Graduation Year
2020
Date of Submission
8-2020
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
History
Reader 1
Heather Ferguson
Rights Information
2020 Julian Nelson Rothschild
Abstract
This thesis is broken into two main components. The first is a brief foray into Islam’s early antiquity and the development of Islamicate societies and legal practices. By developing a rudimentary understanding of core belief structures and frameworks of Islam, this thesis seeks to combat the impact orientalist political theory has had on the Islamic diaspora––which, in effect, has caused the racialization of the global Muslim population. The second piece of this project is an effort to apply the history and theory articulated in the first section to answer three fundamental questions: how has the term ‘Muslim’ come to operate as monolithic representation of the Islamic community in the popular American vernacular, who fomented the racialization of the Islamic diaspora, and why did they find it necessary.
Recommended Citation
Rothschild, Julian, "I’m Not Your Muslim: The Impact of Orientalist Political Theory on the Global Muslim Population" (2020). CMC Senior Theses. 2518.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2518
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
