Religion of Arabic Countries 3600-7-AR1-RPA1

Knowledge
- knows and understands basic philosophical trends and terms as well as the role of philosophical reflection in culture shaping processes [K_W03]
- has detailed and organized knowledge of philosophy and religion of chosen regions in the Orient or Africa [K_W07]
- can name and characterize basic cultural phenomena of a chosen region in the Orient or Africa [K_W10]
- demonstrates basic grasp of contemporary cultural life of a chosen region in the Orient or Africa [K_W16]
- knows and understands basic analysis and interpretation methods of various products of culture characteristic of local traditions in chosen regions in the Orient or Africa [K_W19]

Skills
- can indicate sources of cultural differences between the countries of the Orient or Africa [K_U02]
- can use the basic terminology from the domain of philosophy and religion of a chosen region in the Orient or Africa [K_U03]
- can indicate most important intellectual problems, dilemmas, aesthetic preferences taking shape inside the culture of a chosen region in the Orient or Africa [K_U10]

Social Competences
- has awareness of the cultural distinctness and its religious, philosophical, traditional and historical roots and its significance for understanding modern world [K_K05]
- sees the need of dialogue between cultures [K_K06]
- is aware of significance the culture of the countries in the Orient or Africa have for the culture of the world [K_K07]
- perceives the positive socio-cultural values of a chosen region in the Orient or Africa and possibility to use them in own personal development and effective intercultural communication [K_K09]

oral or written exam
Attendance control - a student can be absent max. twice during the semester; in the case of absence due to illness, the medical certificate excusing this absence should be submitted within seven work days of the last day of the leave specified in the certificate.

Benjamin R. Barber, Fear’s Empire. War, Terrorism, and Democracy, New York 2003
L. Binder, Islamic liberalism, Chicago 1988
Jason Burke, Al-Qaeda. The True Story of Radical Islam, London 2003
Michael Cook, Muhammad, Cambridge 1983
John L. Esposito, Islam. The Straight Path, New York 1988.
John L. Esposito, Unholy War. Terror in the Name of Islam, Oxford 2002.
Fred Halliday, The Middle East in International Relations: Power, Politics and Ideology, Cambridge 2005.
Fred Halliday, Islam and the Myth of Confrontation. Religion and Politics in the Middle East, London 1996
A. Hourani, A History of the Arabs, London 1991
Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, New York 1996.
Ed Husain, The Islamist, London 2007.
Gilles Kepel, The War for Muslim Minds. Islam and the West, Cambridge Mass. 2004.
Khalid Bin Sayeed, Western Dominance and Political Islam. Challenge and Response, New York 1995.
Bernard Lewis, What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response, Oxford 2002.
Bernard Lewis, Arabs in History, Oxford 2002.
Mahmood Mamdani, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim. America, the Cold War and the Roots of Terror, New York 2004
Malise Ruthven, Fundamentalism. The Search for Meaning, Oxford 2004
Edward Said, Orientalism, Oxford 1978
Jane Smith, Islam in America, New York 1999
Philipp W. Sutton and Stephen Vertigans, Resurgent Islam. A Sociological Approach, Cambridge 2005
W. M. Watt, Islam and the Integration of Society, London 1970
W.M. Montgomery Watt, Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Edinburgh 1962 and 1972.
W.M. Montgomery Watt, Islamic Political Thought, Edinburgh 1987
B. Lewis, The Middle East, Chicago 1995
The Cambridge History of Islam, vol.1-2, Cambridge 1970
Malise Ruthven, Islam in the World, London 199

Additional information (registration calendar, class conductors, localization and schedules of classes), might be available in the USOSweb system:

• Description of 3600-7-AR1-RPA1 in USOSweb