Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Arabic & Islamic Studies by Title
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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 ... -
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 ... -
The Poet’s Self-Image Versus Authority in Arabic Poetry: Between Classical and Modern
(Georgetown University, 2019)This project studies the ways through which poets form their self-image and design its relationship with authority. It explores how poets forge their distinct identities through their responses to the challenges of the ... -
A Thousand and One Wives: Investigating the Intellectual History of the Exegesis of Verse 4:24
(Georgetown University, 2016)“A Thousand and One Wives: Investigating the Intellectual History of the Exegesis of Verse 4:24” traces the intellectual legacy of the exegesis of Qur’an 4:24, which is used as the proof text for the permissibility of mut’a ... -
Tradition and Its Boundaries: A Diachronic Study of the Concept of Bidʿah (Religious Innovation) in Early Islam
(Georgetown University, 2019)This dissertation aims at problematizing and deconstructing the sunnah-bidʿah dichotomy, by reconstructing its early history. Bidʿah (religious innovation) in Islamic thought is conceptualized in opposition to sunnah, which ... -
Unpacking the modern, national self : the diary of Khalil al-Sakakini
(Georgetown University, 2010)
