Browsing by Subject "Islam"
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American Islam X
Academic and public discourse on Islam and Muslims in America continuously represses the deep (hi)stories of Blackamerican or Afro-American Muslims – (hi)stories rooted in the very inception of American nations – to focus ... -
Anarca-Islam
(2009-09-08)As an anarchist and a Muslim, I have witnessed troubled times as a result of extreme divisions that exist between these two identities and communities. To minimize these divisions, I argue for an anti-capitalist and ... -
The Chaos of Conflict in Ancient Civilizations
(2017-04-27)This document is a series of lessons to be taught in Grade 11 Ancient Civilizations courses. These lessons are specifically focussed on times of conflict between civilizations, including the Greco-Persian Wars, the Punic ... -
Curating Resistance, Resisting Curation: The possibilities and limitations of objects in institutions
(2015-10-03)This project examines Canadian cultural institutions through a decolonial lens to consider the structural complicity of these spaces in systems of epistemic violence, as well as grassroots means of resistance. This study ... -
Debating 'Islamic Feminism': Between Turkish Secular Feminist and North American Academic Critiques
(2011-09-20)This project questions western hegemonic discourse about the non-western Other, specifically the Muslim woman subject, through a post-colonial critical point of view. It takes the debate on Islamic feminism, especially in ... -
Deepening democracy and cultural context in the Republic of Mali, 1992-2002
(2007-10-11)This thesis challenges the view that the Republic of Mali is a model of democratization in Africa with the aim of opening the conceptual framework of democratic citizenship inherent in the democratization discourse to ... -
From Revelation to Revolution: Muhammad’s Deployment of Strategic Social Construction in Transforming the Ideational Structure of the Arabian Political System - 570 AD
(2015-02-17)There has been relatively little study of system change among scholars of international relations. Several academics have referred to the subject as the “evaded dimension” of IR. The reasons for the omission are complex ... -
Naṣīḥa and Ideology: Evolution in Religious Authority in Post-Colonial Morocco
(2010-09-09)The relationship between religious authority and political power has been continuously redefined in the tumultuous setting of post-Colonial Morocco. In this paper, I examine new and innovative trends in one traditional ... -
The Politics of Legibility: Writing and Reading Contemporary Arab American Women's Literature
(2014-10-06)This dissertation focuses on contemporary literature produced by Arab American women authors. My study utilizes the works of Diana Abu-Jaber, Mohja Kahf, Suheir Hammad, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Laila Halaby, to raise questions ... -
Queer Muslims: Identity & Sexuality in the Contemporary
This Ph.D. is an ethnographic-activist-based project. It first examines the genealogy of popular nationalist-statist and religious enforcements of postcolonial cisheteronormativity in Egypt through the examination of two ... -
The Uyghur and the Scholar: Competing Narratives of Ethno-religious Identity
(2010-09-01)This paper engages the nationalist and ethno-religious discourses among and pertaining to the Uyghur of China’s Xinjiang province. The purpose of such engagement is to illustrate that the scholarly discourse that has ... -
Women's Citizenship: Between Bloodlines and Patriarchal Conditioning in Postcolonial Algeria
(2014-01-30)My thesis maps a genealogy of patriarchal structures that underpin Algerian history, culture, and institutions between the war of independence and the 1991-2001 civil war. More specifically, I contextualize the ways in ...