General

Overview and learning outcomes

Announcements

General Information and Resources

Weekly Topics

Useful media articles

E-tivity 1: Access and Socialisation

E-tivity 2: Information Retrieval

E-tivity 3: Text Critique I

E-tivity 4: Essay Plan

E-tivity 5: Text Critique II

E-tivity 6: Final Submission

Accessing ebooks and using Dawson Era

Assessment criteria - CISD regulations

CISD regulations - late submissions, word count

ETIVITY 6 SUBMISSION GUIDE

Full texts available on Dawson Era

Muslim Minorities in a Global Context - Reading List

MUSLIM MINORITIES - POP QUIZ QUESTIONS

Reading and note-taking – general tips

E tivity 2

E tivity 3

E tivity 4

E tivity 5

E tivity 6

Week 1: Introduction to the course

Mandaville - Transnational Muslim Politics - chp. 4

Mandaville - chp. 4 footnotes

MacKenzie, Orientalism: History, Theory and the Arts - chp. 1

Said - Orientalism, chp 1

Turner 2012 - Uncovering Islamic Paradigm

Week 2: Muslim Minorities in the British Colonial East and the Anglophone West before the mid-20th century

Week 3: Muslim Minorities in the Postcolonial East and the Anglophone West from the mid-20th century onwards

Week 4: Muslim Minorities in Western Europe from the mid-20th century onwards

Week 5: Religious education: the role of the Mosque and Madrasah, Islamic schools, and state schools

Hilgendorf - Islamic education

Halstead - Islamic concept of education

Week 6: Religious and ethnic identities; generational issues

Karpov - Ethnodoxy: How Popular Ideologies Fuse Religious and Ethnic Identities

Zubaida - Islam in Europe

Week 7: Sectarian divides: culture, family, and kinship

Zubaida - Sectarian dimensions

Week 8: Politics and Citizenship

March, A.

Kamali - Citizenship: An Islamic Perspective

Week 9: An introduction to Muslim Laws: Understanding Shari‘a, Fiqh, Islamic and Customary Laws

Kamali - Source, nature and objectives of shari'a

Weiss - Interpretation in Islamic law: the theory of ijtihad

Ansari - Contribution of the Qur'an

Baderin - Understanding Islamic law in theory and practice

Bassiouni and Badr - The shari'ah: Sources, interpretation and rule-making

Knut - Between God and the Sultan - chp. 1

Menski - Comparative law in a global context - ch. 5

Weiss - The Spirit of Islamic Law - chp. 1

Mahmood - Law in the Qur'an

Week 10: The Interaction of Muslim Laws with the state law of Great Britain and the United States

Week 11: The Interaction of Muslim Laws with the state laws of France, Germany, Spain and Italy

Week 12: The Interaction of Muslim Laws with the state laws of Singapore and India

Week 13: Islamophobia: a contested concept

Conway - Islamophobia a challenge for us all - full

Halliday - West encountering Islam: Islamophobia reconsidered

Said - Orientalism - chp. 1

Annan - Combating Islamophobia Depends on Unlearning Intolerance

All Party Parliamentary Group 2018- Report on working definition of Islamophobia

Week 14: Anti-Muslim prejudice and Muslim activism – manifestations and responses

Gunduz - European Union at 50

Ciftci - Islamophobia and Threat Perceptions

Week 15: Minority Muslims and majority media in the post-9/11 age

Allievi - The Media

Said - Covering Islam - chp. 1

Morgan 2011 - Mediation or mediatisation

Hjarvard 2011 - The mediatisation of religion

Hjarvard 2016 Mediatization and the changing authority of religion

Lovheim and Lynch 2011 - The mediatisation of religion debate An introduction

Week 16: Challenges facing Muslim women in minority contexts

Fernandez - Crusade over the Bodies of Women

Zine - Between Orientalism and Fundamentalism

Topic 110

Topic 111

Topic 115

Ipgrave, Miller & Hopkins