Illinois State University
Department of HistoryHistory 378: Islam
Monday, 6:00-8:50 p.m.
Schroeder 317
Discussion list:
Reading and Discussion Schedule
Orient-ationWeek 1
January 13 /
Introduction
I. MAPS
Political Map of the World
In the Center of the Map
Middle East Reference Map
Middle East Maps
Visible Middle East
Middle East: Satellite map
Country Maps
An Area Accurate Map?
II. NAMES AND DATES
Muslim Proper Names
Gregorian-Hijri Dates Converter
The Persian/Arabic Alphabet
Arabic/Persian Calligraphy
Bismillah Collection
III. LNAGUAGES
Afro-Asiatic, Altaic, Caucasian, Nilo-Saharan, Indo-European,
Asian & African Languages
IV. NEWS
Middle East News
News and Activism
BBC World News
The New York Times
The Washington Post
The Sunday Times
The Daily Star
The Jordan Times
The Gulf Today
The Jerusalem Post
Net Iran
Shi'a News
Cyber Iran
V. INTERNET RESOURCES
Internet Resource Guide
Internet Islamic History Sourcebook
Middle East Studies Internet Resources
Electronic Journals and Newspapers
E-Resources
Islam Online
Undergraduate Research Guide: Islam
Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project
Country Studies
Guides to Electronic Journals
September 11, 2001
September 11, 2001
ISIM Newsletter
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Week 2
January 20 / Martin Luther King, JR. Holiday
Week 3
January 27 / Orientalism and Occidentalism
I. Required Readings
Edward Said, Orientalism
George P. Landow, Edward W. Said's Orientalism: An Overview
Avishai Margalit and Ian Buruma, "Occidentalism," The New York Review of Books (January 17, 2002).
Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, Persianate Europology.
H V Brasted, The politics of Stereotyping Western Images of Islam, Manushi 98 (January-February 1997).
Stein Tonnesson, Orientalism, Occidentalism and Knowing about Others, NIAS, No. 2, April 1994.
Helyn Trickey, Backgrounder Islam: A religion of many faces, misconceptions, September 28, 2001.
II. Suggested Readings
J.A. Progler, The Utility of Islamic Imagery in the WestÊ, Al-Tawhid Vol XIV No. 4.
Abu Im‰n Abd ar-Rahm‰n Robert Squires, Orientalism, Misinformation and Islam.
Khurshid Ahmad, "Islam and Terrorism Islam and the West," Jamaat-Islami Pakistan.
Muhammad Yusuf, Why Islam is the Opposite of the West.
IMAGINING ISLAM AND MUSLIMS
Orientalists and the Middle East
WWW Resources On Orientalism
Immanuel Wallerstein, "Eurocentrism and its Avatars: The Dilemmas of Social Science."
Derek B. Scott, "Orientalism and Musical Style"
Orientalist Paintings.
Orientalist Art of the Nineteenth Century.
Jamal Malik, Making Sense of Islamic Fundamentalism.
Selected list of Bibliographic Resources on Orientalists and Orientalism Links.
Islam and the West.
Islam, the West and Politics.
Student Outline
Week 4
February 3 /
Muhammad
I. Required Readings
Maxime Rodinson. Muhammad.
W. Montgomery Watt. Muhammad: Prophet and Statesman.
Ibn Ishaq (d. c. 773 CE), Selections from the Life of Muhammad
Muhammad's Last Sermon
Hadith: The Traditions of the Prophet
The Noble Quran
Week 5
February 10 / The Caliphate (632-1258)
I. Required Readings
The Rightly-Guided Caliphs
Umayyad Caliphate (Damascus), 661-750
Abbasid Caliphate (Baghdad) 750-1258
Gaston Wiet, Baghdad: Metropolis of the Abbasid Caliphate.|
An Arab Ambassador in Constantinople late 10th century
Yakut: Baghdad under the Abbasids, c. 1000 CE
Ibn-Miskawaih: The Experiences of the Nations, c. 980 CE
Arab Rulers
The Major Conquests and the Spread of Islam
Iraj Bashiri, Samanid Renaissance and Establishment of Tajik Identity
Syria under the Ummayads and `Abbasids
Characterstics of Islamic Civilization
Maps of the Umayyad Caliphate in the Second Half of the 9th and the Second Half of the 10th Centuries
Map of the Abbasid Caliphate (786-809)
Map of the Late Abbasid Caliphate c.A.D.900
Map of the Mediterranean in the Ninth Century
Pictures from the Dome of the Rock
Other Maps Relating to Islam's Historical Development
Islamic Texts and Resources MetaPage
Map of the Umayyad Empire c.A.D.750
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MysticismWeek 6
February 17 / Mystics and Mystical Orders
I. Required Readings
Alan Godlas, Sufism--Sufis--Sufi Orders: Sufism's Many Paths.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, "The Interior Life in Islam," Al-Serat,Ê Vol. III, Nos. 2 & 3.
Rabia Ibn Kab: Life in His Own Words a Sufi Mystic.
Bruce B. Janz, Who's Who in the History of Mysticism.
Ibn al-'Arabi - the Sufi mystic
Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi
Islamic Sufi turuq on the World Wide Web
Maktab Tarighat Oveyssi Shahmaghsoudi
II. Suggested Readings
List of Sufi-related resources on the Internet
Sufism / Islamic Mysticism
Philosophy and Western Mysticism Resources
Sufism / Islamic Mysticism
Islamic mystics, theologians and scriptures
Islamic Mysticism: Sufism
ABU HAMID AL-GHAZALI (1058 - 1128 C.E.)
The Influence of Neoplatonism
Ahmed Hulusi
Sufi Shah Shaheed
Themes of 'The Erotic' in Sufi Mysticism
Scriptures, Prophetic Traditions, and related texts
Islamic Texts and Resources MetaPage
Seton Hall University Honors Program HONS 3193 AA/ RELS 3494 AA Mysticism East and West
Ibn al-'Arabi - the Sufi mystic
List of Sufi-related resources on the Internet
Listen to Radio Free Palms
Mysticisms from Middle East
Essays in Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Mysticism
Sufism and Its Many Paths
Archive of Islamic Articles
Sufi and `Irfan Links-Cole
Week 7
February 24 / Mysticism and Eroticism
I. Required Readings
Jonah Winters, Themes of 'The Erotic' in Sufi Mysticism.
Sheikh Nefzaoui, The Perfumed Garden , 16th Cent. CE/c. A.H 925, translated bySir Richard Burton , in chapter files, full text, [At Bibliomania]
II. Suggested Readings
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ModernityWeek 8
March 3 /
Rehtinking Modernity
I. Required Readings
Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, "The Homeless Texts of Persianate Modernity", Cultural Dynamics 13(3):263-291.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Reflections on Islam and Modern Life, Al-Serat, Vol. VI, No. 1Ê
Iraj Bashiri, Jamal al-Din al-Afghani
Louay M. Safi, "ISLAM AND THE SECULAR STATE Explicating the Universal in Formative Islamic Political Norms."
II. Suggested Readings
Week 9 / Spring Break!
Week 10
March 17 /
Critiquing Europe
I. Required Readings
Ali Shariati, "A Manifestation of Self-reconstruction and Reformation."
M. Alam and A. Zahoor, ALLAMA MUHAMMAD IQBAL (1877 - 1938).
Dr. Muhammad Allama Iqbal
IQBAL IN YEARS
Ali Shariati, CIVILIZATION AND MODERNIZATION.
Jalal Al-Ahmad,Westoxication
II. Suggested Readings
Week 11
March 24 / Refshioning Islam
I. Required Readings
Mohamad Tavakoli, Frontline Mysticism
Ali Shariati, Red Shi'ism: The Religion of Martyrdom, Black Shi'ism: The Religion of Mourning
Mehrzad Boroujerdi, Three Philosophical Debates in Post-Revolutionary Iran.
H. R. Jalaei pour, "The Emergence of a Modern Intellectual Climate and the Change in the Ideological Scene: 1988-1996
ABDOLKARIM SOUROUSH: "REASON & FREEDOM IN ISLAMIC THOUGHT" AT THE CSID 2nd ANNUAl conference
Mahmoud Sadri and Ahmad Sadri, Let the occasional chalice break Abdolkarim Soroush and Islamic liberation theology.
II. Suggested Readings
Charles Kurzman,ÊLIBERAL ISLAM: PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES.
A Biography of Dr Abdol Karim Soroush
Islam, Democracy and the Secular State
Political Violence in the Middle East
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Women and IslamWeek 13
April 7 /
Women and Islam
I. Required Readings
Abdur Rahman I. Doi, Women in the Quran and the Sunna.
Nawal H. Ammar, On Being A Muslim Woman: Laws and Practices.
Sachiko Murata, "Temporary Marriage in Islamic Law," Al-Serat, Volume XIII, No. 1.
Riffat Hassan, "Are Human Rights Compatible with Islam? The Issue of the Rights of Women in Muslim Communities."
Famous Muslim Women
Syed A.A Razwy, Khadija tul Kubra: A Short Story of Her Life byÊ
Aishah Bint Abi Bakr
Ramlah bint Abi Sufyan
Rabi`a of Basra
About Rabi«a al-Adawiyya
Short biographical sketches of famous Muslim women
II. Suggested Readings
Articles, etc., on Women In Islam
Middle Eastern Studies and women, gender, feminism
Camelia Entekhabi-Fard, "Behind the Veil Westerners," Moder Jones (May/June 2001).
Some ways to get started searching for articles on Middle Eastern Studies and women, gender, feminism
Week 14
April 14 /
Politicizing Gender
I. Required Readings
Murtaza Mutahheri, "Woman and her Rights: Ê Woman in Qur'an"
Ali Shariati, "Expectations from the Muslim Woman."
Riffat Hassan, "Members, One of Another": Gender Equality and Justice in Islam.
Zahra Rahnavard, Beauty of Concealment and Concealment of Beauty
An interview with Dr Abdol-Karim Soroush, Contraction and Expansion of WomenÕs Rights.
Ziba Mir-Hosseini,"Challenges and Complicities: Abdolkarim Sorush and Gender" in Islam and Gender: the religious debate in contemporary Iran, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Chapter 7.
II. Suggested Readings
Ella Shohat, "Framing Post-Third-Worldist Culture: Gender and Nation in Middle Eastern/ North African Film and Video," by CUNY-Graduate Center
THE RIGHT TO CONTRACEPTION AND ABORTION IN TEN WORLD RELIGIONS
Farhad Kazimi, "Gender, Islam, and Politics.(Iran," Social Research (Summer, 2000).
Week 15
April 21 / Conference Preparation
Week 16
April 28 / Conference Preparation
Week
April 30 / International and Global Studies Seminar Series
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Other ReadingsThe Islamic Public Sphere
I. Required Readings
Walter Armbrust,, The Riddle of Ramadan: Media, Consumer Culture and the 'Christmas-ization' of a Muslim Holiday.
Farhang Rouhani, The Spatial Politics of Leisure: Internet Use and Access in Tehran, Iran.
Will Taggart, The Digital Revolt: Resistance & Agency on the Net.
Further
Readings: / Further On-line Readings
Historian - Slavery & Abolition in Ottoman Middle East
Paul A. Cantor, "The Uncanonical Dante: The Divine Comedy And Islamic Philosophy"
Seyyed Hossein Nasr,Ê "Islam and the Question of Violence," Al-Serat, Vol. XIII, No. 2.
A. Ezzati, "The Concept Of Martyrdom In Islam,", Al-Serat, Vol XII (1986).
Murtada Mutahhari, "The Principle of Ijtihad in Islam,"Al-Serat, Vol X, No. 1.
Karim Douglas Crow, "Islam Ð Peace Ð Nonviolence A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY," Nonviolence International , September 1998
Jamaat-Islami Pakistan, "Islam and Terrorism Do Muslims Hate West? Conspiracies against Islam."
Syed Abul A'la Maudoodi, Human Rights in Islam: The Political Framework Of Islam.
Louay M. Safi,, PEACE AND THE LIMITS OF WAR: TRANSCENDING CLASSICAL CONCEPTION OF JIHAD.
PEACE AND THE LIMITS OF WAR: TRANSCENDING CLASSICAL CONCEPTION OF JIHAD
Political Violence in the Middle East
The many facets of political Islam
Courses / Orientalism and Occidentalism
ORIENTALISM/ OCCIDENTALISM
Colloquium on ISLAM AND POLITICS
ISLAM AND POLITICS POS S 4429
Orienteering: Muslim travel and writers