This study investigates how and why Tunisia’s 2014 Constitution describes the nation as both an Islamic and civil state, and what effect this duality has …
This dissertation models an alternative to the epistemic objectification of Islam in Euro-American discourses of theatre history and performance theory. Historicizing these discourses’ conceptualization of …
Abstract of “Kalām as a Way of Life: al-Jāḥiẓ, Natural Philosophy, and the Ontology of Human Difference,” by Michael Lawrence Payne, Ph.D., Brown University, October …
This dissertation explores the generative epistemological potential of medieval Sufism through the radical openness of Saʿd al-Dīn Ḥamūya's (d. 1252) thought. The project reads the …
This dissertation examines a debate over a mosque in the eastern German village of Heinersdorf as an instance of grassroots civic action in a post-communist …
My research addresses the fundamental question of why certain socio-economic development projects take hold in a given context among competing alternatives. The dissertation investigates the …
This study interrogates how Brazilian cultural productions have examined the place of Muslims in Brazil’s national narrative, prioritizing the analysis of eleven texts published from …
This dissertation sketches the conceptualization and representation of sociopolitical dissent in Central Asia and Iran between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. How might rebels have …
This dissertation enriches our understanding of gender and religion in the African Muslim world. I illuminate this intertwining of gender and religion by investigating how …
Imam training programs are an oft-advocated policy prescription for the assimilation of Muslims in the postcolony and the West. This paper rethinks the meaning of …