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Star Wars and Maghribi Sufi Islams: Reasons Why the Religious Studies Literature Overlooks an Obvious Comparison
Download2016-04-01
Do not those who disbelieve see that the heavens and the Earth were meshed together then We ripped them apart? And then We made of water everything living? Would they still not believe? (Qur’an 21:30) United we are to one supreme Source created and molded by the same Divine Force. (Shirazi) There...
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Reclaiming Islam and Modernity: A Neo-Shariati Revisiting of Ali Shariati's Intellectual Discourse in Post-revolutionary Iran
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Over three and a half decades after his death, Ali Shariati (1933-1977) continues to occupy a major place in the ongoing academic and public debates about the relationship between Islam and modernity. Seldom, however, have commentators attended to the ways in which Shariati's intellectual...
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2017-02-03
Although religious groups make up a significant percentage of the Canadian population, there is a gap in research about whether or not Canadian libraries carry sufficient materials to meet the needs of their religious users. To address this gap, this study examined the number of Christian,...
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Spring 2020
In this dissertation I explore how music can be used to assist in the process of reconciliation between the Sikhs and Muslims of East and West Punjab (respectively), who had exhibited centuries of interdependence - exemplified by the flourishing Sikh Empire, or Khalsa Raj, which encompassed the...
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The Tale of the Buraq's Tail: Reading the Buraq's Journey Through Indo-Persian Literature in a Comparative Study of Buraq Imagery
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In my thesis, I analyse two composite animal Buraq paintings from the Medieval Deccan. These two paintings, apparent copies of each other, are significantly different from other images of the Buraq in the Muslim world. Instead of placing the Buraq in a narrative scene, the Buraq takes up the...
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Journeying Through Islam, Society & Culture: Understanding Divergent Interpretations of Marital Rape Within the Sudanese Patriarchy
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Perennially, Islam has been viewed as a religion that subjugates women’s rights under the overwhelming pressure of the Islamic patriarchy. This work is an illustration of my journey as a third culture child through my home country, as I attempt to find answers to unusually difficult questions...
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Spring 2012
This thesis examines the late Muslim theologian Bediuzzaman Said Nursi’s ethics of non-violence. It argues that the non-violent ethics of Bediüzzaman Said Nursi based on the Qur’an might aid in finding solutions to the global problem of religion and violence, particularly as it is experienced in...
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Journeying Through Islam, Society & Culture: Understanding Divergent Interpretations of Marital Rape Within the Sudanese Patriarchy
Download2019-01-01
Perennially, Islam has been viewed as a religion that subjugates women’s rights under the overwhelming pressure of the Islamic patriarchy. This work is an illustration of my journey as a third culture child through my home country, as I attempt to find answers to unusually difficult questions...
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2017-02-03
Snihurowych Lynch, Sarah V. W.
Although religious groups make up a significant percentage of the Canadian population, there is a gap in research about whether or not Canadian libraries carry sufficient materials to meet the needs of their religious users. To address this gap, this study examined the number of Christian,...
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Spring 2012
For several centuries ginans have played an integral part of the Khoja Ismaili tradition. Community members learn, memorize, and sing ginans as part of their daily lives. Thus far, ginans have been studied mostly from textual and historical perspectives, however, it is through hearing, reciting...