Module ARAM249 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
ARAM249: Theorising Islam
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Shahab Ahmed, What is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016
Amy Allen, The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Narrative Foundations of Critical Theory, New York: Columbia University Press, 2016
Talal Asad, Genealogies of Religion, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993
, Secular Translations: Nation-state, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason, New York: Columbia University Press, 2018
Markus Dressler and Arvind Pal-Mandair (ed), Secularism and Religion-Making, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011
Carl Ernst and Richard Martin (ed), Rethinking Islamic Studies: from Orientalism to Cosmopolitanism, Columbus, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2010
Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, New York: Columbia University Press, 2018
Aaron Hughes and Majid Daneshgar (ed), Deconstructing Islamic Studies, Cambridge, MA: Ilex Foundation/Harvard University Press, 2020
Mahmood Mamdani, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2007
, Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities, Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press at Harvard University Press, 2020
Walter Mignolo, The Darker Side of Western Modernity, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011
, On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018
, The Politics of Decolonial Investigations, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021
Edward Said, Orientalism, New York: Penguin, 1978 [but there are many reprints]
Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Epistemologies of the South: Justice against Epistemicide, New York: Routledge 2014