三、Course Schedule and Requirements:

W1（9/18）: Introduction

W2（9/25）: The Religion: Islam

Allen, Roger and Shawkat Toorawa, ed. Islam: A Short Guide to the Faith. Cambridge: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2011

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein, “Islam in the Present Day Islamic World.” in Islam in the Modern World, Harper One, 2007, 17-41

W3（10/2）: Law and Society

Hallaq, Wael.  An Introduction to Islamic Law.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Akbarzadeh, Shahram, ed. “The Role of Islamic Law in the Contemporary World Order” in Islam and Globalization Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies, London: Routledge, 2006, pp. 9-19.

Layish, Aharon. “Islamic Law in the Modern World Nationalization, Islamization, Reinstatement,” Islamic Law and Society 21 (2014): 276-307.

Levy, Reuben.  “Usage, Custom and Secular Law under Islam” in The Social Structure of Islam, London: Routledge, 1962, pp. 242-270.

W4（10/9）: Arabic Language

Salameh, Franck. "Does Anyone Speak Arabic?" Middle East Quarterly. Fall (2011): 47-60.

Findlow, Sally. "Higher Education and Linguistic Dualism in the Arab Gulf." British Journal of Sociology of Education 27.1 (Feb., 2006): 19-36.

Hammond, Andrew. “The Arabic Language the Key to Arab Identity.” Popular Culture in the Arab World. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2007, 53-78.

Said, Edward.  “Living in Arabic.” Al-Ahram Weekly. (12 - 18 February 2004 Issue No. 677)

W5（10/16）: Orientalism and its Impact in the Middle East

Tolmacheva, Marina. "The Medieval Arabic Geographers and the Beginnings of Modern Orientalism." International Journal of Middle East Studies 27.2 (May, 1995): 141-56.

Hafez, Sabry. "Edward Said's Intellectual Legacy in the Arab World." Journal of Palestine Studies 33.3 (Spring, 2004): 76-90.

Reid, Donald Malcolm. “Cairo University and the Orientalists,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Feb., 1987), pp. 51-75.

W6（10/23）: Islamic and Modern Education

Halstead, J. Mark. "An Islamic Concept of Education." Comparative Education 40.4, Special Issue (29): Philosophy, Education and Comparative Education (Nov. 2004): 517-29.

Muasher, Marwan. "Education for Pluralism." The Second Arab Awakening and the Battle for Pluralism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014, 123-41.

Al-Khouli, Ramadan. “Women and Education in the Gulf: Between the Modern and the Traditional.” in Gulf Women, Amira El-Azhary Sonbol, ed., London: Bloomsbury, 2012, pp. 222-40.

W7（10/30）: Islamic Intellectual Trends

Stewart, Dona J. “Contemporary Islamic Thought.” in The Middle East Today Political, Geographical and Cultural Perspectives, London, Routledge, 2009, 126-139.

Reid, Donald.  “The Syrian Christians and Early Socialism in the Arab World,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Apr., 1974), pp. 177-193

Sharabi, Hisham.  “The Emergence of Arab Secularism” in Arab Intellectuals and the West The Formative Year 1875-1914, Baltimore, The Johns Hopskins Press, 87-104.

W8（11/6）: Women in Islam

Laffin, John. “As Arab Men see Women” in The Arab Mind Considered, 1975, pp. 98-105

Levy, Reuben.  “The Status of Women in Islam” in The Social Structure of Islam, 1962, pp. 91-134

Tohidi, Nayereh.   ““Islamic Feminism”: Negotiating Patriarchy and Modernity in Iran,” The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Islamic Thought

Badran, Margot. “Between Secular and Islamic Feminism/s: Reflections on the Middle East and Beyond.” Journal of Middle East Women's Studies; Winter 2005

W9（11/13）: Arabic Books and Press

Dajani, Nabil. "Arabic Books." Arab Media. Ed. Mellor, Noha. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2011. 29-44.

Dajani, Nabil. "Arab Press." Arab Media. Ed. Mellor, Noha. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2011. 45-66.

Jacquemond, Richard. "The Yacoubian Building and Its Sisters Reflections on Readership and Written Culture in Modern Egypt." Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa, El Hamasy, Walid and Mourira Soliman, ed., London, Routledge, 2013, 144-161

Ayalon, Ami. “Arab Book Sellers and Bookshops, 1850-1914.” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, April 2010, 37(1), 73–93

W10（11/20）: Islamic Finance (Term Paper Proposal Due)

Maljichi, Drita N.. “The Gate to IslamicFinance”, Vizione, 28 (2017), 349-356.

Chapra, Muhammad Umer. “The Global Financial Crisis Can Islamic Finance Help?” Imsights 01:4 (2009) pp. 27-38.

Obid, Siti Normala and Babak Nayary. “Toward a Comprehensive Theoretical Framework for Shariah Governance in Islamic Financial Institutions” in Islamic finance Principles, Performance and Prospects, eds. Tina Harrison and Essam Ibrahim, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

W11（11/27）: Challenges: Modernization and Globalization

Abu-Rubi', Ibrahim. “ Contemporary Arab Thought Studies in Post-1967 Arab Intellectual History. London: Pluto Press, 2004. 164-184.

Abu-Rubi', Ibrahim. “Contemporary Arab Thought and Globalization.” Contemporary Arab Thought Studies in Post-1967 Arab Intellectual History. London: Pluto Press, 2004. 185-200.

Sedgwick, Mark. “Islam and Popular Culture,” in Islam in the Modern World, Jeffrey T. Nenney and Ebrahim Moosa, eds, London: Routledge, 2014

Akram, Ejaz. "The Muslim World and Globalization: Modernity and the Roots of Conflict." Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition. Ed. Lumbard,

Akram, Ejaz. “The Muslim World and Globalization: Modernity and the Roots of Conflicts.” in Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition. Joseph E. Lumbard ed., Bloomington, Ind.: World Wisdom, 2004, 237-79

Moaddel, Mansoor.  “The Study of Islamic Culture and Politics: An Overview and assessment.” Annual Review of Sociology 28 (2002), 359-388.

W12（12/4）: Oral Presentation

W13（12/11）: Introduction：Definition and a Brief History of Central Asia

S.A.M. Adshead,  Central Asia in world history.

Peter B. Golden, The World of the Steppes

W14（12/18）: Silk Road and Central Asia

O. Wild, The Silk Road

W15（12/25）: Religion in Central Asia before Islam and the after

Old-Turkic Deities

W16（12/11）: Turkic Lan guages in Central Asia and the World

A Brief History Of Turkic Languages

W17（1/8）: Russian Rule in Central Asia, Tsarist and Soviet Era

Central Asia under the Russians, to 1936 M. Dickens, Soviet Language Policy  in Central Asia

W18（1/15）: Central Asian Countries after Soviet Union

I. Bremmer, The Post-Soviet Nations after Independence

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五、Grading standard:

Participation and class discussion 35%

Oral presentation 15%

Final term paper 50％ (Term Paper due midnight, Jan 19^th , 2019)

Grading for Central Asia section:

Participation and class discussion 35%

Presentation 65%

Abu-Lughod, Lila, Do Muslim Women Need Saving, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2013.

Harrison, Tina and Essam Ibrahim, eds. Islamic finance Principles, Performance and Prospects, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Hitti, Philip. History of the Arabs, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

Hourani, Albert.  A History of the Arab Peoples, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2002.

Kennedy, Hugh. The Great Arab Conquest: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live, Da Capo Press, 2008.

Lapidus M. Ira. A History of Islamic Societies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Lewis, Bernard.  The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years, Scribner, 1997.

Lewis, Bernard. What Went Wrong?: The Clash between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Lumbard, Joseph E., ed. Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition. Bloomington, Ind.: World Wisdom, 2004.

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein, Islam in the Modern World, Harper One, 2007

Versteegh, Kees.  The Arabic Language, 2014.