HIST10172
Histories of the Islamic World
20
Semester 2
Undergraduate
Level 1
Rian Thum
Unit coordinator
Roy Bar Sadeh
Unit coordinator
1
FHEQ level (Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) ' First part HE study/Bachelors '
European Credit Transfer & Accumulation System Rating : 10.0
<p> Islam has deeply shaped the contours of our world for nearly 1500 years. Not only is it one of the largest faiths in human history, but its political, social, cultural, and intellectual ramifications have been vast. The Islamic world has historically reached far beyond the Middle East, its cradle, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to Central Asia and from the steppes of Russia to the tropical forests of Indonesia and West Africa. This module examines Islam’s role in creating states, fostering trade, and circulating ideas throughout this region; it provides a key foundation for understanding how these transformations shaped our modern, globalised world.</p><p> </p>
<p>Islam has deeply shaped the contours of our world for nearly 1500 years. Not only is it one of the largest faiths in human history, but its political, social, cultural, and intellectual ramifications have been vast. The Islamic world has historically reached far beyond the Middle East, its cradle, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to Central Asia and from the steppes of Russia to the tropical forests of Indonesia and West Africa. This module examines Islam’s role in creating states, fostering trade, and circulating ideas throughout this region; it provides a key foundation for understanding how these transformations shaped our modern, globalised world. </p>
<div id="i4c-draggable-container" style="position: fixed; z-index: 1499; width: 0px; height: 0px;"><div class="resolved" data-reactroot="" style="all: initial;"> </div></div><p paraeid="{6bdda0ad-64ac-48c2-bed8-ca76630c32d8}{96}" paraid="344924587">The course aims to meet the following objectives: </p><ul role="list"> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-font="Calibri" data-leveltext="-" data-listid="20" role="listitem"><p paraeid="{6bdda0ad-64ac-48c2-bed8-ca76630c32d8}{109}" paraid="1083347565">To provide a history of Islam and its influences across and beyond the Middle East. </p></li> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-font="Calibri" data-leveltext="-" data-listid="20" role="listitem"><p paraeid="{6bdda0ad-64ac-48c2-bed8-ca76630c32d8}{116}" paraid="244799111">To introduce students to major developments in politics, society, and culture in the Islamic world and Islamic societies. </p></li> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="4" data-font="Calibri" data-leveltext="-" data-listid="20" role="listitem"><p paraeid="{6bdda0ad-64ac-48c2-bed8-ca76630c32d8}{123}" paraid="1083714024">To question positive and negative misconceptions about Islam and its civilizations; to make connections between these fallacies and how Islam has been interpreted through time. </p></li> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="5" data-font="Calibri" data-leveltext="-" data-listid="20" role="listitem"><p paraeid="{6bdda0ad-64ac-48c2-bed8-ca76630c32d8}{130}" paraid="1296226865">To expose students to major themes in non-Western and world history and foster comparison between different regions of the world. </p></li> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="6" data-font="Calibri" data-leveltext="-" data-listid="20" role="listitem"><p paraeid="{6bdda0ad-64ac-48c2-bed8-ca76630c32d8}{137}" paraid="1839119276">To refine your skills in reading and source analysis, note taking, argumentation, and academic writing. </p></li> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="7" data-font="Calibri" data-leveltext="-" data-listid="20" role="listitem"><p paraeid="{6bdda0ad-64ac-48c2-bed8-ca76630c32d8}{144}" paraid="932540028">To develop your ability to think critically and humanely about our past, and, by extension, to apply this ability to problems in the here-and-now. </p></li></ul><div id="i4c-dialogs-container"> </div>
<p paraeid="{6bdda0ad-64ac-48c2-bed8-ca76630c32d8}{175}" paraid="223993014">By the end of the module students will be able: </p><ul role="list"> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-font="Calibri" data-leveltext="-" data-listid="20" role="listitem"><p paraeid="{6bdda0ad-64ac-48c2-bed8-ca76630c32d8}{186}" paraid="1857921497">To grasp major themes in the Islamic world from its origins to the beginning of the modern period and be familiar with processes of historical change across the region. </p></li> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-font="Calibri" data-leveltext="-" data-listid="20" role="listitem"><p paraeid="{6bdda0ad-64ac-48c2-bed8-ca76630c32d8}{193}" paraid="1304235791">To discern key patterns in non-Western history, to be comfortable with comparative analysis between different regions of the world, and to be sensitive to problems of historical comparison. </p></li> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="4" data-font="Calibri" data-leveltext="-" data-listid="20" role="listitem"><p paraeid="{6bdda0ad-64ac-48c2-bed8-ca76630c32d8}{200}" paraid="571054746">To recognise and understand major theoretical issues in non-Western history. </p></li> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="5" data-font="Calibri" data-leveltext="-" data-listid="20" role="listitem"><p paraeid="{6bdda0ad-64ac-48c2-bed8-ca76630c32d8}{207}" paraid="358208559">To distinguish, through our readings, between primary and secondary sources; and to begin to develop a critical ability to read and deal with historical primary sources. </p></li></ul>
<p paraeid="{6bdda0ad-64ac-48c2-bed8-ca76630c32d8}{228}" paraid="1580426615">Students will </p><ul role="list"> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-font="Calibri" data-leveltext="-" data-listid="20" role="listitem"><p paraeid="{6bdda0ad-64ac-48c2-bed8-ca76630c32d8}{234}" paraid="522534303">apply a range of theoretical approaches to a range of empirical case studies, </p></li> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-font="Calibri" data-leveltext="-" data-listid="20" role="listitem"><p paraeid="{6bdda0ad-64ac-48c2-bed8-ca76630c32d8}{241}" paraid="86832529">demonstrate their ability to bring the qualities of one to bear on the other, and </p></li> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-font="Calibri" data-leveltext="-" data-listid="20" role="listitem"><p paraeid="{6bdda0ad-64ac-48c2-bed8-ca76630c32d8}{248}" paraid="2072008225">regularly practise how to extract arguments from academic writing. </p></li></ul>
<div id="i4c-draggable-container" style="position: fixed; z-index: 1499; width: 0px; height: 0px;"><div class="resolved" data-reactroot="" style="all: initial;"> </div></div><p paraeid="{5742f9ef-08ac-4b15-b4ea-7f280ea71316}{16}" paraid="458415314">Students will learn how to </p><ul role="list"> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-font="Calibri" data-leveltext="-" data-listid="20" role="listitem"><p paraeid="{5742f9ef-08ac-4b15-b4ea-7f280ea71316}{22}" paraid="1150265640">prioritise tasks, </p></li> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-font="Calibri" data-leveltext="-" data-listid="20" role="listitem"><p paraeid="{5742f9ef-08ac-4b15-b4ea-7f280ea71316}{29}" paraid="135529018">identify arguments in scholarly writing, </p></li> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-font="Calibri" data-leveltext="-" data-listid="20" role="listitem"><p paraeid="{5742f9ef-08ac-4b15-b4ea-7f280ea71316}{36}" paraid="846512418">write critically, and </p></li> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="4" data-font="Calibri" data-leveltext="-" data-listid="20" role="listitem"><p paraeid="{5742f9ef-08ac-4b15-b4ea-7f280ea71316}{43}" paraid="1801258344">engage in comparative analysis. </p></li></ul><div id="i4c-dialogs-container"> </div>
<ul role="list"> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-font="Calibri" data-leveltext="-" data-listid="19" role="listitem"><p paraeid="{5742f9ef-08ac-4b15-b4ea-7f280ea71316}{66}" paraid="1033947000">Critical reading ability </p></li> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-font="Calibri" data-leveltext="-" data-listid="19" role="listitem"><p paraeid="{5742f9ef-08ac-4b15-b4ea-7f280ea71316}{73}" paraid="1182999472">Clear, precise writing ability </p></li> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-font="Calibri" data-leveltext="-" data-listid="19" role="listitem"><p paraeid="{5742f9ef-08ac-4b15-b4ea-7f280ea71316}{80}" paraid="987087905">Ability to engage in critical discussions </p></li></ul>
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Especially at this moment of history, an understanding of the Islamic world is a key skill for many employment sectors. Finance and international trade increasingly involve contact with Islamic countries; Britain¿s large populations of Muslims makes Islamic history important for public-facing employment inside the U.K. This module develops the normal skills of a first-year history module of critical reading, writing, presentation, and analysis.
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<div id="i4c-draggable-container" style="position: fixed; z-index: 1499; width: 0px; height: 0px;"><div class="resolved" data-reactroot="" style="all: initial;"> </div></div><p>Choueiri, Youssef M., ed. A Companion to the History of the Middle East. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005.</p><p>Gelvin, James. The Modern Middle East: A History, 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.</p><p>Robinson, Francis. Islam and Muslim History in South Asia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.</p><p>Laura Veccia Vaglieri, “The Patriarchal and Umayyad Caliphates,” in The Cambridge History of Islam, Vol. 1A, eds., P.M. Holt, Ann K.S. Lambton and Bernard Lewis (Cambridge: University Press, 2005): 57- 103.</p><p>Fred McGraw Donner, The Early Islamic Conquests (Princeton, NJ: University Press, 1981).</p><p>Irfan Shahid, “Pre-Islamic Arabia,” in The Cambridge History of Islam, eds., P.M. Holt, Ann K.S. Lambton and Bernard Lewis (Cambridge: University Press, 2005): 3-29.</p><p>Montgomery Watt, “Muhammad,” in The Cambridge History of Islam, eds., P.M. Holt, Ann K.S. Lambton and Bernard Lewis (Cambridge: University Press, 2005): 30-56.</p><p>H.R. Roemer, “The Safavid Period,” in The Cambridge History of Iran, Vol. 6, eds., Peter Jackson and Laurence Lockhart (Cambridge: University Press, 2006): 189-350.<br /> </p><div id="i4c-dialogs-container"> </div>
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