Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Arabic & Islamic Studies by Title
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GENERIC CUES AND GENERIC FEATURES IN ARABIC SCIENCE FICTION: THE NOVELS OF KASSEM KASSEM
(Georgetown University, 2011)Is Arabic science fiction similar to the kind of science fiction with which a reader of English-language science fiction, a watcher of English-language science fiction films, or viewer of English-language science fiction ... -
Hassan ibn Thabit, a True Mukhadram: A Study of the Ghassanid Odes of Hassan ibn Thabit
(Georgetown University, 2009)The seventh-century Madinan poet Hassan ibn Thabit is best known for his role as poet laureate of the Prophet Muhammad. His poetry composed in defense of Muhammad and the nascent religion of Islam has been widely studied, ... -
History and Politics of Nomadism in Modern Palestine (1882-1948)
(Georgetown University, 2016)My research examines contending visions on nomadism in modern Palestine, with special focus on the British Mandate period. By nomadism I refer to a form of territorialist discourse, one which views tribal formations as the ... -
Hizbullah in Lebanese domestic politics : Islamism, nationalism and parliamentary opposition
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Hizbullah’s Secretary General Sayyid Hasan Nasrallah and ‘What It Means To Be Lebanese’
(Georgetown University, 2018)This paper presents an analysis of how Hizbullah’s Secretary General Nasrallah attempts to project an alternative to existing versions of a Lebanese national identity, based on an analysis of a selection of his speeches ... -
Hybridity and Superdiversity on Syrian Dissidents' Facebook Pages: An Online Ethnography of Language, Identity and Authenticity
(Georgetown University, 2016)This work contributes to the discussion about the role of social media in political mobilization by analyzing the writing practices of a group of Syrian dissidents on Facebook. Challenging the assumption that Western ... -
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
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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)
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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 ...
