Readings

  • Topic 1: Contexts, Origins, & Beginnings

    Berkey, "Introduction"
    Required
    BERKEY.Intro.pdf
    Rippin, "Pre-History"
    Required
    RIPPIN_Pre_History.pdf
    Silverstein, "The Story" (2014)
    Required
    SILVERSTEIN.The_Story (2014).pdf
    Silverstein, "The Sources"
    Required
    SILVERSTEIN.The_Sources.pdf
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  • Topic 2: Life of Muhammad

    Silverstein, "Competing Approaches" (2014)
    Required
    SILVERSTEIN.Competing_Approaches (2014).pdf
    Donner, "Muhammad and the Believers" (2010)
    Required
    DONNER.Muhammad_and_the_Believers (2010).pdf
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  • Topic 3: The Quran & Hadith

    Quran (Sura and Explanation for Class)
    Required
    Quran_Ex_with_Tafsir.pdf
    Hadith readings (Malik b. Anas, al-Bukhari, Ibn Hajar)
    Required
    Hadith_Readings.pdf
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  • Topic 4: The Diversification of Muslim Communities

    Shepard, "Shi'ism"
    Required
    SHEPARD.Shi'ism.pdf
    Hoffman, "The Ibadis"
    Required
    HOFFMANN.The_Ibadis (2010).pdf
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  • Topic 6: Islamic Law

    Gleave, "Sunni Law"
    Required
    GLEAVE.Sunni_Law.pdf
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  • Topic 7: Sufism

    Rippin, "Sufism"
    Required
    RIPPIN_Sufism.pdf
    Ghazzali, "The Path of the Sufis"
    Required
    GHAZZALI.On_the_Sufi_Path.pdf
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  • Topic 8: Pilgrimage & Commerce

    Rippin, "Hajj"
    Required
    RIPPIN_Hajj.pdf
    Ibn Jubayr, "Pilgrimage"
    Required
    IBN_JUBAYR.Pilgrimage.pdf
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  • Topic 9: Modernity, Islam & the ‘Islamic State’

    Khumayni, "Islamic Government" & Khatami, "Dialogue between East and West"
    Required
    Khumayni.Islamic_Government.pdf
    Abduh, "Islam, Reason, and Civilization"
    Required
    ABDUH.Islam_and_Reason.pdf
    Mawdudi, "Nationalism and Islam"
    Required
    MAWDUDI.Nationalism_and_Islam.pdf
    Burke III, "The Invention of Moroccan Islam"
    Required
    BURKE.The_Invention_of_Moroccan_Islam (2013).pdf
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  • Topic 10: Ethnography

    Geertz, [Selection from] Islam Observed
    Required
    Geertz, Chpts 1&2 Islam Observed.pdf
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  • Topic 11: Islamic Societies in Comparative Perspective

    Jones & Pratt, "Islam in China"
    Required
    JONES&PRATT.Islam_in_China (2014).pdf
    Loimeier, "Is there an African Islam?"
    Required
    LOIMEIER.Is_There_an_African_Islam (2013).pdf
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  • Topic 12: Representing & Defining Islam in the Present

    Ahmed, "What is Islam" (Introduction, 2016)
    Required
    AHMED.What_is_Islam(Chapter1).pdf
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  • Misc. Optional Readings

    Ernst, "The Word of God: The Qur'an"
    Required
    ERNST.Word_of_God.pdf
    Hourani, "Shari'ah"
    Required
    HOURANI.Shariah.pdf
    Hourani, "The Power and Justice of God"
    Required
    Hourani.Power_and_Justice_of_God.pdf
    The Gold Caravan (Comic)
    Required
    Gold_Caravan_Graphic_Novel_World_History.pdf
    Watt, "The Gifted Orphan"
    Required
    WATT.Gifted_Orphan.pdf
    Rippin, "Theological Exposition"
    Required
    RIPPIN_Theological_Exposition.pdf
    Ibn Hawqal, Kitab Surat al-Ard
    Required
    Ibn Hawqal, Kitab Surat al-Ard (Selection).pdf
    Ibn Ishaq, "Sirat rasul Allah"
    Required
    IBN_ISHAQ.Prophet_Muhammad.pdf
    Quran, "Surat Maryam"
    Required
    Quran_Surat_Maryam.pdf
    Heck, "Gold Mining in Arabia and the Rise of the Islamic State"
    Required
    HECK.Gold Mining in Arabia and Rise Islamic State.pdf
    Ibn Dhakwan, "Sira"

    New Version added 21 Feb 2017 (original was missing first page in Arabic)

    Required
    IBN_DHAKWAN.Sira.pdf
    Ernst, "Gender and the Question of Veiling"
    Required
    ERNST.Gender&Veiling.pdf
    Ernst, "End of the Caliphate"
    Required
    ERNST.Islamic_State.pdf
    Donner, "Muhammad and the Believers' Movement"
    Required
    DONNER.Muhammad_and_the_Believers_At_the_Origins_o.pdf
    Al-Tha'labi, "Abraha and the Elephant"
    Required
    THA'LABI.Abraha__and_the_Elephant.pdf
    Al-Nawawi (13th c.) on Islamic Law
    Required
    NAWAWI.On_Law.pdf
    al-Ghazzali, "Science of Kalam"
    Required
    GHAZZALI.Theological_Reasoning.pdf
    Ibn Tufayl, "Alone on a desert island"
    Required
    IBN_TUFAYL.Alone_on_a_desert_island.pdf
    Al-Tarafi, "Mary Mother of Jesus"
    Required
    TARAFI.Mary_Mother_of_Jesus.pdf
    Ibrahim, "9/11 As a New Temporal Phase for Islam" (2007)
    Required
    11_As_New_Temporal_Phase_for_Islam (2007).pdf
    Khalifa, "Tobacco and Coffee"
    Required
    KHALIFAH.On_Tobacco&Coffee.pdf
    Green, "Founding the First Mosque in Japan"
    Required
    GREEN.Founding_the_first_mosque_in_Japan (2016).pdf
    Ernst, "Greek Philosophy"
    Required
    ERNST.Greek_Philosophy.pdf
    Haider, "Contesting Intoxication" (2013)
    Required
    HAIDER.Alcohol_in_Islamic_law.pdf
    Zvan-Elliott, "Twenty-first century marriage"
    Required
    Zvan Elliott - Modernizing Patriarchy Ch4.pdf
    Abraham, "Arab Detroit's 'American Mosque'"
    Required
    ABRAHAM.Arab_Detroit's_American_Mosque.pdf
    Rumi, Musnavi (Selections)
    Required
    RUMI.Muthnawi (Selections from Calder et al).pdf
    Hallaj, "Crucifixion"
    Required
    HALLAJ.Crucifixion.pdf
    Donner, "Hagarism" (Review)
    Required
    DONNER.Hagarism_Retro_Review (2006).pdf
    Hoyland, "Earliest Christian Writings on Muhammad"
    Required
    HOYLAND.The_Earliest_Christian_Writings_on_Muhamma.pdf
    Ross, "Marabout Republics"
    Required
    Ross_2005_Marabout Republics to Autonomous Rural C.pdf
    Ibn Ishaq, "Sīrat" (the Life of Muhammad, Eng. Trans)
    Required
    IBN_ISHAQ_The_Life_Of_Mohammed_Guillaume (Selectio.pdf
    Baladhuri, Origins of the Islamic State (English trans.)
    Required
    BALDHURI.Futuh_al-Buldan (English).pdf
    Tabari, "Conquest of Misr and Alexandria" (English)
    Required
    TABARI.Conquest_of_Egypt.pdf
    Berkey, "The formation of Sunni traditionalism"
    Required
    BERKEY.Sunni_Traditionalism.pdf
    Baghdadi, "The Book of Religious Sects"
    Required
    BAGHDADI_Firaq.pdf
    Baghdadi, "al-Farq" (in Arabic)
    Required
    BAGHDADI_al-Farq (Arabic).pdf
    Haider, "Shi'ism: An Introduction" (Intro + Karbala)
    Required
    HAIDER.Shi'ism_Introduction (2014).pdf
    Powers, "Women and Divorce in the Islamic West: Three Cases" (2003)
    Required
    POWERS.Women&Divorce_in_the_Islamic_West(2003).pdf
    al-Nawawi, "Fundaments [of Law]"
    Required
    NAWAWI.On_Law.pdf
    Powers, "Women & Divorce in the Islamic West: Three Cases"
    Required
    POWERS.Women&Divorce_in_the_Islamic_West(2003).pdf
    Wansharisi, 'Mi'yar' (Arabic selections from Powers article)
    Required
    WANSHARISI_Mi'yar.pdf
    Ibn Battuta, "The Maldives"
    Required
    IBN_BATTUTA.Maldives.pdf
    Ross, "Marabout Republics"
    Required
    Ross_2005_Marabout Republics to Autonomous Rural C.pdf
    Smith, "Islam comes to America"
    Required
    SMITH.Islam_Comes_to_America__1999.pdf
    Satrapi "Persepolis" (Selections)
    Required
    SATRAPI.Persepolis_(Selections).pdf
    Huntington, "The Clash of Civilizations"
    Required
    HUNTINGTON.Clash_of_Civilizations(1993).pdf
    Wadud, "Rights and Roles of Women"
    Required
    WADUD.Rights_and_Roles_of_Women.pdf
    Said, "Orientalism" (Introduction)
    Required
    SAID.Intro_Selection.pdf
    Jones, "Situating the Discourse" (2012)
    Required
    BAILEY-JONES.Situating_the_Discourse.pdf
    Rippin, "Principles of Jurisprudence" and "Relations between the schools of Law"
    Required
    RIPPIN_Law.pdf
    Bonner, "The Great Conquests"
    Required
    BONNER.The_Great_Conquests.pdf
    Berkey, "Early Islam in the Near East"
    Required
    BERKEY.Early_Islam.pdf
    Berkey, "Shi'ism"
    Required
    BERKEY.Shi'ism.pdf
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