Questioning terrorism : Islam, religious violence, & secular law in America
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Based on 18 months of fieldwork in New York City, this dissertation explores the ways in which secular law in the United States intervenes in defining, regulating, and containing Islam through terrorism cases. Through ethnographic data culled from seven domestic terrorism trials, fieldwork amongst three Muslim civil liberties organizations, and ethnographic interviews with the families and friends of terrorism defendants, this dissertation argues that what is at stake in terrorism prosecutions is not merely the elimination of violence, but also forms of Islamic thought and practice deemed to exceed the secular state's definition of legal or "permissible" religion. While social science research has primarily focused on the experience of everyday Muslims following 9/11, this dissertation focuses on what the social and legal life of terrorism cases - both inside and outside of courtrooms - reveals about the contradictions, contingencies and anxieties of the secular security state, and the place of Muslims in America today.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Ghani, Aisha |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Anthropology. |
| Primary advisor | Luhrmann, T. M. (Tanya M.), 1959- |
| Thesis advisor | Luhrmann, T. M. (Tanya M.), 1959- |
| Thesis advisor | Hansen, Thomas |
| Thesis advisor | Tambar, Kabir |
| Advisor | Hansen, Thomas |
| Advisor | Tambar, Kabir |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Aisha Ghani. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Anthropology. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2016. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2016 by Aisha Shahid Ghani
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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