| Title: | Issues in Contemporary Islam |
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| Course Section Number: | REL-210-01 |
| Department: | Religion |
| Description: | What is the shape of Islam in the contemporary world? How did it get this shape? To what extent can Islam accommodate the contemporary world, and vice versa? These are some of the questions that we'll try to answer in this course. We'll start by looking at some key moments in Islamic history. Beginning with the fall of the Abbasids in 1258, we'll look at the reconfiguration of the Abode of Islam among the Mughal, Safavid, and Ottoman empires, and move from there down to the early 1700s. We'll then read a number of primary texts by Islamic reformers from the 1700s down to the present. We'll pay special attention to the rise of so-called Islamic fundamentalism; the recent conflicts associated with Islam in the Middle East and the Asian subcontinent; ISIS, al-Qaeda, and the Taliban; Islamophobia; the status of women in Islam; and living as a Muslim in the industrial societies of modern Europe and the United States. |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | January 16, 2023 |
| End Date: | May 6, 2023 |
| Meeting Information: |
01/17/2023-01/19/2023 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 02:40PM - 03:55PM, Center Hall, Room 305
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| Faculty: | Blix, David |
| Requisite Courses: | REL-103, or permission of instructor |
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