Islm Thgt Confront'g Modernity

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course will focus on the confrontation between Islamic thought and Western modernity in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, based on in-depth reading from the Arabic-language writings of a wide spectrum of influential scholars. The authors we will read include Muhammad Abduh, Zahid al-Kawthari, Al-Albani and Habib Ali Al-Jifri. The course objectives are improving the ability to access and understand works of Islamic thought and learning how to engage in graduate-level research on the topic.