HIS 339: The Central Islamic Lands 500-1700 (Fall 2019)
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Course Overview This course will cover the regions where Islam was a significant presence either culturally or politically from its origens until the period of the "Gunpowder Empires" in the 16 th and 17 th centuries. The first half of the course will deal with the elaboration of Islamic doctrines and practices in the Middle Eastern imperial context, with close attention to the debates and issues surrounding the primary sources for the period. The second will focus on the way such doctrines and practices shaped and were shaped by the society, politics, and economy of later centuries, as well as the spread of Islam to new geographic regions. This course's contribution to an integrated history curriculum includes an awareness of issues in approaching premodern primary sources, the nature of premodern polities, and the way time periods and regions are often bounded in ways contingent on particular themes and questions.
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HIS 339: The Central Islamic Lands, 500-1700
204 Dauphin Humanities Center, MWF 9:00 a.m.
Dr. Brian J. Ulrich
Office: 201 Dauphin Humanities Center, ex. 1736
Office Hours: MWF 12:00-12:50 a.m., W 2:00-4:30 p.m., also by appointment
E-mail: bjulrich@ship.edu
Required Texts:
Islamic Societies to the Nineteenth Century: A Global History, Ira Lapidus
Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives: The First 1000 Years, Chase Robinson
Women and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Islam, Asma Sayeed
Book of Travels, Nasir-i Khusraw
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Course Overview
This course will cover the regions where Islam was a significant presence either culturally or politically from its origens until the period of the “Gunpowder Empires” in the 16th and 17th centuries. The first half of the course will deal with the elaboration of Islamic doctrines and practices in the Middle Eastern imperial context, with close attention to the debates and issues surrounding the primary sources for the period. The second will focus on the way such doctrines and practices shaped and were shaped by the society, politics, and economy of later centuries, as well as the spread of Islam to new geographic regions. This course’s contribution to an integrated history curriculum includes an awareness of issues in approaching premodern primary sources, the nature of premodern polities, and the way time periods and regions are often bounded in ways contingent on particular themes and questions.
This course will feature two exams combining IDs and essays, as well as two additional major essays. On September 30, students will hand in an essay on the issues involving using the primary sources for the first 200 years of Islamic history. On November 4, students will submit an essay on Nasir-i Khusraw’s Book of Travels. On September 9, students will take a quiz over the Arabic name structure, and that quiz topic will be repeated until a sufficient number of students do well. Pop quizzes will occasionally check reading, and paragraph writing assignments will occasionally ask you to engage with readings. Paragraphs must be typed to be accepted. Quizzes and some paragraph writing assignments cannot be made up, but the lowest grade in that section will be dropped from the final calculation. A student may receive credit for handing an assignment in on time by sending an e-mailed copy before the time the assignment was due, but must still hand in a hard copy for grading within seven days. Attendance in class is mandatory, and 5% will be deducted from students’ participation grades for each class missed over three. Participation, however, is more than just attendance.
Grading:
Quizzes and Paragraphs: 10%
Participation: 10%
Primary Source Issues Essay: 15%
Nasir-i Khusraw Essay: 15%
Midterm Exam: 25%
Final Exam: 25%
Plagiarism and Academic Misconduct:
Students should be aware of the academic dishonesty policies found in the undergraduate catalog. Of particular relevance for this course are the examples of exam cheating, inventing false information or sources, and plagiarism. Students should put exact quotes in quotation marks and cite both exact quotes and other use of ideas and/or information in the form indicated for a particular assignment. Penalties for academic dishonesty may extend as far as receiving a zero on an assignment for a first offense and failure in the course for a second.
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Schedule of Readings and Major Assignments
August 26 – Course Intro
August 28 – Lapidus, pp. 1-25; Robinson, pp. 13-7 (Late Antiquity I)
August 30 – Jonathan Berkey, The Formation of Islam (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 10-39; Chronicle of Zuqnin, Part III, pp. 94-99. (Late Antiquity II)
September 2 – LABOR DAY
September 4 – Lapidus, pp. 31-8; Aziz al-Azmeh, The Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. 126-33. 146-54; James Lindsay, “Traditional Arabic Naming System,” Daily Life in the Medieval Islamic World (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2005), pp. 173-178. (Pre-Islamic Arabia)
September 6 – Lapidus, pp. 26-30; Fred Donner, “Modern Approaches to Early Islamic History,” The New Cambridge History of Islam, Vol. I, ed. Chase Robinson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 623-47. (Historiographic Issues)
September 9 – Lapidus, pp. 39-54, 183-5; Robinson, pp. 20-31; Ma’mar b. Rashid, “The Incident Concerning the Clan of al-Nadir,” The Expeditions, trans. Sean Anthony (New York: New York University Press, 2014), pp. 66-75 (Muhammad) (First Name Quiz)
September 11 – Sayeed, pp. 1-18, 186-97
[Paragraph due: Explain Asma Sayeed’s thesis, how it differs from previous historiography, and her major conclusions. You do not have to cite within this paragraph.]
September 13 – Sayeed, pp. 19-62 (Women in Seventh Century Islam)
September 16 – Lapidus, pp. 58-65; Robert Hoyland, In God’s Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 56-65; Baladhuri, “The Battle of the Yarmuk and After” (web link); “Chronicle ad 640” and “Letters of Ishoyahb III,” When Christians First Met Muslims, ed. Michael Philip Penn (Oakland: University of California Press, 2015), pp. 36-46 (Early Conquests)
September 18 – Lapidus, pp. 80-83; Robinson, pp. 31-41; Tabari, XVI, pp. 32-47 (“Rightly Guided Caliphate”)
September 20 – Lapidus, pp. 66-79, 83-7. 114-25; Robinson, pp. 42-8 (Umayyads)
September 23 – Fred Donner, “Umayyad Efforts at Legitimation: The Umayyads’ Silent Heritage,” Umayyad Legacies: Medieval Memories from Syria to Spain, ed. Antoine Borrut and Paul Cobb (Leiden: Brill, 2010), pp. 187-212; Milka Levy-Rubin, Non- Muslims in the Early Islamic Empire: From Surrender to Coexistence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 88-98; “Pact of Umar” (Umayyads and Islam)
September 25 – Lapidus, pp. 87-104; Robinson, pp. 48-54 (Early Abbasids)
September 27 – Lapidus, 105-13, 126-34; Robinson, pp. 60-8 (Ninth Century)
September 30 – Lapidus, pp. 134-40; Robinson, pp. 74-9, 90-106 (Court Culture) (Primary Source Issues Essay Due)
October 2 - Lapidus, pp. 146-67; Robinson, pp. 85-90 (Sunnism and shari’a)
October 4 – Sayeed, pp. 63-107 (Women’s Hadith Transmission, 8th – 9th centuries)
[Paragraph due: Explain how Sayeed uses her primary sources to document a decline in women’s hadith transmission. You do not need to cite anything for this paragraph.]
October 7 – Lapidus, pp.174-80; S.H.M. Jafri, Origins and Early Development of Shi’a Islam (London: Longman, 1979), pp. 289-300 (stop at “There is another important…”) (Shi’ism)
October 9 – Lapidus, pp. 167-73; Robinson, pp. 54-60, 79-84 (Sufism)
October 11 – Exam I ID Section
October 14 – FALL BREAK
October 16 – Exam II Essay Section
October 18 – Jack Tannous, The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018), pp. 310-32, 359-71.
October 21 – Lapidus, pp. 225-33; Ronnie Ellenblum, The Collapse of the Eastern Mediterranean (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 3-11, 240-8. (Climate Shift and Nomads)
October 23 – Lapidus, pp. 254-63; Robinson, pp. 107-18; Nasir-i Khusraw, pp. 1-12 (Persian culture)
October 25 – Lapidus, pp. 271-3; Nasir-i Khusraw, pp. 13-48 (Random)
October 28 – Lapidus, pp. 238-43; Nasir-i Khusraw, pp. 48-81 (Fatimids)
October 30 – Nasir-i Khusraw, pp. 81-133 (Hajj, Arabia, Basra, Iran)
November 1 - Lapidus, pp. 243-54; Robinson, pp. 119-27, 160-8, 178-85 (Political History of Southwest Asia, 1000-1500)
November 4 – Lapidus, pp. 273-92; Robinson, pp. 148-53 (Muslim Societies) (Nasir-i Khusraw Essay due)
November 6 – Sayeed, pp. 108-43 (Hadith Transmission)
November 8 – Lapidus, pp. 306-13; Robinson, pp. 139-48; Sayeed, pp. 144-59 (al-Ghazali)
November 11 – Lapidus, pp. 302-6, 315-24: Robinson, pp. 169-77, 188-94 (Sufism and Popular Religion)
November 13 – Sayeed, pp. 159-85; Robinson, pp. 205-12; Mamluk Sultan Barquq’s Waqf (Late Medieval Sunnism)
November 15 – NO CLASS MEETING, brief on-line assignment probable
November 18 – Lapidus, pp. 369-90, 395-8; Robinson, pp. 220-9 (North Africa and Spain)
November 20 – Lapidus, pp. 588-606 (West Africa)
November 22 – Lapidus, pp. 507-21; Richard M. Eaton, “Sufi Folk Literature and the Expansion of Indian Islam,” History of Religions 14 (1974): 117-27 (South Asia)
[Paragraph due: Explain Eaton’s main point and how he uses his primary sources to make it. You do not need to cite this paragraph.]
November 25 – Lapidus, pp. 561-6; Geoff Wade, “Early Muslim Expansion in South-East Asia,
eighth to fifteenth centuries,” The New Cambridge History of Islam, Vol. III (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 379-403. (Southeast Asia)
November 27 - THANKSGIVING
November 29 - THANKSGIVING
December 2 – Lapidus, pp. 233-8; 490-506; Robinson, pp. 194-200, 238-46 (Ilkhans and Safavids)
December 4 – Lapidus, pp. 427-46, 451-67; Sayeed, pp. 180-5 (Ottoman Empire)
December 6 – Lapidus, pp. 521-35, 538-42 (Mughal Empire)
Final Exam: Friday, December 13, 8 a.m.
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