Postgraduate Module Descriptor

ARAM103: New Approaches to Islamic Thought

This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:

What does the ‘Islamic’ in Islamic thought denote?
Decolonising Islamic thought
Philosophy as a Way of Life
Intersectionality and Gender in Islamic Thought
The Mystical and the Political
Sovereignty
Theology and Experience
Belief and its absence
Hermeneutics of Text and Context
Is Islamic Thought possible?

Learning and Teaching

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	Guided independent study	Placement / study abroad
22	278	0

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Category	Hours of study time	Description
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	22	11 x 2hr seminars
Guided independent study	10	Formative preparation
Guided independent study	68	Summative preparation and writing
Guided independent study	150	Weekly reading materials in preparation for seminars
Guided independent study	50	Further reading and reflection based on module materials

Online Resources

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).

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 Ahmad, What is Islam? Princeton, 2016

Khaled el-Rouayheb and Sabine Schmidtke (ed), The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy, Oxford, 2017

Aaron Hughes, Theorizing Islam, London, 2014

Special Issue of Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, vol 24 (2012) on study of Islam

Special Issue of JAAR 2018 on Teaching Islam