Undergraduate Module Descriptor

ARA2147: Classical Islamic History

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

Overview

NQF Level 5
Credits 15 ECTS Value 7.5
Term(s) and duration

This module ran during term 2 (11 weeks)

Academic staff

Professor Sajjad Rizvi (Convenor)

Pre-requisites

ARA1018 Introduction to Islam 

Co-requisites

None

Available via distance learning

No

Through this module, you will learn how historians understand the narratives of the origins of Islam and its development in the classical period up to the highest ?Abb?sid period in the 10/11th centuries in the central lands and the East and the rise of the Almohads and Almoravids in Spain and North Africa in the West. You will come to know the formation of Islamic civilization and cultures as a series of phenomena across the late antiquity world and its aftermath. You will learn to engage with and analyse historical documents that examine these phenomena. 

Module created

1/10/2006

Last revised

10/03/2019