Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Theological and Religious Studies
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Dialectics Not Dualities: Contemporary Turkish Muslim Thought in Dialogue
(Georgetown University, 2017)“Dialectics not Dualities: Contemporary Turkish Muslim Thought in Dialogue” examines Turkish theology faculties and the creative and critical responses of Turkish theologians to challenges of modernity. Turkish theology ... -
CLARIFYING COMPANIONSHIP: AL-SULAMĪ’S (D. 412/1021) KITĀB ĀDĀB AL-ṢUḤBA
(Georgetown University, 2016)This dissertation examines the understanding of companionship in the writings of the Ṣūfī master Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī (d. 412/1021), particularly his treatise Kitāb ādāb al-ṣuḥba wa ḥusn al-ʿishra (The Ways of ... -
COMPARATIVE THEOLOGY: TOWARD A SEMIOTIC THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATION
(Georgetown University, 2016)The recent proposals in the field of comparative theology distinguish themselves from the previous forms of the so-called “old comparative theology” in the following ways: they choose intentionally to deal with particularity, ... -
Interreligious Debates, Rational Theology, and the ʿUlamaʾ in the Public Sphere: Muḥammad Qāsim Nānautvī and the Making of Modern Islam in South Asia
(Georgetown University, 2015)The nineteenth century was a time of tremendous change for Islamic intellectual traditions in South Asia in an era of colonialism, the decline of traditional authority, and the transformations of modernity. In spite of ... -
A Place Between Two Places: The Qur'an's Intermediate State and the Early History of the Barzakh
(Georgetown University, 2015)For those who believe in a future resurrection of the body, there naturally arises the question of what happens after death but before the end of time. This condition is the intermediate state. For most Muslims, the ...
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