Curriculum MES4500 Islamism spring 2019
Primary sources (available in Canvas)
Al-Albani, Nasir al-Din: Warning Against the Fitna of Takfir (2005)
Qutb, Sayyid: Milestones. Or in Norwegian: Qutb, Sayyid (2004): Milep?ler. Oslo: L.S.P. forlag (120 pages)
Ayatollah Khomeini: Islamic government (p. 1-66)
Qaradawi, Yusuf: Priorities of The Islamic Movement in The Coming Phase,chs. Introduction, 1 and 4 (field of intellect and knowledge, plus political and world levels)
Kurzman, Charles, ed. Modernist Islam, 1840-1940: A Sourcebook. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, chapters 3 and 6 (19 pages)
Euben, Roxanne Leslie, and Muhammad Qasim Zaman. Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought: Texts and Contexts from Al-Banna to Bin Laden. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009, chapters 2, 13 and 18
Secondary sources
Ayubi, Nazih N. Political Islam: religion and politics in the Arab world. London: Routledge, 1991, chs. 1, 3, 6 (96 pages)
Al-Azmeh, Aziz. Islams and Modernities. London: Verso, 1996, chapter 4, ?Islamism and the Arabs” (20 pages)
Bayat, Asef. ?Islamism and the politics of fun?. Public Culture 19, nr. 3 (2007): 433–59.
Enayat, Hamid. ?Iran: Khumayni’s Concept of the ‘Guardianship of the Jurisconsult.’” In James Piscatori (ed.):Islam in the Political Process. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1989): 160-180.
Euben, Roxanne Leslie. Enemy in the Mirror: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999, chs. 2 and 5.
Haykel, Bernard. “On the Nature of Salafi Thought and Action.” In Roel Meijer, ed. Global Salafism: Islam’s New Religious Movement, pp.33–51. London: Hurst & Company, 2009.
Hegghammer, Thomas. ?The Rise of Muslim Foreign Fighters: Islam and the Globalization of Jihad?. International Security 35, nr. 3 (2010): 53–94.
International Crisis Group (2005) Understanding Islamism. Available at: https://www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-north-africa/understanding-islamism
Kr?mer, Gudrun. “Modern but Not Secular: Religion, Identity and the Ordre Public in the Arab Middle East.” International Sociology 28, no. 6 (2013): 629–644. (25 pages)
Lauzière, Henri. “The Construction of Salafiyya: Reconsidering Salafism from the Perspective of Conceptual History.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 42, no. 03 (2010): 369–89. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743810000401.
Mitchell, Richard P. The Society of the Muslim Brothers. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 209-295.
Rahnema, Ali. Pioneers of Islamic Revival. London: Zed Books, 1994, chs. Introduction, Introduction to first edition, 3, 6, 7 (175 pages)
Utvik, Bj?rn Olav. ?The Modernizing Force of Islamism.? In John Esposito and Francois Burgat (eds.): Modernizing Islam. London: Hurst & Company, 2003, pp. 43–67.
Plus 150 pages self-chosen curriculum relating to the term paper.
Recommended additional literature
General
Ayubi, Nazih N. Political Islam: Religion and Politics in the Arab World. London: Routledge, 1991. (All the chapters not on the curriculum)
Al-Azmeh, Aziz. Islams and modernities. London: Verso, 1996.
Burgat, Francois. Face to Face With Political Islam. London?; New York?: New York: I.B.Tauris, 2003.
Enayat, Hamid. Modern Islamic Political Thought. Kuala Lumpur: Islamic Book Trust, 2001.
Hourani, Albert. Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, 1798-1939. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. (On Afghani, Abduh and Rida)
Ismail, Salwa. Rethinking Islamist Politics: Culture, the State and Islamism. London: Tauris, 2003.
Roy, Olivier. The failure of political Islam. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994.
Utvik, Bj?rn Olav. Islamismen. Oslo: Unipub, 2011.
Radicalism
Calvert, John. Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism. Columbia University Press, 2010.
Hegghammer, T., og S. Lacroix. ?Rejectionist Islamism in Saudi Arabia: The story of Juhayman al- Utaybi revisited?. International Journal of Middle East Studies 39, nr. 1 (2007): 103–22.Hegghammer, Thomas. Jihad in Saudi Arabia: Violence and Pan-Islamism since 1979. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Hegghammer, Thomas. Jihadi Culture: The Art and Social Practices of Militant Islamists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Kepel, Gilles. The Prophet and Pharaoh: Muslim Extremism in Egypt / Gilles Kepel?; Translated by Jon Rothschild. London?: Al Saqi Books?: Distributed by Zed Books, 1985.
Lia, Brynjar. Architect of Global Jihad: The Life of Al-Qaeda Strategist Abu Mus’ab Al-Suri. 1 edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
———. ?Understanding jihadi proto-states?. Perspectives on Terrorism 9, nr. 4 (2015).
Lister, Charles. ?Competition among Violent Islamist Extremists: Combating an Unprecedented Threat?. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2016.
Shepard, William E. ?SAYYID QUTB’S DOCTRINE OF J?HILIYYA?. International Journal of Middle East Studies 35, nr. 4 (november 2003): 521–45.
The Muslim Brothers and similar movements across the Arab world
Burgat, Francois, and William Dowell. The Islamic Movement in North Africa. Second Edition edition. Austin: Univ of Texas Pr, 1997.
Clark, Janine A. Islam, charity, and activism: middle-class networks and social welfare in Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2004. (Focus on Egypt, Jordan and Yemen)
Ghobashi, Mona el-. ?THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE EGYPTIAN MUSLIM BROTHERS?. International Journal of Middle East Studies 37 (2005): 373–95.
Graf, Bettina, og Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen, red. Global Mufti: The Phenomenon of Yusuf Al-Qaradawi. 1 edition. London: Hurst, 2009.
Kr?mer, Gudrun. Hasan al-Banna. Oneworld Publications, 2009.
Lia, Brynjar. The Society of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt: the rise of an Islamic mass movement 1928-1942. Reading: Ithaca Press, c1998.
Milton-Edwards, Beverley. Islamic politics in Palestine. London: Tauris Academic Studies, 1996.
Mishal, Shaul, og Avraham Sela. The Palestinian Hamas: vision, violence, and coexistence. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.
Mitchell, Richard P. The society of the Muslim brothers. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Pargeter, Alison. The Muslim Brotherhood: The Burden of Tradition. London; Saint Paul, Minn.: Saqi Books, 2010.
Schwedler, Jillian. Faith in moderation: Islamist parties in Jordan and Yemen. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Wolf, Anne. Political Islam in Tunisia. London: C Hurst & Company Publishers Limited, 2017.
Vidino, Lorenzo. ?The Muslim Brotherhood in Europe?. I The Muslim Brotherhood: the organization and policies of a global Islamist movement, redigert av Barry Rubin, 105–17. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Zollner, Barbara. ?Prison Talk: The Muslim Brotherhood’s Internal Struggle During Gamal Abdel Nasser’s Persecution, 1954 to 1971?. International Journal of Middle East Studies 39, nr. 03 (2007): 411–33.
(See also individual chapters and sections in Ayubi 1991 and Utvik 2011)
Khomeini and shi’a Islamism
Abrahamian, Ervand. Khomeinism: Essays on the Islamic Republic. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Alagha, Joseph Elie. The shifts in Hizbullah’s ideology. Amsterdam University Press, 2006.
Hamzeh, Ahmad Nizar. In the path of Hizbullah. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2004.
Harb, Mona, og Reinoud Leenders. ?Know Thy Enemy: Hizbullah, ‘Terrorism’ and the Politics of Perception?. Third World Quarterly 26, nr. 1 (2005): 173–97.
Mallat, Chibli. The Renewal of Islamic Law: Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr, Najaf and the Shi’i International. Bd. 29. Cambridge Middle East Library. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Martin, Vanessa. Creating an Islamic state: Khomeini and the making of a new Iran. London: I.B. Tauris, 2000.
Norton, Augustus Richard. Hezbollah: A Short History. 1St Edition. Princeton University Press, 2007.
Saad-Ghorayeb, Amal. Hizbu’llah: Politics and Religion. London: Pluto Press, 2002.
Aspects of Islamism and society
Baker, Raymond William. Islam Without Fear: Egypt and the New Islamists. Harvard University Press, 2009.
Bayat, Asef. ?Islamism and Social Movement Theory?. Third World Quarterly 26 (2005): 891–908.
El-Affendi, Abdelwahab. ?Hassan Turabi and the Limits of Modern Islamic Reformism?. I The Blackwell companion to social movements, 145–60. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publ., 2006.
Filiu, Jean-Pierre. From Deep State to Islamic State: The Arab Counter-Revolution and Its Jihadi Legacy. London: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2015.
Hafez, Sabry. ?The Novel, Politics and Islam?. New Left Review 5, (October 2000): 117–41.
H?igilt, Jacob. Islamist Rhetoric: Language and Culture in Contemporary Egypt. Routledge, 2011.
Kr?mer, Gudrun. ?Modern but Not Secular: Religion, Identity and the Ordre Public in the Arab Middle East?. International Sociology 28, nr. 6 (1. november 2013): 629–44.
Kr?mer, Gudrun, og Sabine Schmidtke. Speaking for Islam: Religious Authorities in Muslim Societies. Leiden: BRILL, 2006.
Kuran, Timur. Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism. Princeton University Press, 2004.
Mehrez, Samia. Egypt’s culture wars?: politics and practice. Routledge advances in Middle East and Islamic studies, 13. London; New York: Routledge, 2008.
Starrett, Gregory. Putting Islam to work: education, politics, and religious transformation in Egypt. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
Zeghal, Malika. ?Religion and Politics in Egypt: The Ulema of al-Azhar, Radical Islam, and the State (1952-94)?. International Journal of Middle East Studies 31, nr. 3 (august 1999): 371–99.
Salafism
Bonnefoy, Laurent. Salafism in Yemen: transnational and religious identity. London: Hurst, 2011.
H?igilt, Jacob, og Frida Nome. ?Egyptian Salafism in Revolution?. Journal of Islamic Studies 25, nr. 1 (1. januar 2014): 33–54.
Lacroix, Stéphane. ?Sheikhs and Politicians: Inside the New Egyptian Salafism?. Brookings institution, 2012. http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2012/06/07-egyptian-salafism-lacroix
Lauzière, Henri. The Making of Salafism: Islamic Reform in the Twentieth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015.
Meijer, Roel. Global Salafism: Islam?s new religious movement. London: Hurst & Company, 2009.
Wagemakers, Joas. Salafism in Jordan: Political Islam in a Quietist Community. Cambridge University Press, 2016.