ISLAMIZATION AND ARABIZATION: FORMATION OF THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST

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1 Syllabus ISLAMIZATION AND ARABIZATION: FORMATION OF THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST Last update HU Credits: 2 Degree/Cycle: 1st degree (Bachelor) Responsible Department: islamic & middle east stud. Academic year: 0 Semester: 1st Semester Teaching Languages: Hebrew Campus: Mt. Scopus Course/Module Coordinator: Prof. Reuven Amitai Coordinator reuven.amitai@mail.huji.ac.il Coordinator Office Hours: Tuesday, 15:30-16:30 Teaching Staff: Prof Reuven Amitai page 1 / 5

2 Course/Module description: The two important trends in the formation of the Islamic Middle East are Arabization and Islamization. In this course, we will survey and analysis both developments, that are connected but not identical, while looking at theoretical literature on religious and linguistic change. Islamization beyond the Middle East will be examined, as well as in modern times (such as in Europe) Course/Module aims: To teach about two central matters in the history of the Middle East and Islam, with implications until today. A better understanding of the processes of religious and linguistic change, particularly in the Islamic Middle East. Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to: The students will learn in depth about two central matters in the regions history, with relevance to world history. They will gain further skills in critical reading of original sources and modern scholarship, and the historical method as applied in Middle Eastern Studies and the study of religious change. Attendance requirements(%): 80% (i.e., 11 lessons out of 14) Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: The lessons will be a mixture of lectures by the teachers, discussions of studies read by the students, presentations by students and reading of sources (in translation and in original language if possible). Course/Module Content: 1. Organization; Basic concepts and other general considerations 2. Some theoretical approaches 3. Muhammad and the first conquests 4. Arabization 5. Islamization under the early Muslim state 6. Egypt 7. Central Asia I: The Turks 8. Central Asia II: The Mongols 9. Before the Crusades: the beginning of Islamization in Syria 10. After the Crusades: the further Islamization of Syria and and further matters 11. Anatolia and the Balkans 12. South and Southeast Asia page 2 / 5

3 13. The Modern Period: still expanding Islam 14. Field trip Required Reading: 1. Organization; Basic concepts and other general considerations Lewis R. Rambo, Conversion, in M. Eliade (ed.), Encyclopedia of Religion (New York, 1987), 4: Some theoretical approaches Arthur Darby Nock, Conversion: The Old and the New in Religion from Alexander the Great to Augustine of Hippo (rpt., Oxford, 1965, of Oxford, 1933), [BL 85 N ] 3. Muhammad and the first conquests נחמיה לבציון, "הגירה והתיישבות של נומדים וכובשים מוסלמים כגורם בתהליך ההתאסלמות", בתוך אביגדור שנאן (עורך), הגירה והתיישבות בישראל ובעולם (ירושלים, תשמ"ב), עמ' [DS H34] Yohanan Friedmann, Conditions of Conversion in Early Islam, in Adriana Destro and Mauro Peace (eds.), Rituals and Ethics: Patterns of Repentance, Judaism, Christianity, Islam. Second International Conference of Mediterraneum (Paris and Louvain, 2004), [E-Reserve: ]. 4. Arabization Milka Rubin, Arabization versus Islamization in the Palestinian Melkite Community during the Early Muslim Period, in A. Kofsky and G. Stroumsa, Sharing the Sacred: Religious Contacts and Conflicts in the Holy Land, First-Fifteenth Centuries C.E. (Jerusalem, 1998), [DS 123 S53 K6] 5. Islamization under the early Muslim state Richard W. Bulliet, Conversion to Islam and the Emergence of a Muslim Society in Iran, in N. Levtzion, Conversion to Islam (New York and London, 1979), [BP 52 C66] 6. Egypt Ira M. Lapidus, The Conversion of Egypt to Islam, Israel Oriental Studies, 2 (1972), Yohanan Friedmann, A Note on the Conversion of Egypt to Islam, Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, 3 ( ), Central Asia I: The Turks page 3 / 5

4 Khazanov, Anatoly. The Spread of World Religions in Medieval Nomadic Societies of the European Steppes. Toronto Studies in Central and Inner Asia, 1 (1994), [DS 327 T67 S ] Peter B. Golden, An Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples: Ethnogenesis and State-Formation in Medieval and Early Modern Eurasia and the Middle East (Wiesbaden, 1992), [DS 26 G63] 8. Central Asia II: The Mongols Charles Melville, Pdshh-i Islm: The Conversion of Sultan Mahmkd Ghzn Khn, Pembroke Papers, 1 (1990), [DS H ] David Morgan, The Mongols (Oxford, 1986), 40-44, [DS 19 M67] 9. Before the Crusades I: The process of Islamization of Syria Milka Rubin, New Evidence Relating to the Process of Islamization in Palestine in the Early Muslim Period-The Case of Samaria. Journal of the Economic and Society History, 23/3 (2000), Ronnie Ellenblum, Settlement and Society Formation in Crusader Palestine, in Thomas Evan Levy (ed.), The Archaeology of Society in the Holy Land (Leicester, 1995), [DS 112 A ] 10. After the Crusades II: the final Islamization of Syria and further matters Nimrod Luz, Aspects of Islamization of Space and Society in Mamluk Jerusalem and its Hinterland, Mamluk Studies Review, 6 (2002), מומלץ: Frenkel, Yehoshua. Baybars and the Sacred Geography of Bilad al-sham: A Chapter in the Islamization of Syria's Landscape. Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam. 25 (2001), Anatolia and the Balkans Spiro Vryonis, Religious Change and Continuity in the Balkans and Anatolia from the 14th through the 16th Century, in S. Vryonis (ed.), Islam and Cultural Change in the Middle Ages (Wiesbaden, 1975), [DS V8 1973] 12. South and Southeast Asia Merle Calvin Ricklefs, Islamization in Java: An Overview and Some Philosophical Considerations, in Rafael Israeli and Anthony H. Johns(eds.), Islam in Asia, vol. 2 (Jerusalem, 1984), The Modern Period: still expanding Islam John R. Bowen, Muslims in the West, in Robert W. Hefner (ed.), The New Cambridge History of Islam, vol. 6 (Cambridge, 2010), Field trip page 4 / 5

5 Powered by TCPDF ( Additional Reading Material: Anawati,Georges. Factors and Effects of Arabization and Islamization in Medieval Egypt and Syria. In Speros Vryonis, ed. Islam and Cultural Change in the Middle Ages. Wiesbaden, Arnold, Thomas. The Preaching of Islam. 2nd edn. London, [BP 50 A7] Biran, Michal. The Chaghadaids and Islam: The Conversion of Tarmashirin Khan ( ), Journal of the American Oriental Society, 122/4 (2002), Brett, Michael. The Islamisation of Egypt and North Africa. The First Annual Levtzion Lecture. Jerusalem, [DT B45 B ] Cahen, Claude. Socio-Economic History and Islamic Studies: Problems of Bias in the Adaption of the Indigenous Population to Islam. In Robert Hoyland, ed. Muslims and Others in Early Islamic Society. Aldershot, [BP 171 M ] Chejne,Anwar. Islamization and Arabization in al-andalus: A General View. In Speros Vryinos, ed. Islam and Cultural Changes in the Middle Ages. Wiesbaden, Dennett, Daniel C. Conversion and the Poll-Tax in Early Islam. Cambridge, MA, [HJ233 D45] DeWeese, Devin. Islamization in the Mongol Empire." In Nicola Di Cosmo, Allen Frank and Peter B. Golden, eds. The Cambridge History of Inner Asia: The Chinggisid Age. Cambridge, Gervers, Michael and Ramzi Jibran Bikhazi, eds. Conversiton and Continuity: Indigenous Christian Communities in Islamic Lands, Eighth to Eighteenth Centuries. Papers in Mediaeval Studies, 9. Toronto, Hoyland, Robert, ed. Muslims and Others in Early Islamic Society. Aldershot, [BP 171 M ] Leiser, Gary. The Madrasa and Islamization of the Middle East: The Case of Egypt. Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt. 22 (1985), el-leithy, Tamer. Sufis, Copts and the Politics of Piety: Moral Regulation in Fourteenth-Century Upper Egypt. In Richard J.A. McGregor and Adam Sabra. eds. Le dיveloppement du soufisme en page 5 / 5