Saudi Cultural Missions Theses & Dissertations
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Item Restricted Exploring Freedom and Belonging: A Comparative Study of Muslim Women’s Solo and Group Travel(Saudi Digital Library, 2025) Alorfi, Bashayer; Osman, HanaThis dissertation explores the evolving travel behaviours and perceptions of Muslim women, focusing on the contrast between solo and group travel experiences. The study investigates how factors such as safety, empowerment, social identity, and family expectations influence travel choices and overall satisfaction. A quantitative research approach was employed, using survey data analysed through SPSS to examine patterns, correlations, and differences between solo and group travellers. Findings reveal that while solo travel offers a sense of independence and personal growth, concerns regarding safety and social judgment remain prevalent. Group travel, on the other hand, provides emotional comfort and social approval but may limit autonomy. The results highlight a nuanced relationship between cultural expectations and individual agency, suggesting that Muslim women are actively redefining travel norms within modern contexts. This research contributes to a deeper understanding of Muslim women's empowerment through tourism, offering theoretical insights and practical implications for the travel and hospitality industry.11 0Item Restricted Muslim Women between Text and Context: An Exploration of Qurʾānic Exegesis with a Focus on Q 4:34(The University of Melbourne, 2024-08) Alshehri, Sahar; Saeed, Abdullah; Kamal, MuhammadThis thesis investigates and analyses the interpretations of the Qurʾānic verse 4:34 by selected classical and modern scholars, with a particular focus on qawwām, nushūz and ḍarb, using some key ideas associated with critical discourse analysis and adopting Abdullah Saeed’s contextualist framework for interpreting the ethical–legal texts of the Qurʾān. The thesis takes the position that the interpretation of the Qurʾān both in the classical and modern periods is influenced by the social and cultural contexts in which the commentators functioned and demonstrates this by examining a range of commentaries on Q 4:34. The thesis also explores how selected Saudi scholars understand Q 4:34 and the kinds of approaches they use in the context of today. This research contributes to the existing literature on Muslim women, gender equality and interpretation of the Qurʾān. The findings suggest that the contextualist approach in this research leads to a different understanding of the key concepts of qawwām, nushūz and ḍarb in Q 4:34. Additionally, this research explores how the socio-cultural contexts impacted the selected 50 commenters’ discourses as well as how their interpretive discourses were relevant to the context in which they live.25 0Item Restricted Muslim Women's Identity in a Changing World: the Fiction of Leila Aboulela(Saudi Digital Library, 2023-11-14) Alyabis, Najla; Tonkin, Maggie; Edwards, NatalieThis thesis focuses on the representation of Muslim women grappling with cross-cultural experience and identity in fictional works by Leila Aboulela . The works examined are: The Translator, Minaret, Lyrics Alley, The Kindness of Enemies and Bird Summons; in addition to the two collections of short stories, Coloured Lights and Elsewhere, Home. I argue that Aboulela depicts Muslim women as active agents who practise their faith from personal conviction as a deliberate strategy to counter dominant Western misconceptions of their supposed oppression under a patriarchal religion.74 0