Weekly Course Schedule

Week 1 (2/28) Holiday

Week 2 (3/7) Islamic Law and Jurisprudence

Week 3 (3/14) Islamic Law and Jurisprudence — Tutorial

Week 4 (3/21) Sufism — Quiz

Week 5 (3/28) Sufism

Week 6 (4/4) Holiday

Week 7 (4/11) Sufism — Tutorial

Week 8 (4/18) Art and Architecture — Quiz

Week 9 (4/25) Art and Architecture

Week 10 (5/2) Midterm

Week 11 (5/9) Art and Architecture — Tutorial

Week 12 (5/16) History from Below — Quiz

Week 13 (5/23) History from Below

Week 14 (5/30) History from Below — Tutorial

Week 15 (6/6) Islamic Medicine — Quiz

Week 16 (6/13) Islamic Medicine — Tutorial

Week 17 (6/20) What is Islam? — Tutorial

Week 18 (6/27) Final Examination

Ms. 廖若因

Attendance – 5%

Quizzes – 20%

Tutorial – 25%

Midterm – 20%

Final Exam – 30%

*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.

* Failing to attend one tutorial session means no mark will be given to Tutorial (25%). Unless certain circumstances prevail (selon University policy), students will not be re-arranged to another tutorial session.

*Please note that cheating in quizzes and exams is unacceptable in any circumstance. If you cheat in a quiz or exam, you will be failed.

Islamic Law and Jurisprudence

“Set Reading”

Wael, Hallaq B. An Introduction to Islamic Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, 14–56.

Brown, J.A. Hadith: Muhammad’s Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World. Oxford: One World, 2009, 150–172.

Momen, Moojan. An Introduction to Shi‘i Islam. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985, 184–207.

“Further Reading”

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

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

Rapoport, Yossef. “Royal Justice and Religious Law: Siy?sah and Shari?ah under the Mamluks.” Mamluk Studies Review 16 (2012): 71-102.

Kristen Stilt, Islamic Law in Action: Authority, Discretion, and Everyday Experiences in Mamluk Egypt. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011, 38–72.

Sufism

“Set Reading”

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

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

Safi, Omid. The Politics of Knowledge in Premodern Islam: Negotiating Ideology and Religious Inquiry. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006, 125–157.

“Further”

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.

Islamic Arts and Architecture

“Set Reading”

Blair, S. Sheila. Islamic Calligraphy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006, 3–7, 241–270.

Blair, S. Sheila and Jonathan M. Bloom. “Art and Architecture.” In The Oxford History of Islam. Edited by John L. Esposito. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, 215–268.

Kadoi, Yuka. Islamic Chinoiserie: The Art of Mongol Iran. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009, 15–38, 123–161.

“Further Reading”

Grabar, Oleg. The Formation of Islamic Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.

Loukonine, Vladimir and Anatoli Ivanov. Persian Miniatures. New York: Parkston Press, ND.

Robert Hillenbrand. Islamic Art and Architecture. London: Thames and Hudson, 1999.

History from Below

“Set Reading”

Bennison, A., The Great Caliphs: The Golden Age of the ‘Abbasid Empire, London, 2009, 94–136.

Marmon, S., ‘Domestic Slavery in the Mamluk Empire’, in S. Marmon, ed., Slavery in the Islamic Middle East, Princeton, 1999.

Murray, S. ‘Male Homosexuality, Inheritance rules and the Status of Women in Medieval Egypt: The Case of the Mamluks’, in S. Murray and W. Roscoe, Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History and Literature, New York, 1997, 161-73.

Rapoport, Y., ‘Women and Gender in Mamluk Society: An Overview’, Mamluk Studies Review 11.2 (2007), 1–47.

“Further Reading”

Berkey, J., ‘Women and Islamic Education in the Mamluk Period’, in N. Keddie and B. Baron, eds, Women in Middle Eastern History: Shifting Boundaries in Sex and Gender, New Haven, 1992, 143-57.

Rapoport, Y. Marriage, Money and Divorce in Medieval Islamic Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, 69–88.

Sayeed, A., ‘Women and Hadith Transmission: Two Case Studies from Mamluk Damascus’, Studia Islamica 95 (2004), 71-94.

Ahsan, Muhammad Manazir. Social Life under the Abbasids, 170-289 AH, 786-902 AD. Longman, 1979.

Islamic Medicine 

“Set Reading”

E. Savage-Smith, F. Klein-Franke, and M. Zhu. “?ibb” in Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition.

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).

Bürgel, J.Christoph. “Secular and Religious Features of Medieval Arabic Medicine.” In Asian Medical Systems: A Comparative Study, edited by Charles M. Leslie. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976, pp. 44–62.

“Further Reading”

Karmi, Ghada. “Al-Tibb Al-Nabawi: The Prophet’s Medicine.” Technology, Tradition and Survival: Aspects of Material Culture in the Middle East and Central Asia. Edited by Richard Tapper and Keith McLachlan. London: Frank Cass, 2005, pp. 64–72.

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

Gutas, Dimitri. Greek Thought, Arabic Culture: The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early ‘Abb?sid Society (2nd–4th/8th–10th Centuries). London: Routledge, 1998, 107–186.