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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Muslim identity"”.
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Muslim identity and Islamic faith in Sarajevo.
… through the anthropological investigation of a Muslim minority within a multi-national, federated socialist state - the Muslims of Bosnia-Hercegovina in Yugoslavia. The Yugoslav state is a constitutional federation of several diverse nationalities, all of which seek to preserve, assert and …
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A scenographer's perspective on Arabic theatre and Arab-Muslim identity
This study explores the issue of Arab-Muslim identity from the viewpoint of a Kuwaiti visual artist and scenographer who is also an academic and teacher. It focuses on the history and current condition of the Arabic theatre and on the nature and qualities of Islamic art and architecture. The thesis …
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Religious attitudes and Muslim identity, with reference to Turkish university students
The thesis explores religious attitudes and Muslim identity in Turkey from a social psychological perspective with reference to university students. Religious attitudes are explored in relation to three components: cognitive, behavioural and affective religious attitudes, whereas Muslim identity is …
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The Transnational Search for Muslim Identity: Sierra Leoneans in America's Capital
… community, how their interaction with a broader Muslim community shapes a sense of belonging and alienation within the American context, and how they and their children, many of whom are American-born, struggle with and accommodate to different senses of what it means to be Muslims, Africans, and …
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Questioning Muslim Identity: A Critical Analysis of the Discourse on Muslim Integration
The continuing difficulty of integrating Muslims, especially immigrants, into the European nations, has led many ruling political leaders to question the merits of multiculturalism and simultaneously to promote integration through the strengthening and inculcation in the Muslim of a more general …
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Illustrating Islam: Comics as Dakwah and the Negotiation of Muslim Identity in Indonesia
… space for more conservative and extremist Muslim voices to gain prominence in the public sphere. In response, comics—produced by the Indonesian government, mainstream Islamic media publishers, and independent Muslim artists—have emerged as potential tools for countering extremist …
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"Contesting Islam: ""Homegrown Wahhabism,"" Education and Muslim Identity in Northern Ghana, 1920--2005"
… on preexisting tensions in the northern Ghanaian Muslim society and that Middle Eastern and North African contact through pilgrimage, but especially outreach programs and educational provision only provided the ideological justification, the grammar, for reinterpreting the ""common good"" and for …
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The role of Muslim identity on perceived workplace religious discrimination of Muslim women working in Kwa-Zulu Natal
… this approach which leads to a conflict between Muslims' religious obligations and the rules of the workplace. As a result, Muslim employees may perceive that their employers are religiously discriminating against them. Muslim women may face more discrimination than Muslim men as their stigma is …
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The impact of Islam and Muslim identity on experiences and views of mental ill health among Muslim men in south Wales.
… question: “What is the impact of Islam and Muslim identity on experiences of mental ill health among Muslim men in south Wales?”. It conducted interviews with 21 Muslim men living in south Wales around their views and experiences of mental health, in relation to their gender and religion. …
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Investigating religious identity in family discourse in Saudi Arabia : a study of moral order, narratives, power and solidarity
A wide range of research on language and identity has focused on areas such as ethnicity, nationalism and gender. However, work on the construction of religious identity and Muslim identity in particular remains limited. Thus, this research aims to shed more light on a specific aspect of religious …
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Recognition and enforcement of foreign commercial arbitral awards relating to international commercial disputes : comparative study (English and Jordanian law)
… frameworks dominate European discourse about Muslim identity. First, the Enlightenment notion that religion is a private matter to be disassociated from public life, particularly from the scientific enterprise. Secondly, the Orientalist tradition of portraying Islam as inferior to Western …
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Social policy and health inequalities : the relevance of faith to chronic illness management in the Pakistani community
… frameworks dominate European discourse about Muslim identity. First, the Enlightenment notion that religion is a private matter to be disassociated from public life, particularly from the scientific enterprise. Secondly, the Orientalist tradition of portraying Islam as inferior to Western …
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Identity Performance Among Muslim International Women: A Narrative Inquiry
The purpose of this research was to study identity performance among undergraduate Muslim international women on college campuses in the U.S. Identity performance was defined as the way in which these women acted, engaged, interacted, behaved, and situated themselves in their various environments …
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Muslim women in colonial North India circa 1920-1947 : politics, law and community identity
… explores the relationship between gender and Muslim community identity in late colonial India. It pursues two broad themes. The first of these is the way in which gender issues were used symbolically by Muslim religious and political leaders to give substance to a community identity based …
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Growing Babies, Growing faith: The Formation of Faith in The Life of the Child
The composition and formation of a young child's Muslim identity is situated within a contextual landscape of location, history, demographic, family, community and more which makes every child's upbringing unique. Through multiple interviews, visits and general discussions, this research sets out …
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American Muslim Philanthropy in Flux: Effects of Community Building and Identity Formation
American Muslim Philanthropy in flux is concerned with several interlinked ideas. From a discussion of how American Muslim communities have emerged, to the role of identity and philanthropy in creating them, this study is a careful examination of the central role that philanthropy has played in …
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A MUSLIM FIFTH COLUMN: MORISCO RELIGION AND THE PERFORMANCE OF IDENTITY IN SIXTEENTH CENTURY SPAIN
At the beginning of the sixteenth century, the Muslims of the newly conquered territory of Granada rebelled against their Catholic Castilian and Aragonese masters. The Muslims of Granada were subsequently given the choice of expulsion or conversion, with many choosing to remain and convert to …
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Muslim Messiah: Evangelical Missionaries and the Controversies of Islamic Contextualization
… in which American missionaries encouraged Muslim background converts in South and Southeast Asia to follow Jesus while retaining their Muslim identity, triggering fractious debates over their continuing mosque attendance and use of Muslim-targeted Bible translations which had avoided …
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The Culture of Muslim Diaspora and (Un)Changing Identities: Sunni Turkish Ethnicity in London
… but also provides empirical evidence for identity and media studies from the perspective of transnationalism. Sunni Turkish identity is constantly produced in private and public spaces, which are vertically connected with the homeland culture through trans-institutionalization of economy, …
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Pakistani Muslim communities in Britain and Germany : informal familial care of elders and processes of social exclusion
… processes of social exclusion within Pakistani Muslim communities in Britam and Germany through the symbolic act of caring for one's elders. In particular social exclusion is explored through individual perceptions of what it means to be included or excluded with reference to their experiences …
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