This subject aims to identify major approaches to Islamic history, law and society. It particularly compares and contrasts the classic Muslim scholarly approach to Islamic history and the orientalist approaches in the light of modern historical methods and enquiry. Modern history of Islam and Muslim societies are a key focus with investigation into contemporary Islamic revivalism and its engagement of social, political and religious issues within themes of modernity. Further, the subject examines major trends in contemporary Islamic world, situating them in the context of the history, modernity, democracy and secularism. It reviews major schools of thought in the classical period but devotes particular attention to the evolution of Islamic thought since the modernizing movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the Islamic world. The impact of socialism, feminism, secularism and concern with human rights on a range of contemporary Islamic thinkers will be studied, both within a range of traditionally Islamic countries and among Muslim minorities within the West. The subject explores the changing role of the ulama (scholarly community) and the questions of its response to modernity. There is an enquiry into evolving ways of considering Islamic jurisprudence focussing on the principles and higher objectives underpinning Islamic law and debates about its interaction with other contemporary systems of law.
No offerings have been identified for this subject in 2018.
HD/FL
One session
Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation
Bachelor of Islamic Studies (Honours)
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The information contained in the 2018 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: August 2018. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.