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Introduction to why we need to study Ibn Khaldun, and mapping of what the main questions of social sciences are. Getting introduced to students and discussing their background and expectations. Sketching the content of an introductory reading.
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Reading the Invocation and Foreword of Muqaddimah.
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Why study historical sociology and how it forms our sociological imagination
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Ibn Khaldun’s Muqadimmah pp. 55-89.
-Fernand Braudel, On History, Translated by Sarah Matthews, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980, pp.26-54.
Additional Reading:
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The link between historical sociology and geography: imagining the trajectories and configurations
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Mapping Ibn Khaldun’s introductions on geography, earth, climate and culture from Muqaddimah.
-C.Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination, Oxford: OUP, 2000, pp.3-24.
-Stephen Daniels, Geographical imagination, Transactions (of the Institute of British Geographers), New Series, Vol. 36, No. 2(April 2011), pp. 182-187.
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How geography and land paly a role in society and state formation
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Schmitt, C. (2006). The Nomos of the Earth, Translated and Annotated by GL Ulmen. telos Part 5, pp. 324-329.
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Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah – Chapter 1 / First Preferatory discussion only- and Chapter 2 sections 1 to 6 and 15 to18
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How natural environment affects behavior and urbanism affect civility and virtues
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-Muqaddimah: Fifth Prefaratory Discussion
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What is Asabiyyah and how does early social formation take place
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Ch 2 in Muqaddimah - Students will prepare different parts to discuss in class
Additional
-Robin Fox, The Tribal Imagination: Civilization and the Savage Mind, Harvard University Press, 2011, pp.1-82.
-Peter Metcalf, Anthropology: the basics. Taylor & Francis,2005, (Ch 8).
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The formation of society and development of power
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Continuation in reading ch 2
Lecture points from:
Mehdi Muhsin, Ibn Khaldun’s Philosophy of History: A Study in the Philosophical Foundation of the Science of Culture, London: George Allen and Unwin, 1957, pp.133-170.Muqaddimah
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Midterm
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How tribes are a natural phenomena , and still play a role in the shadow of modernity
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-Daniel P. Biebuyck , “On the Concept of Tribe”, Civilizations, Vol. 16, No. 4 (1966), pp. 500-515 .
-Ibn Haldun Muqadimah- Ch 3 sections 1-6
-D’Andrea, A. (2006). Neo-Nomadism: A Theory of Post-Identitarian Mobility in the Global Age. Mobilities, 1(1), 95–119. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450100500489148
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Umran and the role of Religion
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Kayapinar, M. (2019 ).Ibn Khaldun’s Notion of ‘Umran: An Alternative to Analysis for Contemporary Politics? Philosophy East & West.Volume 69, Number3 July. 698–720
-Dillon, Michele (ed.) 2003. Handbook of the Sociology of Religion, Cambridge University Press, ch 1
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How war is based on Assabiyah but also creates new ones-
War as Statescraft
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Muqaddimah ,
Mufti , Malik, 2009,“JIHAD AS STATECRAFT: IBN KHALDUN ON THE CONDUCT OF WAR AND EMPIRE”, History of Political Thought , Autumn 2009, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Autumn ), pp. 385-410
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Modern Wars as Asabiyya
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Maleševic, Siniša . 2017.The Rise of Organised Brutality, Cambridge University Press, pp142-173
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Czi3iiFKnk
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Cities old and new
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Somaiyeh Falahat, "Nizams: The hidden syntax under the surface. Urban morphology in traditional Islamic cities", https://www.archnet.org/publications/6509
Abou Lughd, Janet,1987. "The Islamic City--Historic Myth, Islamic Essence, and Contemporary Relevance", International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 19, No. 2 (May, 1987), pp. 155-176
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Students' Term Essay Presentations
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Term Essays
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