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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"converts to Islam"”.
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The Spiritual Turn: Modern Sufism and the Study of Islamic Art and Architecture
… on art and architecture. It draws the history of a chain of writers and artists, connected through a spiritual and intellectual line of transmission, who developed a particular reading of their world- its values, its cultures and arts. Divided into five chapters, it follows the classic …
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African American muslim fathers and the factors that influence their notion of fatherhood
… Over 90 percent of the research respondents are converts to Islam. These men perceive their conversion as a reclaiming of their heritage stripped from them when their African ancestors were forcibly taken from Africa and brought to America as slave. While this group of father have been omitted …
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Conversion to Islam in Colorado
<p>In the scholarship concerning conversion to Islam in the West, few books or articles have been written that examine non-African American US converts. Furthermore, this literature generally neglects using models of conversion for analyzing US Muslims. This thesis is an attempt to begin such a …
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Understanding the Islamic conversion experience of two African American males: a case study approach to decision making toward transformational change
Islamic conversion among African Americans is a unique 20th-Century phenomenon. African Americans represent 42% of the total Muslim population in America. This research study describes the life experience and decision process of two African American male converts to Islam. It examines Islamic …
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Hijab as Dress: Muslim Women’s Clothing Strategies in Contemporary Finland
This thesis concerns female Islamic dress, the hijab, in contemporary urban Finland. The hijab is not merely a symbol or an inevitable embodiment of either female oppression or agency, but rather is a form of dress that is simultaneously social, mental, material, and spatial. The approach developed …
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A heuristic enquiry of being “Alaq,” suspended in liminality as a convert to Islam
… explores the lived experience of liminality of converts to Islam through a heuristic enquiry of the state of being “Alaq,” characterised by liminality and inner conflict, particularly concerning identity formation, psychological impasse and spiritual development (tazkiyat-un-nafs). Drawing on …
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Islam på svenska : tidskriften Salaam och islams globalisering
This dissertation focuses on written Islamic discourses in Swedish, especially the journal Salaam - Islamisk tidskrift. The journal first appeared in 1986 and is a part of the activities of Islamiska Informationsföreningen. From the beginning, Salaam has been edited by female converts to Islam in …
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A Comparison of the Islamophobic Experiences of the Female Convert and Immigrant Muslims in America
<p>This study compares the Islamophobic experiences of female converts and immigrants in America. It is based on interviews with a total of thirteen women, six Muslim born ones and seven converts. Both groups included hijabis and non-hijabis. Unlike most other studies, in which the converts are …
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Negotiating differences in mixed marriages - Christians and Muslims in Greece
… significant because they contest historically and socially constructed ethnic, cultural and religious differentiations in the specific Greek context. These couples link nuanced and subtle dimensions of conjugal mixedness in the family formation process with Muslim migration and the …
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Understanding the stages of conversion to Islam : the voices of British converts
This thesis analyses data provided by face to face interviews with a sample of British converts to Islam to find out how and why they came to convert, and what were the repercussions of their conversions. The work is placed in the context of the predominantly post-Christian British society in which …