Islamic History: (BEFORE STARTING PLEASE READ ALL OF IT) The essay is mostly based on topics within this reading: Chase F. Robinson, Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives: The First 1000 Years, London: Thames & Hudson, 2016. But I can choose any topic/issue that has two sides of argument, and assess and analyze them and engage with them critically, this last part is where I get the best marks. And do keep in mind that I’m a Muslim Sunni person when writing, so I can’t be overly critical of Islamic faith and such. My general idea is this: (but if you cant find sources and such you can look for another topic) “He viewed Ibn Hanbal as a mere traditionist, rather than a jurist, and this scarcely endeared him to the Hanbalis”. p.84 (Chase F. Robinson, Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives: The First 1000 Years, London: Thames & Hudson, 2016) I wanted to investigate the issue between Al tabari and the Hanbalites, why were they aggressive towards hi. This issue was discussed in ibn al kathir’s book al-Bidāya w-l-Nihāya, ibn Athīr’s book al-Kāmil fī al-Tārīkh, and also western books (please look some up). Is this related to what happened between al-Ṭabārī and Muḥammad b. Dāwūd – the sone of the founder of the Ẓahiriya Islamic school of law (do’t mix him up with another person al tabari had issues with which is called ibn Abī dāwūd who was a Hanbali jurist)… A good place to start is the Arabic language article – Named: Mihan al tabari in the other attached file -, so you understand what I want to argue. Aims: Building upon the understanding of Islam and its institutions which students acquired in Level One modules, this course will expose them to a more nuanced and profound conception of the subject based on civilisational and historiographical approaches. We will consider the history of the classical period in its most holistic sense comprising the politics of the nascent community and the conquests, the shifts in power and culture signaled by the different dynasties and the formation of ‘Islamicate societies’ in their cultural variation. In particular, we will look at the wide expanse of the Islamic world from the core regions in the East all the way through to Islam in Iberia. Intended Learning Outcomes: Module Specific Skills 1. demonstrate an understanding of the problematics of studying classical Islam and the contentious issues and historiographical debates that have not yet been resolved by scholars. 2. evidence comprehensive understanding of the methodological tools applied to the study of the history of the Islamic religion, culture and its institutions. Discipline-Specific Skills 3. critically explain the pitfalls of Eurocentric approaches to non-Western societies and culture 4. Demonstrate understanding of, and an ability contextualise, Islamic historiography within approaches to the study of Islam Personal and Key skills 5. solve various epistemological problems, whether or not related to Islamic studies, and evidence a capacity to examine critically and review existing historical literature 6. digest, select and organise material to produce, to a deadline, a coherent and cogent argument, developed through the assigned essay. 7. demonstrate the ability to work independently, within a limited time frame, and without access to external sources, to complete a specified task. Essay requirements: 2000 words 5% + -, excluding bibliography and citations. Citation style: I prefer Chicago footnotes http://as.exeter.ac.uk/academic-policy-standards/tqa-manual/aph/marking/ Essay marking. The essays are monitored within the Institute. When your essay is returned to you, normally within 3 weeks, the mark you see on it is a provisional one, pending confirmation by the exam board. The pass mark is set at 40. A mark of 70 or over is a first class. A mark of 60 does not in fact mean that it is only 60 per cent of the maximum. Anything of 60-69 at the upper second class is quite good, and anything over 70 is excellent. A mark of 80 – which is rare – would mean a superb essay. Word limits and penalties As per CSSIS rules, students found to have exceeded the specified word limit for an assessment will be subject to the following penalties: • Up to 10% over length: No deduction off final mark • Between 10% and 20% over length: Deduction of 5 marks off final mark • 20% or more over length: Mark capped at 40% (=pass) Word limits are normally exclusive of the abstract, other preliminaries (tables of contents), footnotes, appendices and bibliography, but are inclusive of all other content, including tables, charts and captions. This is the transliteration: (but no problem I can do it just highlight the word and I can do the transliteration) I recommend the transliteration system of the Journal of Abbasid Studies (you have to copy the links and place them into your browser): https://brill.com/fileasset/downloads_products/Author_Instructions/JAS.pdf https://www.abbasidstudies.org/jas/editorial-guidelines/ Background readings: Books on world history, by scholars on the field of Islamic history: Michael A. Cook, A Brief History of the Human Race (New York: W.W. Norton, 2003). Patricia Crone, Pre-industrial Societies (Oxford {UK] ; Cambridge [Mass] : Blackwell, 1989, republished Oxford: Oneworld, 2003 and 2015), available online at https://lib.exeter.ac.uk/search~S6?/tPre-industrial+societies+/tpre+industrial+societies/1%2C2%2C3%2CB/frameset&FF=tpre+industrial+societies+anatomy+of+the+pre+modern+world&1%2C%2C2 Marshall G. S. Hodgson, Rethinking World History : Essays on Europe, Islam and World History, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1993), available online at https://lib.exeter.ac.uk/search~S6?/tRethinking+world+history/trethinking+world+history/1%2C1%2C2%2CB/frameset&FF=trethinking+world+history+essays+on+europe+islam+and+world+history&2%2C%2C2/indexsort=- Richard W. Bulliet et al., The Earth and Its Peoples : A Global History, 2 vols, (several editions since 1997). The book is well complemented by the lectures given by Prof. Bulliet at the Columbia University, which were recorded and uploaded to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_w7pfulsn8 and the database Bridging World History http://www.learner.org/courses/worldhistory. Excellent books on classical Islamic history: Jonathan Berkey, The Formation of Islam : Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800, Cambridge [U.K.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003. Available online through the website of our library: https://lib.exeter.ac.uk/search~S6?/tThe+Formation+of+Islam/tformation+of+islam/1%2C4%2C8%2CB/frameset&FF=tformation+of+islam+religion+and+society+in+the+near+east++600+1800&2%2C%2C3 Marshall G.S. Hodgson, The Venture of Islam : Conscience and History in a World Civilization, 3 vols, Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1974. Available online through the website of our library: https://lib.exeter.ac.uk/search~S6?/XThe+Venture+of+Islam&searchscope=6&SORT=D/XThe+Venture+of+Islam&searchscope=6&SORT=D&SUBKEY=The+Venture+of+Islam/1%2C12%2C12%2CB/frameset&FF=XThe+Venture+of+Islam&searchscope=6&SORT=D&1%2C1%2C R. Stephen Humphreys, Islamic History Islamic history : A Framework for Inquiry, revised edition., Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1991. Available online through the website of our library: https://lib.exeter.ac.uk/search~S6?/tIslamic+History/tislamic+history/1%2C95%2C98%2CB/frameset&FF=tislamic+history+a+framework+for+inquiry&2%2C%2C2/indexsort=- Albert Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples, London : Faber, 1991 (and many later editions.) https://lib.exeter.ac.uk/search~S6/?searchtype=t&searcharg=A+history+of+the+Arab+peoples&searchscope=6&SORT=D&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=aA+history+of+the+Arab+peoples (Printed copies only.) Chase F. Robinson, Islamic Historiography, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003. https://lib.exeter.ac.uk/search~S6?/tIslamic+Historiography/tislamic+historiography/1%2C2%2C2%2CB/frameset&FF=tislamic+historiography&1%2C1%2C/indexsort=- (Printed copies only.) Hugh Kennedy, The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates : The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century, third edition, London : Routledge, 2015. Available online through the website of our library: https://lib.exeter.ac.uk/search~S6?/akennedy%2C+hugh/akennedy+hugh/1%2C1%2C25%2CB/frameset&FF=akennedy+hugh+hugh+n&24%2C%2C25 Chase F. Robinson (ed.), The New Cambridge History of Islam. Volume 1, The Formation of the Islamic World, Sixth to Eleventh Centuries, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010. Available online through the website of our library: https://lib.exeter.ac.uk/search~S6?/tthe+new+cambridge+history+of+islam/tnew+cambridge+history+of+islam/1%2C6%2C6%2CB/frameset&FF=tnew+cambridge+history+of+islam+volume++++1+the+formation+of+the+islamic+world+sixth+to+eleventh+centuries&1%2C1%2C/indexsort=- Check also the other volumes (the first four deal with premodern history): https://lib.exeter.ac.uk/search~S6/?searchtype=t&searcharg=the+new+cambridge+history+of+islam&searchscope=6&sortdropdown=-&SORT=D&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=abloom%2C+jonathan The Makers of the Muslim World series (OneWorld): https://oneworld-publications.com/makers-of-the-muslim-world.html Its volumes are vailable online through the website of our library: https://lib.exeter.ac.uk/search~S6/?searchtype=Y&searcharg=Makers+of+the+Muslim+World&searchscope=6&sortdropdown=-&SORT=DZ&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=YMakers+of+Islam+%26SORT%3DD (for finding a topic: 1- Go to encyclopedia of Islam 3rd ed look for it, if you can’t find it then encyclopedia of Islam 2nd Ed. 2- Encyclopedia Iranica 3- Index Islamicus 4- JSTOR 5- For any Hadith (saying of the Prophet) use https://sunnah.com/ 6- Also at the end of chase Robinsons book there is a list for further readings. 7- I will need some Islamic Arabic sources (Sunni) Important Links: http://lib.exeter.ac.uk/search~S6 https://libguides.exeter.ac.uk/ArabandIslamicHomePage EI1, EI2, EI3 = Encyclopaedia of Islam + An Historical Atlas of Islam. Available online through the website of our library: https://lib.exeter.ac.uk/search~S6?/tEncyclopaedia+of+Islam/tencyclopaedia+of+islam/1%2C6%2C13%2CB/frameset&FF=tencyclopaedia+of+islam+online&1%2C1%2C/indexsort=- The Encyclopaedia of Islam New Edition (EI2) http://encore.exeter.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1239895__Sencyclopaedia%20of%20islam__Orightresult__X5?lang=eng&suite=def The Encyclopaedia of Islam Three (EI3) https://encore.exeter.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb4098518__Sencyclopaedia%20of%20islam%20three__Orightresult__U__X7?lang=eng&suite=cobalt Encyclopaedia Iranica http://www.iranicaonline.org/ Index Islamicus http://encore.exeter.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1599445__SIndex%20Islamicus__Orightresult__X5?lang=eng&suite=def JSTOR https://encore.exeter.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1687622__SJSTOR__P0%2C2__Orightresult__U__X6?lang=eng&suite=cobalt Databases for texts: http://archive.org/ http://www.alwaraq.net/Core/index.jsp?option=1 Dictionaries: http://ejtaal.net/aa/#hw4=14,ll=38,ls=0,la=1,sg=20,ha=21,br=26,pr=21,aan=24,mgf=33,vi=50,kz=11,mr=58,mn=-1,uqw=106,umr=26,ums=14,umj=34,ulq=247,uqa=16,uqq=2 http://www.tyndalearchive.com/tabs/lane/ http://lexicon.quranic-research.net/ http://arabiclexicon.hawramani.com/ The Qur’ān http://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp http://quran.muslim-web.com/ http://www.openislam.org/ Jane Dammen McAuliffe, general editor, Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān https://encore.exeter.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1655058__Sencyclopaedia%20of%20the%20qur%27an__Orightresult__U__X3?lang=eng&suite=cobalt See also Michael Cook, The Koran : a very short introduction, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000, available online at https://lib.exeter.ac.uk/search~S6?/aCook%2C+M.+A.%2C+%28Michael+Allan%2C%29+1940-/acook+m+a+michael+allan+1940/-3%2C-1%2C0%2CB/frameset&FF=acook+m+a&3%2C%2C3 Ḥadīth https://sunnah.com/ Tafsīr http://www.altafsir.com/ Illustrations in manuscripts http://www.islamicpaintedpage.com/ Ibn Khallikān https://lib.exeter.ac.uk/search~S6?/aibn+khallikan/aibn+khallikan/1%2C1%2C8%2CB/frameset&FF=aibn+khallikan+1211+1282&8%2C%2C8 https://archive.org/search.php?query=khallikan al-Ṭabarī https://archive.org/details/tabari-eng/Tabari_Volume_01
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