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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Abd al-Karim"”.
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Abd Al-Karim Al-Jili: tawhid, transcendence and immanence
The present thesis is an attempt to understand Abd Al-Karim Al-Jili’s thought and to illustrate his original contribution to the development of medieval Islamic mysticism. In particular, it maintains that far from being an obscure disciple of Ibn Arabi, Al-Jili was able to overcome the apparent …
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A critical investigation of the opposition of the Rifi confederation led by Muhammed bin 'Abd al-Karim al-Khattabi to Spanish colonial expansion in northern Morocco, 1920-1925, and its political and social background
This thesis examines the course and political action of the war in the Rif mountains in northern Morocco between 1921 and 1926. After the declaration of a joint Franco-Spanish Protectorate over Morocco in 1912, the Spanish army attempted to impose its authority over the part of north Morocco which …
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Strangers among us: the critique of westoxification in Perso-Islamic political thought
This dissertation challenges a prevalent strain of contemporary western thought that reads Islamism as antithetical to modernity and globalization; that Islamism is a site of unabashed traditionalism in the wake of the secularism. I challenge this dominant western reading by asking the question: …
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A Confronting of the Gaze: A Study of the Shadhiliyya Yashrutiyya Sufi Order, and its Communities in Amman, Jordan and Calgary, Canada
… in North Africa emerge in mid-19th century Palestine with the arrival of its founder, Shaykh Ali Nur al-Din al-Yashruti. To this end, this thesis constructs the biographies of the founder of this Sufi order, as well as the successive shaykhs that followed him, all of whom were the eldest son …