Module ARA3195 for 2017/8
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ARA3195: Islam Contested: Faith, Thought and Politics in the Contemporary World
This module descriptor refers to the 2017/8 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.
Basic reading:
Ibrahim Abu Rabi’, ed., The Contemporary Arab Reader on Political Islam (London, 2010)
John L. Esposito, ed. in chief, Encyclopedia of the Islamic World (NY, 2009)
Roxanne L. Euben & M. Qasim Zaman, ed., Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought: Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton, 2009)
Samira Haj, Reconfiguring Islamic Tradition:reform, rationality, and modernity (Stanford, 2009)
Meri Hatina, ed., Guardians of Faith in Modern Times: ‘Ulama’ in the Middle East (Leiden, 2009)
Charles Kurzman, ed., Liberal Islam: a source-book (New York, 1998)
Joseph E.B. Lumbard, ed., Islam, Fundamentalism and the Betrayal of Tradition: essays by western Muslim scholars (Bloomington, 2004)
Muhammad Khalid Masud, A. Salvatore and M. van Bruinessen, ed., Islam and Modernity: key issues and debates (Edinburgh, 2009)
Roel Meijer, ed., Global Salafism: Islam’s new religious movement (London, 2009)
Vali Nasr, The Shia Revival: how conflicts within Islam will shape the future (NY, 2006)
Ali Rahnema, ed., Pioneers of Islamic Revival (London, 1994)
Omid Safi, ed., Progressive Muslims: on gender, justice and pluralism (Oxford, 2003)
Suha Taji-Farouki & B. M. Nafi, ed., Islamic Thought in the Twentieth Century (London, 2004)
Suha Taji-Farouki, ed., Modern Muslim Intellectuals and the Qur’an (Oxford, 2004)
Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age: religious authority and internal criticism (Cambridge, 2012)