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The nineteenth century institution of Orientalism as a scholarly and literary form of writing about the East cannot be understood without an historical understanding of its basis in earlier aristocratic attempts to define and maintain their Class status in emerging nation states by drawing upon cultural models perceived as external and superior to Europe.
This study is an analysis of the development of early Persian mysticism with specific reference to the ninth century Islamic mystic Bayazid Bistami, The study contains historical, political, social, religious, and literary background of Bayazid in Islamic thought.
Terrorism in the name of religion: perceptions and attitudes of religious leaders from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in the United States.
This dissertation analyzes the way in which spiritual leaders representing Judaism, Christianity, and Islam perceive terrorism.
This dissertation explores the ways in which the current constitutional system in Turkey is being contested and negotiated around the constitutive norm of secularism and the place and role of Islam, as these negotiations are carried out in various sites of everyday life.
My analysis focuses on bodies (the construction of the national subject), places (the construction 130 The American Journal of Islamic Socia] Sciences 16:2 of social space) and time (the construction of national history) as three main sites from which interventions and contestations are carried out.
This dissertation investigates the role Islam plays inside Western modernity and asks how Muslims have remade themselves as Muslims within colonial and postcolonial migrations.
Muslims living in Western liberal states henceforth become subject to a nexus of racial and religious controls.