Postgraduate Module Descriptor

ARAM248: Texts and Traditions in Islamic Intellectual History

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 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.

Encyclopaedias:

Jane Dammen McAuliffe, general editor, Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an:

https://encore.exeter.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1655058__Sencyclopaedia%20of%20the%20qur%27an__Orightresult__U__X3?lang=eng&suite=cobalt

The Encyclopaedia of Islam New Edition (EI2):

http://encore.exeter.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1239895__Sencyclopaedia%20of%20islam__Orightresult__X5?lang=eng&suite=def

The Encyclopaedia of Islam Three (EI3):

https://encore.exeter.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb4098518__Sencyclopaedia%20of%20islam%20three__Orightresult__U__X7?lang=eng&suite=cobalt

Encyclopaedia Iranica

http://www.iranicaonline.org/

Databases for scholarly studies:

Index Islamicus

http://encore.exeter.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1599445__SIndex%20Islamicus__Orightresult__X5?lang=eng&suite=def

JSTOR

https://encore.exeter.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1687622__SJSTOR__P0%2C2__Orightresult__U__X6?lang=eng&suite=cobalt

Databases for texts:

http://archive.org/

http://www.alwaraq.net/Core/index.jsp?option=1

Dictionaries:

http://ejtaal.net/aa/#hw4=14,ll=38,ls=0,la=1,sg=20,ha=21,br=26,pr=21,aan=24,mgf=33,vi=50,kz=11,mr=58,mn=-1,uqw=106,umr=26,ums=14,umj=34,ulq=247,uqa=16,uqq=2

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

http://quran.muslim-web.com/

http://www.openislam.org/

Michael Cook, The Koran : a very short introduction, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000, available online at

https://lib.exeter.ac.uk/search~S6?/aCook%2C+M.+A.%2C+%28Michael+Allan%2C%29+1940-/acook+m+a+michael+allan+1940/-3%2C-1%2C0%2CB/frameset&FF=acook+m+a&3%2C%2C3

Hadith

https://sunnah.com/

Tafsir:

http://www.altafsir.com/

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