Middle Eastern Studies: Recent submissions
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The rôle of the Arab provincial governors in early Islam
(University of St Andrews, 1963) - ThesisThis thesis is an attempt to introduce the governor of to-day to the work of their earliest predecessors, in the belief that it will prove to be, if not always an example, at least of considerable relevance to the problems ... -
Religious men and literacy in Berti society
(University of St Andrews, 1984) - ThesisThe thesis examines the use of traditional literacy promulgated by the Koranic schools among the Berti in the Northern Darfur Province of the Republic of the Sudan. This literacy is restricted both in the scope of its ... -
The influence of the Shāfi’ī school of Muslim law on marriage and divorce in the Malay Peninsula: with special reference to the State of Trengganu
(University of St Andrews, 1969) - ThesisIt is generally understood that nearly all Malay Muslims in the Malay Peninsula are followers of the school of al-Imäm al-Shäfi'i in the field of Islamic Firth or Law. Fiqh is the science of the knowledge of one's ... -
The Islamic fast
(University of St Andrews, 1972) - ThesisAs is well-known, fasting is one of the 'Pillars of Islam'. It might therefore be expected that as such, it would already have been extensively investigated. But this is not the case, for, besides the many minor points ... -
The Umayyad succession: succession to the Caliphate from the first Civil War to the end of the Umayyad dynasty
(University of St Andrews, 1997) - Thesis