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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Political Science
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Wael Abu-'Uksa
Coordinator Office Hours:
Wednesday, 12:10-13:10
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Wael Abu-Uksa
Course/Module description:
The course deals with basic issues derived from the concept of “politics” in the Arab sphere, and it focuses on the manifestations of this concept on political and social organization. The discussion will be on two parallel levels, the theoretical and the historical. In relation to the first level, the course will explore central theories and concepts that played pivotal roles in conceptualizing “politics” and it will focus on their influence on and contribution to the formation of the institutions of the modern Arab states. On the historical level, the course will explore central events and turning points in the modern history of the Arab world. The aim is to provide the students with tools to understand and analyze the politics of the modern Arab world.
Course/Module aims:
analyze the politics of the modern Arab world.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
The course will enable students to understand and analyze central events in the modern history of the Arab world.
Attendance requirements(%):
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Course/Module Content:
Selected subjects:
Political Theories in Islam
Regime, institutions and reforms in the Ottoman Empire during the 19th century
Nation-states in the Arab world
Political Islam
Liberalism
The Arab League
Republicanism and revolution
The Gulf States: regime, institutions and political economy
Required Reading:
selected bibliography:
Anjum, Ovamir. Politics, Law, and Community in Islamic Thought: The Taymiyyan Moment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014). 37-48.
שמיט, קרל. "המושג של הפוליטי", בתוך: מיכאל קרן (עורך), תולדות המחשבה המדינית: מקראה, כרך ב, (האוניברסיטה הפתוחה, 2001). 184-193.
Leonhard, Jörn. “The Longue Durée of Empire: Toward a Comparative Semantics of a Key Concept in Modern European History.” Contributions to the History of Concepts 8, no. 1 (2013): 1–25.
Lombardi, Clark B. State Law as Islamic Law in Modern Egypt: The Incorporation of the Sharīʻa into Egyptian Constitutional Law. Leiden: Brill, 2006. 47-58.
Di-Capua, Yoav. “Nahda: The Arab Project of Enlightenment.” In The Cambridge Companion to Modern Arab Culture, edited by Dwight F. Reynolds, 54–74. Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Owen, Roger. State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East. London: Routledge, 2006. 5-22
Vincent, Andrew. “Nationalism.” In The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies, edited by Michael Freeden, Lyman Sargent, and Marc Stears, 452–73. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Suleiman, Yasir. The Arabic Language and National Identity: A Study in Ideology. Washington, D.C: Georgetown University Press, 2003. 16-37, 23-33, 79-96.
Browers, Michaelle. “Islamic Political Ideologies.” In The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies, edited by Michael Freeden, Lyman Sargent, and Marc Stears, 627–43. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Lauzière, Henri. “The Construction of Salafiyya: Reconsidering Salafism from the Perspective of Conceptual History.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 42, no. 3 (2010): 369–389.
March, Andrew F. “Political Islam: Theory.” Annual Review of Political Science 18 (2015): 103–23.
Botman, Selma. “The Liberal Age, 1923-1952.” In The Cambridge History of Egypt, edited by Carl F. Petry, 2:285–307. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Gershoni, Israel. “Egyptian Liberalism in an Age of ‘Crisis of Orientation’: Al-Risala’s Reaction to Fascism and Nazism, 1933-39.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 31, no. 4 (November 1999): 551–76.
Wien, Peter. “Who is ‘liberal’ in 1930s Iraq?” In Nationalism and Liberal Thought in the Arab East :Ideology and Practice, 31–47. London: Routledge, 2010.
Sela, Avraham. The Decline of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Middle East Politics and the Quest for Regional Order. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.
Haddad, Yvonne. “Islamists and the ‘Problem of Israel’: The 1967 Awakening.” Middle East Journal, no. 2 (1992): 266–285.
Kassab, Elizabeth Suzanne. Contemporary Arab Thought: Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. 65-91.
Di-Capua, Yoav. “Arab Existentialism: An Invisible Chapter in the Intellectual History of Decolonization.” The American Historical Review 117, no. 4 (October 1, 2012): 1061–91
Billingsley, Anthony. Political Succession in the Arab World: Constitutions, Family Loyalties and Islam. London and New York: Routledge, 2010.
Dawisha, Adeed. Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: From Triumph to Despair. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003. 252-281.
Beblawi, Hazem. “The Rentier State in the Arab World.” In The Arab State, edited by Giacomo Luciani, 85–98. London: Routledge, 1990.
Wehrey, Frederic M. Sectarian Politics in the Gulf: From the Iraq War to the Arab Uprisings. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. 1-38.
Soler, Eduard, Lecha Zaccara, and Luciano Zaccara. “Saudi Arabia: Family, Religion, Army and Oil.” In Political Regimes in the Arab World: Society and the Exercise of Power, edited by Ferran Izquierdo, 155–82. London and New York: Routledge, 2012.
Haugolle, Rikke Hostrup, and Francesco Cavatora. “Islamism in Tunisia before and after the Arab Spring.” In Popular Protest in the New Middle East: Islamism and Post-Islamist Politics, edited by Are Knudsen and Basem Ezbidi. I.B.Tauris, 2014.
Heydarian, Richard Javad. How Capitalism Failed the Arab World: The Economic Roots and Precarious Future of the Middle East. London and New York: Zed Books, 2014. 128-150
Sassoon, Joseph. Anatomy of Authoritarianism in the Arab Republics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 221-251.
Sela, Avraham. “Conclusion: The Arab Revolts in Comparative Historical Perspective.” In Popular Contention, Regime, and Transition: Arab Revolts in Comparative Global Perspective, edited by Eitan Y. Alimi, Avraham Sela, and Mario Sznajder, 277–307. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Taylor, W. Military Responses to the Arab Uprisings and the Future of Civil-Military Relations in the Middle East: Analysis from Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and Syria. UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Chap. 4, 6.
Additional Reading Material:
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 80 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 10 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 10 %
presentation
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