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HU Credits:
4
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Islamic & Middle East Stud.
Semester:
Yearly
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Prof. Meir Hatina
Coordinator Office Hours:
Monday 1500-1600
Teaching Staff:
Prof. Meir Hatina
Course/Module description:
he course outlines the historical and political development of the Arab left, which advocated social equality and liberation from colonialism. Who were its main protagonists and their ideological features? What was their attitude to global communism, nationalism and religion? Was it a negligible or influential ideology in Arab political culture? Discussing these issues will be based on research literature, both theoretical and historical, as well as selected texts (translated into English and Hebrew)
Course/Module aims:
1. Familiarity with the history of the Arab left.
2. To map the human profile of its exponents and the historical and political contexts in which they operated.
3. Analysis of ideological themes.
4. To assess the Arab left’s political influence in a historical perspective
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. To be familiar with currents and key figures in the Arab left.
2. To provide additional prism to the challenges and dilemmas that accompanies the Arab Middle East in the modern era.
3. To acquire additional skills in reading and analyzing ideological texts.
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
class teaching: presentations at class which will serve as a base for the final assignment at the end of the course.
Course/Module Content:
1. Communism and socialism: history and themes
2. The Arab Left: formation and ideological molders
3. Political organizations and platforms
4. Rivals
5. The Arab defeat in 1967: disillusionment and criticism
6. The Islamic left
7. The collapse of communism and the Arab left
8. Historical record
Required Reading:
Ilham Khuri‑Makdisi, The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860‑1914 (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010), pp. 35‑93.
Ilham Khuri‑Makdisi,“Fin-de-Siècle Egypt: A Nexus for Mediterranean and Global Radical Networks,” in Gelvin and Green (eds.), Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print, pp. 78-100.
Marwa Elshakry, Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860-1950 (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013(, pp. 238-282.
Selma Botman, The Rise of Egyptian Communism (Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1988), pp. 1-31.
Rami Ginat, A History of Egyptian Communism: Jews and their Compatriots in Quest of Revolution (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2011), pp. 9-23.
Sune Haughbolle, “Dealing with Dissent: Khalid Bakdash and the Schism of Arab Communism,” in Laura Guirguis (ed.), The Arab Left: Histories and Legacies, 1950s-1970s (Edinburgh University
Press, 2020), pp. 77-95.
Charles Tripp, Islam and the Moral Economy: The Challenge of Capitalism (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 77-102.
Richard P. Mitchell, The Society of the Muslim Brothers )New York: Oxford University Press, 1993(, pp. 220-222, 272-283.
Eliezer Tauber, The Emergence of the Arab Movements (London: F. Cass, 1993), pp. 54-58, 245-267, 287-302, 311-330.
Malik Muft, Sovereign Creations: Pan-Arabism and Political Order in Syria and Iraq (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1996), pp. 19-59.
Norma Salem-Babikian, "A Partial Reconstruction of Michel Aflaq's Thought." Muslim World 67 (October 1977), pp. 280-294.
Relli Shechter, The Egyptian Social Contract: A History of State-Middle Class Relations (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023), pp. 91-118.
Michaelle Browers, Political Ideology in the Arab World: Accommodation and Transformation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 19-47.
Saad Eddin Ibrahim, "Reviving Middle Eastern Liberalism," Journal of Democracy, Vol. 14 (October 2003): 5-10.
Additional Reading Material:
James L. Gelvin and Nile Green, “Introduction,” in idems (eds.), Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print (Berkeley: University pf Californian Press, 2014), pp. 1-22.
Walter Z. Laqueur, Communism and Nationalism in the Middle East (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1956), pp. 221-235, 271-285.
Nasri al-Sayegh, "Saʿadeh’s Conception of Religion," in Adel Beshara (ed.), Antun Saʿadeh: The Man, His Thought: An Anthology (Reading: Ithaca 2009), pp. 391-423.
John J. Donohue and John L. Esposito (eds.). Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982), pp. 120-122.
Jens Hanssen, “Crisis and Critique: The Transformation of the Arab Radical Tradition between the 1960s and the 1980s,” in Guirguis (ed.), The Arab Left, pp. 222-242.
Samet Frangie, “Historicism, Socialism and Liberalism after the Defeat: On the Political Thought of Yasin al-Hafiz,” Modern Intellectual History 2 (2015): 325-352.
Zaid Eyadat et al. (eds.), Islam, State, and Modernity: Mohammed Abed al-Jabri and the Future of the Arab World )New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
Grading Scheme :
Essay / Project / Final Assignment / Referat 50 %
Presentation / Poster Presentation / Lecture/ Seminar / Pro-seminar / Research proposal 30 %
Active Participation / Team Assignment 20 %
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