Islamic Civilization Initiative
2001/2002 Grants
-- Sex Equality Litigation in Pakistan
-- Trials and Testimonies of 19th Century Damascenes Social History Through Shari’a --Court Records (Near/ Middle Eastern History)
-- The Status of Women’s Education in Bahrain (Near/Middle Eastern Studies)
-- Arabic Calligraphy and Islam in Syria (Painting and Printmaking)
-- Possessing Histories and Colonial Memories in Sidi Ifni, Morocco (Anthropology)
2002/2003 Grants
-- Research on as-Sama: Classical Islamic Music in Morocco (Ethnomusicology)
-- Islamic Science and the Modern Arab World (Islamic Studies)
-- Transnational Islamic Intellectual Networks (Anthropology)
-- Arabic Language and Qu’ranic Readings (Arabic Lang. & Lit.)
-- The Religious and Social Functions of the Sayyid Families of Tarim, Hadhramawt (Islamic Studies)
-- The Mosque of Sayyida Zaynab: Traditions of Pilgrimage, Trade and Tourism (Near/Middle Eastern Studies)
2003/2004 Grants
-- Bahrain’s Economic Development Program: Untangling Incentives and Understanding Opportunities (Economic Development)
-- Religion and Economics: An Analysis of the Islamic Banking System in Bangladesh (Islamic Studies)
-- Economics, the Green Revolution, and Islam: The Growth of Local Environmental Movements in Morocco (Environmental Studies)
-- Islam, Cultural Relativism, and the Question of the Universality of International Human Rights Norms (Law)
-- Islam and Feminism in the Moroccan University: An Ethnopoetic Approach (Anthropology)
-- A New Era for Moroccan Women (Photography)
-- Shrines: Women and the Popular Practice of Islam in Damascus (Islamic Studies)
-- Umayyad Damascus: the Construction of a Multi-Religious Society (Near Eastern Studies)
-- Exploring Literary Motifs in Medieval Arabic Historiography of Greater Syria (Comparative Literature)
-- The United Arab Emirates: Religion, Politics and the South Asian Community (Islamic Civilizations)
-- Citizenship and Social Influence: A Study of the Public Sphere in Senegal (African Politics)
2004/2005 Grants
-- Gris-Gris: Traditional Talisman amongst Mandingo Muslims (Photography)
-- The Sheikh Nur Hussein Pilgrimage: Rituals, Social Behavior, and Commerce (Anthropology)
-- The Reconciliation of Traditional and Islamic Wisdom in Modern Mali (Philosophy)
-- Islamic Education and Identity in Durban, South Africa (Sociology)
-- Women and Their Involvement in Traditional Islamic Education in Tarim (Islamic Studies)
-- Muslim Family Law in Tunisia: a Comparative Study (Islamic Studies)
-- The Muslim Jesus in Damascus (Islamic Studies)
-- Women, Modernity, and Sufism: Islamic Discourse and Social Tension in Syria (Islamic Studies)
-- Rebellion in the Umayyad State (Islamic Studies)
-- Shi’I Women’s Religious Practices in Syria (Near and Middle Eastern Studies)
-- In the Shadow of the “Greatest Master”: Ibn al-‘Arabi in Damascus (Islamic Studies)
-- The Legal Thought of Ahmad Zarruq (Islamic Studies)
-- Muslim Minorities and Islamic Law: Lessons from al-Andalus (Islamic Studies)
-- Political Islam and Morocco’s Independence Struggle (Near and Middle Eastern Politics)
-- Islamic Values and Development: the Islamic Development Bank (International Relations)
-- The Role of Arabic Linguistic Sciences in Interpreting the Qu’ran (Islamic Languages and Literatures)
-- Islamic Jihad: Inner Struggle for Excellence (Islamic Studies)
-- The Nature of Differences between Islamic Banking and Western-Style Banking (Economics)
-- The Struggle for Aligarh: The Role of Muslim Institutes of Higher Education in the Formation of a Modern Muslim Identity in India (South Asian Studies)
-- Women’s Rights in Muslim Personal Law (South Asian Studies)
-- Religion and Social Development: Islamic Responses to Poverty in Hyderabad, India (Islamic Studies)
-- Satellite Television and Islamic Authority (Communications)
-- Revolution and Revision: the Development of Islamic Law in Egypt (Islamic Studies)
-- “Khul”: Using Egypt’s Personal Status Law Reform as a Case Study of Present Opportunities for Implementation of Islamic Law (Islamic Studies)