PSCI 4302
Political Thought in the Modern Muslim Middle East
Contemporary secular and religious responses to the challenges of modernity. Readings include writings of Arab, Turkish, and Iranian intellectuals.
Undated
Readings
- Hamid Enayat. Modern Islamic Political Thought. Forward by Roy Mottahedeh. London: I. B. Tauris, 2005 (Bookstore).
- Sayed Khatab. The Political Thought of Sayyid Qutb: the Theory of Jahiliyyah. New York: Routledge, 2006 (sections; Carleton Library, electronic resource).
- Imam Khomeini. Islam and Revolution I: Writings and Declarations of Imam Khomeini (1941-1980). Translated by Hamid Algar. Berkeley: Mizan Press, 1980. (Sections; pdf on
- Ian S. Markam and Suendam Birinci Pirim. An Introduction to Said Nursi; Life, Thought and Writings. Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2011 (Bookstore).
- Adnan A. Musallam. From Secularism to Jihad: Seyyed Qutb and the Foundation of Radical Islamism. Westport CT: Praeger, 2005 (Book store).
- Sayyid Qutb. Social Justice in Islam. Translated from the Arabic by John B. Hardie
- translation revised and introduction by Hamid Algar. Oneonta, NY: Islamic Publication International, 2000 (Sections. pdf on CuLearn).
- Farhang Rajaee. Islamism and Modernism: the Metamorphosis of the Islamic Discourse in Iran. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 2007 (Bookstore).
- Abdolkarim Soroush. Reason, Freedom, and Democracy in Islam: Essential Writings of Abdolkarim Soroush. Translated, edited, and with a critical introduction by Mahmoud Sadri and
- Ahmad Sadri. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000 (Sections, Carleton Library, electronic
Prerequisites & course information
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year Honours standing or permission of the Department, and one of ( PSCI 2301 and PSCI 2302 ) or PSCI 3311 . Also offered at the graduate level, with different requirements, as PSCI 5305 , for which additional credit is precluded. Seminar three hours a week.