PhD Thesis – Islamic Research and Information Center (IRIC) https://iric.org Sat, 17 Aug 2024 09:49:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.14 https://iric.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/iric-favicon.png PhD Thesis – Islamic Research and Information Center (IRIC) https://iric.org 32 32 PhD Thesis: “Muslims and palliative care in a Western context” https://iric.org/phd-thesis-muslims-and-palliative-care-in-a-western-context/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=phd-thesis-muslims-and-palliative-care-in-a-western-context https://iric.org/phd-thesis-muslims-and-palliative-care-in-a-western-context/#respond Thu, 15 Aug 2024 12:00:48 +0000 https://iric.org/?p=40438 PhD Thesis: “Muslims and palliative care in a Western context: An exploratory qualitative investigation”

Author: George Muishout

Supervisors: Pof. Gerard Wiegers and Prof. Hanneke van Laarhoven

University: Faculty of Humanities, Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (ASH)

Date of Award: May 2, 2023

Abstract

This thesis focuses on the role of religion in palliative settings involving Muslim doctors or religious professionals and Muslim patients and their relatives. It seeks to answer the question how religion shapes Muslim attitudes in medical decision-making in palliative care in the Netherlands.

The thesis demonstrates that in classical Islamic discourse, medical treatment may be withheld or terminated in the case of incurable illness, while modern Islamic discourse tends to put great emphasis on prolonging life through maximum treatment.

The results of the empirical part of the thesis suggest that the professional practice of Turkish imams and Muslim doctors regarding palliative decision making are embedded in the religious and medical institutions they represent and cater to the demands that are part of their jobs within these institutions.

The thesis demonstrates that Muslim doctors take a comfort-oriented approach aimed at preventing suffering from pain, which for some of them conflicts with their personal religious beliefs. Turkish imams predominately advocate for maximum treatment in their advice regarding medical decision-making to their congregants, for the conviction that all Muslims involved will be held accountable by God for questioning His omnipotence.

Together the results create the picture of a healthcare environment in which medical practice and religious beliefs are rather at odds.

 

Table of contents

  • Introduction
  • Muslims and medical treatment: An exploration of the ethical-legal status of treatment within the Sunni Islamic tradition
  • Muslim jurisprudence on withdrawing treatment from incurable patients: A directed content analysis of the Islamic Fiqh Council of the Muslim World League
  • Turkish imams and their role in decision-making in palliative care. A directed content and narrative analysis
  • Muslim physicians and palliative care: Attitudes towards the use of palliative sedation
  • Muslim doctors and decision making in palliative care: A discourse analysis
  • General discussion

 

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Source: University of Amsterdam

]]> https://iric.org/phd-thesis-muslims-and-palliative-care-in-a-western-context/feed/ 0 PhD Thesis: “The Origin and Development of the Dhimma in Islamic Law” https://iric.org/phd-thesis-the-origin-and-development-of-the-dhimma-in-islamic-law/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=phd-thesis-the-origin-and-development-of-the-dhimma-in-islamic-law https://iric.org/phd-thesis-the-origin-and-development-of-the-dhimma-in-islamic-law/#respond Mon, 15 Jan 2024 13:56:51 +0000 https://iric.org/?p=34118 PhD Thesis: “The Origin and Development of the Dhimma in Islamic Law”

Author: Robert Don Deal

University: Columbia International University

Date of Award: October 1, 2023

 

Abstract:

The Islamic Law of the Dhimma is conventionally viewed among Muslims as the proper legal framework for the presence of non-Muslims within an Islamic Society. It provides the legal rights and restrictions on the “People of the Book,” primarily Jews and Christians living under Islamic rule. Under this view, the law can be traced to the lifetime of the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad. This view, though typical, does not accord with the currently available historical evidence.

The study of the history of Islamic Law is limited in the Western tradition of learning. Among the scholars studying the discipline, Ignaz Goldziher (1850-1921), Joseph Schact (1902- 1969), Wael Hallaq (b. 1955), Ahmad El-Shamsy (b. 1974), and John Esposito (b. 1940), are among the few to attempt a historical account. None of these scholars wrote on the specifics of the creation of the Law of the Dhimma.

 

Source: ProQuest

]]> https://iric.org/phd-thesis-the-origin-and-development-of-the-dhimma-in-islamic-law/feed/ 0 PhD Thesis: “An Ethnographic Exploration of Faith, Fashion, and Female Muslim Entrepreneurship in the US” https://iric.org/phd-thesis-an-ethnographic-exploration-of-faith-fashion-and-female-muslim-entrepreneurship-in-the-us/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=phd-thesis-an-ethnographic-exploration-of-faith-fashion-and-female-muslim-entrepreneurship-in-the-us https://iric.org/phd-thesis-an-ethnographic-exploration-of-faith-fashion-and-female-muslim-entrepreneurship-in-the-us/#respond Tue, 05 Dec 2023 12:29:25 +0000 https://iric.org/?p=32339 PhD Thesis: “From Marginal to Mainstream: An Ethnographic Exploration of Faith, Fashion, and Female Muslim Entrepreneurship in the United States”

Author: Hassanah El-Yacoubi

University: University of California, Riverside

Date of Award: September 2023

 

Abstract:

The Modest Fashion Phenomenon has created new ways of understanding the complexities of Muslim womanhood through Islamic corporeality and entrepreneurial engagement within the United States. By moving beyond the veil as a mere marker of a collective religious identity and instead as an expression of hyper-individualized female Muslim subjectivity, new regimes of visibility and entrepreneurial activity are recognized. Female Muslim entrepreneurship has created a space of empowerment fostered through the neoliberal marketplace, catapulting female Muslims and their enterprises into the mainstream like never before altering Islam’s cultural footprint with the west.

 

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Source: ProQuest

]]> https://iric.org/phd-thesis-an-ethnographic-exploration-of-faith-fashion-and-female-muslim-entrepreneurship-in-the-us/feed/ 0 PhD Thesis: “How Educational Leaders Influence the Experiences of Muslim Students in Public Schools” https://iric.org/phd-thesis-how-educational-leaders-influence-the-experiences-of-muslim-students-in-public-schools/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=phd-thesis-how-educational-leaders-influence-the-experiences-of-muslim-students-in-public-schools https://iric.org/phd-thesis-how-educational-leaders-influence-the-experiences-of-muslim-students-in-public-schools/#respond Tue, 28 Nov 2023 12:54:47 +0000 https://iric.org/?p=32360 PhD Thesis: “How Educational Leaders Influence the Experiences of Muslim Students in Public Schools”

Author: Maryam Siddiqa Hasan

University: University of Florida

Date of Award: August 2023

 

Abstract:

In the U. S., Muslim students have faced bias, bullying, and Islamophobia since the attacks on 9/11. This qualitative study aimed to investigate how educational leaders influence the experiences of Muslim students in public schools. Data for this exploratory investigation was collected via three one-on-one, semi-structured interviews of educational leaders who serve Muslim students in public schools. Although there were some limitations, the interviews resulted in three themes as findings. The first theme was that educational leaders’ cultural knowledge was used to implement accommodations that influence the experiences of Muslim students in public schools. The second theme was that educational leaders’ promoting social justice through inclusive practices influences the experiences of Muslim students in public schools. The third theme was that educational leaders’ cultural responsiveness with a caring attitude and critical self-reflection influences the experiences of Muslim students in public schools. In conclusion, educational leaders must seek knowledge about their Muslim students’ cultural and religious practices and must use this knowledge to implement accommodations for Muslim students. Educational leaders must strive to build relationships with Muslim students to understand their experiences and create warm, inviting, and welcoming spaces for them. Educational leaders should care about Muslim students’ experiences in schools by informing the school staff of the basic needs of Muslim students. Educational leaders must self-reflect and think critically about their own beliefs and values to be better suited to execute decisions, practices, and policies that influence students of all cultural and religious backgrounds.

 

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Source: ProQuest

]]> https://iric.org/phd-thesis-how-educational-leaders-influence-the-experiences-of-muslim-students-in-public-schools/feed/ 0 PhD Thesis: “American Muslim Well-Being in the Era of Rising Islamophobia” https://iric.org/phd-thesis-american-muslim-well-being-in-the-era-of-rising-islamophobia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=phd-thesis-american-muslim-well-being-in-the-era-of-rising-islamophobia https://iric.org/phd-thesis-american-muslim-well-being-in-the-era-of-rising-islamophobia/#respond Wed, 27 Sep 2023 05:25:05 +0000 https://iric.org/?p=29278 PhD Thesis: “American Muslim Well-Being in the Era of Rising Islamophobia: Mediation Analysis of Muslim American Social Capital and Health”

Author: Keith Matthew Miller

University: Indiana University

Date of Award: April 2023

Abstract:

This study aims to examine American Muslim well-being and social capital in the face of Islamophobia. Ecological frameworks and social capital theory were synthesized to provide an approach for research, analysis, and social work practice. A mediation analysis was conducted to test the mediating effect of cognitive social capital on the relationship between structural social capital and distress. The paths of structural social capital, cognitive social capital, and distress were conceptualized using the ecological framework of Berkman and colleagues. Special attention was paid to how experiences of Islamophobic discrimination affect cognitive social capital and distress. Structural social capital was operationalized as the number of active memberships in civic organizations; Cognitive social capital was operationalized as trust in major institutions such as schools and the local police and Distress was operationalized using the Kessler Distress Scale. It was hypothesized that an increase in structural social capital would show a decrease in distress with cognitive social capital mediating the path. Results showed that cognitive social capital mediates the relationship between structural social capital and distress. However, an inconsistent mediation was found where an increase in cognitive social capital shows a decrease in distress, but higher levels of structural social capital show an increase in distress. Lastly, the results of the analysis were interpreted to inform current interventions with the American Muslim community through a social work lens.

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Source: ProQuest

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