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.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Over the course of the module students will cover the following topics:
- Colonialist knowledge on Islam
- The problem of Orientalism
- Modernisms, Liberalisms and Conservatisms
- Postcolonial approaches to the study of Islam
- What is Islam? Some recent approaches and options
- Gender and Sexuality in Islam: Beyond binaries
- Race and ethnicity and the question of culture
- Sovereignty, justice and political theology
- Lived Islam: The arts and literary expressions
- Decolonial Islamo-futurism
- What are the limits of a decolonial understanding of Islam?
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 33 | 117 | 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 | 11 | Synchronous seminars |
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching activities | 22 | Tasks, presentations, uploading material, research |
| Guided Independent Study | 44 | Research and preparation for sessions |
| Guided Independent Study | 73 | Work towards the sessions and on assessments. Library and fieldwork |
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 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
