Pensum/l?ringskrav

Syllabus with reading list

All students are expected to come to the seminar having read the relevant literature and taken notes. All the primary sources are mandatory reading. As for the secondary literature, you may to some extent choose what to read and prepare before the seminar, as indicated in the list below.

Curriculum texts that are not available digitally in Oria will be made available in Canvas before the semester starts.

Seminar 1: What is Islamism?

Mandatory reading

International Crisis Group (2005) Understanding Islamism. Available at: https://www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-north-africa/understanding-islamism

Ayubi, Nazih N. Political Islam: Religion and Politics in the Arab World. London: Routledge, 1991, ch. 3

Read at least one of the following

Rahnema, Ali. Pioneers of Islamic Revival. London: Zed Books, 1994, chs. Introduction, Introduction to first edition

Bayat, Asef. ‘Islamism and Social Movement Theory’. Third World Quarterly 26 (2005): 891–908.

Shehata, Samer S. Islamist Politics in the Middle East: Movements and Change. London: Routledge, 2012, chs. Introduction and 1.

Seminar 2: A clearing exercise: Islam and politics in historical light

Mandatory reading

Ayubi, Nazih N. Political Islam: Religion and Politics in the Arab World. London: Routledge, 1991, ch. 1

Crone, Patricia. “Traditional Political Thought,” in Bowering, Gerhard: Islamic Political Thought. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2015, pp. 238-251.

Read at least one of the following

Yücesoy, Hayrettin, “Caliph and caliphate up to 1517”, in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE, Edited by: Kate Fleet, Gudrun Kr?mer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, Everett Rowson. Consulted online on 14 November 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_25459

Calder, N. and M.B. Hooker, “S?h?arī?a”, in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Edited by: P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, W.P. Heinrichs. Consulted online on 14 November 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_islam_COM_1040

Stewart, Devin J. “Shari’a,” in Bowering, Gerhard: Islamic Political Thought. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2015, pp. 219-237.

Seminar 3: The point of departure: Muhammad Abduh and Rashid Rida

Mandatory reading

Kurzman, Charles, ed. Modernist Islam, 1840-1940: A Sourcebook. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, chapters 3 and 6 (19 pages)

Hourani, Albert. Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, 1798-1939. Cambridge Cambridgeshire?; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983, chs. 5,6 and 7 (pp. 103-192)

Rahnema, Ali. Pioneers of Islamic Revival. London: Zed Books, 1994, ch. 3

Seminar 4: Hasan al-Banna and the Muslim Brothers

Mandatory reading

al-Banna, Hasan: “Towards the Light”

Rahnema, Ali. Pioneers of Islamic Revival. London: Zed Books, 1994, ch. 6

Read at least one of the following

Mitchell, Richard P. The Society of the Muslim Brothers. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 209-295.

El-Ghobashy, Mona. “The Metamorphosis of the Egyptian Muslim Brothers.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 37, no. 3 (August 2005): 373–95. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743805052128.

Seminar 5: Salafism

Mandatory reading

Abu Qatada. “Condemnation on the Democratic Process, Voting, and the Islāmic Stances on These Issues.” at-Tibyān Publications, n.d.

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.

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.

Seminar 6: Khomeini and shi'a Islamism

Mandatory reading

Ayatollah Khomeini: Islamic government (p. 1-66)

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.

Seminar 7: Sayyid Qutb and Islamic radicalism

Mandatory reading

Qutb, Sayyid: Milestones. Or in Norwegian: Qutb, Sayyid (2004): Milep?ler. Oslo: L.S.P. forlag (120 pages)

Rahnema, Ali. Pioneers of Islamic Revival. London: Zed Books, 1994, ch. 7

Shepard, William E. ‘SAYYID QUTB’S DOCTRINE OF J?HILIYYA’. International Journal of Middle East Studies 35, no. 4 (November 2003): 521–45. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743803000229.

Seminar 8: Yusuf al-Qaradawi and contemporary mainstream Islamism

Mandatory reading

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)

Read at least two of the following

Chapter 3 and/or 6 in Zaman, Muhammad Qasim. Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age: Religious Authority and Internal Criticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

 One or two chapters in Graf, Bettina, and Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen, eds. Global Mufti: The Phenomenon of Yusuf Al-Qaradawi. 1 edition. London: Hurst, 2009.

Seminar 9: Islamism and the public order in the Arab world

Read at least three of the following

Al-Azmeh, Aziz. ?Islamism and the Arabs,” in Islams and Modernities. London: Verso, 1996, chapter 4, (20 pages)

Bayat, Asef. ?Islamism and the politics of fun?. Public Culture 19, nr. 3 (2007): 433–59.

Ismail, Salwa. ‘Confronting the Other: Identity, Culture, Politics, and Conservative Islamism in Egypt’. International Journal of Middle East Studies 30, no. 02 (May 1998): 199–225.

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)

Seminar 10: Islamism as resistance

Mandatory reading

Hamas. “The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement,” 1988. Available in translation at https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp

Hizbullah. “Open Letter to the Oppressed”, in Alagha, Joseph. Hizbullah’s Documents: From the 1985 Open Letter to the 2009 Manifesto. Amsterdam: Pallas Publications, 2011.

Read at least one of the following
Husseini, Rola El. ‘Hezbollah and the Axis of Refusal: Hamas, Iran and Syria’. Third World Quarterly 31, no. 5 (1 July 2010): 803–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2010.502695.
Sadiki, Larbi. ‘Reframing Resistance and Democracy: Narratives from Hamas and Hizbullah’. Democratization 17, no. 2 (1 April 2010): 350–76. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510341003588773.
Strindberg, Anders, and Mats W??rn. ‘Realities of Resistance: Hizballah, the Palestinian Rejectionists, and al-Qa’ida Compared’. Journal of Palestine Studies 34, no. 3 (20 March 2005): 23–41. https://doi.org/10.1525/jps.2005.34.3.23.
 
 

Seminar 11: A moving target: Islamism after 2011

Mandatory reading

Ghannouchi, Rached. “From Political Islam to Muslim Democracy: The Ennahda Party and the Future of Tunisia,” Foreign Affairs 95, no. 5 (2016)

Read at least two of the following

Brown, Amr Hamzawy, and Marina Ottaway, “Islamist Movements and the Democratic Process in the Arab World: Exploring the Gray Zones,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, March 8, 2006, https://carnegieendowment.org/2006/03/08/islamist-movements-and-democratic-process-in-arab-world-exploring-gray-zones-pub-18095.

Hizbullah. “The New Hezbollah Manifesto,” 2009. Available at http://www.lebanonrenaissance.org/assets/Uploads/15-The-New-Hezbollah-Manifesto-Nov09.pdf

Marks, Monica. “Tunisia’s Ennahda: Rethinking Islamism in the Context of ISIS and the Egyptian Coup,” Brookings Institution, August 2015, https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Tunisia_Marks-FINALE-5.pdf.

Yilmaz, Ihsan, Greg Barton, and James Barry. ‘The Decline and Resurgence of Turkish Islamism: The Story of Tayyip Erdo?an’s AKP’. Journal of Citizenship and Globalisation Studies 1, no. 1 (2017). https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/jcgs/1/1/article-p48.xml.

 

Complete curriculum

Primary sources

Ayatollah Khomeini: Islamic government (p. 1-66)

Al-Banna, Hasan: “Towards the Light”, in 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, ch. 2

Rached Ghannouchi, “From Political Islam to Muslim Democracy: The Ennahda Party and the Future of Tunisia,” Foreign Affairs 95, no. 5 (2016)Kurzman, Charles, ed. Modernist Islam, 1840-1940: A Sourcebook. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, chapters 3 and 6 (19 pages)

Qutb, Sayyid: Milestones. Or in Norwegian: Qutb, Sayyid (2004): Milep?ler. Oslo: L.S.P. forlag (120 pages)

Qaradawi, Yusuf: Priorities of The Islamic Movement in The Coming Phase, chs. Introduction, 1

Shaykh Abu Qatada. “Condemnation on the Democratic Process, Voting, and the Islāmic Stances on These Issues.” at-Tibyān Publications, n.d.

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 Social Movement Theory’. Third World Quarterly 26 (2005): 891–908.

Bayat, Asef. ?Islamism and the politics of fun?. Public Culture 19, nr. 3 (2007): 433–59.

Brown, Amr Hamzawy, and Marina Ottaway, “Islamist Movements and the Democratic Process in the Arab World: Exploring the Gray Zones,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, March 8, 2006, https://carnegieendowment.org/2006/03/08/islamist-movements-and-democratic-process-in-arab-world-exploring-gray-zones-pub-18095.

https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/jcgs/1/1/article-p48.xml.

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.

El-Ghobashy, Mona. “The Metamorphosis of the Egyptian Muslim Brothers.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 37, no. 3 (August 2005): 373–95. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743805052128.

Graf, Bettina, and Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen, eds. Global Mufti: The Phenomenon of Yusuf Al-Qaradawi. 1 edition. London: Hurst, 2009.

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.

International Crisis Group (2005) Understanding Islamism. Available at: https://www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-north-africa/understanding-islamism

Hizbullah. “The New Hezbollah Manifesto,” 2009. Available at http://www.lebanonrenaissance.org/assets/Uploads/15-The-New-Hezbollah-Manifesto-Nov09.pdf

Ismail, Salwa. ‘Confronting the Other: Identity, Culture, Politics, and Conservative Islamism in Egypt’. International Journal of Middle East Studies 30, no. 02 (May 1998): 199–225.

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.

Marks, Monica. “Tunisia’s Ennahda: Rethinking Islamism in the Context of ISIS and the Egyptian Coup,” Brookings Institution, August 2015, https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Tunisia_Marks-FINALE-5.pdf.

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)

Shehata, Samer S. Islamist Politics in the Middle East: Movements and Change. London: Routledge, 2012, chs. Introduction and 1.

Yilmaz, Ihsan, Greg Barton, and James Barry. ‘The Decline and Resurgence of Turkish Islamism: The Story of Tayyip Erdo?an’s AKP’. Journal of Citizenship and Globalisation Studies 1, no. 1 (2017).

Zaman, Muhammad Qasim. Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age: Religious Authority and Internal Criticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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