Schedule

Week 1 (February 21): Induction and Introduction; the Muslims in Andalus and North Africa

Week 2 (February 28): Holiday

Week 3 (March 6): the Muslims in Andalus and North Africa — quiz

Week 4 (March 13): the Muslims in Andalus and North Africa

Week 5 (March 20): the Age of Sh??ism

Week 6 (March 27): the Age of Sh??ism — quiz

Week 7 (April 3): Holiday

Week 8 (April 10): the Age of Sh??ism

Week 9 (April 17): Midterm

Week 10 (April 24): the Coming of the Seljuqs and the Turkic Dynasties

Week 11 (May 1): the Coming of the Seljuqs and the Turkic Dynasties — quiz

Week 12 (May 8): From the Crusades to the Coming of the Mongols

Week 13 (May 15): From the Crusades to the Coming of the Mongols — quiz

Week 14 (May 22): The Mamluks — quiz

Week 15 (May 29): the Successor States to the Ilkhanids

Week 16 (June 5): the Ottomans, the Safavids, and the Mughals

Week 17 (June 12): Final Examination

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Course Requirements/Grading standards

Students are expected to 1) have a good command of reading and writing English and 2) be committed to fulfilling the reading tasks; 3) engage in the discussion on the given theme.

Midterm Exam — 30%

Final Exam — 30%

Quizzes — 40%

*Please note that cheating in an exam under any circumstance is not acceptable. If you are caught cheating, you will be failed.

*Eating and photography are not allowed during the lecture.

The Muslims in Andalus and North Africa

Set Reading

Kennedy, H., Muslim Spain and Portugal: A Political History of al-Andalus, London, 1996, 109–304.

Bennison, A.K. The Almoravid and Almohad Empires, Edinburgh, 2016, 24–117.

Further

Wasserstein, D., The rise and fall of the Party Kings, Princeton, 1985.

MacKay, A., Spain in the Middle Ages: From Frontier to Empire, 1000-1500, London, 1977.

Brett, M., and E. Fentress, The Berbers, Oxford, 1996.

Chejne, A., Muslim Spain: its history and culture, Minneapolis, 1974.

Christys, A., Christians in al-Andalus (711–1000), Richmond, 2002.

Collins, R., Early Medieval Spain: Unity in Diversity, 400-1000,  2nd ed., London, 1995.

Watt, W.M., A History of Islamic Spain, Edinburgh, 1965.

Wolf, K. B., Conquerors and Chronicles of Early Medieval Spain, Liverpool, 1999.

Fierro M (ed), The New Cambridge History of Islam, Cambridge, 2010, vol.2, 21–47, 66–143.

Molina, L., “Umayyads” in Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition.

The Age of Sh??ism

Set Reading

Berkey, J. P. The Formation of Islam. Cambridge, 124–151

Kennedy, Hugh. The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates. London, 1986, 200—284, 309–345 (chs. 8, 9, 12).

The Encyclopaedia of Islam (e.g. Isma‘iliyya, Ithna ‘Ashariyya, al-Mukhtar, Shi‘a, Sunna, Zaydiyya et al.). Available online at: http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/resources/databases/

Further

Busse, H., ‘Iran under the Buyids’, in R. N. Frye, ed., The Cambridge History of Iran. Volume 4: The Period from the Arab Invasion to the Saljuqs, Cambridge, 1975, 250-304.

Crone, P., Medieval Islamic Political Thought, Edinburgh, 2004, esp. chs 7–11, 15–16 (pp. 70–141, 197–255)

Donohue, J. J., The Buwayhid Dynasty in Iraq 334H/945 to 403H/1012: shaping institutions for the future, Leiden, 2003.

Madelung, W., ‘The Assumption of the Title shahahshah by the Buyids’, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 28, 1969, 84-105, 168-183.

Halm, H., Shi‘ism, Edinburgh, 1995.

Momen, M., An Introduction to Shi‘I Islam, New Haven, 1985.

Kennedy, Hugh. The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates. London, 1986, 212–284; 309—345.

Daftary, F., The Isma‘ilis: their history and doctrines, London, 1990.

The Coming of the Seljuqs and the Turkic Dynasties

Set Reading

Bosworth, C.E. ‘The Steppe People in the Islamic World.’ The New Cambridge History of Islam, vol.3. Edited by Morgan, D. and A. Reid. Cambridge, 2010, 19–77.

Peacock, A., The Great Seljuq Empire, Edinburgh, 2015, 20–123.

Further

Lambton, A.K.S. ‘The Internal Structure of the Saljuq Empire.’ In The Cambridge History of Iran, vol.5. Edited by J.A. Boyle. Cambridge, 1968, 203–282.

The Encyclopaedia of Islam, various eds, 2^nd ed., Leiden, 1954–2004, online with 3^rd ed. at http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/resources/databases/findlita.shtml, see, in e.g. ‘Seldjuks’, ‘Nizam al-Mulk’, ‘iqta’, et. al.

Bausani, A. ‘Religion in the Saljuq Period.’ In The Cambridge History of Iran. Edited by J.A. Boyle. Cambridge, 1968, 283–302.

Lapidus, I.M., A history of Islamic societies, Cambridge, 1988.

Barthold, V.V., Turkestan down to the Mongol invasion, London, 1968.

Mecit, S., The Rum Seljuqs: Evolution of a Dynasty, London/ New York: Routledge 2014.

Siddiqi, A.H., "Caliphate and kingship in medieval Persia", Islamic Culture, IX-XI (1936-7).

Turan, O., "The idea of world domination among the medieval Turks", Studia Islamica, IV (1955), 77-90.

Peacock, A.C.S. and S.N. Yildiz (eds.), The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East, London 2013.

Peacock, A.C.S., Early Seljuq History: A New Interpretation, London and New York, 2010.

Lambton, A.K.S., Theory and Practice in medieval Persian government, London, 1980.

Nizam al-Mulk, The book of government or rules for kings, trans. H. Darke, London, 1978.

Y?ld?z, S.N., Mongol Rule in Seljuk Anatolia The Politics of Conquest and History, Leiden: Brill, 2011.

From the Crusades to the Coming of the Mongols

Set Reading

Anne Marie Edde?, ‘Bil?d al-Sh?m, from the F??imid Conquest to the Fall of the Ayy?bids (359–685/970–1260).’ The New Cambridge History of Islam, vol.2. Edited by M. Fierro. Cambridge, 2010, 161–236.

Frenkel, Y., ‘Muslim Responses to the Frankish Dominion in the Near East, 1098–1291’, in C. Kostick, ed., The Crusades and the Near East, London, 2011, 27–54.

Morgan, D. Medieval Persia 1040-1797. Abingdon, 2013, 51–82.

Further

Manz, B.F. ‘The Rule of the Infidels: the Mongols and the Islamic World.’ The New Cambridge History of Islam, vol.3. Edited by Morgan, D. and A. Reid. Cambridge, 2010, 128–168.

Hamilton, Bernard, The Crusades. Phoenix Mill, 1998, 1–64, 75–95.

Hillenbrand, C., The Crusades: Islamic perspectives, Edinburgh, 1999.

Holt, P.M., The Age of the Crusades, London, 1986.

Ehrenkreutz, A., Saladin, Albany, 1972.

Allsen, T. T., Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia, Cambridge, 2001.

Boyle, J. A., ed., The Cambridge History of Iran. Volume 5: The Saljuq and Mongol Periods, Cambridge, 1968, esp. chs 4 (Boyle), 6 (Petrushevsky) and 7 (Bausani), pp. 303–421, 483–537 and 538–550.

Encyclopaedia Iranica, ed. E. Yar-Shater, London, 1968–present, see, e.g. ‘Abaqa’, ‘Il-Khanids’.

‘Ilkhans’ (B. Spuler) and *‘Mongols’ (D. O. Morgan) in The Encyclopaedia of Islam (EI²), various eds, 2^nd ed., Leiden, 1954–2003. See also, e.g. ‘‘Ayn Djalut’, ‘al-Makrizi’, ‘Mamluk’, et al.

Saunders, History of the Mongol Conquests, 1971.

Spuler, B., History of the Mongols, Berkeley, 1972.

Morgan, D., The Mongols, 2^nd ed., Oxford, 2007 (1^st ed., 1986), esp. pp. 5–151.

The Mamluks

Set Reading

Levanoni, A. ‘The Maml?ks in Egypt and Syria: the Turkish Maml?k sultanate (648–784/1250–1382) and the Circassian Maml?k sultanate (784–923/1382–1517).’ The New Cambridge History of Islam, vol.2. Edited by M. Fierro. Cambridge, 2010, 237–284.

Berkey, J., The Formation of Islam, Cambridge, 2002, 203–257.

Lapidus, I.M., Islamic Societies to the Nineteenth Century: A Global History, Cambridge 2012, esp. 264–271.

Further

Humphreys, R.S. ‘Ayyubids, Mamluks, and the Latin East in the Thirteenth Century.’ Mamluk Studies Review, 2(1990): 1–16.

Rapoport, Y., Marriage, Money and Divorce in Medieval Islamic Society, Cambridge, 2005.

Rapoport, Y., ‘Legal Diversity in the Age of Taql?d: The Four Chief Q???s under the Mamluks.’ Islamic Law and Society, 10-2 (2003): 210–228.

Behrens-Abouseif, D. Cairo of the Mamluks: A History of the Art and Architecture and Its Culture, London, 2007.

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

Ayalon, D. ‘Studies on the Sructure of the Mamluk Army I-III.’ In Muslims, Mongols and Crusaders. Edited by G.R. Hawting, 42–130.

The Successor States to the Ilkhanids

Set Reading

Morgan, D. Medieval Persia 1040–1797, London, 1988, pp. 83–111.

Subtelny, Maria. “Tamerlane and His Descendants: from Paladins to Patrons.” In The New Cambridge History of Islam, vol.3, edited by David O. Morgan and Anthony Reid, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 169–200.

Roemer, H. R. “THE SUCCESSORS OF T?M?R.” In The Cambridge History of Iran, vol.6. Edited by Peter Jackson and Lawrence Lockhart, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986, 98–146.

Roemer, H. R. “THE TÜRKMEN DYNASTIES.” In The Cambridge History of Iran, vol.6, edited by Peter Jackson and Lawrence Lockhart, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986, 147–88.

Further

Roemer, H. R. “THE JALAYIRIDS, MUZAFFARIDS AND SARBAD?RS.” In The Cambridge History of Iran, vol.6, edited by Peter Jackson and Lawrence Lockhart, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986, 1–40.

Roemer, H. R. “T?M?R IN IRAN.” In The Cambridge History of Iran, vol.6, edited by Peter Jackson and Lawrence Lockhart, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986, 42–97.

Manz, B. F., The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane, Cambridge, 1989.

‘Timur Lang’ (F. B. Manz) in The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition.

‘Timurids’ (W. M. Thackston et al.) in The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition.

‘A? ?oyunlu’ (Minorsky, V.) in The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition.

?ar?-?oyunlu’ (Sümer, F.) in The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition.

Woods, J. E., The Aqquyunlu: Clan, Confederation, Empire, Minneapolis, 1976; 2^nd ed., Utah, 1999.

Lapidus, I. M., A History of Islamic Societies, Cambridge, 2002, esp. 229–234.

The Ottomans, the Safavids, and the Mughals

Set Reading

Dale, S.F. The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals, Cambridge, 2009, 10–47.

Morgan, D., Medieval Persia 1040–1797, London, 1988, 112–142.

Further

Momen, M., An Introduction to Shi`i Islam, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985 and recent editions.

Newman, A. J., ed., Society and Culture in the Early Modern Middle East: Studies on Iran in the Safavid Period, Leiden, 2003.

Newman, A. J., Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire, London and New York, 2006, esp. pp. 1–92.

Encyclopaedia Iranica, ed. E. Yarshater, London, 1996–2008, online at: http://www.iranica.com/newsite/, see e.g. ‘Safavid Dynasty’.

Floor, W. M., The Economy of Safavid Persia, Wiesbaden, 2000.

Floor, W. M., Safavid Government Institutions, Costa Mesa, California, 2001.

Jackson, P., et al., eds, The Cambridge History of Iran 6, The Timurid and Safavid Periods, Cambridge, 1986.

Lapidus, I., A History of Islamic Societies, 2^nd ed, Cambridge, 2002, pp. 197–218, 226–247, 356–399.

Cahen, Claude, Pre-Ottoman Turkey, tr. J. Jones-Williams, London 1968; edited and reprinted as: The Formation of Turkey The Seljukid Sultanate of Rum: Eleventh to Fourteenth Century, tr.  P.M. Holt, Pearson Education 2001.

Peacock, A.C.S: ‘The Saljuq campaign against the Crimea and the expansionist policy of the early reign of ‘Ala’ al-Din Kayqubad’, in: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 16/ii (2006), 133-149. 

Vryonis, S. ‘The byzantine Patriarchate and Turkish Islam.’ Byzantinoslavica 57/1 (1996), 69-111.

Richards, J. F., The Mughal Empire, Cambridge, 1993.

Schimmel, A., Islam in the Indian Subcontinent, London, 1980, esp. 1–147.

Schimmel, A., The Empire of the Great Mughals: History. Art and Culture, London, 2000.

Leiser, Gary. “The Turks in Anatolia before the Ottomans.” In The New Cambridge History of Islam, vol.2, edited by Maribel Fierro, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 299–312.

Fleet, Kate. “The Rise of the Ottomans.” In The New Cambridge History of Islam, vol.2, edited by Maribel Fierro, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 313–31.

Imber, Colin. “The Ottoman Empire (Tenth/Sixteenth Century).” In The New Cambridge History of Islam, vol.2, edited by Maribel Fierro, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 332–65.

Imber, C., The Ottoman Empire, c. 1300–1650: the structure of power, London, 2002, esp. 87–127.

Dale, Stephen. “India under Mughal Rule.” In The New Cambridge History of Islam, vol.3, edited by David O. Morgan and Anthony Reid, 266–314.