Browsing by Author "Rikab, Waleed"

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    Apocalypse Postponed: Interpretations of the End-Times in 20th Century Islamic Writings
    (2022-04-08) Rikab, Waleed; Cook, David B.
    This dissertation studies how apocalyptic writings featured in ideologies and political programs representing Sunni Islam in the 20th- and 21st-century Middle East. A diverse body of writings commanding different levels of religious authority, these texts have inspired a variety of attunements to society, from investment in societal progress to the abandonment and rejection of society, and from local struggles to expansionist programs of conquest. In highlighting this diversity, I work against misconceptions of apocalyptic Islamic writings as having a single, fixed ideological program. In scrutinizing these various outlooks and the ideologies of their proponents, I also propose new categories that explain the differences and commonalities between diverging understandings of the apocalyptic in Sunni Islam, and how this divergence works with and reacts to changing political and economic conditions.
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    Middle-Class Culture in Cairo Under Ottoman Rule – Perceptions of Power and Knowledge
    (Rice University, 2019) Rikab, Waleed
    This paper focuses on the emergence of a middle-class culture in Cairo under the Ottomans from the 16th to the 18th century…