Histories of the Islamic World

HIST21191 Histories of the Islamic World 20 Semester 1 Undergraduate Level 2 Roy Bar Sadeh Unit coordinator Steven Pierce Unit coordinator History 1 FHEQ level (Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) ' Middle part of Bachelors ' European Credit Transfer & Accumulation System Rating : 10.0 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. 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. <ul> <li>To provide a history of Islam and its influences across and beyond the Middle East, and to introduce students to major developments in politics, society, and culture in the Islamicworld and Islamic societies.</li> <li>To challenge older views of Islam and Islamic history, based on positive and negative misconceptions, through engagement with revisionist scholarship. </li> <li>To expose students to major themes in non-Western and world history and foster comparison between different regions of the world. </li> <li>To expose students to primary sources in the field and to the connection between primary source evidence and how Islamic history has been, and is, written. </li> <li>To refine your skills in reading and source analysis, note taking, argumentation, and academic writing.</li></ul> By the end of the course, students will be able:<ul> <li>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.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>To recognise and understand major theoretical issues in non-Western history</li> <li>To grasp scholarly debates on Islamic history and to assess and challenge older historiographical narratives.</li> <li>To demonstrate a critical ability to read and deal with historical primary sources through source analyses.</li></ul> By the end of the course, students will be able:<ul> <li>apply a range of theoretical approaches to a range of empirical case studies,</li> <li>demonstrate their ability to bring the qualities of one to bear on the other, and</li> <li>regularly practise how to extract arguments from academic writing.</li></ul> Students will learn how to <ul> <li style="margin-left: 36pt;"> prioritise tasks, </li> <li style="margin-left: 36pt;"> identify arguments in scholarly writing, </li> <li style="margin-left: 36pt;"> write critically, and</li> <li style="margin-left: 36pt;"> engage in comparative analysis. </li></ul> <ul> <li style="margin-left: 36pt;"> Critical reading ability </li> <li style="margin-left: 36pt;"> Clear, precise writing ability</li> <li style="margin-left: 36pt;"> Ability to engage in critical discussions </li></ul> Other 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 involves 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. 0 Other 100% <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width:247px;" width="245"> <tbody> <tr height="83"> <td height="83" style="height:83px;width:155px;"> Map quiz</td> <td align="right" style="width:92px;"> 10%</td> </tr> </tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width:245px;" width="244"> <tbody> <tr height="83"> <td height="83" style="height:83px;width:153px;"> Weekly quizzes</td> <td align="right" style="width:92px;"> 40%</td> </tr> </tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width:245px;" width="244"> <tbody> <tr height="83"> <td height="83" style="height:83px;width:153px;"> Essay</td> <td align="right" style="width:92px;"> 50%</td> </tr> </tbody></table>  <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:322px;"> Feedback method</td> <td style="width:342px;"> Formative or Summative</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:322px;"> Oral feedback on group discussions and presentations</td> <td style="width:342px;"> Formative</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:322px;"> Written feedback on source analysis and essay</td> <td style="width:342px;"> Summative</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:322px;height:7px;"> Written feedback on exam</td> <td style="width:342px;height:7px;"> Summative</td> </tr> </tbody></table>  N AHMED, Shahab. 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Second edition. 12 vols.HODGSON, Marshall. The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization (Chicago, 1977). 2 vols.HUMPHREYS, R. Stephen. Islamic History: A Framework for Inquiry (Princeton, 1991).LAPIDUS, Ira. Islamic Societies to the Nineteenth Century: a Global History (Cambridge, 2012).SALVATORE, Armando, and Babak Rahimi, eds. The Wiley-Blackwell History of Islam (Hoboken, NJ, 2018).  Lectures 22 Seminars 11 0 167