Thesis (M. A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense))--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2009. / Thesis Advisor(s): Kadhim, Abbas ; Shore, Zachary. "December 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on January 27, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Islam, Muslim, radicalization, Germany, France, United Kingdom, terrorist, home-grown, immigration, integration. Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-85). Also available in print.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of San Carlos. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 199-206).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2003. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 73-76). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2003. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 73-76). Also available on the Internet.

This ethnographic work is about the aesthetic, habitual, and sentimental registers of some Bosnian Muslims’ (Bosniaks) daily lives in post-war Sarajevo. It addresses the ages-old themes of Bosnians’ multiple belongings and the question of political subjectivity through lived experience with a particular focus on the contemporary urgency to generate Bosniak national and religious subjectivity. It attends to the affective surplus of mundane scenes that convey the disconcerting drama of conversion to Islam, the nervous accumulation of new Islamic sensibilities, the vibrant ethos of Yugoslavism, the politically vulnerable but habitually engrained identity of Bosniannes, shared memories of the recent war, and the sustenance of the material and sentimental textures of domestic and communal life. Attending to the eventful character of the daily life enables the work to detail and test the existing frames of understanding Bosniaks (such as Nationalization and Islamization) and to further explore the potentialities of lived experience that escape existing regimes of representation. / text

This is a sociological study of religion that examines how gender and female Muslim identity is expressed during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in the swedish paper Dagens Nyheter in the year 1951, 1989 and 2009. The aim is to see who creates the image of Islam and Muslims in general and in particular the image of the Muslim woman and whose Islam is given space in the article material. The picture has changed with the increase in immigration from Muslim countries and that we have gone from a modern to a late modern society in which other patterns shape our identity. The historical summary of the paper Dagens Nyheter illustrates how the Swedish society is formed in relation to Islam and Muslims. It provides a deeper understanding of the problems in the swedish multicultural society today.

Bakalauro darbe teorinėje dalyje „Islamo kanonų pėdsakais” analizuojami islamo kanonų principai, moters padėtis islamo religijoje ir ryšys su vakarų pasauliu. Pirmuose trijuose bakalauro darbo „Islamo kanonų pėdsakais“ skyriuose analizuojama moters padėtis islamiškame pasaulyje, jos dvasinis ir socialinis vaidmuo, pagrindiniai rengimosi ir galvos dengimo būdai, svarbiausi Korano kanonai, apibrėžiantys moters aprangą, bei ryšys ir skirtumai su Europos ir vakarų moterimisš Ketvirtame darbo skyriuje pateikiamos įvairių krypčių lietuvių ir užsienio menininkų kūrybinės interpretacijos islamo tematika. Išskiriami pagrindiniai bruožai, būdingi islamo dizainerių kūryboje. Projektuoti kolekciją taip pat buvo analizuojamos islamo kanonų interpretacijos šiuolaikinėje aprangos madoje, siekiant kuo daugiau pažinti pagrindinius užsienio ir Lietuvos dizainerių vaizduojamus islamo bruožus bei savybes. Penktame skyriuje pristatomos drabužių kolekcijos „Islamo kanonų pėdsakais“ meninio ir technologinio sprendimo paieškos bei vykdymo eiga. Drabužių kolekcija skirta paneigti susidariusiems stereotipams apie islamo moterį. Dauguma vakarų moterų vis dar laiko musulmones „juodais maišais apsirengusiomis teroristėmis po vyro padu“. Musulmonės nesiekia savo apranga ar nuogu kūnu sužavėti, atkreipti vyrų dėmesį ar sukelti netinkamas seksualines fantazijas. Islamo moteris suvokia aprangą, kaip dengianti kūną audinį, kuris ją apsaugo nuo nuogumo ir nepagarbos sau. Moters kūnas tai... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / In this bachalas work „ Trace of islamic canons“ are "analyzes the principles of islamic canonical position of women in islam, and the relationship with the western world. The first three bachelor's „ Trace of islamic canons“ chapters "section discusses the situation in the Islamic world a woman, her spiritual and social role of the main pre-and head-covering techniques, the most important quran canons defining women's clothing and the relationship and differences between the european and western women.The fourth chapter presents various strands Lithuanian and foreign artists' creative interpretations of Islamic themes. Identifies the key features characteristic of the islamic designers works. It is also designed for the collection of analyzed islamic canonical interpretations of contemporary fashion apparel, to the more basic knowledge of foreign and Lithuanian designers depicted the islamic features and characteristic.The fifth chapter presents the clothing collections of „ Trace of islamic canons“ artistic and technological solutions, and execution speed. Collection of clothing designed to deny arise from stereotypes about muslim women. Most western women still consider muslims "black bag wearing terrorist under her husband's thumb." Islamic women perceive clothes as covering the body tissue, which protects it from the nudity and disrespect yourself. A woman's body is a temple creates life and protecting home and hearth. She has a husband captivate your mind, behavior... [to full text]

Although Calderon formulates an eloquent refutation of racialist discourse against Muslims, my thesis concentrates on the issue that his play-writing reinforces the Cristocentric ideology on the need for conversion. In order to determine some of his influences and inspirations, I have reviewed the literature dealing with the Muslim subject in Spain from approximately the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries. Drawing on postcolonial hermeneutics and social psychology, I explored the way in which the image of the Muslim is constructed, wavering between an aggressive representation meant to promote rejection, and a narcisistic reflection fostering the appropriation through conversion. Both postures presuppose a distinction upon religious levels which has remained constant throughout the literature studied in this thesis. / By analysing some plays by Lope de Vega and Cervantes it became obvious that the fast reflects, with some exceptions, the dominant prejudices of his audience by presenting stereotyped characters of Muslim descent. Cervantes, on the other hand, provides a polyphony of voices which makes his plays peculiarly ambiguous for the inattentive reader. These, although exceptional in their humane view of the world, consistently maintained Muslims and Christians distinct and separate, albeit within relatively expansive categories. / Calderon uses a lopesque model of the bobo and conserves Cervantes' Weltanschauung. Nevertheless, his main aim can be directly traced to the counter-expulsion polemics of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century intellectuals, who attempted to find a solid foundation on which to base Christian indoctrination. Utilizing a typologic and providential version of history, Calderon attempts to convince his Christian public that they should improve themselves spiritually in order to convert Muslims, who in turn should pursue proselitist activities in their respective countries. The Muslims predisposed to conversion are therefore presented as clearly differentiated from the ones who aren't, associating the first with courtly ideals and the others with diabolic manifestations. A necessary element for successful conversion of people of distinct cultures is the elimination of the myth of "purity of blood," which Calderon defeats categorically. All in all, his insistence upon the absolute necessity of a sincere application of Christian doctrine anticipates the disaster which those who conceived the conversion program could not avoid.

Despite discrimination in mainstream Canadian society, local Muslim communities are a significant resource for immigrants. Recruited by friendship and kin networks, some families chose to educate their children in private full-time Muslim schools which provide academic/economic credentials and social support. Through participant observation and semi-structured interviews, this research depicts a Muslim school in Montreal which both reflects Quebec society and nurtures minority ethnic/religious identity. For many parents, Arabic language classes, academic standards, and behavioral norms were as important as the school's religious affiliation. Rejecting the hypothesis that emphasizing religious and cultural identities distanced children from mainstream society, some felt that the psychological and social effects of affirming a child's background were vital to integration and participation in mainstream society. In addition, the school also provided entry into social networks which offered parents an important support system.

The institutions of marriage and family have existed throughout human kind and continue to do so as we enter the twenty first century. These are important institutions that prepare individuals as social actors. The progress of society from its traditional form to present levels of modernity, has come with many consequences for the institutions of marriage and the family. This has been witnessed by high rates of marital breakdown and single parenthood in almost all societies. The causes of marriage and family breakdown are many, and complex. It is a multi-factored problem which social scientists and policy makers are battling to come to grips with since its escalation has enonnous social, economic and political consequences. The biggest victims of marital breakdown are children. Unless society comes to grips with this social problem, the institutions of marriage and the family are at risk of collapsing. For society to continue to prepare future social actors, it is paramount that these two institutions are preserved. / Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of Durban-Westville, 2001.