript, located in the Karl Bart…
The life of Muhammad is not the object of a continuous narrative, nor of a body of continuous narratives, but of individual accounts, each concerned with a specific event and provided with its own chain of transmission. Such accounts are subsumed under the category of Sira, lite…
One of the least studied areas of Imami Shiite Islam are the popular symbols of the Enumerated Martyrs. Qaza Nurullah Shustari (d. 1610), is recognized by South Asian Shiites as Shahid-i Salis (the Third Martyr). A shahid (martyr) may be considered in the general sense an indivi…
Like other religions, Islam has traditionally recognized the difference between slave and free and has condoned the practice of slavery. Rules governing the status and treatment of slaves are found in the Qur'an, hadith, and in the earliest legal texts. This dissertation approac…
The identity of the reliefs from Gandhara which have been commonly known as representations of the "Sravasti miracle" has been a controversial issue in the study of Gandharan art for a long time. This study attempts to explore the iconographic nature and identity of these relief…
Within the vast field of dramatic performance, scholarship has focused to a grossly disproportionate degree on the small percentage of drama that is accorded literary status; much the rest is relegated, along with forms of performance having no claim as drama, to the catch-all g…
Searching for stable institutions in Islamic social history, Western sources treat the Sufi orders (d turuq, sing. d tariqah) in the post-Classical era as uniform bodies operating from structures endowed and perpetuated in their names. Central organization is assumed; men who tr…
The dissertation presents a literary historical analysis of an early Ottoman Turkish narrative about Alexander of Macedon. Ahmedi wrote this Iskendername (Alexander narrative) in the late 14th century, the period of the emergence of Turkic political and literary culture in Anato…
This dissertation examines the doctrines found in Hanafi fiqh literature concerning just retribution and its alternatives: forgiveness, blood money, and settlement among the parties. These options are alternatively sanctioned against homicide and bodily harm, both of which fall …
The most important debate in the study of Islamic origins is about the realiability of the lists of transmitters (isnads). Because of the ubiquity of isnads in early Islamic tests, one's position on their reliability determines how one envisions the origins of Islam. Traditional…
This is a study of a monograph written by a Maliki jurist in 7th/13th century Ayyubid-Mamluk Egypt. Chapter One is an overview of the life and times of Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi (d.684/1285). It also traces the relationship among the schools of law in Ayyubid-Mamluk Egypt. Chapter…
This dissertation examines Ibn Abi Hatim's Taqdimat al-maʿrifa li-Kitab al-Jarh wa-'l-taʿdil and the intellectual milieu in which it was written. The Taqdima is Ibn Abi Hatim's defense of hadith criticism. The impetus for the work's composition was provided by the conflict betwe…
This study is an attempt to explore Islamic dress codes based on classical Arabic texts (fiqh literature), and to provide a synthetic analysis of the Hanafi doctrine and its justification. A central concept in the Sunnifiqh doctrine concerning dress is the concept of the 'awrah,…