Constitutional Struggles in the Muslim World

开始时间: 04/22/2022 持续时间: 12 weeks

课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/course/muslimworld

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课程简介

Learn what motivates the restive Muslim youth from Cairo 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.

课程大纲

Week 1: Introduction and General Overview

Geographic Area; Colonialism, both external and internal; Reception of Law and Administration; Wars and their Outcomes; Socio-Economic Challenges; Four Models of Adaptation.

Week 2: Classical Thinking on the Islamic State

The Enduring Ideal of the Caliphate; Dynastic Challenge of the Sultanate; Mongol Onslaught; Dogmatic Adaptation to these Changes; Islamic Reform Movements.

Week 3: Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Monarchies

Paternalistic Constitutions and Foreign Technological Expertise; Wahabism and its Offshots; Religious Innovation and Political Instrumentalisation under Conservative Guise; Ideological Export.

Week 4: Egypt and North Africa

Colonial Legacies in Law and Administration; Royalism and Republicanism; Legal Reform Movements; Reception and Transmission of Law; Political Islam.

Week 5: Consociational Dilemmas: Syria, Lebanon, Iraq

Colonial Legacies in Law and Administration; Royalism and Republicanism; Pan-Arabism; Reception of French, English and Foreign Law; Autocracy; Civil War; Imposed Constitutional Settlement.

Week 6: Turkey

From the Abolition of the Caliphate to the Laicistic State; Ottoman Legal Reform (the Majallah); Political Institutions; Bureaucratic Models; Electoral Islamism; Political Economy of EU Accession.

Week 7: Iran

Dependency and Autocracy; Japanese Models and the Constitutional Revolution; Democratic Institutions Aborted; Islamic Revolution; Cultural Revolution and Its Aftermath; Socio-Economic Stalemate.

Week 8: Pakistan and Afghanistan

Identity Politics; Western Models and the Search for Authenticity; Zia’s Islamisation and its Discontents; Anti-Soviet War and Societal Disintegration.

Week 9: Malaysia and Indonesia

Peripheral Islam; Colonial Legacies and Legal Traditions; Constitutional Arrangements and Emergencies; Economic Reform; Ethnic Divisions.

Week 10: The Post-Communist Periphery: Bosnia to Soviet and Chinese Central Asia

Secular Legacies; Religion and the Search for Identity; Disintegration of Institutional Certainties; Economic Adaptations and Societal Disintegration.

Week 11: Conclusion and Outlook

The Enduring Appeal of the Ummah; Pan-Islamic Cooperation; An Islamic International Law?; Political Islam and the Challenge of Actual Government; Authenticity and Functional Limits.

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