Admission requirements
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Description
Literature Seminar: Readings on the expansion and the making of Islam.
Course objectives
See general description of Literature Seminar History.
Timetable
See here.
Mode of instruction
Literature seminar.
Course Load
Class: 7 × 2 = 14 hours.
AQCI-assignments: 7 × 2 = 14 hours.
Presentation: 1 × 4 = 4 hours.
Essay: 1 × 8 = 8 hours.
Reading: 240 hours (2400 pp.).
Assessment method
6 x AQCI-assignment.
1 x presentation.
1 x essay (2000 words).
Participation in class.
Blackboard
Yes, but only for practical instructions.
Reading list
H. Kennedy, The Great Arab Conquests: How The Spread Of Islam Changed The World We Live In (Philadelphia, 2007).
C. Kafadar, Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State (Berkeley, 1995).
A. Afzar Moin, The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam (New York, 2002).
R.M. Eaton, The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760 (Berkeley, 1993).
M.C. Ricklefs, Mystic Synthesis in Java: A History of Islamization from the Fourteenth to the Early Nineteenth Centuries (Norwalk, 2006).
Michael Laffan, The Makings of Indonesian Islam: Orientalism and the Narration of a Sufi Past (Princeton, 2011).
Ho-Dong Kim, Holy War in China: The Muslim Rebellion and State in Chinese Central Asia, 1864-1877 (Stanford, 2004).
Registration
Via uSis.
Contact information
Email: Prof. Dr. J.J.L. Gommans.
Remarks
If only native speakers of Dutch participate, the course can be taught in Dutch.