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Spring 2019 | RELS 8190 Section 001: Comparative Seminar in Religions in Antiquity -- The Emergence of Islam (66815)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Meets With:
CNES 8530 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 325
- Enrollment Status:
Open (1 of 5 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics vary, see Class Schedule. Major cultural movement as it developed over several centuries. Draws on evidence in literature, archival records, inscriptions, documentary papyri, and archaeological remains. Artistic media such as wall painting, architectural ornament, funerary sculpture, or manuscript illumination. prereq: Grad student in relevant field
- Class Description:
The emergence of Islam in the seventh century C.E. was one of the most momentous turning points in human history. However, every aspect of this crucial historical process remains vigorously contested in modern scholarship. Was Islam originally an ecumenical monotheistic movement open to Jews and Christians, or did Islam's earliest adherents consider it a new and exclusive religion separate from Judaism and Christianity? Was the Prophet Muhammad a local preacher of righteousness or the conscious creator of a religion with global ambitions? Is the Qur'anic text a record of Muhammad's own preaching or the result of a collective effort that continued after Muhammad (and perhaps had begun before him)? Did early Muslims believe in the imminent end of the world or not? Did Arabian tribes have a shared sense of belonging to a unified "Arab"
ethnos before Islam, or did this sense of identity grow after disparate Arabian peoples conquered the Near East together?
This course provides a forum for in-depth discussion of these fundamental historiographic questions. In the process, we will delve into some of the earliest literary and documentary witnesses to early Islamic history and read from seminal works of scholarship in the past century.- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone interested in the religious landscape of Late Antiquity, early Islamic history, or the pre-modern world in general.
- Grading:
- Participation (30%) and research paper (70%)
- Class Format:
Seminar
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66815/1193
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 3 October 2018
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