Modern Islamic Thought and Political Movements

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	This may not be the most current syllabus, it is a generic one to give students an idea about the course; for up-to-date syllabus and schedule, please logon webCT Modern Islamic Thought & Political Movements Course Syllabus (Fall 2004) Course #: 032:157:001 Time & Location: 9:30A - 10:45A TTh 118 MH Department of Religious Studies 314 Gilmore Hall 319.335.2164 http://www.uiowa.edu/~religion/ Instructor: A. SOUAIAIA Office Hours: Wednesdays 1:30-4:30 pm and by appointment Office: 409 Gilmore Hall Email: ahmed-souaiaia@uiowa.edu Websites: http://myweb.uiowa.edu/asouaiai/ http://courses.uiowa.edu About the Course: S Starting with Ibn Khaldun, this course discusses major trends in Islamic religio-political thought since the colonial period, focusing on encounters between the Islamic and the modern world. Topics to be discussed include, inter alia, the “renewal movements”; various religious reform tendencies; nationalism orientations in Persian, Turkey and the Arab world; socialism; and political Islamic movements. In English; prior Islamic coursework recommended. (Content updates and course requirements are available at: http://myweb.uiowa.edu/asouaiai/) III. COURSE READINGS: In addition to selected chapters contained in the textbooks, there will be additional reading materials to be made available to students on webCT and on reserve. Students are expected to make use of the World Wide Web and to read current events relevant to the course's theme as they become available in-print or on the Internet. Textbooks: Required: · Selected chapters from Ibn Khaldun’s writings (available on webCT) · Sayyid Qutb, Social Justice in Islam · Sayyid Qutb, selections from Milestone · Islamic Government (pdf file), to view text online use HTML documents · Articles/single chapters (available online) · Rachid Ghannouchi: A Democrat within Islamism Azzam S. Tamimi