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Topic 1: Contexts, Origins, & Beginnings

Topic 2: Life of Muhammad

Topic 3: The Quran & Hadith

Topic 4: The Diversification of Muslim Communities

Title Description File type
Shepard, "Shi'ism"
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Hoffman, "The Ibadis"
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Topic 6: Islamic Law

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Gleave, "Sunni Law"
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Topic 7: Sufism

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Rippin, "Sufism"
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Ghazzali, "The Path of the Sufis"
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Topic 8: Pilgrimage & Commerce

Title Description File type
Rippin, "Hajj"
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Ibn Jubayr, "Pilgrimage"
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Topic 9: Modernity, Islam & the ‘Islamic State’

Topic 10: Ethnography

Title Description File type
Geertz, [Selection from] Islam Observed
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Topic 11: Islamic Societies in Comparative Perspective

Topic 12: Representing & Defining Islam in the Present

Title Description File type
Ahmed, "What is Islam" (Introduction, 2016)
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Misc. Optional Readings

Title Description File type
Ernst, "The Word of God: The Qur'an"
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Hourani, "Shari'ah"
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Hourani, "The Power and Justice of God"
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The Gold Caravan (Comic)
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Watt, "The Gifted Orphan"
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Rippin, "Theological Exposition"
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Ibn Hawqal, Kitab Surat al-Ard
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Ibn Ishaq, "Sirat rasul Allah"
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Quran, "Surat Maryam"
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Heck, "Gold Mining in Arabia and the Rise of the Islamic State"
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Ibn Dhakwan, "Sira"

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

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Ernst, "Gender and the Question of Veiling"
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Ernst, "End of the Caliphate"
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Donner, "Muhammad and the Believers' Movement"
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Al-Tha'labi, "Abraha and the Elephant"
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Al-Nawawi (13th c.) on Islamic Law
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al-Ghazzali, "Science of Kalam"
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Ibn Tufayl, "Alone on a desert island"
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Al-Tarafi, "Mary Mother of Jesus"
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Ibrahim, "9/11 As a New Temporal Phase for Islam" (2007)
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Khalifa, "Tobacco and Coffee"
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Green, "Founding the First Mosque in Japan"
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Ernst, "Greek Philosophy"
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Haider, "Contesting Intoxication" (2013)
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Zvan-Elliott, "Twenty-first century marriage"
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Abraham, "Arab Detroit's 'American Mosque'"
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Rumi, Musnavi (Selections)
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Hallaj, "Crucifixion"
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Donner, "Hagarism" (Review)
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Hoyland, "Earliest Christian Writings on Muhammad"
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Ross, "Marabout Republics"
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Ibn Ishaq, "Sīrat" (the Life of Muhammad, Eng. Trans)
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Baladhuri, Origins of the Islamic State (English trans.)
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Tabari, "Conquest of Misr and Alexandria" (English)
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Berkey, "The formation of Sunni traditionalism"
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Baghdadi, "The Book of Religious Sects"
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Baghdadi, "al-Farq" (in Arabic)
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Haider, "Shi'ism: An Introduction" (Intro + Karbala)
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Powers, "Women and Divorce in the Islamic West: Three Cases" (2003)
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al-Nawawi, "Fundaments [of Law]"
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Powers, "Women & Divorce in the Islamic West: Three Cases"
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Wansharisi, 'Mi'yar' (Arabic selections from Powers article)
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Ibn Battuta, "The Maldives"
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Ross, "Marabout Republics"
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Smith, "Islam comes to America"
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Satrapi "Persepolis" (Selections)
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Huntington, "The Clash of Civilizations"
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Wadud, "Rights and Roles of Women"
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Said, "Orientalism" (Introduction)
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Jones, "Situating the Discourse" (2012)
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Rippin, "Principles of Jurisprudence" and "Relations between the schools of Law"
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Bonner, "The Great Conquests"
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Berkey, "Early Islam in the Near East"
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Berkey, "Shi'ism"
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