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Islam and Democracy Syllabus (2024-25) 1

Marking Rubric - Politics and International Studies

Islam and Democracy (2024-25) AS1

Assignment 1 (AS1) 2024/25

Islam and Democracy AS2 (2024-25) 1

Assignment 2 (AS2) 2024/25

Essential Background Material

Islam and Democracy (Core Concepts and Debates) 1

Islam and Democracy (Helpful and Important Terms) 1

Excerpts from the Avalon Project (Yale Law School)

Waines 1 (copy)

Waines 2 (copy)

Waines 3 (copy)

Week 1

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 1 Recording PART 1

Week 1 Recording PART 2

Week 1 Recording PART 3

Week 2

Early History of Islam / Genealogy

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

Qur'an

Waines 1

Waines 2

Waines 3

Week 2 Class Recording (PART 1)

Week 2 Class Recording (PART 2)

Week 3

Comments - Week 3

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

Mohammad Iqbal, The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam

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

Week 3 Class Recording

Week 4

Comments - Week 4

Summary Chart (Opposition) 1

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

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)

Sunder

Week 5

Week 5

Comments - Week 5

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 5 Recording PART 1

Week 5 Recording PART 2

Week 7

Comments - Week 7

Hobbes (Underlined) 1

Maududi, 'Political Theory in Islam'

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 7 Recording

Week 8

Comments - Week 8

Mill (Underlined) 1

Khan / Maududi

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

Tocqueville (Underlined) 1

Cushing Strout, 'Tocqueville and Republican Religion: Revisiting the Visitor', Political Theory 81:1 (1980), 9-12, 13-15.

Week 8 Recording

Week 9

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