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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
Islamic & Middle East Stud.
Semester:
2nd Semester
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:
The course analyzes the liberal interpretation of the Qur’an and the Prophet Muhammad, whose main goals were to dismantle the sacredness of the Qur'an and present it as a historical, humane and universal text, whose hallmarks are justice, kindness and mercy. We’ll read and disucsse selected texts in Arabic, using secondary literature, both theoretical and historical
Course/Module aims:
1. To be aware of the richness and diversity of modern Arab thought with regard to the foundations of Islam, focusing on the Qur’an and the Prophet.
2. To identify the liberal current, its protagonists and to map the historical and political contexts of their writings.
3. To analyze liberal interpretations of past traditions, and to analyze the relationship between religion and politics.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. To be familiar with key figures in Arab liberal thought.
2. To provide a prism to the challenges and dilemmas that accompanies Arab liberalism in modern times.
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. Arab Enlightenment, what is it?
2. Arab liberalism: a historical and ideological portrait.
3. Severing the Gordian connection between religion and the state
4. The Qur’an: historical and ethical text.
5. The unique contribution of Mahmud Muhammad Taha in Sudan: returning to the Islam of Mecca.
6. A comparative view from the Shi’i orbit
Required Reading:
Albert Hourani, Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798–1939 (3rd. ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983 [1962]), pp. 130-160.
Saad Eddin Ibrahim, "Reviving Middle Eastern Liberalism," Journal of Democracy, Vol. 14 (October 2003), pp. 5-10.
شاكر النابلسي (إعداد)، الليبراليون الجدد: جدل فكري (كولونيا: منشورات الجمل، 2005)، ص. 21-25.
Patricia Crone and Martin Hinds, God’s Caliph: Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986).
عبد الرحمن الكواكبي، أم القرى (القاهرة: المكتبة التجارية الكبرى، 1931).
علي عبد الرازق، الإسلام وأصول الحكم (بيروت: دار مكتبة الحياة، 1966).
خالد محمد خالد، من هنا نبدأ (ط. 6، القاهرة: دار الفكر العربي، 1952)، ص. 9-14.
محمد سعيد العشمواي، الخلافة الإسلامية (ط. 3، القاهرة: مكتبة مدبولي، 1996)، ص. 115-120.
محمد شحرور، "ميثاق العالمية في الإسلام"، في محمد شحرور، الدين والسلطة: قراءة معاصرة للحاكمية (بيروت: دار الساقي، 2015)، ص. 445-451.
عبد المجيد الشرفي، الإسلام بين الرسالة والتاريخ (ط. 2، بيروت: دار الطليعة، 2008)، ص. 59-76.
الإخوان الجمهوريون، الإسلام رسالتان (أم درمان، 1975)، ص. 4-3، 12-17.
Mohsen Kadivar, “Freedom of Religion and Belief in Islam,” in Mehran Kamrava (ed.), The New Voices of Islam (London: I. B. Tauris, 2006), pp. 119–142.
عبد الكريم سروش وأحمد قبانجي، السياسة والتدين: دقائق نظرية ومآزق عملية (بيروت: مؤسسة الانتشار العربي، 2009)، ص. 259-260.
Additional Reading Material:
Lutz Kaelber, "Introduction: The Centenary of Weber’s Protestant Ethic Essay," in W. H. Swatos and L. Kaelber (eds.), The Protestant Ethic Turns 100: Essays on the Contemporary of the Weber Thesis (Boulder, Colo.: Paradigm Publishers, 2005), pp. xv-xxxii
Ann K. Lambton, State and Government in Medieval Islam (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981), pp. 13-20, 307-315.
Patricia Crone and Martin Hinds, God’s Caliph: Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986).
Itzchak Weismann, ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi: Islamic Reform and Arab Revival (London: Oneworld, 2015).
Israel Gershoni and James P. Jankowski, Egypt, Islam, and the Arabs: The Search for Egyptian Nationhood, 1900‑1930, New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), pp. 66-7.
Hatina, Identity Politics in the Middle East, pp. 22-29.
Nasr Abu Zaid, “Rethinking the Qurʾan: Towards a Humanistic Hermeneutics,” in Stefan Reichmuth, Jörrn Rüsen and Aladdin Sarhan (eds.). Humanism and Muslim Culture: Historical Heritage and Contemporary Challenges. Göttingen: V&R unipress GmbH, 2012, pp. 39–60.
Samia al-Nagar and Liv Tønnessen, Women’s Equal Rights and Islam in Sudanese Republican Thought: A Translation of Three Family Law Booklets from 1975 (Bergen: University of Bergen, 2015), pp. 14-20.
Mohsen Kadivar. “Wilayat al-faqih and Democracy,” in Asma Afsaruddin (ed.), Islam, the State, and Political Authority: Medieval Issues and Modern Concerns (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 207-224.
Abdolkarim Soroush, “Reasons, Freedom, and Democracy in Islam,” in Mehran Kamrava (ed.). The New Voices of Islam (London: I. B. Tauris, 2006), pp. 243–261.
Grading Scheme :
Essay / Project / Final Assignment / Home Exam / Referat 70 %
Active Participation / Team Assignment 30 %
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