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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Sunni Islam"”.
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Agreeing to Submit: Authority Constructions in Modern Sunni Islam
<p>In the modern age, Sunni communities are often claimed to be in a moment of crisis. However, despite outward arguments about this crisis, Sunni communities are more accurately described as within a state of transformation. By analyzing constructions of authority from Sayyid Qutb, the clerical …
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A light in every home : Huda TV's articulation of Orthodox Sunni Islam in the global mediascape
… is a case study of Huda TV, an English-language Islamic satellite channel broadcasting from Cairo, Egypt. The author collected participant observation data as an employee of the channel in 2005-2006. The primary research question asks how Huda TV asserts an Islamic presence in the satellite …
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Post-Conversion Experiences of African-American Male Sunni Muslims: Community Integration and Masculinity in Twenty-First Century Philadelphia
… males form the largest category of converts to Sunni Islam in the US. This study aimed at understanding the ways in which the conversion process impacted social connections, both preexisting connections and creation and fostering of new ones post-conversion. This study sought to capture this …
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Legitimacy and Continuity in The Horn: A Conceptual Analysis of Alex de Waal’s Political Marketplace
… with Talal Asad’s discursive tradition of Sunni Islam and Peter Ekeh’s primordial public to more parsimoniously, accurately and comprehensively conceptualise legitimacy in the Horn and explain why its pervasive political behaviour is bargaining. Ultimately, I attempt to both abide by …
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A Subcontinent's Sunni Schism: The Deobandi-Barelvi Rivalry and the Creation of Modern South Asia
… and certainly the most significant within Sunni Islam. More recently, that rivalry has often been expressed by means of bullets and bombs, especially in Pakistan. But beyond the headline-grabbing violence of the Deobandi-Barelvi schism lies the story of a century-and-a-half-long religious …
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New Middle East Cold War: Saudi Arabia and Iran's Rivalry
… tensions represent two opposing aspirations for Islamic leadership with two vastly differing political systems. The conflict is between Saudi Arabia, representing Sunni Islam via Wahhabism, and Iran, representing Shi’ite Islam through Khomeinism. The nature of the Saudi-Iranian rivalry has led …
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Sacred Voices of the Golden Horn
… the second movement, Cry, is dedicated to Sunni Islam; the third movement, Kam, is dedicated to the old pagan religion of the Turkic people (Tengriism); the fourth movement, Triangle, is dedicated to Catholic Christianity; the fifth movement, Exodus…again, is dedicated to Judaism and, the …
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Contentious Politics in the Arab Middle East: Jordanian Salafism and the Social Appropriation of Tradition
… a particularly literal interpretation of Sunni Islam. I seek to unpack the processes by which prominent Islamist intellectuals impact and shape two Salafi currents originating and operating across Jordan during the 1990s and beyond. The first current is labeled 'Quietist' Salafism, as its …
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‘Travellers in Faith’ or ‘Stealthy Legions’: The Gurāgē role in the rise of Tablīghī Jamā‘at in Ethiopia
… research deals with Tablīghī Jamā‘at, one of a Sunni Islamic missionary movements that focuses on faith renewal. The movement originated in India in the 1920s and came to Ethiopia in the 1960s, it operated in a similar manner to its mother movement in India. Haji Musa Mahmood Ahmad Kikiya was …
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The new year's festivals and the shrine of Ali Ibn Abi Talib Sy Mazar-I-Sharif, Afghanistan
… Surkh. Since these festivals are not part of the Islamic religious calendar, we seek to locate their origins in the pre-Islamic religions of Iran and record the contemporary traditions of these festivals. Since the festivals are assimilated to a shrine dedicated to the fourth Caliph of Sunni …
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Space, Ritual, and Religious Experience and the Ottoman hajj, c. 994/1586–1194/1780
… new ground in our understanding of Ottoman Islam, as well as the history of Muslim religious practice more generally. The dissertation applies a novel methodology to a range of sources that have typically been examined separately, including guidebooks, pilgrimage narratives, and hajj-related …
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Naskh al-Qur'an: A Theological and Juridical Reconsideration of the Theory of Abrogation and Its Impact on Qur'anic Exegesis
… has always been a medium through and upon which Islam and the Muslim faith are structured and built. It mediates the relationship between Muslims and God. Despite its alleged divine origin, the Qur'an as a scriptural and textual reality remains to be understood by Muslims. Many theories and …
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The Imam's charisma: an analysis of Imam Warith Deen Mohammed's leadership
… Deen Mohammed’s leadership of the Nation of Islam, beginning in 1975. It focuses primarily on his interpretation of Islam, with considerable implications for his status as one of the first prominent American Islamic reformers. It is based on Max Weber’s ideal-type model of charismatic …