History 449/649
and RGS 449
Spring 2014
Course
Syllabus
Instructor
Dr. Zackery M.
Heern
Email:
zheern@murraystate.edu
Phone:
270-809-6585
Twitter:
@zackeryheern
Blog:
http://themiddleeastandislam.blogspot.com/
Meeting Time: TR
1230-145 FH202
Office Hours: MWF
9:30-11:30, TR 1:45-2:45
Office:
Faculty Hall 6B #4
Note: This syllabus is subject to
change at the instructor’s discretion. It is the responsibility of each student
to note any changes. All changes will be posted on Canvas.
Course
Description:
Beginning with the
18th century, the course will cover reform movements, then look at Muslim
responses to Western and modern influence in the Islamic world. Finally, the
course will examine the rise of radical and moderate trends in Islam. The
geographical reach of this course is Eurasia and Africa. Special attention will
be paid to political Islam and Islamic terrorist organizations. (Same
as History 649 and RGS 449.)
Textbooks:
Voll, John Obert. Islam: Continuity
and Change in the Modern World. New York: Syracuse University Press, 1994.
Mandaville, Peter. Global Political Islam. New York: Routledge, 2007.
Donohue,
John J. and John L. Esposito. Islam in
Transition: Muslim Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Additional
required readings will be posted on Canvas.
Course
Requirements:
Reading
Discussion Responses: Nearly every week we will have a discussion on the readings
for that week. Each student will prepare for the discussion by writing a
response to the readings, which should be a bare minimum of 300 words (1 page).
For graduate students, the minimum is 450 words (1 ½ pages). The response will
be posted to Canvas. Each student is required to write responses to 12 of the 15 discussions. To receive
full credit, students will also post at least two comments on responses posted
by classmates. See the discussion board for more details.
Papers.
Each student will write three papers for this class.
Paper 1: Book Review. Write a review (1,200 words, 4 pages) of a book taken from a list that
I will provide.
Graduate students will write a review (1,800 words,
6 pages) of 2 books or 1 book and 3 journal articles related to the subject of
the book.
Paper 2: Bibliographic Paper. Write a bibliographic paper (1,800 words, 6 pages) on one of the 15
topics of the course. The bibliography must include at least 2 books and 1
journal article.
Graduate students will write a bibliographic paper
(2,400 words, 8 pages) that will include at least 3 books and 2 articles.
Paper 3: Research Paper. The term paper (3,000, 10 pages) will be based on research of primary
and secondary sources. The topic will be chosen in consultation with me, but
must be directly related to the subject matter of the course. As part of the
research paper students will submit an annotated bibliography, an introduction,
and an outline prior to the due date of the paper. The bibliography must
include at least 3 books, 2 journal articles, and primary source material.
Graduate students will write a similar term paper of
approximately 5,000-6,000 words (16-20 pages). The bibliography must include at
least 4 books, 3 articles, and primary source material.
Participation. Students
will receive a participation grade. As long as you regularly attend class and
make a positive contribution to it, you will receive points for participation.
If a student
misses 5 or more classes, his or her final grade will be automatically dropped
by a letter grade. If a student misses 10 or more classes she or he will
receive an E for the final grade.
Students who
show up after roll is called will be marked late if they remind me after class.
Students will receive half credit for being late and two tardies will be
equated with one absence.
Students will
lose points for cell-phone use or other inappropriate behavior in the
classroom. Computers in the classroom are only to be used for note taking.
Canvas will be used
extensively for this class. I will post announcements regarding changes in the
syllabus and class schedule on Canvas. I will also use Canvas to post grades,
etc. Please check it regularly.
Grade: (Your grade
will be calculated as follows with the typical percentages equated to letter
grades: 90%-100% = A, etc.)
Participation:
100
Reading
Discussions: 25 points each (300 total)
Paper
1: 100
Paper
2: 200
Paper
3: 300
________________________________
Total:
1,000
Extra Credit
You may earn up to 10 extra
credit points in this class by attending lectures, etc. on campus. I will alert
you to extra credit opportunities throughout the semester. In order to receive
credit, you must write a summary and critique (roughly 200 words). Each
submission is worth 5 points. Extra credit is due no later than week 13.
Meeting
Feel free to come to my
office hours as often as you would like. You can contact me in the following
ways:
- I will be in my office during the hours indicated above.
- Email: I check my email regularly and will respond to you as
quickly as possible. Feel free to email me at zheern@murraystate.edu.
- Phone: 270-809-6585. If you are unable to come to office hours
please call me. Since this is my office phone, I can only answer it when I
am in my office. If I do not answer, please leave a message and I will
call you back. This is a landline, which does not receive text messages.
Cheating
Murray
State University prohibits cheating, which includes plagiarism. If a student is
charged with academic dishonesty, an E may be recorded as the final grade and
the student may be expelled from the university. See below for more details.
ACADEMIC HONESTY POLICY
Murray
State University takes seriously its moral and educational obligation to
maintain high standards of academic honesty and ethical behavior. Instructors
are expected to evaluate students’ academic achievements accurately, as well as
ascertain that work submitted by students is authentic and the result of their
own efforts, and consistent with established academic standards. Students are
obligated to respect and abide by the basic standards of personal and
professional integrity.
Violations
of Academic Honesty include:
Cheating -
Intentionally using or attempting to use unauthorized information such as
books, notes, study aids, or other electronic, online, or digital devices in
any academic exercise; as well as unauthorized communication of information by
any means to or from others during any academic exercise.
Fabrication
and Falsification - Intentional alteration or invention of any information or
citation in an academic exercise. Falsification involves changing information
whereas fabrication involves inventing or counterfeiting information.
Multiple
Submission
- The submission of substantial portions of the same academic work, including
oral reports, for credit more than once without authorization from the
instructor.
Plagiarism -
Intentionally or knowingly representing the words, ideas, creative work, or
data of someone else as one’s own in any academic exercise, without due and
proper acknowledgement.
Instructors
should outline their expectations that may go beyond the scope of this policy
at the beginning of each course and identify such expectations and restrictions
in the course syllabus. When an instructor receives evidence, either directly
or indirectly, of academic dishonesty, he or she should investigate the
instance. The faculty member should then take appropriate disciplinary action.
Disciplinary
action may include, but is not limited to the following:
1)
Requiring the student(s) to repeat the exercise or do additional related
exercise(s).
2)
Lowering the grade or failing the student(s) on the particular exercise(s)
involved.
3)
Lowering the grade or failing the student(s) in the course.
If
the disciplinary action results in the awarding of a grade of E in the course,
the student(s) may not drop the course.
Faculty
reserve the right to invalidate any exercise or other evaluative measures if
substantial evidence exists that the integrity of the exercise has been
compromised. Faculty also reserve the right to document in the course syllabi
further academic honesty policy elements related to the individual disciplines.
A
student may appeal the decision of the faculty member with the department chair
in writing within five working days. Note: If, at any point in this process,
the student alleges that actions have taken place that may be in violation of
the Murray State University Non-Discrimination Statement, this process must be
suspended and the matter be directed to the Office of Equal Opportunity. Any
appeal will be forwarded to the appropriate university committee as determined
by the Provost.
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The Racer Oral Communication Center offers free, one-on-one help with all aspects of the presentation
process. We can provide assistance with topic selection, outlining,
delivery, visual aids, and can video record your presentation. To make an
appointment, please call 809-3458 or visit our website (http://comcenter.murraystate.edu) to schedule
through our online calendar. To best make use of your time at the Center,
please bring a copy of your assignment with you to your appointment.
The
Communication Center's hours are 11am to 5pm
Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. They have extended hours on
Tuesday from 11 am to 8 pm.
Tentative Weekly Schedule
Part 1: Eighteenth Century
Week 1: Jan. 13
Introduction: What is History and What is Modernity?
Readings:
Syllabus
Voll, ch. 1
Heern, “Reform, Revival, and the Creation of
the Modern World,” in Emergence of Modern Shi'ism, pp. 24-47
Suggested Readings:
Mitchell, Timothy, Ed. Questions of Modernity. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 2000.
Week 2: Jan. 20
Eighteenth Century Islamic World and Usuli
Shi‘ism
Readings:
Voll, ch. 2, pp. 24-53 and 79-83
Naff, “Introduction” in Studies in Eighteenth Century Islamic History, pp. 3-15
Heern, “Vahid Bihbihani: Reviver of the
Eighteenth Century,” in Emergence of Modern Shi'ism, pp. 82-106
Suggested Readings:
Arjomand, Said Amir, The Shadow
of God and the Hidden Imam: Religion, Political Order, and Societal Change in
Shi‘ite Iran from the Beginning to 1890. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1984.
Levtzion, Nehemia and John Olbert Voll, eds. Eighteenth Century Renewal and Reform in Islam. New York: Syracuse University Press, 1987.
Naff, Thomas and Roger Owen, eds. Studies in Eighteenth Century
Islamic History. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1977.
Week 3: Jan. 27
Neo-Sufism
Readings:
Voll, Ch 2 pp. 56-79
Radtke, “Sufism in the 18th
Century,” Die Welt des Islams, New Series,
Vol. 36, Issue 3, Islamic Enlightenment in the 18th Century? (Nov., 1996), pp.
326-364
O’Fahey and Karrar, “The Enigmatic Imam: The
Influence of Ahmad Ibn Idris” International
Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 19, No. 2 (May, 1987), pp. 205-219
Heern “Founding Fathers of Modern Islam,” in Custodians of the Saved Sect, pp.
204-228
Suggested Readings:
O’Fahey, R. S. Enigmatic Saint, Ahmad Ibn
Idris and the Idrisi Tradition. Evanston: Northwestern University Press,
1990.
Sirriyeh, Sufis
and Anti-Sufis: The Defense, Rethinking and Rejection of Sufism in the Modern
World
Baljon,
Religion and thought of Shah Wali Allah Dihlawi: 1703-1762
Week 4: Feb. 3
Wahhabism
Readings:
Vol. Ch. 2, pp. 53-55
Abou el-Fadl, “The Rise of the Early
Puritans, Wahhabi Origins,” The Great
Theft, pp. 45-74
Elizabeth Sirriyeh, “Wahhabis, Unbelievers
and the Problems of Exclusivism,” Bulletin (British Society for Middle Eastern
Studies), Vol. 16, No. 2 (1989), pp. 123-132
Suggested Readings:
Commins, David. The Wahhabi Mission and Saudi Arabia.
al-Uthaymin, Abd Allah Salih. Muhammad Ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab: The Man and his
Works. New York: I.B Tauris, 2009.
Delong-Bas, Natana J. Wahhabi Islam: From
Revival and Reform to Global Jihad. New York: Oxford University Press,
2004.
Haj, Samira. Reconfiguring Islamic Tradition: Reform, Rationality, and Modernity
Rentz, The Birth of the Islamic Reform Movement in
Saudi Arabia: Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703/4-1792) and the Beginnings of
Unitarian Empire in Arabia
Paper 1 Due on Thursday
Feb. 13
Part 2: Nineteenth Century
Week 5: Feb. 10
Adaptationism
Readings:
Voll, Ch. 3 pp. 84-109
Donohue, “Early Responses,” pp. 7-38
Hourani, “Jamal al-Din al-Afghani,” and
“Muhammad ‘Abduh,” in Arabic Thought in
the Liberal Age: 1798-1939, pp. 103-60
Suggested Readings:
Haj, Samira. Reconfiguring Islamic Tradition: Reform, Rationality, and Modernity
Hourani, Arabic
Thought in the Liberal Age
Sedgwick, Muhammad
Abduh
Muhammad Abduh, The Theology of Unity (primary source)
Watt, Islamic
Fundamentalism and Modernity
Sanyal, Ahmad Brelwi
Week 6: Feb. 17
Colonization and Shi‘i Iran
Readings:
Voll, ch. 3, pp. 109-126
Danziger, “Interlude: Hostilities with the
French,” in Abd al-Qadir and the
Algerians, pp. 114-136
Arjomand, “Part 3: The Shi‘ite Hierocracy and
the State, 1785-1890” in The Shadow of
God and the Hidden Imam, pp. 215-263
Suggested Readings
Danziger, Abd
al-Qadir and the Algerians
Litvak, Meir. Shi‘i Scholars of Nineteenth Century Iraq: The ‘ulama’ of Najaf and
Karbala. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1997.
Arjomand, The
Shadow of God and the Hidden Imam
Week 7: Feb. 24
Nationalism and Revivalism
Readings:
Voll, ch. 3, pp. 126-151
Donohue, “Islam and Nationalism,” pp. 39-77
Suggested Readings:
Karpat, Politicization
of Islam
Trimingham, Sufi Orders in Islam
Findley, Turkey, Islam Nationalism, and Modernity: A
History
Martin, Muslim Brotherhoods in Nineteenth-Century
Africa
Makdisi, 19th Century Lebanon and
Sectarianism
Part 3: Twentieth Century
Week 8: March 3
Secularism, Socialism, and Democracy
Readings:
Voll, ch. 4 152-177, 190-208, ch. 6 pp.
329-337
Donohue, “Islam and Socialism,” pp. 78-113
and “Islam in the Contemporary Secular State,” pp. 115-142, “Islam and
Democracy,” pp. 261-330
Suggested Readings:
Esposito, John L. Islam and Politics.
New York: Syracuse University Press, 1984.
Mernissi, Islam and Democracy
Kuru, Democracy,
Islam, and Secularism in Turkey
Reinhard Schulze, A Modern History of the Islamic World
Hamid Enayat, Modern Islamic Political Thought
Kurzman, Ed. Liberal Islam: A sourcebook (primary source collection)
Week 9: March 10
Islamism: Muslim Brotherhood, etc.
Readings:
Mandaville, Ch. 3
Voll, ch. 4 pp. 177-190, ch. 6 pp. 322-329
Makris, “Islamism: General overview,” in Islam in the Middle East, pp. 193-223
Suggested Readings:
Mitchell, Richard P., The Society of Muslim Brothers
Hroub, Political
Islam
Kramer, Hasan
al-Banna
Qutb, Milestones
(primary source)
Strindberg, Islamism
Meijer, Ed. Global Salafism: Islam’s New Religious Movement
Abu-Rabi’,
Intellectual Origins of Islamic Resurgence in the Modern Arab World
Paper 2 Due March 13
Week 10: March 17-21 (Spring Break No Classes)
Week 11: March 24
Resurgence of Islam: Algeria, Tunisia,
Morocco, Turkey, Egypt, etc.
Readings:
Mandaville, Ch. 4
Voll, ch. 4 pp. 215-230, (review: pp.
97-104), ch. 6 pp. 337-366
Film: Battle for Algiers
Suggested Readings:
Eickelman, Muslim Politics
Commins, Islamic Reform in Syria
Azmah, Islams
and Modernities
Brown, Rethinking
Tradition in Modern Islamic Thought
Esposito, Ed., Voices of Resurgent Islam
Week 12: March 31
“Islamic” States (Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan,
etc.)
Readings:
Mandeville, Ch. 5
Voll, ch. 5 pp. 231-288, ch. 6 pp. 289-313
Shaul Bakhash, “Khomaini: The Idol Smasher,”
in Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the
Islamic Revolution, pp. 19-51
David Commins, “Wahhabism and in a Modern
State,” in The Wahhabi Mission and Saudi
Arabia, pp. 104-130
Suggested Readings:
Akhavi, Shahrough. Religion and Politics in Contemporary Iran: Clergy-State Relations in
the Pahlavi Period. Albany: Sate University of New York Press, 1980.
Amanat, Abbas. Apocalyptic Islam and
Iranian Shi‘ism. New York: I. B. Taurus, 2009.
Said Amir Arjomand. The Turban for the Crown, The Islamic Revolution in Iran. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1988.
Moin, Baqer. Khomeini: Life of the
Ayatollah. New York: I.B. Taurus, 1999.
Kamrava, Iran’s
Intellectual Revolution
Zubaida, Islam,
the People and the State
Commins, The
Saudi Mission and Saudi Arabia
Habib, Ibn
Sa’ud’s Warriors of Islam: The Ikhwan of Najd and Their Role in the Creation of
the Sa’udi Kingdom: 1910-1930
Holden, The
House of Saud: The Rise and Rule of the Most Powerful Dynasty in the Arab World
Kostiner, The
Making of Saudi Arabia 1916-1936: From Chieftaincy to Monarchical State
Week 13: April 7
Islam and Weak States (Afghanistan, Lebanon, Palestine,
Iraq)
Readings:
Mandaville, Ch. 6
Voll, ch. 6 pp. 313-322, 367-374
O’balance, Civil War in Lebanon pp. 42-116
Sayigh, “Armed Struggle and State Formation,”
Journal of Palestine Studies, XXVI,
no. 4 (Summer 1997), pp. 17-32
Hezbollah documents
Hamas charter
Suggested Readings:
Haddad, Fanar. Sectarianism in Iraq: Antagonistic Views of
Unity. London: C. Hurst & Co., 2011.
Jabar, Faleh, A. The
Shi‘ite Movement in Iraq. London: Saqi, 2003.
Nakash, Yitzhak. The Shi‘is of Iraq. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2003.
Shanahan, Rodger. The Shi‘a of Lebanon: Clans, Parties and
Clerics. London: Taurus Academic Studies, 2005.
Chehab, Inside Hamas
Milton-Edwards, Hamas
Sankari, Fadlallah
Levitt, Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of
Lebanon's Party of God
Contemporary Trends
Week 14: April 14
Radical Islam and Jihad
Readings:
Mandaville, Ch. 7
Donohue, “Jihad Defined and Redefined,” pp.
393-472Abou el Fadl, “Jihad, War, and Terrorism,” in The Great Theft, pp. 220-249
Black, “The Geometry of Terrorism,”
Sociological Theory, Vol. 22, No. 1, Theories of Terrorism: Symposium (March,
2004), pp. 14-25
Suggested Readings:
Abou El Fadl, Khalid. The Great Theft:
Wrestling Islam from the Extremists. New York: HarperCollins, 2007.
Peters, Jihad
in Classical and Modern Islam
Kepel, Jihad:
the Trail of Political Islam
Wright, The
Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Week 15: April 21
Transnational Networks
Readings:
Mandaville, Ch. 8 and 9
Suggested Readings:
Nasr, Vali. The Shia Revival: How
Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future. New York: W. W. Norton &
Co., 2006.
Nakash, Yitzhak. Reaching for Power: The Shi‘a in the Modern Arab World. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2006. MSU
Yavuz, Turkish
Islam and the Secular State: The Gulen Movement
Week 16: April 28
Arab Spring, Globalization, Human Rights,
etc.
Readings:
Mandaville, ch. 10
Donohue, “Global Voices: Issues of
Identity,”pp. 473-512
Abou El Fadl,
“Democracy and Human Rights, pp. 180-202 and “The Nature and Role of Women” pp.
250-274 in The
Great Theft
Suggested Readings:
Allawi,
Ali A. The Crisis of Islamic Civilization.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.
Mayer, Islam
and Human Rights
Gelvin, The Arab Uprisings
Finals Week: May 5-9
Final Paper #3 Due Tuesday May 6
