History of Islam

(2.5-3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

RE A survey o the history o the Middle East from the time of the victory over the Crusaders to the end of the Ottoman Empire, with emphasis on intellectual, cultural, and religious life. The course will review the major political developments of this period, beginning with the dynamic 13th century that witnessed the Mongol conquest. Next, the course will discuss the politics and culture of the Mamluks (1250-1500) and the Ottomans (1500-1900), with religious and cutural diversity. The political, commercial, and intellectual interaction between Europe and the Middle East during this period will also receive attention. PF The aim of this course is to reflect on the history of relationships between the State, society and Islam in the Ottoman and Turkish context from the 1750s to the 2020s. This course will allow you to address in detail themes such as Muslim reformism of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Islam in the age of Ottoman reforms, modernist and fundamentalist Islamism, pan Islamism and Ottoman caliphal politics, the Young Turks and Islam, Islam in the secular Republic, the question of female emancipation and Islam, plural Islam, Alevism and Sunnism, political Islam in the context of the Cold War, the takeover of power by political Islam and the Islamo fascist dictatorship in power in Turkey since 2002.