Archive for the 'Islam' Category
The non-existence of religious prophets
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008MÜNSTER, Germany — Muhammad Sven Kalisch, a Muslim convert and Germany’s first professor of Islamic theology, fasts during the Muslim holy month, doesn’t like to shake hands with Muslim women and has spent years studying Islamic scripture. Islam, he says, guides his life.
So it came as something of a surprise when Prof. Kalisch announced the […]
Fear and Resistance: The Construction of Alawi Identity in Syria
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007My Master’s thesis on the Alawis of Syria was finished in February. It is fieldwork-based and focuses on ‘normal’ Alawis and how they express their identity through their construction of Syria’s other sects (abstract).
It can be found here.
EDIT: The thesis sparked some feedback on Joshua Landis’ Syriacomment blog: http://joshualandis.com/blog/?p=287