1.Religion and State: The Muslim Approach to Politics
2.Who Believes in Human Rights?
3.The Umma and the Dawla: The Nation-State and the Arab Middle East
4.Muslim Kingship
5.God's Rule: Six Centuries of Islamic Political Thought
6.The Political Writtings of al-Farabi
6.State and Government in Medieval Islam
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Classical Islamic Political Thought
Prophetic Parallels in Abu Abd Allah al-Shii's Mission among the Kutama Berbers, 893-910James E. LindsayInternational Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Feb., 1992), pp. 39-56
Politics in North Africa and the Middle East
Required Books
1. Wael B. Hallaq, An Introduction to Islamic Law
2. Gilles Kepel, Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam
3. Tamim Al-Barghouti, The Umma and the Dawla: The Nation State and the Arab Middle East
4. Roy Anderson, Robert Seibert, and Jon Wagner, Politics and Change in the Middle East
Part 1: Introduction to the MENA
I. Introduction
-Questionnaire and Orientation Quiz
II. Epistemic issues surrounding the study of the MENA
Read: Edward Said, “Preface to Orientalism,” al-Ahram Weekly, August 7, 2003
Bernard Lewis, ‘’The Question of Orientalism’’, The New York Review of Books, August 12, 1982
Edward Said, ‘’Orientalism: An Exchange’’, The New York Review of Books, June 24, 1983
III. Geography of the MENA: Living Conditions and Lifestyles
Read: Albert Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples, pp. 98-109
Anderson, Seibert, and Wagner, Politics and Change in the Middle East, pp.1-10
IV. A Political History of the MENA: 7th-19th century
Read: Hourani, pp. 1-21, 147-157
Andersen, Seibert, and Wagner, pp. 26-42
Watch: Islam: Empire of Faith
Recommended: Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah, pp. 5-9, 91-101, 123-166, 230-255
V. Law, Government, and Society in the MENA: 7th-19th century
Read: Hallaq, pp. 1-82
Patricia Crone, God's Rule: Six Centuries of Islamic Political Thought, pp. 259-314, 393-398
Recommended: Alexis de Tocqueville, First Letter about Algeria
Part II. Modernity and Ruptures
VI. The Demise of the Ottoman Empire and the Advent of the Colonial Era: 1800-1914
Read: Andersen, Seibert, and Wagner, pp. 43-56
Hallaq, pp. 93-114
Recommended: Antony Black, The History of Islamic Political Thought: From the Prophet to the Present, pp. 255-307
VII. The Rise of the State System and the Drive for Self-Determination: 1914-1950
Read: Andersen, Seibert, and Wagner, pp. 56-67
Hallaq, pp. 115-139
VIII. Regime structures in the MENA
Read: Andersen, Seibert, and Wagner, pp. 156-180
Ghassan Salame, "'Strong' and 'Weak' States: A Qualified Return to the Muqaddimah," in The Arab State, pp. 29-64
Eva Bellin, “The Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East: A Comparative Perspective,” Comparative Politics, vol. 36, no. 2, Jan, 2004, pp. 139-157.
Recommended: Lee Smith, The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations
James T. Quinlivan, “Coup-proofing: Its Practices and Consequences in the Middle East,” International Security, Vol. 24, No. 2, 1999, pp. 131-165.
IX. Israel and the Arabs: Sixty Years of Conflict and Counting (I)
Read: Andersen, Seibert, and Wagner, pp. 67-70, 89-104, 110-114, 122-129, 266-270, 302-308
Hillel Cohen, Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917-1948, pp.1-21
E. Kaufman, “Israel and Palestine” in Regional and Ethnic Conflicts: Perspectives from the Front Lines
Recommended: Ruth Gavson, "The Jews' Right To Statehood: A Defense", Azure Summer 2003
Ya'akov Meron, Why Jews Fled the Arab Countries, Middle East Quarterly, September 1995
X. Israel and the Arabs: Sixty Years of Conflict and Counting (II)
Read: Daniel Pipes, Solving the "Palestinian Problem", Jerusalem Post, January 7, 2009
Tony Judt, “Israel: The Alternative”, The New York Review of Books, September 25, 2003
Carlo Strenger, ‘’One-state solution is a blueprint for a nightmare’’, Haaretz,
Part III: The Politics of Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in the MENA
XI. The Origins of Islamism in the Arab World
Read: Hallaq, pp. 140-170
Gilles Kepel, Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam, pp.1-60
Recommended: Charles E. Butterworth, Political Islam: The Origins, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 524, Political Islam (Nov., 1992), pp. 26-37
Aziz Al-Azmeh, Islamist Revivalism and Western Ideologies, History Workshop, No. 32 (Autumn, 1991), pp. 44-53, Oxford University Press
XII. Crisis of Legitimacy and the Post-Colonial State
Read: Tamim Al-Barghouti, The Umma and the Dawla: The nation-state and the Arab Middle East
XIII. The Rise of Islamism
Read: Kepel, pp. 61-88
Mir Zohair Husain, Global Islamic Politics, pp. 131-219
XIV. Islamism: A Typology
Muhammad Ayoob, The Many Faces of Political Islam, pp. 1-44
Recommended: Guilain Denoeux, The Forgotten Swamp: Navigating Political Islam, The Journal of Middle East Policy, Vol. IX. June 2002
XIV. Islamism, Democracy and the Prospects for Reform
Read: Vali Nasr, The Rise of Muslim Democracy, The Journal of Democracy, p.14-27
Noah Feldman, The Fall and the Rise of the Islamic State, pp. 105-151
Recommended:
XV. Ethnic-Racial Minorities in the MENA
Read: Mirjam E. Sørli, Nils Petter Gleditsch and Håvard Strand, Why Is There so Much Conflict in the Middle East? , The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 49, No. 1 (Feb., 2005), pp. 141-165
Saad Eddin.Ibrahim, Ethnic Conflict and State-Building in the Arab World, International Social Science Journal 50 (156): 229-242.
Graham E. Fuller, The Fate of the Kurds, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 72, No. 2 (Spring, 1993), pp. 108-121
David Crawford, How "Berber" Matters in the Middle of Nowhere, Middle East Report, No. 219 (Summer, 2001), pp. 20-25
XVI. Modernity and Changing Gender Roles in the MENA
Read: Nikki Keddie, Women in the Middle East: A History, pp. 9-59
Lynne Reinner, Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East pp. 79-112
Recommended: Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others, Lila Abu-Lughod, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 104, No. 3 (Sep., 2002), pp. 783-790
Badran, Margot, “Between Secular and Islamic Feminism/s.” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 1 (1): 6-28.
Part IV. Select Country Profiles
XVII. Turkey: From Secular Republic to Conservative, Post-Islamist Democracy
Read: Long, Reich, and Gasiorowski,
Ioannis Grigoriadis, Friends No More? The Rise of Anti-American Nationalism in Turkey ,
Ziya Onis and Fuat Keyman,“Turkey at the Polls: A New Path Emerges ” Journal of Democracy, April 2003.
Recommended: Secular Law and the Emergence of Unofficial Turkish Islamic Law
XVIII. Iran
Read: Said Arjomand, "Iran's Revolution in Comparative Perspective" World Politics
The Reform Movement and the Debate on Modernity and Tradition in Contemporary IranSaid Amir ArjomandInternational Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Nov., 2002), pp. 719-731
Charles Kurzman, “Critics Within: Islamic Scholars’ Protests against the Islamic State in Iran”, International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, vol. 15, 2001, pp. 341-359
Ervand Abrahamian, “Why the Islamic Republic Has Survived,” Middle East Report (Spring 2009): 10-16
Watch: Persepolis
Recommended: Said Arjomand, The Turban for the Crown pp. 189-211
XIX. Egypt
Read: Long, Reich, and Gasiorowski, Chapter
Mona El-Ghobashy, “The Metamorphosis of the Egyptian Muslim Brothers,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 37, No. 3, 2005, pp. 373-395.
Recommended: Genevieve Abdo, No God But God: Egypt and the Triumph of Islam
XX. Saudi Arabia
Read: Long, Reich, and Gasiorowski, Chapter
Stéphane Lacroix, 'Between Islamists and Liberals: Saudi Arabia's New “Islamo-Liberal” Reformists', in Middle East Journal, vol. 58, no. 3, Summer 2004, pp. 345–365
Amélie Le Renard, 'Only for Women: Women, the State, and Reform in Saudi Arabia', The Middle East Journal, vol. 62, no. 4, Autumn 2008, pp. 610-29
XXI. Lebanon
Recommended: Hanin Ghaddar, The Militarization of Sex: The story of Hezbollah's halal hookups, Foreign Policy Magazine, November 25, 2009
XXI. Algeria
Read: Long, Reich, and Gasiorowski, Chapter
Kepel, pp. 159-185, 254-276
Hamou Amirouche, Algeria's Islamist Revolution, The Journal of Middle East Policy, Vol. IX. June 2002
Micheal Slackman, A Quiet Revolution in Algeria: Gains by Women, The New York Times,
Recommended: Emilie de Vialar and the Religious Reconquest of Algeria, French Historical Studies, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Spring, 2006), pp. 261-292
Women and Democracy in Algeria, Dalila Djerbal, Louisa Ait Hamou, Review of African Political Economy, No. 54, Surviving Democracy? (Jul., 1992), pp. 106-111
XXII. Libya
Read: Long, Reich, and Gasiorowski, Chapter
Jacques Roumani, From Republic to Jamahiriya: Libya's Search for Political Community, Middle East Journal, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Spring, 1983), pp. 151-168
Recommended: The Libyan Revolution in the Words of Its Leaders, Middle East Journal, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Spring, 1970), pp. 203-219
XXIII. Morocco
Read: Long, Reich, and Gasiorowski, Chapter
Bruce Weitzman, Women, Islam, and the Moroccan State: The Struggle over the Personal Status Law
Moroccan Berbers seek revival of lost freedom: Five years on family law reform, Berbers unconvinced, Al-Arabiya
Recommended:
XXIV. The MENA and the United States: Why do North Africans and Middle Easterners despise America?
Read: Akbar Ahmed, Ibn Khaldun's Understanding of Civilizations and the Dilemmas of Islam and the West Today
XXV: Course overview
1. Wael B. Hallaq, An Introduction to Islamic Law
2. Gilles Kepel, Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam
3. Tamim Al-Barghouti, The Umma and the Dawla: The Nation State and the Arab Middle East
4. Roy Anderson, Robert Seibert, and Jon Wagner, Politics and Change in the Middle East
Part 1: Introduction to the MENA
I. Introduction
-Questionnaire and Orientation Quiz
II. Epistemic issues surrounding the study of the MENA
Read: Edward Said, “Preface to Orientalism,” al-Ahram Weekly, August 7, 2003
Bernard Lewis, ‘’The Question of Orientalism’’, The New York Review of Books, August 12, 1982
Edward Said, ‘’Orientalism: An Exchange’’, The New York Review of Books, June 24, 1983
III. Geography of the MENA: Living Conditions and Lifestyles
Read: Albert Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples, pp. 98-109
Anderson, Seibert, and Wagner, Politics and Change in the Middle East, pp.1-10
IV. A Political History of the MENA: 7th-19th century
Read: Hourani, pp. 1-21, 147-157
Andersen, Seibert, and Wagner, pp. 26-42
Watch: Islam: Empire of Faith
Recommended: Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah, pp. 5-9, 91-101, 123-166, 230-255
V. Law, Government, and Society in the MENA: 7th-19th century
Read: Hallaq, pp. 1-82
Patricia Crone, God's Rule: Six Centuries of Islamic Political Thought, pp. 259-314, 393-398
Recommended: Alexis de Tocqueville, First Letter about Algeria
Part II. Modernity and Ruptures
VI. The Demise of the Ottoman Empire and the Advent of the Colonial Era: 1800-1914
Read: Andersen, Seibert, and Wagner, pp. 43-56
Hallaq, pp. 93-114
Recommended: Antony Black, The History of Islamic Political Thought: From the Prophet to the Present, pp. 255-307
VII. The Rise of the State System and the Drive for Self-Determination: 1914-1950
Read: Andersen, Seibert, and Wagner, pp. 56-67
Hallaq, pp. 115-139
VIII. Regime structures in the MENA
Read: Andersen, Seibert, and Wagner, pp. 156-180
Ghassan Salame, "'Strong' and 'Weak' States: A Qualified Return to the Muqaddimah," in The Arab State, pp. 29-64
Eva Bellin, “The Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East: A Comparative Perspective,” Comparative Politics, vol. 36, no. 2, Jan, 2004, pp. 139-157.
Recommended: Lee Smith, The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations
James T. Quinlivan, “Coup-proofing: Its Practices and Consequences in the Middle East,” International Security, Vol. 24, No. 2, 1999, pp. 131-165.
IX. Israel and the Arabs: Sixty Years of Conflict and Counting (I)
Read: Andersen, Seibert, and Wagner, pp. 67-70, 89-104, 110-114, 122-129, 266-270, 302-308
Hillel Cohen, Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917-1948, pp.1-21
E. Kaufman, “Israel and Palestine” in Regional and Ethnic Conflicts: Perspectives from the Front Lines
Recommended: Ruth Gavson, "The Jews' Right To Statehood: A Defense", Azure Summer 2003
Ya'akov Meron, Why Jews Fled the Arab Countries, Middle East Quarterly, September 1995
X. Israel and the Arabs: Sixty Years of Conflict and Counting (II)
Read: Daniel Pipes, Solving the "Palestinian Problem", Jerusalem Post, January 7, 2009
Tony Judt, “Israel: The Alternative”, The New York Review of Books, September 25, 2003
Carlo Strenger, ‘’One-state solution is a blueprint for a nightmare’’, Haaretz,
Part III: The Politics of Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in the MENA
XI. The Origins of Islamism in the Arab World
Read: Hallaq, pp. 140-170
Gilles Kepel, Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam, pp.1-60
Recommended: Charles E. Butterworth, Political Islam: The Origins, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 524, Political Islam (Nov., 1992), pp. 26-37
Aziz Al-Azmeh, Islamist Revivalism and Western Ideologies, History Workshop, No. 32 (Autumn, 1991), pp. 44-53, Oxford University Press
XII. Crisis of Legitimacy and the Post-Colonial State
Read: Tamim Al-Barghouti, The Umma and the Dawla: The nation-state and the Arab Middle East
XIII. The Rise of Islamism
Read: Kepel, pp. 61-88
Mir Zohair Husain, Global Islamic Politics, pp. 131-219
XIV. Islamism: A Typology
Muhammad Ayoob, The Many Faces of Political Islam, pp. 1-44
Recommended: Guilain Denoeux, The Forgotten Swamp: Navigating Political Islam, The Journal of Middle East Policy, Vol. IX. June 2002
XIV. Islamism, Democracy and the Prospects for Reform
Read: Vali Nasr, The Rise of Muslim Democracy, The Journal of Democracy, p.14-27
Noah Feldman, The Fall and the Rise of the Islamic State, pp. 105-151
Recommended:
XV. Ethnic-Racial Minorities in the MENA
Read: Mirjam E. Sørli, Nils Petter Gleditsch and Håvard Strand, Why Is There so Much Conflict in the Middle East? , The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 49, No. 1 (Feb., 2005), pp. 141-165
Saad Eddin.Ibrahim, Ethnic Conflict and State-Building in the Arab World, International Social Science Journal 50 (156): 229-242.
Graham E. Fuller, The Fate of the Kurds, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 72, No. 2 (Spring, 1993), pp. 108-121
David Crawford, How "Berber" Matters in the Middle of Nowhere, Middle East Report, No. 219 (Summer, 2001), pp. 20-25
XVI. Modernity and Changing Gender Roles in the MENA
Read: Nikki Keddie, Women in the Middle East: A History, pp. 9-59
Lynne Reinner, Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East pp. 79-112
Recommended: Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others, Lila Abu-Lughod, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 104, No. 3 (Sep., 2002), pp. 783-790
Badran, Margot, “Between Secular and Islamic Feminism/s.” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 1 (1): 6-28.
Part IV. Select Country Profiles
XVII. Turkey: From Secular Republic to Conservative, Post-Islamist Democracy
Read: Long, Reich, and Gasiorowski,
Ioannis Grigoriadis, Friends No More? The Rise of Anti-American Nationalism in Turkey ,
Ziya Onis and Fuat Keyman,“Turkey at the Polls: A New Path Emerges ” Journal of Democracy, April 2003.
Recommended: Secular Law and the Emergence of Unofficial Turkish Islamic Law
XVIII. Iran
Read: Said Arjomand, "Iran's Revolution in Comparative Perspective" World Politics
The Reform Movement and the Debate on Modernity and Tradition in Contemporary IranSaid Amir ArjomandInternational Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Nov., 2002), pp. 719-731
Charles Kurzman, “Critics Within: Islamic Scholars’ Protests against the Islamic State in Iran”, International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, vol. 15, 2001, pp. 341-359
Ervand Abrahamian, “Why the Islamic Republic Has Survived,” Middle East Report (Spring 2009): 10-16
Watch: Persepolis
Recommended: Said Arjomand, The Turban for the Crown pp. 189-211
XIX. Egypt
Read: Long, Reich, and Gasiorowski, Chapter
Mona El-Ghobashy, “The Metamorphosis of the Egyptian Muslim Brothers,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 37, No. 3, 2005, pp. 373-395.
Recommended: Genevieve Abdo, No God But God: Egypt and the Triumph of Islam
XX. Saudi Arabia
Read: Long, Reich, and Gasiorowski, Chapter
Stéphane Lacroix, 'Between Islamists and Liberals: Saudi Arabia's New “Islamo-Liberal” Reformists', in Middle East Journal, vol. 58, no. 3, Summer 2004, pp. 345–365
Amélie Le Renard, 'Only for Women: Women, the State, and Reform in Saudi Arabia', The Middle East Journal, vol. 62, no. 4, Autumn 2008, pp. 610-29
XXI. Lebanon
Recommended: Hanin Ghaddar, The Militarization of Sex: The story of Hezbollah's halal hookups, Foreign Policy Magazine, November 25, 2009
XXI. Algeria
Read: Long, Reich, and Gasiorowski, Chapter
Kepel, pp. 159-185, 254-276
Hamou Amirouche, Algeria's Islamist Revolution, The Journal of Middle East Policy, Vol. IX. June 2002
Micheal Slackman, A Quiet Revolution in Algeria: Gains by Women, The New York Times,
Recommended: Emilie de Vialar and the Religious Reconquest of Algeria, French Historical Studies, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Spring, 2006), pp. 261-292
Women and Democracy in Algeria, Dalila Djerbal, Louisa Ait Hamou, Review of African Political Economy, No. 54, Surviving Democracy? (Jul., 1992), pp. 106-111
XXII. Libya
Read: Long, Reich, and Gasiorowski, Chapter
Jacques Roumani, From Republic to Jamahiriya: Libya's Search for Political Community, Middle East Journal, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Spring, 1983), pp. 151-168
Recommended: The Libyan Revolution in the Words of Its Leaders, Middle East Journal, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Spring, 1970), pp. 203-219
XXIII. Morocco
Read: Long, Reich, and Gasiorowski, Chapter
Bruce Weitzman, Women, Islam, and the Moroccan State: The Struggle over the Personal Status Law
Moroccan Berbers seek revival of lost freedom: Five years on family law reform, Berbers unconvinced, Al-Arabiya
Recommended:
XXIV. The MENA and the United States: Why do North Africans and Middle Easterners despise America?
Read: Akbar Ahmed, Ibn Khaldun's Understanding of Civilizations and the Dilemmas of Islam and the West Today
XXV: Course overview
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Modern Islamic Political Thought
Part 1: The Pre-Modern Era: A Cursory Overview
I. Introduction
Read: Bernard Lewis, The Political Language of Islam
II. The Political Career of the Prophet
Read: Montgomery Watt, Muhammad: Prophet and Statesman
Watch: The Message (1976)
Recommended: The Quran Interpreted, trans A.J Arberry, pp. 127-148, 308-309, 341-344
Ella Landau-Tasseron, The Religious Foundations of Political Allegiance: A Study of Bay‘a in Pre-modern Islam, pp. 1-19
III. The Early Muslim Community in the Post-Prophetic Era
Read: Patricia Crone, God’s Rule: Six Centuries of Islamic Political Thought, pp.17-32
The Account of the Killing of Uthman in The Annals of al-Tabari, pp.1-27
IV. Political Justice and Early Sect Formation
Read: Majid Khurdi, The Islamic Conception of Justice, pp.13-38
V. The Kharajites
Read: Crone pp. 54-64
Ann Lambton, State and Government in Medieval Islam: An Introduction to the Study of Islamic Political Theory, pp. 21-42
Recommended: Patricia Crone, A Statement by the Najdiyya Kharijites on the Dispensability of the Imamate in Studia Islamica, No. 88 (1998), pp. 55-76
VI. The Mu'tazilites
Read: Crone pp. 65-69
VII. The Imamis
Read: Crone pp.110-124
Abdulaziz Sachedina, The Just Ruler in Shiite Islam: The Comprehensive Authority of the Jurist in Imamate Jurisprudence, pp. 89-117
VIII. The Sunnis
Read: Crone pp. 125-141, 219-255
Lambton pp. 69-82
Antony Black, The History of Islamic Political Thought: From the Prophet to the Present, pp. 81-107, 154-159
Watch: The Story of Islam
The Modern Era: 1750-Present
IX. Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab
Read: Netana Delong-Bas, Wahhabism, pp. 7-123
Hamid Algar, Wahhabism: A Critical Essay, pp. 1-66
Khaled Abu El Fadl, Violence and Rebellion in Islamic Law, pp. 134-150
X. Usman Dan Fodio
Read: Ibrahim Suleiman, The African Caliphate: The Life, Works, and Teachings of Shaykh Usman Dan Fodio, pp. 57-170
XI. Shah Wali Allah
Read: Muhammad al-Ghazali, The Socio-Political Thought of Shah Wali Allah, pp. 1-102
XII. Ali ‘Abd al-Raziq
Read: Message not Government, Religion Not State in Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook
XIII. Jamal al-din al-Afghani and Muhammad Abduh
Read: Ali Rahnema, Pioneers of Islamic Revival, pp. 1-63
Afghani, An Islamic Response to Imperialism, trans. Kiddie, pp. 36-45
XIV. Rashid Rida and Hasan al-Banna
Read: Rahnema pp. 125-183
Recommended: Hillel Fradkin, The History and Unwritten Future of Salafism in Current Trends In Islamist Ideology, Vol 6
Gilles Kepel, The Brotherhood in the Salafist Universe in Current Trends In Islamist Ideology, Vol 6
XV. Sayyid Abu’l –A’la Mawdudi
Read: Rahnema pp. 98-121
XVI. Ali Shari’ati
Read: Rahnema, pp. 208-251
XVII. Ruhollah Khomeini
Read: Hamid Algar, Islam and Revolution: Writings and Declarations of Imam Khomeini, pp. 13-150, 321 360
Hillel Fradkin, The Paradoxes of Shiism, in Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, Volume 8.
XVIII. Sayyid Qutb
Read: Roxanne L. Euben, Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought: Texts and Contexts from Al-Banna to Bin Laden, pp. 129-155
Recommended: Paul Berman, The Philosopher of Islamic Terror
Muqtedar Khan, Sayyid Qutb—The John Locke of the Islamic World?
Roxanne L. Euben, Comparative Political Theory: An Islamic Fundamentalist Critique of Rationalism in The Journal of Politics, Vol. 59, No. 1 (Feb., 1997), pp. 28-55
XIX. Muhammed Abd al-Salam Faraj
Read: Euben, pp. 321-327
XX.‘Umar Abd al-Rahman
Read: Euben, pp. 344-350
Roxanne L. Euben, Killing (For) Politics: Jihad, Martyrdom, and Political Action in Political Theory, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Feb, 2002), pp. 4-35
XXI. Overview of Islamism
Read: Muhammed Ayoob, The Many Faces of Political Islam, pp. 1-41
Aziz Al-Azmeh, Islamist Revivalism and Western Ideologies in History Workshop, No. 32 (Autumn, 1991), pp. 44-53
Recommended: Abdelwahab El-Affendi, The Long March from Lahore to Khartoum: Beyond the 'Muslim Reformation’ in Bulletin (British Society for Middle Eastern Studies), Vol. 17, No. 2 (1990), pp. 137-151
Guilain Denoeux, The Forgotten Swamp: Navigating Political Islam in the Journal of Middle East Policy, Vol. IX. June 2002
Gilles Kepel, Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam
Oliver Roy, The Failure of Political Islam
Oliver Roy, Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah
XXII. Islamic Feminism
Read: Wael B. Hallaq, An Introduction to Islamic Law, pp. 61-71, 119-133
Khaled Abu El Fadl, Speaking in God’s Name: Islamic Law, Authority and Women, pp. 209-49
Fatimah Mernissi, A Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights In Islam in Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook
Hibba Abugideiri, Hagar: A Historical Model for Gender Jihad in The Daughters of Abraham: Feminist Thought in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Amina Wudud, The Quran and Women in Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook
Gibril Haddad, An Innovation of Misguidance: Amina Wadud’s Un-Enlightened Feminism
Tim Winter, Boys will be Boys
Tim Winter, Islam, Irigaray, and the Retrieval of Gender
Recommended: Leila Ahmed, Women and Gender in Islam: Historical roots of a Modern Debate
Fatimah Mernissi, The Veil and the Male Elite, pp. 25-61
Asma Barlas, "Believing women" in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an
Soumaya Ghannoushi, Damsels in distress? in The Gaurdian
After Islamism: Islamic Liberalism and Neo-Traditionalism
XXIII. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im: Islam, The Post-Colonial State, and The Problem of Power
Read: Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari'a
John Esposito, The challenge of creating change in The Immanent Frame
Daniel Philpott, Arguing with An-Na`im in The Immanent Frame
Recommended: Wael B. Hallaq, An Introduction to Islamic Law, pp.1-85
Seyyed Vali Nasr, Islamic Leviathan: Islam and the Making of State Power
Bertrand de Jouvenel, On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth
XXIV. Khaled Abu El Fadl
Read: Khaled Abou El Fadl/Islam & The Challenge Of Democracy/Boston Review/April-May2003
Ten Responses
Practice and Theory-John L. Esposito
Change from Within- Nader A. Hashemi
The Best Hope-Noah Feldman
Democracy and Conflict-Jeremy Waldron
The Priority of Politics- M.A. Muqtedar Khan
The Importance of Context- A. Kevin Reinhart
Questioning Liberalism, Too- Saba Mahmood
Too Far from Tradition-Mohammad H. Fadel
Popular Support First- Bernard Haykel
Islam Isn't the Problem- William B. Quandt
Khaled Abou El Fadl Replies
Link To These Responses & Fadl's Reply: Ten Responses to Fadl/Boston Review/April-May2003
XXV. Abdolkarim Soroush
Read: Adbolkarim Soroush, Reason, Freedom and Democracy in Islam, Essential writings of Adbolkarim Soroush p. 54-69, 105-122
XXVI. Abdulaziz Sachedina
Read: Abdulaziz Sachedina, The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism
XXVII. Ian Dallas
Read: Ian Dallas, The Time of the Bedouin: On the Politics of Power
XXIII. Pervez Manzoor
Read: Islam and the Crisis of Modernity
Faith and Secularism: Against the Reduction of Islam as Governance
Clash of the Two Swords: Return of the Binary Theory in History, Poltics and Sociology
Theology and the Rights of Man: Islam and the Question of Liberty, Power and Coercion
Historical Order, Rational State, or Moral Community: The Problem of Politics in Modernity and in Islam
Beyond City and Civilization: Towards a Universal Vision of 'The City of Man'
XIX. Course Overview
Read: Wael B. Hallaq, Can The Shariah be Restored? in Islamic Law and the Challenges of Modernity, pp. 21-53
I. Introduction
Read: Bernard Lewis, The Political Language of Islam
II. The Political Career of the Prophet
Read: Montgomery Watt, Muhammad: Prophet and Statesman
Watch: The Message (1976)
Recommended: The Quran Interpreted, trans A.J Arberry, pp. 127-148, 308-309, 341-344
Ella Landau-Tasseron, The Religious Foundations of Political Allegiance: A Study of Bay‘a in Pre-modern Islam, pp. 1-19
III. The Early Muslim Community in the Post-Prophetic Era
Read: Patricia Crone, God’s Rule: Six Centuries of Islamic Political Thought, pp.17-32
The Account of the Killing of Uthman in The Annals of al-Tabari, pp.1-27
IV. Political Justice and Early Sect Formation
Read: Majid Khurdi, The Islamic Conception of Justice, pp.13-38
V. The Kharajites
Read: Crone pp. 54-64
Ann Lambton, State and Government in Medieval Islam: An Introduction to the Study of Islamic Political Theory, pp. 21-42
Recommended: Patricia Crone, A Statement by the Najdiyya Kharijites on the Dispensability of the Imamate in Studia Islamica, No. 88 (1998), pp. 55-76
VI. The Mu'tazilites
Read: Crone pp. 65-69
VII. The Imamis
Read: Crone pp.110-124
Abdulaziz Sachedina, The Just Ruler in Shiite Islam: The Comprehensive Authority of the Jurist in Imamate Jurisprudence, pp. 89-117
VIII. The Sunnis
Read: Crone pp. 125-141, 219-255
Lambton pp. 69-82
Antony Black, The History of Islamic Political Thought: From the Prophet to the Present, pp. 81-107, 154-159
Watch: The Story of Islam
The Modern Era: 1750-Present
IX. Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab
Read: Netana Delong-Bas, Wahhabism, pp. 7-123
Hamid Algar, Wahhabism: A Critical Essay, pp. 1-66
Khaled Abu El Fadl, Violence and Rebellion in Islamic Law, pp. 134-150
X. Usman Dan Fodio
Read: Ibrahim Suleiman, The African Caliphate: The Life, Works, and Teachings of Shaykh Usman Dan Fodio, pp. 57-170
XI. Shah Wali Allah
Read: Muhammad al-Ghazali, The Socio-Political Thought of Shah Wali Allah, pp. 1-102
XII. Ali ‘Abd al-Raziq
Read: Message not Government, Religion Not State in Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook
XIII. Jamal al-din al-Afghani and Muhammad Abduh
Read: Ali Rahnema, Pioneers of Islamic Revival, pp. 1-63
Afghani, An Islamic Response to Imperialism, trans. Kiddie, pp. 36-45
XIV. Rashid Rida and Hasan al-Banna
Read: Rahnema pp. 125-183
Recommended: Hillel Fradkin, The History and Unwritten Future of Salafism in Current Trends In Islamist Ideology, Vol 6
Gilles Kepel, The Brotherhood in the Salafist Universe in Current Trends In Islamist Ideology, Vol 6
XV. Sayyid Abu’l –A’la Mawdudi
Read: Rahnema pp. 98-121
XVI. Ali Shari’ati
Read: Rahnema, pp. 208-251
XVII. Ruhollah Khomeini
Read: Hamid Algar, Islam and Revolution: Writings and Declarations of Imam Khomeini, pp. 13-150, 321 360
Hillel Fradkin, The Paradoxes of Shiism, in Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, Volume 8.
XVIII. Sayyid Qutb
Read: Roxanne L. Euben, Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought: Texts and Contexts from Al-Banna to Bin Laden, pp. 129-155
Recommended: Paul Berman, The Philosopher of Islamic Terror
Muqtedar Khan, Sayyid Qutb—The John Locke of the Islamic World?
Roxanne L. Euben, Comparative Political Theory: An Islamic Fundamentalist Critique of Rationalism in The Journal of Politics, Vol. 59, No. 1 (Feb., 1997), pp. 28-55
XIX. Muhammed Abd al-Salam Faraj
Read: Euben, pp. 321-327
XX.‘Umar Abd al-Rahman
Read: Euben, pp. 344-350
Roxanne L. Euben, Killing (For) Politics: Jihad, Martyrdom, and Political Action in Political Theory, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Feb, 2002), pp. 4-35
XXI. Overview of Islamism
Read: Muhammed Ayoob, The Many Faces of Political Islam, pp. 1-41
Aziz Al-Azmeh, Islamist Revivalism and Western Ideologies in History Workshop, No. 32 (Autumn, 1991), pp. 44-53
Recommended: Abdelwahab El-Affendi, The Long March from Lahore to Khartoum: Beyond the 'Muslim Reformation’ in Bulletin (British Society for Middle Eastern Studies), Vol. 17, No. 2 (1990), pp. 137-151
Guilain Denoeux, The Forgotten Swamp: Navigating Political Islam in the Journal of Middle East Policy, Vol. IX. June 2002
Gilles Kepel, Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam
Oliver Roy, The Failure of Political Islam
Oliver Roy, Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah
XXII. Islamic Feminism
Read: Wael B. Hallaq, An Introduction to Islamic Law, pp. 61-71, 119-133
Khaled Abu El Fadl, Speaking in God’s Name: Islamic Law, Authority and Women, pp. 209-49
Fatimah Mernissi, A Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights In Islam in Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook
Hibba Abugideiri, Hagar: A Historical Model for Gender Jihad in The Daughters of Abraham: Feminist Thought in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Amina Wudud, The Quran and Women in Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook
Gibril Haddad, An Innovation of Misguidance: Amina Wadud’s Un-Enlightened Feminism
Tim Winter, Boys will be Boys
Tim Winter, Islam, Irigaray, and the Retrieval of Gender
Recommended: Leila Ahmed, Women and Gender in Islam: Historical roots of a Modern Debate
Fatimah Mernissi, The Veil and the Male Elite, pp. 25-61
Asma Barlas, "Believing women" in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an
Soumaya Ghannoushi, Damsels in distress? in The Gaurdian
After Islamism: Islamic Liberalism and Neo-Traditionalism
XXIII. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im: Islam, The Post-Colonial State, and The Problem of Power
Read: Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari'a
John Esposito, The challenge of creating change in The Immanent Frame
Daniel Philpott, Arguing with An-Na`im in The Immanent Frame
Recommended: Wael B. Hallaq, An Introduction to Islamic Law, pp.1-85
Seyyed Vali Nasr, Islamic Leviathan: Islam and the Making of State Power
Bertrand de Jouvenel, On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth
XXIV. Khaled Abu El Fadl
Read: Khaled Abou El Fadl/Islam & The Challenge Of Democracy/Boston Review/April-May2003
Ten Responses
Practice and Theory-John L. Esposito
Change from Within- Nader A. Hashemi
The Best Hope-Noah Feldman
Democracy and Conflict-Jeremy Waldron
The Priority of Politics- M.A. Muqtedar Khan
The Importance of Context- A. Kevin Reinhart
Questioning Liberalism, Too- Saba Mahmood
Too Far from Tradition-Mohammad H. Fadel
Popular Support First- Bernard Haykel
Islam Isn't the Problem- William B. Quandt
Khaled Abou El Fadl Replies
Link To These Responses & Fadl's Reply: Ten Responses to Fadl/Boston Review/April-May2003
XXV. Abdolkarim Soroush
Read: Adbolkarim Soroush, Reason, Freedom and Democracy in Islam, Essential writings of Adbolkarim Soroush p. 54-69, 105-122
XXVI. Abdulaziz Sachedina
Read: Abdulaziz Sachedina, The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism
XXVII. Ian Dallas
Read: Ian Dallas, The Time of the Bedouin: On the Politics of Power
XXIII. Pervez Manzoor
Read: Islam and the Crisis of Modernity
Faith and Secularism: Against the Reduction of Islam as Governance
Clash of the Two Swords: Return of the Binary Theory in History, Poltics and Sociology
Theology and the Rights of Man: Islam and the Question of Liberty, Power and Coercion
Historical Order, Rational State, or Moral Community: The Problem of Politics in Modernity and in Islam
Beyond City and Civilization: Towards a Universal Vision of 'The City of Man'
XIX. Course Overview
Read: Wael B. Hallaq, Can The Shariah be Restored? in Islamic Law and the Challenges of Modernity, pp. 21-53
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