Paper 2402
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Islam in Contemporary Society
Syllabus
Description
The paper examines Islam against the background of recent history, including such topics as: Islamic reformism in the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries; various Islamic movements including the anti-Hadith faction and Wahhabism; women and Islam; democracy and Islam; violence and war in Islam; and various modern Muslim thinkers.
Aims
The paper aims to examine Islam against the background of recent history and contemporary society, from the nineteenth century to the present day, with a particular focus on how Muslims have responded to the challenges of the modern world.
Objectives
(a) Students will have studied the impact of colonization on Muslim religious discourse and Islamic reformism in the nineteenth century and beyond.
(b) They will have had the opportunity to be acquainted with various modern Muslim thinkers and a range of topical debates, including the anti-Hadith controversy; the nature of Wahhabism; the ethics of war and/or jihad; the Muslim discourse on feminism; the Islamic discourse on politics, state and democracy; and the anti-Sufi trend.
(c) They will have had an awareness of the various Islamic movements in the modern world and their respective counterparts in the classical period, and the diversity of religious developments in contemporary Muslim societies.
Candidates who wish to take this paper must also take paper 2305, Islam in the Classical Period.
Delivery
8 lectures; 8 tutorials.
Assessment
is by one three-hour written paper in TT of the second year of the Honour School.
Reading list
Principal Textbooks
Abu-Rabi, I.M. The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Islamic Thought (2006).
OLIS: OXLIP + BOD + THE + ISL
Küng, H. Islam: Past, Present and Future (2007).
OLIS: BOD + THE + OIL + ISL + REG + TRI
Gibb, H.A.R. Modern Trends in Islam (1947).
OLIS: OXLIP + BOD + OIL MEC + ISL + ANN + STJ + HMC + WOR
Hodgson, M.G.S. The Venture of Islam. Vol. 3: The Gunpowder Empires and Modern Times (1974).
OLIS: BOD + OIL + ISL + HEB + Most Colleges
Rahman, F. Islam and Modernity: Transformation of an Intellectual Tradition (1982).
OLIS: BOD + MEC + ISL + LMH
Background Texts
Endress, G. Islam: An Historical Introduction, 2nd ed. (2002).
OLIS: BOD + THE + OIL + ISL + MAG + TRI + WAD
Faruqi, I.R. & L.L. al-Faruqi. The Cultural Atlas of Islam (1986).
OLIS: BOD + OIL + CED + ISL + STX
Kennedy, H. An Historical Atlas of Islam, 2nd ed. (2002).
OLIS: BOD + OIL + MEC + SCA + ISL + HMC + MAG + MER + PEM + STJ + WOL
Hourani, A. Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age: 1798-1939 (1983).
OLIS: BOD + OIL + MEC + CED + ISL + LMH + MER + SOM + ANN + WAD
Rahman, F. Islam, 2nd ed. (1979).
OLIS: BOD + OIL + CED + HEB + ISL + MAG + PEM + WOL
Robinson, F. Atlas of the Islamic World Since 1500 (1989).
OLIS: BOD + THE + OIL + MEC + ISL + SOM + CAT + STJ + TRI
General Reference
Encyclopaedia of Islam (2nd ed.).
OLIS: OXLIP + BOD + OIL + MEC + SCA + ISL + ANN + MAG + HMC + PEM + STJ + SPC + WOL
The Oxford Encyclopaedia of the Modern Islamic World.
OLIS: BOD + THE + OIL + MEC + RSL + CMS +ISL + SOM + WOL
Oxford Islamic Studies Online (www.oxfordislamicstudies.com).
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OLIS: OIL + LAW + ISL
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OLIS: BOD + THE + OIL + ISL + OUS + LMH + PEM + ANN + STJ
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OLIS: BOD + THE + MEC + SSL + ISL + MAG + CAT
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OLIS: BOD + CED + ISL + CMS + SSL + TRI
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OLIS: BOD + THE + MEC + CED + ISL + HMC + PEM + HUG + WOL
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OLIS: BOD + THE + ISL + HER + WOL
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OLIS: OXLIP + BOD + IND + RSL + OIL + MEC
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OLIS: BOD + THE + MEC + SSL + OUS + ISL + CMS + HMC + PEM
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OLIS: BOD + OIL + MEC + CED + ISL + LMH + MER + SOM + ANN + WAD
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OLIS: MEC + ISL
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OLIS: BOD + MEC + SSL + ISL + WOR
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OLIS: BOD + SSL + ISL
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OLIS: BOD + THE + ISL
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OLIS: BOD + ISL
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OLIS: BOD + MEC + OIL + ISL
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OLIS: OXLIP + BOD
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OLIS: BOD + THE + ISL + LMH + MAG
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OLIS: BOD + OIL + MEC + CED + ISL + HMC + ANN
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OLIS: ISL
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OLIS: BOD + OIL + HFL + CED + ISL+ PEM + STJ
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OLIS: OXLIP + BOD + THE + OIL + ISL + MAG + SOM + STX + WOR
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OLIS: SSL + CED + ISL
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OLIS: BOD + THE + MEC + SCA + ISL + HMC + ANN
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OLIS: BOD
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OLIS: BOD + OIL + ISL + PEM
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OLIS: BOD + ISL
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OLIS: BOD + MEC + ISL
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OLIS: ISL
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OLIS: ISL
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OLIS: BOD + OIL + ISL + EXE + PEM + ANN
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OLIS: BOD + ISL
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OLIS: PHI + SSL + SCA + ISL + BLL + NUF + SOM + TRI + WOL
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OLIS: BOD + OIL + THE
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OLIS: MEC + ISL + MAG
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OLIS: BOD + OIL + MEC + CED + ISL + NUF
Yamani, M. (ed.). Feminism and Islam: Legal and Literary Perspectives (1996).
OLIS: BOD + MEC + ISL + SOM