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May 02, 2024
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HUMN 7312 - Islam in State and Society
Credits: 3
The emergence of “political Islam” as a movement to reform dominantly Muslim societies and to transform those societies’ relationships to non-Muslim nations has had a growing impact on American impressions of Islam and on U.S. foreign policy toward Muslim countries. Topics include the emergence of contemporary Islamic movements as they relate to the evolution of Muslim states and societies, the historical rise of Islamic states and societies, the classical Islamic legal reasoning that justifies and shapes those states and societies, and the emergence of contemporary Muslim discussions about the relationship of Islam to state and society in the modern context. Students explore issues that surround Muslim minorities in non-Muslim states and societies as well as the rights of non-Muslims in dominantly Muslim states and societies. Important to this exploration is an understanding of human rights, gender, democracy, and economic structures in contemporary Islamic thought. May be applied to the following curricular field concentrations: humanities; global studies (non-Western); gender studies; human rights and social justice.
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