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Acquiring Social Capital: the biographical trajectory of long-term surviving HIV/AIDS activist Faghmeda Miller

Author: Altalib, Najma Date: 2020 Despite criticism from relatives, religious leaders and her Muslim community, Faghmeda Miller publicly disclosed her HIV status on World AIDS Day in 1996. She became the first Muslim woman in South Africa to do so. Her story of courage in the ... Read more
The alienated religion studies teacher: a case study in Cape Town, South Africa

Author: Driesen, Danika Date: 2017 South Africa's post-apartheid National Policy on Religion and Education instituted in 2003 ushered in a new paradigm for the study of religion in the country's schools. It promotes a programme of teaching and learning about religious diversity ... Read more
The approach of the traditionalist school to the epistemological and ecumenical concerns of the mystical experience debate

Author: Minnaar, Clinton Date: 2001 The present thesis begins with an identification of the fact that numerous academic commentators on the mystical experience debate misrepresent the epistemological position of the traditionalist school; and this, through a confusion of the ... Read more
Consuming, producing, defining halal : halal authorities and Muslim consumers in South Africa

Author: Tayob, Shaheed Date: 2012 Nineteen eighty-five was the year in which the first halal-certified non-meat product appeared in South African stores. The certifying authority was the Muslim Judicial Council of Cape Town and the product was Flora-margarine. The certification ... Read more
Contemporary Islamic thought and the re-emergence of the Qur'an as foundational text

Author: Farouk-Alli, Aslam Date: 2002 This study examines the status of the Qur'an in contemporary Islamic thought at the point of intersection with the philosophical discourses of modernity and postmodernity. As a marginal discourse, Islamic thought has had to seek legitimacy ... Read more
A critique of contemporary Islamist political philosophy with specific regard to the concept of Islamic state

Author: Patel, Azizur Rahman Date: 1996 The Islamist/fundamentalist movements of the twentieth century, such as the Jama' ate Islami of Pakistan, the Ikhwan al Muslimin of Egypt, and the FIS of Algeria, have committed themselves to the ideal of attaining an 'Islamic state'. In their ... Read more
Faith-based interventions in addressing violence against women in Cape Town

Author: Chirongoma, Fungai Date: 2021 Violence against women is a social reality in South Africa. In 2014, the country was named the world rape capital by media and humanitarian organizations because of the intensity of violence. Several legal reforms have been put in place to ... Read more
Government perceptions of Cape Muslim exiles : 1652-1806

Author: Rafudeen, Mohammed Auwais Date: 1996 This essay examines how the Cape government thought and felt about certain prominent Muslims, exiled from present day Indonesia to that colony, in the period 1652 to 1806. It has both descriptive and analytic functions. Descriptively, it seeks ... Read more
Ibn Hazm on the doctrine of Taḥrīf

Author: Omar, Abdul Rashied Date: 1992 This dissertation seeks to make a critical assessment of the Muslim doctrine of taḥrīf (the charge that the Jews and Christians corrupted their divine scriptures) via its most vociferous protagonist, the Spanish Muslim scholar, Abū Muhammad ... Read more
Identity formation in the novel : orientalism, modernity and Orhan Pamuk

Author: Dollar, Cathlene Elizabeth Date: 2015 The novelist Orhan Pamuk rose to prominence as a writer in the midst of the westernized, secular Turkish community in the late twentieth century. Pamuk has insisted that he has attempted to depart from the overtly political style of other ... Read more
The Imām of Simonstown and his diary (1904-1928)

Author: Davids, M Ardiel Date: 2011 This thesis is a study of Imām Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ Saban and his Diary within the context of the Simonstown Muslim community that he served from 1904 until 1928. The thesis presents the Diary, transcribed, edited, and digitised, for the sake of ... Read more
The Interaction of Sound and Meaning in Qur’ānic Words: A Tonal Approach

Author: Ömer, Faruk Es Date: 2018 Muslims believe that the Qur’ān is the Speech of God with all its sound and sense. The association of the sound with Divine speech triggers the anticipation that the sound and meaning in the Qur’ān have to be intertwined. This expectation is ... Read more
Islamic law and social change : a legal perspective

Author: Moosagie, Mohammed Allie Date: 1989 My thesis attempts, in the first instance to ascertain whether Islamic legal theory (usul) has made provisions for the accommodation of changing social exigencies. If such provisions have been made, are they adequately employed to achieve ... Read more
Islamic Politics in South Africa between Identity and Utopia

Author: Tayob, Abdulkader Date: 2008 This article identifies three sites of Islamic politics in South Africa for closer and critical analysis and appraisal. It proposes that Islamic politics inscribed an idealistic vision for the future. It promoted a utopian vision that was by ... Read more
Islamist Biographies: Religious Experiences of South African Muslim Activists

Author: Ahjum, Gadija Date: 2016 This thesis explores the biographies of Muslim activists who were involved in the South African Islamist movement from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s - tracking their trajectories up till the present. These Islamist biographies can be likened to ... Read more
Managing socio-religious expectations in an intimate space : examining Muslim-interfaith marriage amongst working class communities in Cape Town

Author: Abrahams, Naasiha Date: 2012 This study investigates how marriage norms are negotiated and constructed in the context of Muslim-interfaith marriage amongst those from primarily working class communities in Cape Town. It also explores the religious identity of individuals ... Read more
Montessori and Religious Education in Western Cape Preschools

Author: Jassiem, Shamiemah Date: 2017 The debate about whether or not religious education should be included in early childhood education is a longstanding one. Even those who believe that Religious Education should be included in early childhood programs cannot agree about the ... Read more
Multicultural social intervention and nation-building in South Africa : the role of Islamic counselling and psychotherapy

Author: Abdullah, Somaya Date: 2002 This thesis explores the role of multicultural counselling in nation-building in South Africa, using Islamic counselling and psychotherapy as a research case study. It merges a number of seemingly disparate disciplines in an innovative analysis ... Read more
Negotiating marriage and divorce in Accra : Muslim women's experiences.

Author: Issaka, Fulera Date: 2012 This thesis sets out to investigate Muslim women’s marital experiences in Accra, Ghana, West Africa. In particular, these experiences had to do with negotiating marriage and divorce. It included the broad marital relations like decision-making, ... Read more
Politics, ethnicity and jostling for power : the evolution of institutions of Muslim leadership and Kadhiship in colonial Kenya, 1895-1963

Author: Mwakimako, Hassan Abdulrahman Date: 2003 This study demonstrates the flexibility and manipulability of Islamic leadership in a pluralistic situation, and argues that colonial policies and practices concerning Islamic legal practitioners (qadis), their institutions (qadis courts) ... Read more