Special Topic Lecture (Islam outside the Muslim World: Europe, America and beyond (lecture) 3600-RAABI-STL-OG

The course wil will cover two types of Muslim minorities outside the Muslim world:
- traditional Muslim population (Balkans,Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Russia,Ukraine, Finland, China, India etc.)
- immigrants from Muslim countries (Western Europe, USA)
Lectures covering each region will include:
- geographic distribution of Muslim minorities;
- historical background of the rise of these minorities in the context of political, historical and economical situation;
- demographic, economical and sociological statistic data;
- legal aspects of the presence of traditional
Muslim minorities and of the immigrants’situation in European countries (political asylum, questions of naturalization etc.)
- religious life of Muslim groups and its organization, mosques and other religious centers;
- ideological influences, politics;
- cultural life, publications (books, newspapers, literary magazines etc.), radio and television broadcasts, education;
- Muslim activities on the Internet;
- individualization of customs, degree of assimilation and acculturation;
- Christian-Muslim relations.

1. Introduction to Islam
2. Traditional Muslim minorities in Europe
3. Traditional Muslim minorities outside Europe
4. Muslims in Western Europe
5. Islam and Muslims in America
- origins of Muslims in America: slavery, immigration, conversions
- Black Islam: Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, the Nation of Islam
- Arabs and other immigrants
- demography
- Dearborn, MI - home to the largest Muslim population in the United States
- Islamic New York
- legal status of Islam in the US
- Muslim religious life: mosques, imams, prayers, weddings, cemeteries, schools
- Islamic American culture (literature – Arab American school of poetry, stand up comedians, films, Native Deen music band etc.)
- Muslim feminism in the US – Amina Wadud, Asma Barlas, Azizah al-Hibri and others
- 9-11-2001 and 2003 invasion of Iraq, war in Iraq and its implications
- Islam in American politics today
- the image of Islam and Muslim in America – the role of Hollywood
6. Muslims in the US and Muslims in Europe– a comparison

Type of course

general courses

Mode

Classroom

Course coordinators

Agata Bareja-Starzyńska
Agata Nalborczyk

Learning outcomes

A student should master the general knowledge about the Muslim communities outside the Muslim world – in Europe, America and beyond, and should be able to characterize its origin, legal status, demography and religious life.
Knowledge
- has a systematic knowledge about the history of Muslim communities outside the Muslim World: in Europe, America and beyond K_W06
- has a deepened knowledge about Islam and religious practices among Muslim communities in Europe, America and beyond K_W07
- has a systematic knowledge about socio-cultural issues connected to Muslim communities in Europe, America and beyond, their ethnic, demographic and legal situation K_W09
- has a basic orientation in the cultural life of Muslim communities in Europe, America and beyond K_W16
Skills
- is able to use basic terms concerning the religion of Islam and related to Islam in Europe,America and beyond K_U03
- is able to utilize the knowledge concerning the selected historical events related to Muslim communities in Europe, America and beyond in order to analyze and clarify modern issues K_U04
Social competences
- understands the need of lifelong learning K_K01
- is aware of the cultural diversity and its religious, philosophical, traditional and historical roots and its significance for understanding of the modern world K_K05
- recognizes the need for intercultural dialogue K_K06

Assessment criteria

- written examination – 80%
- attendance control – 20%

Bibliography

Required literature:

Abdullah, Z. 2015. “Malcom X, Islam and the Black Self”, [in:] R. Kiki Edozie, C. Stokes (ed.), “MalcolmX's Michigan Worldview. An Exemplar for Contemporary Black Studies”, East Lansing, 205-226.
Afsaruddin, A. 2015. “Contemporary Issues in Islam”,Edinburgh.
Barret, P.M. 2007. “American Islam. The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion”, New York.
Curtis, E.E. 2009. “Muslims in America. A Short History”, Oxford.
Geaves, R. “Aspects of Islam”, London.
Guhin, J. 2018. ‘Colorblind Islam: The Racial Hinges of Immigrant Muslims in the United States’, “Social Inclusion”, 6:2, 87-97.
Haddad, Y.Y., Senzai, F., Smith, J.I. (ed.). 2009. “Educating Muslims of America”, Oxford.
Haddad, Y.Y. (ed.). 2002. “Muslims in the West. From Sojourners to Citizens”, Oxford.
Haddad, Y.Y., Smith J.I. (ed.). 1995. “Muslim Communities in North America”, Albany.
Howell, S. 2014.” Old Islam in Detroit. Rediscovering the Muslim American Past”, Oxford.
Kabir. N. A. 2014. “Young American Muslims.Dynamics of Identity”, Edinburgh.
Nielsen J.S. et al.. (ed.), „Yearbook of Muslims in Europe”, Brill, Leiden.
Nielsen, J.S. 2004.” Muslims in Western Europe”,Edinburgh.
Raudvere C. 2015.” Islam. An Introduction”, London-New York.
Strum, Ph. (ed.). 2006. “American Arabs and Political Participation”, Washington, DC.
Strum Ph. (ed.). 2005. “Muslims in the United States. Identity, Influence, Innovation”, Washington, DC.
Tsitselikis K. 2013., “European Islams and Muslim Europes: Some Thoughts about Studying Europe’s Contemporary Islam” [in:] J.S. Nielsen et al. (ed.),
“Yearbook of Muslims in Europe” vol. 5, Brill, Leiden,p. 1-18.
Turner, R.B. 2003. “Islam in the African-American Experience”, Bloomington –Indianapolis.
Waines, D. 2007. “An Introduction to Islam”, Cambridge.
Westerlund D., Svanberg I. (ed.). 2011. “Islam in the West”, vol. 1-4, London-New York.

Recommended literature:
Ameri A., Lockwood Y. 2001. “Images of Arab Americans in Metro Detroit. A Pictorial History”.Chicago.
Hammer, J. 2012.” American Muslim Women, Religious Authority, and Activism: More Than a Prayer”, Austin.
Nalborczyk A.S., Borecki P. 2011. , “Relations between Islam and the state in Poland: the legal position of Polish Muslims”, “Islam and Christian Muslim
Relations” 22:3, 343-359.
Nalborczyk A.S. 2016. “A century of the official legal status of Islam in Austria. Between the Law on Islam of 1912 and the Law on Islam of 2015“ [in:] R. Mason (ed.), “Muslim Minority-State Relations.Violence, Integration, and Policy”, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke-New York, p. 61-82.
Nalborczyk A.S. 2016, “Relations between the state and Islam in Finland and Poland “ [in:] R. Mason (ed.), “Muslim Minority-State Relations. Violence,
Integration, and Policy”, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke-New York, p. 83-105.
Spielhaus R. 2011. “Measuring the Muslim: About Statistical Obsessions, Categorisations and the Quantification of Religion” [in:] J.S. Nielsen et al. (ed.), “Yearbook of Muslims in Europe” vol. 3, Brill, Leiden, p. 695-715.
Wadud, A. 2006. “Inside the Gender Jihad: Women’s Reform in Islam”, Oxford.
Wadud, A., 2004. ‘Qur’an, Gender, and Interpretive Possibilities’, “Hawwa”, 2:3, 316–336.
Wadud, A., 1999.” Qur’an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman’s Perspective”, Oxford.

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