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The Fall And Rise Of Bengali Muslim Conciousness: Conceptualising The Identity Of The Bangla Universal, Habib Khan

Theses and Dissertations

The emergence of modern-nation states saw the end of the empirical era of exploitation and exercise of inherent racist tendencies towards the 'other'. However, the effect of that colonial system is still ever-present in the creation and governance of these newly independent states. While every new state aims to be 'modern', they adopt the international legal framework of the West as their own - a system they had initially wanted to escape. The concept of Muslim universality in the form of the ummah should have freed Pakistan from the shackles of its former colonial masters. Instead, this phenomenon was replaced …

Interpretatio Islamica And The Unraveling Of The Ancient Sabian Mysteries, Maurice Hines

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis makes some bold claims about the identity of the Qur’anic Sabians (Ṣābi’ūn) and their symbiotic relationship with various Near Eastern religions including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Thrice mentioned in the Qur’an, they clung to an ancient religion - or perhaps the most ancient – that spanned the entire Eastern hemisphere and provided not only the structural foundations of human civilizations, but also their religious, philosophical, and intellectual foundations. However, their creed had undergone a variety of changes over time including a shift in the conception of God from a personal to a transcendent deity, the worship …

Regulating Change In Historic Cairo, Amina Abdel-Halim

Faculty Journal Articles

Renovation and conservation projects in Historic Cairo fall within a complex legal framework, which sometimes does more to hinder development than to promote it.

Waqf In Transition: Tracing Local Institutional Change During The British Mandate In Palestine, Zachary Murray

Theses and Dissertations

The British Mandate’s actions of state-building in Palestine were informed by a Zionist-Western modernist envisioned past of Palestine. This state-building ideology was embedded within much of the bureaucracy of the Mandate’s system and infringed on numerous Palestinian institutions such as Waqf. Waqf was disenfranchised in particular through the implementation of urban development programs, like town planning and archaeological regimes, which sought to support the British-Zionist recasting of Palestine.

This thesis aims to show how the British’s ideology of Palestine informed the Mandate’s internal polices and actions which infringed on the rights of waqf. This was done through two axes of …

Reinterpreting Medieval Islamic Autobiography: The Case Of Al-SakhāWī’S Irshād (1428/831 Ah - 1497/902 Ah), Maha Shawki

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis research aims to contribute to the study of medieval Arabic autobiographies by examining the autobiography of one of fifteenth-century Mamluk scholars, Muḥammad Ibn ʿabd al-Raḥmān al-Sakhāwī (1428/831 AH - 1497/902 AH).

The objective of this research is to understand more about the art of writing an autobiography during the late Mamluk period and how it relates to broader Islamic tradition. This will be done by considering al-Sakhāwī’s autobiography in the context of other similar concurrent texts written during the late Mamluk period to detect possible links and investigate how a medieval autobiography can be shaped by the character …

Hagar And Potiphar’S Wife: A Representation Of Egypt In Judaism And Islam, Nardine Attia

Capstone and Graduation Projects

As a nation and land, modern Egypt has gradually been depicted as a female. Considering Egypt’s prominence in Judaism and Islam, from a close reading of Jewish and Islamic texts pertaining to two Egyptian women—Hagar and Potiphar’s wife— various similarities could be noted between these female figures and Egypt as portrayed in the two Abrahamic religions. While Potiphar’s wife seems to be more representative of Egypt in Judaism and Islam, the different portrayal of both women across religious texts provides each with a space to reflect different aspects defining Egypt in each religion.

Claiming The Mad, Samar Nour

Theses and Dissertations

Mental asylums in Egypt during the colonial period.

Kurds In The Mosul Province 1918-1932, Kristen Alff

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Pre-Islamic Influences On Fatimid And Seljuk Jewelry, Badriya Yasmeen Dowe

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Egypt: A State Of Emergency, A State Of Mind, Diana Elassy

Archived Theses and Dissertations

This work attempts to explore the normalized state of emergency in Egypt. For more than two decades, Egypt has existed under the control of emergency legislation designed to curb civil and political rights. This work examines the current state of emergency within the framework of socio-economic, philosophy, and Egyptian history in order to assess the rationale of its raison d'etre.

The work commences with a brief history of Egypt under the rule of the Mamluk dynasty prior to European incursion and the development of the nation-state. It then discusses the European occupation, the rise of the nation-state, and the current …

The Introduction Of Military Slavery: A Political Expedient, Brian Eastwood

Archived Theses and Dissertations

Military slavery constituted one of the most important institutions in medieval Islamic history. Most research concerning military slavery concentrates on the Mamluk dynasty, while relatively little research explores the beginning of the institution and the reasons for its introduction. Those works that concentrate on military slavery or the 'Abbasid time period either use it as an example for other arguments or do not provide enough detail to create a complete argument. As a result, the origins of an institution that affected almost a thousand years of Islamic history are not well understood. To understand the emergence of military slavery, primary …

Modern Middle East History Beyond Oriental Despotism, World History Beyond Hegel: An Agenda Article, Peter Gran

Faculty Book Chapters

The second of four issues, this volume covers social history in the Middle East. Contributors include: Khaled Fahmy, Peter gran, Joseph Massad, Martina Rieker, Judith E. Tucker, Horst Unbehaum

Medicine And Power: Towards A Social History Of Medicine In The Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Khaled Fahmy

Faculty Book Chapters

The second of four issues, this volume covers social history in the Middle East. Contributors include: Khaled Fahmy, Peter gran, Joseph Massad, Martina Rieker, Judith E. Tucker, Horst Unbehaum

Clientalstic Structures And Political Participation In Rural Turkey- A Case Study, Horst Unbehaun

Faculty Book Chapters

The second of four issues, this volume covers social history in the Middle East. Contributors include: Khaled Fahmy, Peter gran, Joseph Massad, Martina Rieker, Judith E. Tucker, Horst Unbehaum

Islamic Law And Gender: Revisiting The Tradition, Judith E. Tucker

Faculty Book Chapters

The second of four issues, this volume covers social history in the Middle East. Contributors include: Khaled Fahmy, Peter gran, Joseph Massad, Martina Rieker, Judith E. Tucker, Horst Unbehaum

Jordan's Bedouins And The Military Basis Of National Identity, Joseph Massad

Faculty Book Chapters

The second of four issues, this volume covers social history in the Middle East. Contributors include: Khaled Fahmy, Peter gran, Joseph Massad, Martina Rieker, Judith E. Tucker, Horst Unbehaum

Introduction (New Frontiers In The Social History Of The Middle East), Enid Hill

Faculty Book Chapters

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Reading The Colonial Archive, Martina Rieker

Faculty Book Chapters

The second of four issues, this volume covers social history in the Middle East. Contributors include: Khaled Fahmy, Peter gran, Joseph Massad, Martina Rieker, Judith E. Tucker, Horst Unbehaum

Cross-Cultural Encounters: Past And Present, David R. Blanks

Faculty Book Chapters

This collective volume is the result of the Second Annual Conference on Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Mediterranean held at the American University in Cairo, 5-7 May, 1996. The contributors, David R. Blanks, John Victor Tolan, Nabil I. Matar, John Rodenbeck, Thabit Abdullah, E.M. Sartain, Omaima Abou-Bakr, and Nadia M. El-Cheik, take an interdisciplinary approach, drawing from sociology, anthropology, political science, history, and literature, in medieval their examination of past attitudes, in particular images of the 'Other' in medieval Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, in order to trace the origins of modern stereotypes. The essays are divided into three …

NiqūLā Al-Turk As A Source On The French Occupation Of Egypt, Margarethe Elise Weyergang

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Topography And Architecture Of The North-Eastern Suburb Of Cairo In The Circassian Period, Doris Behrens-Abouseif

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TāHirid Yaman On The Eve Of The MamlūK Conquest As Based On The Qurrat Al-ʻUyūN Of Ibn Ad-Daybaʻ (D.944/1537), Charles Warren Hassett

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Al-Madhammah Fi IstʻMāL Ahl Al-Dhimmah, Nermine Kamel Hafez

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The Change Of Language In Egypt From Greek To Arabic In Official Documents Of The First Four Centuries Of Arab Rule, Nahed El Gamal Saleh

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Changes In Egyptian Family Life From Muhammad ʻAli Till The Present, Nadia Haggag

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