Religion of Arabic Countries2 3600-7-AR1-RPA2
An introductory course in Islam as a religion and civilization. The lectures open with the birth of islam in its specific Middle Eastern political and religious setting. A detailed presentation of the Muslim dogma and rituals follows. Special attention will be paid to Muslim law, theological, political and religious trends as well as to the mystical current – Sufism. Religions which grew out of Islam will also be presented as well as changes and developments in the Modern Islamic World such as modernism and fundamentalism.
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Requirements
Prerequisites (description)
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
Alumnus knows and understands
the place and importance of Oriental studies in the humanities and their specificity in relation to the subject and methodology
search for, analyze, evaluate and use information from different sources
The lecture is an introduction to the history of Islam. Principal dogmas and rituals are discussed as well as Muslim law, essential theological and religious trends, mystical movements (Sufism), major religious groups in Islam and religions which derived from islam.
he has detailed and organized knowledge of philosophy and religion of Arab countries
he knows basic cultural phenomena of Arab countries
knows and understands basic analysis and interpretation methods of various products of culture characteristic of chosen theories and schools of research within the scope of cultural and literary studies, linguistics, philosophy and religion studies and history
Assessment criteria
oral 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.
Bibliography
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
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