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B005612 - HISTORY OF ISLAMIC COUNTRIES
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Suggested readings
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Prerequisites
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Academic Year 2020-21
Course year
First year - First Semester
Belonging Department
Education, Languages, Intercultures, Literatures and Psychology (FORLILPSI)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
L-OR/10 - HISTORY OF ISLAMIC COUNTRIES
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
36
Teaching Term
14/09/2020 ⇒ 04/12/2020
Attendance required
Yes
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Lectureship
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
The course aims to reconstruct the main events of the history of the Middle East focusing on the modern nation-buildings of the area with regard to Turkey, Iran and arabic speaking regions.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
-Cleveland, William L., and Martin Bunton. 2018. A History of the Modern Middle East. Boulder: Routledge.
- Carole Hillenbrand. 2015 Islam: A New Historical Introduction. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd.
- Carole Hillenbrand. 2015 Islam: A New Historical Introduction. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd.
Learning Objectives
The aim of the course is to provide students with key concepts related the religious, political and cultural developments in the Middle East, with particular regard to modernization processes in ottoman and iranic context, and modern nation-buildings.
Prerequisites
None
Teaching Methods
Lectures, seminars, slides
Further information
Frequency to the lectures is strongly reccomended. Students who cannot attend the lectures must arrange a program with the teacher.
Type of Assessment
Oral examination. Students can write a short essay on a topic choosen with the teacher
Course program
- Muhammad and the rise of Islam.
-The 'ortodox' caliphs
- Key concepts of Islamic religion
-The European penetration: Near East and Iran in the XIX century.
-Middle East Area before the First World War
-The fall of the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of modern Tureky.
-Autoritarian modernizaton in Turkey and Iran
-Egypt, Siria, Lebanon and Palestine in the interwar period.
-The Second World War in the Near East
-The decolonization of Near East.
-Thirld World Nationalism and its opponents.
-The islamic revolution in Iran
-The Gulf War(s)