Bachelor
2021/2022
Constitutional Struggles in the Muslim World
Type:
Elective course (Asian and African Studies)
Area of studies:
Asian and African Studies
Delivered by:
School of Asian Studies
When:
3 year, 1 module
Mode of studies:
distance learning
Online hours:
24
Open to:
everyone
Instructors:
Andrey A. Kudelin
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
4
Contact hours:
4
Course Syllabus
Abstract
'Constitutional Struggles in the Muslim World' is an online course available on platform 'Coursera': https://www.coursera.org/learn/muslim-world . The main aim of the course is to learn what motivates the restive Muslim youth from Tunis to Tehran, what political positions Islamists from Mali to Chechnya are fighting for, where the seeming obsession with Islamic law comes from, where the secularists have vanished to, and whether it makes sense to speak of an Islamic state.
Learning Objectives
- Learning and understanding of the role of the main events and developments on the political fields in 20th and 21st centuries.
- Marking a large spectrum of the constitutional ideas and institutions that have developed since the mid 19th century throughout predominantly Muslim countries, but its focus will lie on the actors that have dominated this discourse and shaped its outcomes.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Calls the historical, ethnic, linguistic and geographic features of Malaysia and Indonesia and knows the problems these countries face nowadays.
- Explains importance of the Afghan conflict for world politics and the impacts of the jihadi movement on the nowadays Islamic world as well as the problems of the artificial state-building in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
- Formulates the actuality of the Western military invasion of Iraq, the disintegration of state institutions in Syria and the fragile political system of Iran.
- Gets acquainted with the impact of essentially free oil income that defines the social and governmental structure of Saudi Arabia sub-region, and the character of rentier economies and their socio-political impact.
- Operates knowledge about the key features of modern politics in the region and understands how the legacy of Turkey and the Ottoman Empire continues to influence many countries in the region today.
- Shows how the "Arab Spring" originated in North Africa and the specifications of Egypt due to its historical importance and the impact its politics have had on other Arab and Muslim countries.
Course Contents
- Introduction
- Theme 1: Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey
- Theme 2: Egypt and Maghreb
- Theme 3: Saudi Arabia & The Gulf
- Theme 4: The Levant (Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq), Iran
- Theme 5: Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh
- Theme 6: Malaysia & Indonesia
- final lesson
Interim Assessment
- 2021/2022 1st module0.17 * Test 2 + 0.17 * Test 1 + 0.165 * Test 6 + 0.165 * Test 5 + 0.165 * Test 4 + 0.165 * Test 3
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Bowen, J. R. (2004). Beyond Migration: Islam as a Transnational Public Space. Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies, 30(5), 879–894. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183042000245598
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Crews, R. (2003). Empire and the Confessional State: Islam and Religious Politics in Nineteenth-Century Russia. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.10A75039