Module ARAM103 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
ARAM103: New Approaches to Islamic Thought
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 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 |
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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 |
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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