Saturday, November 16, 2013

A COURSE INFORMATION: WINTER 2014 - INTL 332: ISLAMIC MOVEMENTS

INTL 332: ISLAMIC MOVEMENTS
WINTER 2014
MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY
16:40-18:30

This course will review and analyze Islamic movements (IM) and parties (IP) around the world in the global age of capitalism and the contemporary Muslim world. We focus on IM and IP and their relationship with global capitalism, democracy, free speech, human rights, inequality, colonialism/imperialism, modernity, secularism and governance. Draft versions of the final papers from this class will be presented at the Islamic Movements Annual Student Conference on
Thursday March 13, 2014.

REQUIRED BOOKS:
1. Fredric Volpi. Political Islam Observed. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2010.
2. Roel Meijer. Global Salafism: Islam’s New Religious Movement. Columbia University Press, 2009.
3. Nathan J. Brown. When Victory Is Not An Option: Islamist Movements in Arab Politics. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2012.
4. Humeira Iqtidar. Secularizing Islamists? Jama'at-e-Islami and Jama'at-ud-Da'wa in Urban Pakistan. The University of Chicago Press, 2011.

ISLAMIC MOVEMENTS ANNUAL STUDENT CONFERENCE
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY
THURSDAY March 13, 2013
2 - 5 PM