Course Details Language of Instruction English Level of Course Unit Bachelor's Degree Department / Program BA Program in Sociology Type of Program Formal Education Type of Course Unit Elective Course Delivery Method Face To Face Objectives of the Course Students taken this course are expected to 1. Define epistemological, sociological and anthropological discussions on the subject of anthropology of Islam. 2. Explain major theoretical discussions on the difference between the concepts of ‘anthropology of Islam’ and ‘Islamic anthropology or sociology’. 3. Answer how anthropologist approach Islam and Muslims as their subjects and interlocutors. 4. Learn about major earlier ethnographic works in the literature on Muslim societies. 5. Analyze discussions on studying Islam and Muslims both theoretically and methodologically. 6. Criticize theoretical and methodological problems emerging in the ethnographies on Islam and Muslim societies. Course Content This course aims to provide new perspectives and tools for understanding of Islam and diverse forms and meanings of religious practices of Muslim societies through some selected sociological and anthropological studies on Muslim societies. The course starts with an epistemological discussion on the concepts of “knowledge production” and “Islamization of knowledge”. One of the objectives of this course is also to develop a deeper and anthropological understanding of Islam in the light of theoretical discussions around ideas of “Anthropology of Islam” and “Islamic Anthropology”. Then, it continues with critical discussions on the phenomena of colonialism and orientalism in history of anthropological thought that played a great role in misrepresentation of Islam and Muslims. The course investigates how Islam and Muslims became the subject of sociological/anthropological studies for the Western scholarship during development of discipline of anthropology in the 1960s. In the last part, the course focus on how the Muslim scholars conducted research “at home” in recent decades. This course aims to help students in their labor of developing a critical, sociological and anthropological understanding of how to study Islam and Muslim communities and their diverse practices, thoughts, discourses and movements in different parts of the world. Course Methods and Techniques Prerequisites and co-requisities None Course Coordinator None Name of Lecturers None Assistants None Work Placement(s) No Recommended or Required Reading Resources Ahmed, A. S. (1986). Toward Islamic Anthropology: Definitions, Dogma and Directions. Islamization of Knowledge Series No: 2, The International Institute of Islamic Thought. Virginia, USA. Al-Faruqi, I. R. (1982). Islamization of Knowledge: General Principles and Work Plan. Washington DC: International Institute of Islamic Thought. Abdul Khabeer, Su’ad. “Citizens and Suspects: Race, Gender and The Making of American Muslim Citizenship,” Transforming Anthropology, Vol. 25, Number 2, pp. 103-119. Abu-Lughod, L. (1986). Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society. California: University of California Press. Asad, T. (1986). “The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam”. Occasional Papers Series, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University. Asad, T. (1970). The Kababish Arabs: Power, Authority and Consent in a Nomadic Tribe. New York: Praeger Publishers. Ba-Yunus, I. and Ahmad, F. (1985). Islamic Sociology: An Introduction. Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. Davies, M. W. (1988). Knowing one another: Shaping an Islamic Anthropology. Islamic Futures and Policy Studies. Cassell, pp.1-81. El-Zein, A. (1977). Beyond Ideology and Theology: The Search for the Anthropology of Islam. Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 6, pp.227-254. Frankl, P. J. L. 1996. “The Observance of Ramadan in Swahili-Land,” Journal of Religion in Africa, vol. 26 no. 4: 416-434. Henkel, Heiko. 2012. “‘Between belief and unbelief lies the performance of salat’: Meaning and efficacy of a Muslim Ritual”, in The Anthropology of Islam Reader. Edited by J. Kreinath. New York: Routledge, pp. 142-158. Kreinath, J. (2012). The Anthropology of Islam Reader. Edited by J. Kreinath. New York: Routledge. Mahmood, Saba and Jean-Michel Landry. 2017. “Anthropology of Islam”, Oxford Bibliographies. 1-16. Mahmood, S. (2005). Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject. Princeton University Press. Marranci, G. (2008). The Anthropology of Islam. New York: Berg Publications. Momin, A. R. (1989). Islamization of Anthropological Knowledge. The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Vol.6, No. 1, s. 143-153. Attendance, academic integrity, including collaboration and plagiarism Attendance is mandatory in this course. Although students have a right of 20 % of absentee (3 weeks out of 14 weeks), they should use that right for the case of certain urgencies (illness, accident, etc.). Students who exceed that 20 percentage of absence will automatically FAIL in this class. Academic integrity is crucial. Students are just allowed to collaborate in writing their papers (concerning developing English writing skills) with the help of writing center or other experts. Students have to write their research paper in their own words. The ideas or passages taken from another source must be acknowledged by using quotation marks where appropriate and by proper referencing such as footnotes or citations. Students should take responsibility of outcomes of such act and s/he must know that plagiarism is a major academic offence. Students who are plagiarizing will get 0 mark and Fail in this course. Late-Make-up Policy: Students are expected to submit their assignments in time by following due dates. There is not a guarantee of extensions for deadlines and due dates. There will be make-up for not conducted lectures due to absence of lecturer (conferences, meetings, health problems etc.) and students are expected to attend this classes that are going to be determined (day-hour) with consultancy of students in class. Course Category Social Sciences %100

 





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