Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-09-30T15:12:39Z No. of bitstreams: 1 delanodejesussilvasantos.pdf: 477129 bytes, checksum: abb17a8537ad1ee87a7c8da90eaf42f3 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Diamantino Mayra (mayra.diamantino@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-10-03T15:16:03Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 delanodejesussilvasantos.pdf: 477129 bytes, checksum: abb17a8537ad1ee87a7c8da90eaf42f3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-03T15:16:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 delanodejesussilvasantos.pdf: 477129 bytes, checksum: abb17a8537ad1ee87a7c8da90eaf42f3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-08-13 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O presente trabalho visa abordar o conceito de ummah como representação do Islã universal e as implicações dessa noção para a comunidade muçulmana sunita do Rio de Janeiro que se reúne na Sociedade Beneficente Muçulmana do Rio de Janeiro (SBMRJ). Esta pesquisa, realizada na referida comunidade, busca compreender como o conceito de um Islã universal, a ummah, opera nas práticas de uma comunidade local como definidor de uma identidade islâmica. Dessa maneira, procura-se descrever a história do início do Islã analisando como as narrativas sobre Muhammad influenciam na construção da identidade na SBMRJ. A pesquisa também procura demonstrar que as performances rituais da salat (a oração) e o khutbah (o sermão do iman) atuam como mecanismos de formação identitária na comunidade servindo como práticas disciplinares. Para esta dissertação utilizou-se pesquisa bibliográfica sobre o Islã e o tema da identidade numa perspectiva não-essencialista. O trabalho de campo realizado na comunidade inclui observação participante da principal reunião de oração na sextafeira bem como conversas informais e entrevistas com membros e líderes da mesquita. / The aim of this work is to approach the concept of ummah as a representation of the universal Islam and the significance of this notion to the Sunni Muslim community of Rio de Janeiro that attends the Sociedade Beneficente Muçulmana of Rio de Janeiro (SBMRJ). This research, carried out in the mentioned community, seeks to understand how the concept of a universal Islam, ummah, operates in a local community determining an Islamic identity. Therefore, it searches to describe the history of Islam by analyzing how narratives about Muhammad influence the construction of identity at the SBMRJ. The research seeks also to demonstrate that the ritual performances of salat (the prayer) and khutbah (the iman’s sermon) act as mechanisms of identity formation serving as disciplinary practices. Bibliographic research on Islam and the theme of identity in a non-essentialist perspective were used in this dissertation. The fieldwork conducted in the community includes participant observation in the main prayer meeting on Friday as well as informal conversations and interviews with members and leaders of the SBMRJ.

Thesis (M.A.)--Jāmiʻat ʻAyn Shams.

abstract: This thesis examines why young Western Muslim women from the UK are drawn to join and support ISIS in its established territories in Syria and Iraq and identifies their role within these territories. The critical role of technology, specifically social media, in facilitating the recruitment, radicalization, and mobilization of young Muslim women online to join ISIS is also explored. Females emigrating from the UK appear equally drawn to ISIS's ideology and state-building mission as Muslim men. Claims from the media suggest women serve as 'fighters,' however this research finds that women are not permitted by ISIS to participate in fighting. Using Britain as a case study, this study analyzes the social media content of eight young British Muslim women, known as female migrants, for themes motivating them to mobilize. Themes, culled from the literature, include Muslim attitudes and perceptions in the UK regarding Islamophobia or religious discrimination, the erosion of multiculturalism, identity and belonging, and finding purpose in the ummah, and measures whether these variables influence women to mobilize. Excerpts from blog posts and original tweets from their Tumblr, Twitter, and ask.fm accounts provide the actual voices of British female migrants choosing to live within ISIS territory and offers insight on their role as female migrants. Research suggests that, for British Muslim women in the UK, Muslim identity and belonging, both individually and within the ummah, along with attitudes and perceptions of religious discrimination (Islamophobia) and the failing of multiculturalism are influencing them to join ISIS. Additional motives for migration found within the study are based on the following beliefs: that the ummah is under attack, a strong desire to help build a new society, their religious duty as a Muslim, and the opportunity to belong and find purpose in the new "caliphate sisterhood." The role of female migrants residing in ISIS territory is domestic in nature, where they primarily function as wives and mothers of jihadists, as well as serve in online roles as propagandists, proselytizers, and recruiters for ISIS. The strong online presence of women demands an effective counter narrative to deter prospective female migrants from emigrating. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Global Technology and Development 2015

Abstract This master thesis examines the development of the Islamic discourse on Internet, by a research of the two Islamic expressions ummah and Islamic state. As a platform for the research is a discussion about 9/11 used, in which Giovanna Borradori interviews Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida about terrorism in the modern time. The research has been made in two steps, the first research is made in December 2005 and the second in February 2015. In the first research is the examined words study in BBS’s and blogs, and in the second case is same expressions examined in Twitter. As analyse method is Hans- - George Gadamers displacement of perspective used, to understand the movements in the discourse and the development of Islamic use of Internet. Manuel Castells thoughts about the network society and his work about the power of communication are used as a theorem to understand the Internet and its development in the last decades. The conclusion of this work is pointing at a progression in the use of Internet as a tool for communication in the Islamic community, and a displacement of perspective from western society as the primary enemy, through an internal religious movement to a more diversified conflict among different Islamic groups. Keywords: Internet, E-jihadism,, network society, Islamic, ummah, Islamic state, Twitter, blogs, BBS’s, mediated history, modern history

As a Marxist contribution to research on the concept of religious diaspora, this paper seeks to explore whether Muslims can be understood as a nationally oppressed people with an economic basis for organising collectively as a group. Drawing from a Marxist analysis of religion and national struggle, the paper seeks to explore the concept of an ethnicity formation premised on religious affiliation, namely that of the Muslim Ummah, and its organisational potential within a national struggle paradigm. Utilising the Hegelian Marxist concept of Aufhebung, or dialectical return, the study resituates the parameters of anti-colonial struggle beyond nation to the transnational arena, recapturing the economic basis of the Ummah and enabling an understanding of its contemporary emergence within and alongside national struggle mobilisations at both localised and transnational levels.

English, with some Arabic text / After justifying my rationale for this study, I have briefly propounded anthropological and philosophical perspectives for the institution and development of law in human society. Thereafter I have focused on the criminal law of Islām. With regards to invariable penalties for certain offences and variable penalties for others I have also stressed the oft-neglected issue of rehabilitation. Besides, I have also appraised criminal procedure and then concluded by refuting objections raised against Islāmic criminal law by critics. In sum, the following comes to light: • The Islāmic laws encompass all facets of criminality. • Islām believes in nipping the evil in the bud: treating the wound and then applying the plaster. If it comes to the worst that the wound becomes incurable, then for the betterment of the patient and others, it may as well be amputated. Its aim is not to castigate the criminals; rather to reprimand them and bring reform in the society. • How crucial this topic is and how urgently it should be addressed. • How temperate the Islāmic laws are in weeding out crimes from the societies. • Crime is a crime, whether it is perpetrated by an individual or state. / Religious Studies and Arabic / M.A. (Islamic Studies)

In Kuwait, an increase in the use of social media by the Kuwait National Assembly (KNA) has allowed it members to reach out to the public and so advance their political agenda. This study examines social media influences on the decision making process; addresses the lack of academic research in relation to KNA members; and seeks to understand the extent to which public political engagement using social media might affect the outcome of their decision making. The proposed social media influence model (SMIM) was used to explore the relationships and relative importance of variables influencing legislator decision making in a social media environment. The second decade of the twenty-first century saw a number of major issues emerging in Kuwait. A core mixed method design known as explanatory sequential was applied to multiple sets of data generated during KNA members' 14th (2013-2016) and 15th (2016-2018) terms. These data included Twitter messages (tweets), the KNA Information Center Parliamentary Information System legislation documents, and the news media articles. The sample was drawn from KNA membership, some of which used Twitter to comment on major events with specific hashtags and the Kuwaiti news media articles related to the same. Study results confirm and support the proposed SMIM. They also suggest that a single person or a group of individuals (in this case, legislators) can be influenced and motivated to use social media for self-promotion and/or advancing their political agenda. Consequently, they can be used to devise ways for improving the use of social media by KNA members in support of legislative work, which in turn will provide citizens with access to real-time information and enhanced political interaction.