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Islam and Democracy 2019-20 SYLLABUS 1

PRESENTATION SCHEDULE (Islam and Democracy 2019-2020) 1

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Week 1

Islam and Democracy (Helpful and Important Terms) 1

Excerpts from the Avalon Project (Yale Law School)

Week 2

Jalal, Ayesha, Self and sovereignty Individual and community in South Asia

Abdelwahab El-Affendi, ‘Studying My Movement: Social Science Without Cynicism’, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 23:1 (1991), 83-94.

Abou el Fadl, Khalid And God knows the soldiers the authoritative and authoritarian in Islamic Discourses

Mohammad Nachi, 'Thinking about Ikhtilaf' (2012)

Barbara Celarent, ‘Review” “On the Sociology of Islam” and “Marxism and Other Western Fallacies” by Ali Shariati’, American Journal of Sociology 117:4 (2012), 1288-94 (read only 1288 [first two paragraphs] and 1293-94 on tauhid).

Week 3

Qur'an

Thomas Cleary, The Essential Koran: The Heart of Islam (San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1993), vii-xviii.

Waines 1

Waines 2

Waines 3

Week 4

Maulvi Chiragh Ali, “Islamic Revealed Law v. Islamic Common Law,” Contemporary Debates in Islam, Mansoor Moadel and Kamran Talatoff, eds. (NY: St. Martin’s, 2000)

El Fadl (Constitutionalism)

Bruce K. Rutherford, 'What do Egypt's Islamists Want? Moderate Islam and the Rise of Islamic Constitutionalism', Middle East Journal. Autumn2006, Vol. 60 Issue 4, p707-731.

Nelson, Islamic Law in an Islamic State: What Role for Parliament?

Gregory Kozlowski, 'Loyalty, Locality and Authority in Several Opinions (Fatāwā) Delivered by the Muftī of the Jami'ah Nizāmiyyah Madrasah, Hyderabad, India', Modern Asian Studies / Volume 29 / Issue 04 / October 1995

Clark Lombardi, ‘Designing Islamic Constitutions: Past Trends and Options for a Democratic Future’, International Journal of Constitutional Law 11:3 (2013), 615-45.

Week 5

Syed Abul ala Maududi"The Political Theory of Islam" Contemporary Debates in Islam, Moaddel and Talatoff

Imam Ruhullah Khomeini, The Necessity of Islamic Government

Mernissi Fatima, Fear of the Imam

Esposito and Voll, "State and Opposition in Islamic History" in Islam and Democracy (NY: Oxford 1996) - available on dawsonera

Week 7

Coulson, N J, "The State and the Individual in Islamic Law", International and Comparative Law Quarterly 6:1 (1957)

Griffel, Frank, "Toleration and Exclusion: Al Shafi and al-Gazali on the Treatment of Apostates", Bulletin on SOAS, 64:3 (2001)

Yohannan Friedmann; "Apostasy", Tolerance and Coercion in Islam: Interfaith Relations in the Muslim Tradition (Cambridge, 2003), 121-59.

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Week 8

Zubaida, Sami, "Islam, The State and Democracy: Contrasting Conceptions of Society in Egypt", Middle East Report, 179 (1992)

Ibrahim A. Karawan, “ Political Parties Between State Power and Islamic Opposition,” Between the State and Islam, Charles E. Butterworth and I. William Zartman, eds. (NY: Cambridge, 2001), 158-174 and 182-183

Barraclough, S; "Political Participation and its Regulation in Malaysia: Opposition to the Societies Act 1981", Pacific Affairs 57:3 (1984)"

Tamir Moustafa, ‘Liberal Rights versus Islamic Law? The Construction of a Binary in Malaysian Politics’, Law and Society Review 47:3 (2013), 771-802

Week 9

N J Coulson, "Doctrine and Practice In Islamic Law - One Aspect of the Problem", Bulleting of SOAS 18:2 (1956)

Messick, B, "The Mufti, the Text and the World: Legal Representation in Yemen"

Anna Würth, “The Normativity of the Factual: On the Everyday Construction of Shari’a in a Yemeni Family Court” in Shari’a: Islamic Law in the Contemporary Context, Abbas Amanat and Frank Griffel, eds. (Stanford, 2007), 165-77.

Roff, W R, "Whence Cometh the Law? Dog Saliva in Kelantan, 1937", Comparative Studies in Society and History, 25:2 (1983)

Ewing, D, K, "The Politics of Sufism: Redefining the States of Pakistan", Journal of Asian Studies 42:2 (1983)

Week 10

Muhammad Qasim Zaman, “Consensus and Religious Authority in Modern Islam: The Discourses of the Ulama,” Speaking for Islam: Religious Authorities in Muslim Societies, Gudrun Krämer and Sabine Schmidtke, eds. (Leiden: Brill, 2006), 153-180

Neal Robinson, “Ritual Prayer,” Islam: A Concise Introduction (Richmond: Curzon, 1999), 96-103.

Bowen, John, R; "Salat in Indonesia", Man 24:2 (1989)

Kecia, A; "A Beautiful Example? The Propet Muhammad as a Model For Muslim Husbands"

Week 12

Thomas Hobbes, The Leviathan

Hobbes (Underlined) 1

Maududi, 'Political Theory in Islam'

John Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government

Locke (Underlined) 1

Fatima Mernissi, "Fear of the Imam", 'Islam and Democracy - Fear of the Modern World' (NY: Addison-Wesley, 1995) pp 22-3, 27-34

Anisa Kassimali

Excerpts from the Avalon Project (Yale Law School)

Week 13

John Stuart Mill, 'On Liberty' (NY: Broadview, 1961), relevant pages

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

Mill (Underlined) 1

Khan / Maududi

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (London: Everyman's Library, 1994); relevant pages

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Social Contract (London: Everyman's Library, 1973), relevant pages

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

Rousseau (Underlined) 1

Jeremy Jennings, 'Rousseau, Social Contract, and the Modern Leviathan', The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls, Boucher and Kelly eds. (NY: Routledge, 1994) 115-31

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Margulies, Ronnie & Yildizoglu, Ergin, "The Political Uses of Islam in Turkey", Middle East Report 153 (1988)