Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
