週次
Week | 課程主題
Topic | 課程內容與指定閱讀
Content and Reading Assignment | 教學活動與作業
Teaching Activities and Homework | 學習投入時間
Student workload expectation | 課堂講授
In-class Hours | 課程前後
Outside-of-class Hours | 1 | Introduction | Introduction to the course | | | | 2
| Religion (1):
sectarian issue | - Frederic Wehrey, Beyond Sunni and Shia: The roots of sectarianism in a changing Middle East, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017 (Ch. 1).
- Toby Matthiesen, The Other Saudis: Shiism, Dissent and Sectarianism, New York: Cambridge University Press (Intro.).
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- lecture
- seminar
| 3 | 6 | 3
| Religion (2):
Islamic law and finance | - Wael B. Hallaq, An Introduction to Islamic Law, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009 (Intro-Ch.2).
- Ibrahim Warde, Islamic Financa in the Global Economy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000 (Intro. & Ch. 1).
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- seminar
| 3 | 6 | 4
| Society (2): kinship | - Suad Joseph, “Brother/Sister Relationships: Connectivity, Love, and Power in the Reproduction of Patriarchy in Lebanon,” American Ethnologist (1994) 21:1.
- Jillian Schwedler (ed.), Understanding the contemporary Middle East, Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2008 (Ch.10)
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- seminar
| 3 | 6 | 5
| Culture (1):
Islamic culture | - Nur Kirabaev and Yuriy Pochta (ed.), Values in Islamic Culture and the Experience of History: Russian Philosophical Studies, I, Washington: The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2002 (Ch.1).
- Daniel G. Bates and Amal Rassam, Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East, New Jersy:Prentice-Hall, 1983 (Ch.3).
| | 3 | 6 | 6
| Culture (2):
popular culture | - Andrew Hammond, Pop Culture Arab World! Media, Arts, and Lifestyle, Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2005 (Ch.1).
- Walid El-Hamamsy and Mounira Soliman (eds.), Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa: A postolonial outlook, New York & London: Routledge, 2013 (Intro. & Ch12).
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- seminar
| 3 | 6 | 7
| Economy (1): pre-oil Middle East | - Hossein Askari, Collaborative Colonialism: The Political Economy of Oil in the Persian Gulf, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 (Ch.1).
- Charles Issawi, An economic history of the Middle East and North Africa, New York: Columbia University Press, 1982 (Ch.1).
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- lecture
- seminar
| 3 | 6 | 8 | Midterm | | | | | 9
| Economy (2): discovery of oil | - Michael L. Ross, The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations, Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2012 (Ch.1).
- Simone Tagliapietra, The political economy of Middle East and North Africa oil exporters in times of global decarbonisation, Working paper, Bruegel, 2017.
- Tyler Priest, “The Dilemmas of Oil Empire,” Journal of American History, 2012, 99:1.
- Jillian Schwedler (ed.), Understanding the contemporary Middle East, Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2008 (Ch.8).
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- lecture
- seminar
| 3 | 6 | 10
| Politics (1): state formation | - Iliya Harik, “The origins of the Arab state system,” The International Spectator: Italian Journal of International Affairs, 1985, 20:2.
- Kenneth Christie and Mohammad Masad (eds.) State Formation and Identity in the Middle East and North Africa, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 (Ch. 1).
- Roger Owen, State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, London & New York:Routledge, 2004 (Ch.1).
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- seminar
| 3 | 6 | 11
| Politics (2): state system | - Lisa Anderson, Absolutism and the Resilience of Monarchy in the Middle East, Political Science Quarterly, 1991, 106:1.
- Mehran Kamrava, The Modern Middle East, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2011 (Ch. 9).
- Claudia Derichs and Thomas Demmelhuber, “Monarchies and Republics, State and Regime, Durability and Fragility in View of the Arab Spring,” Journal of Arabian Studies, 2014, 4:2.
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- lecture
- seminar
| 3 | 6 | 12
| Politics (3): regional and international relations | - Raymond Hinnebusch and Anoushiravan Ehteshami (eds.), The Foreign Policies of Middle East States, Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2002 (Ch.2 & 3).
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| 3 | 6 | 13
| Gender (1): male vs. female | Zahia Smail Salhi, Gender and violence in Islamic societies: Patriarchy, Islamism and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa, London & New York: I.B. Tauris, 2013 (Ch. 1 &3). | - preview
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- seminar
| 3 | 6 | 14
| Gender (2): LGBT | Katerina Dalacoura, Homosexuality as cultural battleground in the Middle East: culture and postcolonial international theory, Third World Quarterly, 2014, 35:7.
Stephen Murray and Will Roscoe, Islamic homosexualities: Culture, history, and literature, New York & London: New York University Press (Ch.2). | - preview
- lecture
- seminar
| 3 | 6 | 15
| Migration, Refugee, and diaspora in MENA | Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena and others, ‘Introduction: Refugee and Forced Migration Studies in Transition’, in Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh and others (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies.
Coming to and coming from the Middle East: The unfolding of diaspora, Abdelhady, D. & Aly, R. (2022) in Abdelhady, D. & Aly, R. (eds) Routledge Handbook on Middle Eastern Diasporas, London: Routledge. | - preview
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- seminar
| 3 | 6 | 16 | Presentations | Group presentation. | | 3 | 6 | 17 | Essay writing | | | | | 18 | Essay writing | The students should hand in their essay this week. | | | |
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- Anderson, L., Absolutism and the Resilience of Monarchy in the Middle East, Political Science Quarterly, 1991, 106:1.
- Armstrong, K., Islam: A Short History, New York: Modern Library, 2002.
- Askari, H., Collaborative Colonialism: The Political Economy of Oil in the Persian Gulf, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Bates, D.G., and Amal Rassam, Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East, New Jersy:Prentice-Hall, 1983.
- Catherwood, C., A brief history of the Middle East, New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2006.
- Christie, K. and Mohammad Masad (eds.) State Formation and Identity in the Middle East and North Africa, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Dalacoura, K., Homosexuality as cultural battleground in the Middle East: culture and postcolonial international theory, Third World Quarterly, 2014, 35:7.
- Derichs, C. and Thomas Demmelhuber, “Monarchies and Republics, State and Regime, Durability and Fragility in View of the Arab Spring,” Journal of Arabian Studies, 2014, 4:2.
- El-Hamamsy, W. and Mounira Soliman (eds.), Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa: A postolonial outlook, New York & London: Routledge, 2013.
- Hallaq, W.B., An Introduction to Islamic Law, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Hammond, A., Pop Culture Arab World! Media, Arts, and Lifestyle, Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2005.
- Harik, I., “The origins of the Arab state system,” The International Spectator: Italian Journal of International Affairs, 1985, 20:2.
- Hinnebusch, R. and Anoushiravan Ehteshami (eds.), The Foreign Policies of Middle East States, Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2002.
- Issawi, C., An economic history of the Middle East and North Africa, New York: Columbia University Press, 1982.
- Joseph, S., “Brother/Sister Relationships: Connectivity, Love, and Power in the Reproduction of Patriarchy in Lebanon,” American Ethnologist (1994) 21:1.
- Kamrava, M., The Modern Middle East, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2011.
- Khoury, P.S. and Joseph Kostiner (eds.), Tribes and state formation in the Middle East, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
- Kirabaev, N. and Yuriy Pochta (ed.), Values in Islamic Culture and the Experience of History: Russian Philosophical Studies, I, Washington: The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2002.
- Matthiesen, T., The Other Saudis: Shiism, Dissent and Sectarianism, New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Murray, S. and Will Roscoe, Islamic homosexualities: Culture, history, and literature, New York & London: New York University Press.
- Owen, R., State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, London & New York:Routledge, 2004.
- Priest, T., “The Dilemmas of Oil Empire,” Journal of American History, 2012, 99:1.
- Ross, M.L., The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations, Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2012.
- Salhi, Z. S., Gender and violence in Islamic societies: Patriarchy, Islamism and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa, London & New York: I.B. Tauris, 2013.
- Schwedler, J., (ed.), Understanding the contemporary Middle East, Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2008.
- Tagliapietra, S., The political economy of Middle East and North Africa oil exporters in times of global decarbonisation, Working paper, Bruegel, 2017.
- Warde, I., Islamic Financa in the Global Economy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000.
- Wehrey, F., Beyond Sunni and Shia: The roots of sectarianism in a changing Middle East, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
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