Browsing Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies by Title
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A Salafī (Most) Becoming: The Construction of the Legacy of Muḥammad Sulṭān al-Maʿṣūmī al-Khujandī (1880–1961)
(Georgetown University, 2021)Today, Muḥammad Sulṭān al-Maʿṣūmī al-Khujandī (1880-1961) is only barely remembered as the Saudi author of a popular Salafī tract that came to be known by the title Is a Muslim required to follow a particular madhhab from ... -
'Abd al-Ḥalīm Ḥāfiẓ and Egyptian National Culture
(Georgetown University, 2020)This dissertation is a study of twentieth-century Egypt and the role that popular music plays in constructing the modern nation, a process I examine through the lens of the famous singer ‘Abd al-Ḥalīm Ḥāfiẓ (1929-1977). ... -
Al-'Iqd (The Necklace) and Rhetoric of Restoration
(Georgetown University, 2015)The present monograph is a study of al-‘Iqd (The Necklace), a twenty-five volume anthology purportedly compiled and written in Córdoba by Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ‘Abd Rabbih al-Qurṭubī (d. 328/940). Specifically, the study ... -
Al-Kashshaf: Al-Zamakhshari's (d. 538/1144) Mutazilite Exegesis of the Quran
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Al-Khutūbah : defiance in the face of interrogation
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Arab historiography in Mandatory Palestine, 1920-1948
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Beginning and advanced learners' awareness of corrective feedback in the Arabic foreign language classroom
(Georgetown University, 2012)Corrective feedback as part of conversational interaction has been shown to facilitate language development (Li, 2010; Russel & Spada, 2006), but learners differ in the extent to which they benefit from it. Awareness is ... -
BETWEEN HANDS: SANCTITY, AUTHORITY AND EDUCATION IN THE MAKING OF MODERN EGYPT:
(Georgetown University, 2013)This study argues that mysticism, as found in representations of sanctity (walaya) in Sufi philosophy and practice formed the basis of schema of leadership among the Egyptian elite and politics through a case study of Abu ... -
Between Revivalism and Reconstructionism: Islam, Reform, and Secularism in the Works of Taha Abderrahmane and Mohammed Arkoun
(Georgetown University, 2018)The examination of the works of some of the major reformist thinkers in the Maghrib region since the late nineteenth century reveals a tension between two attitudes, revivalism and reconstructionism. The study contends ... -
Bosnia and Kosovo : an understanding of Muslim-Christian relations
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Bridging the Gulf : Qatari business diplomacy and conflict mediation
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Coordinating Mass Protests in Tahrir Square: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Engroupment, Multi-Modal Intertextuality and Revolution
(Georgetown University, 2016)This dissertation poses three central questions about the 2011 Egyptian Arab Spring: 1) What catalyzed and perpetuated Egypt’s 2011 ‘revolutionary interval’? 2) How effective were various messaging channels (vocal, gestural, ... -
Crowdsourcing shari'a : digital fiqh and changing discourses of textual authority, individual reason, and social coercion
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The Development of Frequency-Based Assessments of Vocabulary Breadth and Depth for L2 Arabic
(Georgetown University, 2015)Lexical knowledge is an essential component of language knowledge. Vocabulary size has consistently been found to be correlated with other measures of language proficiency and to predict functional language ability. ... -
Divine Story-Telling as Self-Presentation: An Analysis of Sūrat al-Kahf
(Georgetown University, 2012)This dissertation explores the application of narrative analysis to five Qur'ānic stories in Sūrat al-Kahf, the eighteenth chapter of the Qur'ān. Traditional Qur'ānic exegesis treats the narratives atomistically, giving ... -
Dreams of Alternative Modernities on the Nile
(Georgetown University, 2016)This study accounts for the ability of Egyptian cinema, as a modern art form and popular culture, to critique rigid social realities and imagine modern social experiences despite overt and covert censorship regimes, thereby ... -
ELITE ENGAGEMENT IN LANGUAGE POLICY AND PLANNING: AHMED TALEB IBRAHIMI AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF ARABIZATION IN ALGERIA
(Georgetown University, 2015)This dissertation looks at elite engagement in the process of language policy and planning in Algeria after independence, highlighting the connection between ideology and the development of national identity. To achieve ... -
Empire through Language: al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf al-Thaqafī and the Power of Oratory in Umayyad Iraq
(Georgetown University, 2018)This dissertation examines the speeches and the literary-historical figure of al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf al-Thaqafī (d. 714), the governor of Iraq under the Umayyad dynasty (661-750), to explore the role that public speech played ... -
Entangled Legal Formations: Crimea under Russian Rule in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
(Georgetown University, 2021)This dissertation explores the transformation of Crimean legal structures after the Russian Empire annexed the Crimean peninsula in 1783. Up until today, no extensive study has examined the annexation’s impact on the Crimean ... -
The Falls of Baghdad in 1258 and 2003: A Study in Sunni-Shi'i Clashing Memories
(Georgetown University, 2013)This dissertation analyzes the narratives on the fall of Baghdad of 1258, focusing on the question of responsibility for the event: why did Baghdad fall to the Mongols and to whom was responsibility attributed? The ... -
Framing the Jurist: The Legal Persona of Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti
(Georgetown University, 2012)This research looks at attempts by the Egyptian polymath Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (d. 1505) to frame his authority as a jurist in his legal writings. The research aims to access the multi-faceted legal persona that the ... -
FROM GOD'S NATURE TO GOD'S LAW: THEOLOGY, LAW AND LEGAL THEORY IN ISLAM
(Georgetown University, 2016)This study explores the ways in which theological ideas regarding the nature of God shaped the jurisprudential and legal landscape of Islam in the classical period. Focusing on the traditionalist theological and jurisprudential ... -
The function of discourse markers in Arabic newspaper opinion articles
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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
(Georgetown University, 2010)
