Module ARAM248 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
ARAM248: Texts and Traditions in Islamic Intellectual History
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
The module’s content may vary from year to year, but the syllabus will always consists of readings and in-class discussion of key primary sources of Islamic intellectual history, as well as of relevant scholarly studies. Depending on the number of students taking the module, one, two or even more classes will be dedicated to student presentations and the following discussion.
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 | 128 | 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 2 hr. classes (lectures and discussion based on the required readings). |
| Guided independent study | 48 | Reading the set texts. |
| Guided independent study | 80 | Research and writing up of final term 3,750-word essay. The title and structure of the essay is determined in consultation with your module convenor. The formative assessment will provide you an opportunity to present your outline for the essay and receive feedback both from the module convenor and the other students in the module. |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
ELE – https://vle.exeter.ac.uk/
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.
Encyclopaedias:
Jane Dammen McAuliffe, general editor, Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an:
The Encyclopaedia of Islam New Edition (EI2):
The Encyclopaedia of Islam Three (EI3):
Encyclopaedia Iranica
Databases for scholarly studies:
Index Islamicus
JSTOR
Databases for texts:
http://www.alwaraq.net/Core/index.jsp?option=1
Dictionaries:
http://www.tyndalearchive.com/tabs/lane/
http://lexicon.quranic-research.net/
http://arabiclexicon.hawramani.com/
The Arabic text of Qur'an and various translations:
http://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp
Michael Cook, The Koran : a very short introduction, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000, available online at
Hadith
Tafsir:
Illustrations in manuscripts:
http://www.islamicpaintedpage.com/
Books on world history, by scholars on the field of Islamic history:
Richard W. Bulliet et al., The Earth and its peoples: A global history (several editions since 1997).
Michael A. Cook, A brief history of the human race (New York: W.W. Norton, 2003).
Patricia Crone, Pre-industrial societies (Oxford, GB and Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1989, republished Oxford: Oneworld, 2003 and 2015),
Marshall G. S. Hodgson, Rethinking world history: Essays on Europe, Islam and world history (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), available online at
