Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Arabic & Islamic Studies by Title
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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)
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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. ... -
REBEL PREACHERS: THE MAKING OF ISLAMIC ACTIVISM IN SHĪ‘Ī LEBANON (1960-1985)
(Georgetown University, 2016)This study investigates the intellectual and organizational genesis of the Shī‘ī religious community that burgeoned in Lebanon in the 1970s. It demonstrates how several competing religious currents in the Shī‘ī community ... -
Redirecting al-nazar : contemporary Tunisian women novelists return the gaze
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SCHOOL BOUNDARIES AND SOCIAL UTILITY IN ISLAMIC LAW: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF TALFĪQ AND TATABBUʿ AL-RUKHAṢ IN EGYPT
(Georgetown University, 2011)In this study, I focus on how the Ottoman legal establishment used the pluralistic Sunni legal system to serve the needs of Egyptian society. I examine a thousand and one cases from three Egyptian courts from the seventeenth ... -
Seventeenth-Century Poetic Aesthetics: Ibn Maʿṣūm Al-Madanī’s Sulāfat Al-ʿaṣr on Contemporary Poets
(Georgetown University, 2022)The 11th/17th-century Hijazi scholar Ibn Maʿṣūm al-Madanī (d. 1120/1709) wrote a significant later post-classical/pre-modern biographical anthology, Sulāfat al-ʿaṣr fī maḥāsin al-shuʿarāʾ bi-kulli miṣr (Pressing of the ... -
Shī‘ī Scholars on Legal Change, Iran's Guardian Council and Expediency Discernment Council (Majma‘ Tashkhīṣ Maṣlahat Niẓām)
(Georgetown University, 2021)This dissertation studies theories of legal change among Shī‘ī jurists and legal scholars as well as institutional legal change in post-1979 Iran. I demonstrate how Shī‘ī legal theorists formulated the theories of Variable ... -
Shī‘ī Scholars on Legal Change, Iran's Guardian Council and Expediency Discernment Council (Majma‘ Tashkhīṣ Maṣlahat Niẓām)
(Georgetown University, 2021)This dissertation studies theories of legal change among Shī‘ī jurists and legal scholars as well as institutional legal change in post-1979 Iran. I demonstrate how Shī‘ī legal theorists formulated the theories of Variable ... -
Sociopolitical Narratives and Contestations in Kuwait's Creative Sector Post-2012
(Georgetown University, 2019)Historically, cultural production and diplomacy have played important roles in many of the major events of Kuwaiti history. In this study, I explore contemporary examples from Kuwait’s rich history of social movements by ... -
States of Change: Women, Islamic Reform, and Transregional Mobility in the Making of 'Modern' Afghanistan
(Georgetown University, 2021)This dissertation examines women, Islamic reform, and transregional mobility as they intersected to influence early Afghan state formation. Focusing on the reigns of three monarchs, Abd al-Rahman Khan (r. 1880-1901), Habib ... -
Televangelists, Media Du'ā, and 'Ulamā': The Evolution of Religious Authority in Modern Islam
(Georgetown University, 2016)The rise of modern media has led to debates about religious authority in Islam, questioning whether it is fragmenting or proliferating, and exploring the state of the ‘ulamā’ and new groups like religious intellectuals and ... -
The Ambiguity of 'Being' in Arabic and Islamic Philosophy
(Georgetown University, 2020)This dissertation studies the refutation of monism in the philosophy of Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī (d. 950) through the logical theory of ambiguous predication (al-ḥaml bi-al-taškīk). I show how Fārābī conceives of a close ...
