Islamic identity and politics in muslim-minority contexts
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Islamic identity has undergone profound changes over the twentieth century with the emergence of fundamentalist Islam. The rise of conservative Islam worldwide has generated unique challenges for different regions. Across three papers, this dissertation examines this change in Islamic identity and its implications for politics in the Muslim-minority contexts of sub-Saharan Africa and Europe. My work on sub-Saharan Africa examines the origins of Islamic conservatism on the continent while the work on Europe explores the institutional and societal responses to changing Islamic identity. In the first paper, "Arab Missionary Roots of Africa's Islamic Fundamentalism", I explore the emergence of Islamic fundamentalism in sub-Saharan Africa. I leverage cross-national and subnational evidence to link the rise of fundamentalism in Africa to repatriated graduates from Islamic universities in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The second and third paper explore Islamic identity and politics in Europe. In the second paper, "Perceived Discrimination and Adolescent Muslim Integration", my co-author Vasiliki Fouka and I examine the impact of social stigmatization of Muslims in the UK, Germany, and Sweden. We use high frequency hate crime data alongside a longitudinal survey of immigrant adolescents to show that in months with greater anti-Muslim violence, Muslim adolescents report greater association with the majority identity, lower religiosity, and increased pro-integration attitudes. The final paper, "Political Secularism and Muslim Integration in the West", co-authored with Vasiliki Fouka, examines institutional efforts to curb Muslims' religious behavior. We study the landmark French law banning headscarves in schools. We find that the law reduced Muslim women's educational attainment with negative downstream effects on employment as well as intensified their identification with French and religious communities.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2021; ©2021 |
| Publication date | 2021; 2021 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Abdelgadir, Aala |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Scheve, Kenneth F |
| Degree supervisor | Weinstein, Jeremy M |
| Thesis advisor | Scheve, Kenneth F |
| Thesis advisor | Weinstein, Jeremy M |
| Thesis advisor | Blaydes, Lisa, 1975- |
| Thesis advisor | Gulzar, Saad |
| Degree committee member | Blaydes, Lisa, 1975- |
| Degree committee member | Gulzar, Saad |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Political Science |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Aala Abdelgadir. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Political Science. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2021. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/kx926tq7022 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2021 by Aala Abdelgadir
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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