History and Institutions of Islamic Countries
A.Y. 2020/2021
Learning objectives
The course aims at providing students with a basic knowledge of the Islamic doctrine and institutions and of their evolution, and with an understanding of Islamic revivalism. The aim is also to provide them with the conceptual tools to understand and critically analise currents events taking place in the Middle east and to trasmit them an adequate terminology.
Expected learning outcomes
At the end of the course students will be acquainted with the evolution of the Islamic doctrine and Middle Eastern history, and with an in-depht udnerstanding of the historical processes that have shaped Islamic revivalism. They will thus have acquired the conceptual and terminological tools that are necessary to comprehend and analyse in a critical manner the most recent events taking place in the Middle East; students will also have acquired an adequate terminology. These skills will allow the students to continue their studies in an autonomous manner.
Lesson period: Second trimester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Second trimester
teaching and presentations through MT
Course syllabus
The following issues will be dealt with: birth of islam, sunnism and shiism, classical political theory, relationship between political power and religious authority, sufism, the gunpowder empires and their crisis, colonialism and the Middle East, Arab nationalism, decolonization, Islamic revivalism, fundamentalism, partition of the Middle East and independence movements, islamization in Iran, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, the 1979 revolution in Iran, The two Gulf wars, the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, the Birth of al-Qaeda and its subsequent development, the Algerian civil war, the kashmiri issue, the Arab springs, Iran-Saudi relations, tghe Afghan crisis
Prerequisites for admission
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Teaching methods
Lectures and presentations
Teaching Resources
3 credits:
A.Hourani, Storia dei popoli arabi, any edition:
· parte prima (except "Unità di fede e di lingua" in ch. 3);
· in parte seconda, section on "Evoluzione dello sciismo" (ch. 11)
· parte terza (except ch. 14)
· parte quarta up to the end of "La supremazia della Gran Bretagna e della Francia" nel cap. 19 (except pages from "Il controllo della terra" to "La società dualista" in ch. 17, and the parts on "La cultura dell'imperialismo" and "L'ascesa dell'intellighenzia" in ch. 18)
6 credits
1. A.Hourani, Storia dei popoli arabi, any edition:
· parte prima (except "Unità di fede e di lingua" in ch. 3);
· in parte seconda, section on "Evoluzione dello sciismo" (ch. 11)
· parte terza (except ch. 14)
· parte quarta up to the end of "La supremazia della Gran Bretagna e della Francia" nel cap. 19 (except pages from "Il controllo della terra" to "La società dualista" in ch. 17, and the parts on "La cultura dell'imperialismo" and "L'ascesa dell'intellighenzia" in ch. 18)
2. M. Emiliani, Medio Oriente, Dal 1918 al 1991, Laterza, any edition, except ch. 11
9 credits:
1. A.Hourani, Storia dei popoli arabi, any edition:
· parte prima (except "Unità di fede e di lingua" in ch. 3);
· in parte seconda, section on "Evoluzione dello sciismo" (ch. 11)
· parte terza (except ch. 14)
· parte quarta up to the end of "La supremazia della Gran Bretagna e della Francia" nel cap. 19 (except pages from "Il controllo della terra" to "La società dualista" in ch. 17, and the parts on "La cultura dell'imperialismo" and "L'ascesa dell'intellighenzia" in ch. 18)
2. M. Emiliani, Medio Oriente, Dal 1918 al 1991, Laterza, any edition, except ch. 11
3. M. Emiliani, Medio oriente. Una storia dal 1991 a oggi, Laterza, any edition, except par. 3-4 (ch.2), 3 (ch. 3), from 2.2 to 2.4 (ch. 4), da 4 a 4.4 (ch. 5)
A.Hourani, Storia dei popoli arabi, any edition:
· parte prima (except "Unità di fede e di lingua" in ch. 3);
· in parte seconda, section on "Evoluzione dello sciismo" (ch. 11)
· parte terza (except ch. 14)
· parte quarta up to the end of "La supremazia della Gran Bretagna e della Francia" nel cap. 19 (except pages from "Il controllo della terra" to "La società dualista" in ch. 17, and the parts on "La cultura dell'imperialismo" and "L'ascesa dell'intellighenzia" in ch. 18)
6 credits
1. A.Hourani, Storia dei popoli arabi, any edition:
· parte prima (except "Unità di fede e di lingua" in ch. 3);
· in parte seconda, section on "Evoluzione dello sciismo" (ch. 11)
· parte terza (except ch. 14)
· parte quarta up to the end of "La supremazia della Gran Bretagna e della Francia" nel cap. 19 (except pages from "Il controllo della terra" to "La società dualista" in ch. 17, and the parts on "La cultura dell'imperialismo" and "L'ascesa dell'intellighenzia" in ch. 18)
2. M. Emiliani, Medio Oriente, Dal 1918 al 1991, Laterza, any edition, except ch. 11
9 credits:
1. A.Hourani, Storia dei popoli arabi, any edition:
· parte prima (except "Unità di fede e di lingua" in ch. 3);
· in parte seconda, section on "Evoluzione dello sciismo" (ch. 11)
· parte terza (except ch. 14)
· parte quarta up to the end of "La supremazia della Gran Bretagna e della Francia" nel cap. 19 (except pages from "Il controllo della terra" to "La società dualista" in ch. 17, and the parts on "La cultura dell'imperialismo" and "L'ascesa dell'intellighenzia" in ch. 18)
2. M. Emiliani, Medio Oriente, Dal 1918 al 1991, Laterza, any edition, except ch. 11
3. M. Emiliani, Medio oriente. Una storia dal 1991 a oggi, Laterza, any edition, except par. 3-4 (ch.2), 3 (ch. 3), from 2.2 to 2.4 (ch. 4), da 4 a 4.4 (ch. 5)
Assessment methods and Criteria
Written exam (oral for attending students) with the aim of assessing the knowledge of the themes dealt with by the programme, the capacity to interpret them in a critical manner and to espouse them with an adequate terminology; as for attending students, active participation in class dscussions will be taken into account, as well as presentations.
SPS/14 - ASIAN HISTORY AND INSTITUTIONS - University credits: 6
Lessons: 40 hours
Professor:
Giunchi Elisa Ada
Professor(s)
Reception:
Wednesday 4,15 PM-6 PM
Room 9, Floor 1 (Via Conservatorio)