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The advent of Ahmad Kasravī (1890–1946) and his Pākdīnī movement represents one of the most important developments in the history of socio-religious thought in Iran in the Pahlavī era (1925–1979). It was one of the greatest home-grown ideological challenges to Shi'ism and Shi'i …

I Studies in Islamic intellectual history have mostly neglected to systematically investigate the religious beliefs of the practitioners of exact science and the relationship of these beliefs to the broader landscape of theology and philosophy in classical Islam. How do the reli…

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 …