Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Arabic & Islamic Studies by Title
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Ibn al-Haytham and Scientific Method
(Georgetown University, 2020)This examination into the history of Arabic science explores the methods utilized by Ibn al-Haytham for his scientific investigations. Specifically, this study compares and contrasts his approach towards establishing the ... -
Ibn Kathir (d. 774/1373): His Intellectual Circle, Major Works and Qur'anic Exegesis
(Georgetown University, 2012)This dissertation focuses on one of the most popular medieval Muslim figures in modern times, Ibn Kathir. I argue that Ibn Kathir's work reflects a critical theological struggle in the history of Islam between those who ... -
Interactions between northern Nigeria and the Arab world in the twentieth century
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International development assistance and the effects on Palestinian community mobilization
(Georgetown University, 2010) -
Intersections: Modernity, Gender and Qurʾanic Exegesis
(Georgetown University, 2014)Modernity imparted a new theoretical significance to the issue of gender reform in the Muslim world. This dissertation examines the impact of modernity on the hermeneutical approaches and interpretations of three modern ... -
Interspousal Torts in Islamic Law: A Study of Marital Harm and Judicial Divorce in the Mālikī madhhab
(Georgetown University, 2021)This dissertation explores how Muslim jurists traditionally defined harm (ḍarar) in marriage—particularly, the type of harm that constitutes a tort and is grounds for judicial divorce —and identifies some of the ways judges ... -
Islamic finance in the United States : product development and regulatory adoption
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Kitchen Histories in Modern North Africa
(Georgetown University, 2019)This dissertation is a comparative study of modern Egypt and Morocco from the turn of the twentieth century through the 1970s, narrated through the lens of the urban middle-class kitchen. Scholars of the region have paid ... -
The language of terrorism : Al-Jazeera and the framing of terrorism discourse
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Listening to the Sacred
(Georgetown University, 2019)A study of the sacred in Islam that is manifested in the oral revelation as it had occurred in the world through reciting and listening to create a sacred aural sphere in which perceptions, attitudes, and practices of the ... -
Mandatory bodybuilding : nationalism, masculinity, class, and physical culture in 1930s Syria
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The Measurement of the Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency of Written Arabic
(Georgetown University, 2017)This study investigates the multicomponential nature of L2 Arabic writing by adapting a number of direct measures of linguistic complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) to the measurement of written Arabic texts produced ... -
A minority within a minority : a history of women in the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox and Evangelical churches (1854-present)
(Georgetown University, 2011) -
The Moral Psychology of Political Islam in Turkey: An Ideational Ethnography Concerning Islamism, Rationalism, and Cannibalism
(Georgetown University, 2013)Using intuitionist moral psychology and a detailed anthropological investigation of the moral reasoning of Turkish "Islamist" voters, I argue for an urgent rethinking of the dynamics of political Islam and religious ... -
NATION-BUILDING, POETRY, AND PATRONAGE: THE NABAṬĪ QAṢĪDA WAṬANĪYA;YA IN QATAR AND THE UAE
(Georgetown University, 2015)This dissertation is a work on the role of nabati poetry in Qatari and Emirati projects of nation-building and the construction of national history. This role is double. On the one hand, as this research demonstrates, the ... -
Nativism Contra Acculturation: The Formation of the Mālikī and Ḥanafī Schools of Law
(Georgetown University, 2019)Reconstructing the formation and evolution of the four Sunni Islamic schools of law is a precarious endeavor that requires investigating distinct, yet overlapping, factors. Notwithstanding the importance of the doctrinal ... -
NATURAL JUSTICE UNDER THE SCOPE OF RHETORIC: THE WRITTEN AND THE UNWRITTEN LAWS IN IBN RUSHD’S POLITICAL AND LEGAL PHILOSOPHY
(Georgetown University, 2016)This dissertation explores the works of Ibn Rushd and identifies an appropriation of Aristotle’s concept of natural justice, paying attention to the distinction he makes between the written laws (al-sunan al-maktūba) and ... -
The Other in the nineteenth century prosaic Arabic discourse
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Peripheries of Contention and Resistance: Geographies of Protest and Police Behavior in Tunisia
(Georgetown University, 2022)Both academic scholarship and popular discourse about Tunisian politics after 2011 have tended to regard the 2010-2011 revolution as a success (sometimes with caveats). Only few have instead sought to examine continuities. ...
