Browsing by Subject "Islam"
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(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2008-08-20)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-02-10)
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(2018-06-20)Department: HistoryMy dissertation project asks a simple question: how did the invading Franks navigate the multifaceted language barrier when they conquered, settled, and ruled Syria in the era of the crusades? This project explores the ...
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(2007-10-03)Department: ReligionThis dissertation is an historical and critical study of sound as spiritual power in Qawwali, the Islamic devotional music of the Chishtiyya Sufi order of South Asia. My intention is to show that music and religion are, ...
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(Vanderbilt News Service, 2006-02-22)
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(Académie Roumaine, 2019)Over the past century, the work of Peter R.L. Brown has repeatedly broken new ground as a model for understanding the centrality of religion in the Mediterranean cultures of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. This article ...
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(2017-07-27)Department: HistoryThis dissertation focuses on the Arains, a lower-status Muslim community of colonial Punjab. I examine the historical construction of the Arains’ ‘caste’ identity and its deployment in the domains of reformist Islam, ...
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(Vanderbilt News Service, 2006-04-14)
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(2012-07-05)Department: ReligionRELIGION THE POETICS OF EMBODIMENT IN ISLAMIC MYSTICAL PHILOSOPHY KATHARINE DENISE LOEVY Thesis under the direction of Professor William Franke What modes of reading can be provoked by reading different kinds of texts ...