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Participation – 20%

Essay – 25%

Midterm Exam – 20%

Final Exam – 25%

*Participation will involve reading primary texts, translation, and answering questions in class (thus, preparation before class is obligatory). Failure to contribute to the aforementioned activities will be translated into failure to participate. Failing to participate for more than three times means no mark will be given for Participation (10%), unless under objective circumstance that is unforeseeable, unavoidable, and insurmountable.

*Failing to attend the lectures for more than three times means no mark will be given for Attendance (5%), unless under objective circumstance that is unforeseeable, unavoidable, and insurmountable.

Historical Background

“Set Reading”

Week Two

Berkey, J.P. The Formation of Islam. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, 39–75.

Kennedy, H. The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates. London: Longman, 1986, 1–81 (Chapters 1–3).

Week Three

Hillenbrand, C. The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999, 47–195.

Kennedy, H. The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates. London: Longman, 1986, 82–249, 267–284, 309–344 (Chapters 4–8, 10, and 12).

Lapidus, I.M., Islamic Societies to the Nineteenth Century: A Global History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988, 134–152 (Graphs and Chapter 9).

Week Four

Dale. S.F. The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, 48–105.

Lapidus, I.M., Islamic Societies to the Nineteenth Century: A Global History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988, 276–489.

Morgan, D. Medieval Persia 1040–1797. London: Longman, 1988, 51–82.

“Further Reading”

Athar Ali, M. Mughal India: Studies in Polity, Ideas, Society and Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Crone, Patricia. Medieval Islamic Political Thought. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004.

Berkey, Jonathan P. The Formation of Islam. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Bosworth, Clifford E. The New Islamic Dynasties. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996.

Hillenbrand, C. The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999.

Imber, C. The Ottoman Empire, c. 1300–1650: The Structure of Power. London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2002.

Kennedy, Hugh. The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates. London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2004 (1^st ed., 1986).

Lapidus, Ira M. Islamic Societies to the Nineteenth Century: A Global History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Morgan, D. Medieval Persia 1040–1797. London: Routledge, 1988.

Encyclopaedia of Islam, various editors, 2^nd edition (EI²), Leiden: Brill, 1960–2004; 3^rd edition in progress.

Atlases

Ruthven, Malise, and Azim Nanji. Historical Atlas of the Islamic World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Kennedy, Hugh. A Historical Atlas of Islam. Leiden: Brill, 2002.

What is Islam?

“Set Reading”

Ahmad, Shahab. What is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015, 5, 10–71 (week 5); 514–541 (week 17).

“Further Reading”

Bauer, Thomas. Die Kultur der Ambiguität. Berlin: Verlag der Weltreligionen. 2011.

Halm, Heinz. Der Islam: Geschichts und Gegenwart. Munich: Beck, 2000.

Sects

“Set Reading”

Crone, Patricia. Medieval Islamic Political Thought. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004, 51–144.

“Further Reading”

Halm, Heinz. Shi‘ism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1995.

Momen, Moojan. An Introduction to Shi‘i Islam. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985

Watt, William Montgomery, Islamic Philosophy and Theology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1985.

Zaman, Muhammad Qasim. Religion and Politics under the Early ?Abb?sids: The Emergence of proto-Sunn? Elite. Leiden: Brill, 1997.

Beliefs: Human-Divine Relationships

“Set Reading”

Rippin, Andrew. Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices, 4^th edition, Abingdon: Routledge, 2012, 61–87, 122–148, 160–172.

“Further Reading”

Adamson, Peter. Philosophy in the Islamic World: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Leaman, Oliver. A Brief Introduction to Islamic Philosophy. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1999.

van Ess, Josef. Theologie und Gesellschaft im 2. und 3. Jahrhundert Hidschra: eine Geschichte des religiösen Denkens im frühen Islam. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1991.

Watt, William Montgomery. Islamic Philosophy and Theology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1985.

Islamic Medicine

“Set Reading”

‘?ibb’ in EI² (E. Savage-Smith, F. Klein-Franke, and M. Zhu)

P.E. Pormann and E. Savage-Smith, Medieval Islamic Medicine (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2007), 1–51.

“Further Reading”

Dols. M. Majnun: the Madman in Medieval Islamic Society (Oxford: Clarendon, 1992).

Ebrahimnejad. H. ‘Medicine in Islam and Islamic Medicine’ in The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine, ed. M. Jackson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).

Karmi. Gh. ‘al-Tibb al-Nabawi: The Prophet’s Medicine’ in Technology, Tradition and Survival: Aspects of Material Culture in the Middle East and Central Asia, ed. R. Tapper and K. McLachlan (London: Frank Cass, 2005).

Sufism

“Set Reading”

Leaman, Oliver. A Brief Introduction to Islamic Philosophy. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1999, 13–22.

Geoffrey, Eric. Introduction to Sufism: The Inner Path to Islam. Translated by Roger Gaetani. Indiana: World Wisdom, 2010, 172–207.

“Further Reading”

Arberry, A. J. Sufism: An Account of the Mystics of Islam. London: Routledge, 1950.

Karamustafa, Ahmet T. The Formative Period. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.

Rippin, Andrew. Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices, 4^th edition, Abingdon: Routledge, 2012.

Watt, William Montgomery. Islamic Philosophy and Theology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1985.

Practices

“Set Reading”

Ahsan, Muhammad M. The Social Life Under the Abbasids: 179–289 AH/786–902. London: Longman, 1979, 1–28, 117–118, 188–190, passim.

Wael, Hallaq B. An Introduction to Islamic Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, 7–37.

“Further Reading”

Ahmad, Shahab. What is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.

Cook, Michael. Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Halm, Heinz. Der Islam: Geschichts und Gegenwart. Munich: Beck, 2000.

Pellat, Charles. The Life and Works of al-Jahiz: Translations of Selected Texts. Translated by D. M. Hawke,

London: Routledge, 1969.

Al-Mas??d?,. The Meadows of Gold. Translated by Paul Lunde and Caroline Stone. London; New York, 1989.