Theses/Dissertations from 2024
The Utilitarian Islamic Modernity of Ḥasan al-ʿAṭṭār (1766–1835), Ian Greer
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Abū ʿAmr ibn al-ʿAlāʾ (d. 154/770) and Qur’anic Philology in the Second/Eighth Century, Ali Abdel Latif
The World of Ibn Taymiyya: An Analysis of the Historical Context of Ibn Taymiyya’s Anti-Mongol Fatwas, Jarod DeVoogd
A Universe of Mirrors: The Mirror Metaphor in Ibn ʿArabī’s Thought in Relation to Ontology, Knowledge, and Perfection, Basma Eletreby
An Analysis of the Ash’ari-Mu’tazilite Conflict in the Ḥāshiya of Ibn al- Munayyir in al-Kashshāf by al-Zamakhsharī, Nabil Haskanbancha
Interpretatio Islamica and the Unraveling of the Ancient Sabian Mysteries, Maurice Hines
The School of Sharīʿa Judges: Sharīʿa Courts’ Reform and Legal Modernization in Egypt (1907-1927), Yamen Nouh
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Zinā in the Criminal Legislation Act (1999-2000): An Evaluation of the Implication for Muslim Women's Right in Nigeria, Paul Orerhime Akpomie
Printing Devotion: Sufi Books and their Transregional Networks in an Age of Print, Mariam Elashmawy
Adhkār and Aḥzāb in Islamic Thought and Practice: Invocation and Devotion in Egypt Thirteenth-Fifteenth Centuries, Mariam Ghorab
Reinterpreting Medieval Islamic Autobiography: The Case of al-Sakhāwī’s Irshād (1428/831 AH - 1497/902 AH), Maha Shawki
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Contemporary Mosque Architecture in Egypt and Iran (a Comparative Analysis), Hosam Ali
Hawsh al-Basha: The Royal Cemetery in Cairo, Mai Mohamed Kolkailah
Maẓālim between Politics and Justice under the Mamluks, Menna Rashad
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
A walk through a lost treasure: The house of Shaykh al-Sadat al-Wafaâ'iyya, Norhan Ahmed
Texts, Language, and History in the Madhab-Law Tradition: A Study of the Shāfiʿī School, Tarek Ghanem
A critical analysis of dower (mahr) in theory and practice in British India through court records from 1800 to 1939, Sunil Tirkey
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
The Mausoleums of Fatima Khatun and al-Ashraf Khalil, Naglaa Muhammad Sami Hassan
Land, Power and Interests: Reshaping the Law of Endowments of Agricultural Lands in Mamluk Egypt, Dalia Hussein
Women, Architecture and Representation in Mamluk Cairo, Amina Karam
The Potential of Architecture: The Meaning and Purpose of Commemorative Architecture in Islamic Civilizations, Natasha Pradhan
"Dhakirat al-alam": Palestinian traumatic memory in three works by Elias Khoury, Nourhan Tewfik
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Color symbolism in Islamic book painting, Imane Sadek Abaza
"Many a Wish Has Turned to Dust" the royal Aq Quyunlu Khamsa of Nizami, Dalia R. al Nashar
Tracing the Islamic influences on the garden design of nineteenth-century Cairene gardens, Radwa M. Elfardy
Istabl Qawsun: The History and Reconstruction of an Abandoned Palace, Mennat-Allah Mohammed el-Mahy
The innovations in the Ottoman legal administration:The 16th century between theory and practice, Honey El-Moghazi
Imprisonment for insolvent debtors in Egypt with specific reference to Al-Gharemoun cases, Nivert ElSherif
City Squares and Power in Medieval Cairo Manifestations of Socio-Political Power in the City Squares of Medieval Cairo, Muhammed Emad al Din Feteha
Cairo: Mapping the neoliberal city in literature A study of: The heron, being Abbas el Abd and Utopia, Nesma Gewily
The analysis of the key doctrines of Boko Haram (Jama’at Ahl-I- Sunnah Li Al-Da’wati Wa Al-Jihad)., Aisha Muhammad Iyawa
Politics and identity in design: An analysis of two contemporary Cairene mosques, Leena Sadek
From text to screenplay (gendering the nation in Mariam Naoum's literary adaptations), May Serhan
The Muslim wives' share in the matrimonial wealth: Between theory and practice, Yomna Amr Shaffei
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
The Seljuks of Anatolia: An epigraphic study, Salma Moustafa Azzam
Tradition, change and social reform in the fatwas of the Imam Muhammad 'Abduh, Malak Tewfik Badrawi
Tropical Mudejar: Mosque-type chapels in Mexico and their role in early Spanish America., Luis Carlos Barragan Castro
Al-Ghazali's integral epistemology: A critical analysis of the jewels of the Quran, Amani Elshimi
Al-Ghazālī's conception of the purification of the self: Reflections from Iḥyā’ ‘Ulūm al-Dīn (revival of the religious knowledge), Soha Ahmad Helwa
Farmer's regulation by Muhammad Ali 1830 from legal and social perspectives, Enas Moustafa
The maq'ad of Amir Mamay al-Sayfi: The history and context of a mamluk jewel, Amira Ayman Osman
Khul' in Egypt Between Theory and Practice a Critical Analysis for Khul' Implementation, Nivine Samaha
The interpretation of Islamic art and architecture of Cairo in European paintings in the 19th century, Heba Sheta
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Resistance in political theatre of Saadallah Wannus, Iman Ahmed AlAyyat
Imitation and Originality in Four Poems by al-Hạ̄jjʿUmar ibn AbīBakr ibn ʿUthmān Krachi (ca 1856–1934), Jibril Abubakr Gabid
The development of acoustics in the religious architecture of Cairo from the Arab conquest through the Ottoman period 640-1914, Ahmad Hussein
Re-thinking initiative of the Egyptian Jamaʿa Islamiyya in 1997, Maissa Hussein Niaz
Piety and power: Pious endowments in the Bahrī Mamlūk period, 1250-1382, Muhammad Shaaban
The conservation history of the mausoleum of Shajarat al-Durr, Farah Shoukry
Radicalization of Zaydi Reform Attempts, Maysaa Shuja al Deen
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
The sources of Ibn Tulun's soffit decoration, Pamela Mahmoud Azab
Farm to fork: Cairo’s food supply and distribution during the Mamluk sultanate (1250-1517), Anthony Teke Quickel
A study in intertextuality and religious identity in selected novels of Egyptian literature, Grace R. McMillan Stoute
A Morettian literary atlas of Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo in three early realist novels: Cairo modern, Khan al-Khalili, and Midaq alley, Paul A. Sundberg
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Catalogue of Hijazi Architecture in Jidda and Makkah c. 1850- 1920s: Selected Buildings, Hidaya Monir Abbas
Ottoman Kaftan Culture During 16th-18th Centuries, Bushra Tatari Chaabi
Architectural Jurisprudence: the Relationship between the Four Sunni Schools of Law and Mosque Architecture, Ahmed Hamdy Kamal
The Hammams of Cairo: Glorious Past and Endangered Present, Salma Kassem
Claiming The Mad, Samar Nour
The supposed dissipation of figural imagery in Mamluk art: a study of Mamluk iconography, Jennifer Peruski
Pre-Ottoman minarets in Anatolia, Mohamed Ibrahim Radwan
The divine names in Ibn 'Arabi's theory of oneness of existence, Makoto Sawai
Beyond Aristotelianism: al-Farabi on revelation, humans and animals in his on the Perfect State, Michael William Stark
Hats and tarbooshes: identity, cosmopolitanism, and violence in 1920s Alexandria, Daniel Woodward
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
The Contemporary Sufi Heritage of Shaykh Ahmad Ibn Mustafa al-‘Alawī: The Seven Spiritual Stages of the Sufi Path, Omneya Nabil Ayad
The French occupation: a historiographical view, Jaimee Hunsdon
On body, soul, and popular culture: A study of the perception of plague by muslim and coptic communities in Mamluk Egypt, Mohamed S. Maslouh
Contemporary mosque architecture in Turkey, Samaa Moustafa
Jesus according to Ibn al-’Arabī and Christian scholars, Jeong Jae Yoo
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Gender discourse in Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kubra: deconstructing Ibn Sa'd's portrayal of the model Muslim woman, Amira Naim Abou-Taleb
The use of the dialogue and speeches in al-Tabari's account of the Battle of Siffin, Yolanda Adair
The development of the Coptic perceptions of the Muslim conquest of Egypt, Walid Mohamed Asfour
Fatimid metalwork, Gregory Bilotto
The Image of Woman in Pre-Islamic Qasida: The Mu’allaqat Poetry as a Case Study., Yakubu Zahrrah Kamaldeen
Revival of Mamluk architecture in the 19th & 20th centuries, Laila Kamal Marei
The Ibāḍī Traders of Bilād al-Sūdān, Jason van Riel
"Fayyumi ware": variations, imitations, and importation of an early Islamic glazed ceramic type, Gregory Williams
The legal methodology of the Salafi movement in Egypt, Brian Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
The issue of methodology adopted by Mustafa Abdel-Raziq and its effects, Amina Abd-Allah
Theurgy in the medieval Islamic world: conceptions of cosmology in Al-Būnī’s Doctrine of the Divine Names, John Daniel Martin III
The roots and methodologies of contemporary Islamic legal reform, Eric Robert Trager
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Fatimid woodwork in Egypt: its style, influences and development, Fatema AlSulaiti
The margin and the center: a study in selected works from contemporary Egyptian novels, Linda Istanbulli
The Evolution of Birkat al-Fil (from the Fatimids to the Twentieth Century), Nadia Fouad Younes
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Rise and development of societal obligation (Fardh Kifiiya) in Islamic legal philosophy, Nahla El-Haraki
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
The Mut`azilī criteria for evaluating Prophetic traditions with special reference to usụ̄l al-fiqh, Mohamed Ahmed Abdelrahman
Hija' in the early Islamic period, Elsa Birgitta Elmahdy
Ibn 'Arabi's primacy of consciousness: finding in being found by the Real, Reham Elnory
Medical healers in Ottoman Egypt, 1517-1798, Sherry Sayed Gad ElRab
Stylistic analysis of the use of simile in Kalila wa Dimna by ibn Al-Muqaffa', Cynthia Brandenburg Harlow
Mamluk carpets ( Cairene and Ottoman), Hala Mohamed Sayed
The Ḥīran school: a canonical controversy in pre-islamic poetry, Adam Talib
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Sayyid Qutb and literary exegesis: An analysis of Sayyid Qutb's exegetical methodology in In the Shade of the Quran, John Clifford Halliwell
Continuity within Islamic art and architecture: Hassan Fathy as a modern catalyst, Ahmad Hamid
The influences of Fatimid jewelry: Echoes through motifs, techniques and shapes, Dina M. El-Mahdy Tolba
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Relations between the Fatimid Caliphate and the tribal peoples of Egypt and North Africa, Amar Salem Baadj
Dip your Bread in the Gravy: A Culinary History of Class Difference in Mamluk and Ottoman Egypt, Siko Deine Bouterse