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Casar Public Lecture: Mapping The Journeys Of Enslaved People From Zanzibar To The Gulf, The Prince Alwaleed Center For American Studies And Research Casar
Casar Public Lecture: Mapping The Journeys Of Enslaved People From Zanzibar To The Gulf, The Prince Alwaleed Center For American Studies And Research Casar
Performances, Events, and Presentations
Part of the CASAR October lecture series and in partnership with AUC’s history department, this event featured guest scholar John Thabiti Willis, an associate professor of history at Clarendon College in Northfield Minnesota. For the last ten years Thabiti has dedicated himself to the study of African contributions to the history and heritage of pearling in the Gulf. In this event, AUC had the honor of listening to how Thabiti uses geographical information systems (GIS) to organize primary evidence gathered from manumission statements to analyze enslaved peoples journeys from Zanzibar to British political agents in Bahrain, Muscat, and Sharjah between …
The Fall And Rise Of Bengali Muslim Conciousness: Conceptualising The Identity Of The Bangla Universal, Habib Khan
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Kurds In The Mosul Province 1918-1932, Kristen Alff
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Pre-Islamic Influences On Fatimid And Seljuk Jewelry, Badriya Yasmeen Dowe
Pre-Islamic Influences On Fatimid And Seljuk Jewelry, Badriya Yasmeen Dowe
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Egypt: A State Of Emergency, A State Of Mind, Diana Elassy
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Introduction (New Frontiers In The Social History Of The Middle East), Enid Hill
Faculty Book Chapters
[abstract not provided]
Reading The Colonial Archive, Martina Rieker
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
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
NiqūLā Al-Turk As A Source On The French Occupation Of Egypt, Margarethe Elise Weyergang
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Topography And Architecture Of The North-Eastern Suburb Of Cairo In The Circassian Period, Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Topography And Architecture Of The North-Eastern Suburb Of Cairo In The Circassian Period, Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
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
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
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Al-Madhammah Fi IstʻMāL Ahl Al-Dhimmah, Nermine Kamel Hafez
Al-Madhammah Fi IstʻMāL Ahl Al-Dhimmah, Nermine Kamel Hafez
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
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
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
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Changes In Egyptian Family Life From Muhammad ʻAli Till The Present, Nadia Haggag
Changes In Egyptian Family Life From Muhammad ʻAli Till The Present, Nadia Haggag
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.