Woman as the “other” and the “other” woman: the alienation of Muslim women within feminism [PDF]
The entire aim of this work have been to initiate a new discursive space for feminist theory from an Islamic perspective. I looked at present feminist theoretical frameworks examining and questioning their underlying borrowed concepts and categories ...
Hankin, Rachida
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The Irish War of Independence (1919–1921) in County Galway: Local Histories, Memories & Post-Conflict Heritage Initiatives [PDF]
The Government of Ireland's Decade of Centenaries programme has aroused much interest of late in the revolutionary events that preceded the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922.
Kavanagh, Eilish
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Women in sacred spaces : an analysis of traditional Islam and Judaism in the communities of Cape Town [PDF]
Bibliography: leaves 139-155.The New Constitution protects Muslims and Jews as part of the minority religions in a pluralistic South Africa just like the rights of women are procured in the public and private arenas.
Mataar, Yusuf
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The Discursive Self: Rethinking the Relationship Between Autonomy and Tradition in Shi’i Thought [PDF]
The concept of autonomy underlies many other issues in moral and political philosophy. This dissertation states that contemporary debates within Shi’i thought view autonomy as individualistic, and that this individualism brings it into conflict with ...
Razavian, Christopher Pooya
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Scholastic Traditional Minimalism: A Critical Analysis of Intra-Sunni Sectarian Polemics [PDF]
This thesis is an analytical exploration of the influence of medieval theology on contemporary scholastic traditionalist polemics within Sunni Islam.
Islam, Tajul
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The Tel Aviv annual Purim celebrations were the largest public events in British Palestine, and they played a key role in the development of the urban Jewish experience in the Promised Land.
Shoham, Hizky
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The Islamic Legal and Cultural Influences on Britain’s Shari’a Councils [PDF]
My study investigates the Islamic legal and cultural influences on Britain's shari'a councils. These councils emerged from within Britain’s diverse Muslim communities, providing informal Islamic family legal services and mediating matrimonial disputes in
Shahin, Shahwiqar
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The Rational Psychology of Perfect Being Theology: Towards a New Islamic Hermeneutics [PDF]
Some of the attributes of a perfect being (e.g. first cause, necessary being, intelligent creator) are established on the basis of theological arguments such as the cosmological and the teleological.
Ahmed, Babar
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'She Who Disputes': A Qur'anic Precedent for Sacral Interlocution [PDF]
Despite enduring differences between the Abrahamic traditions Islam, Christianity and Judaism, women of these faiths have a shared experience of exclusion from institutional theological enterprises, where women are depicted as silent subjects of faith.
Jardim, Georgina L
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