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Seminar 1. Religion and politics in early Islamic society.

Aims at investigation of interconnections between traditional and political Islam from the beginning of Islamic state during Muhammed.

Essays presentation

* Life of Muhammed, his participation in battles, his role as a military chief and

the Arabs unifier.

* The Medinian state and Islamic political ideals.

* Arabic caliphate during Mohammed’s successors

Discussion: Is religious Islam militant from the very beginning?

Reading List

Mandatory

Adeeb Khalid. Islam after Communism. Religion and Politics in Central Asia. University of California Press, 2007, p. 26-33.

Esposito, Jonh. L. The Islamic Threat. Oxford Univ. Press, 1992, p. 29-37

Haris Aziz. Anti-Semitism amongst Muslims. In: Islamic Political Radicalism. A European Perspective. Ed. by Tahir Abbas. Edinburgh University Press, 2007, p. 71-74.

Lewis, Bernard. The Crisis of Islam. A Phoenix Paperback, 2003, p. 7-11.

W. Montgomery Watt. Islamic Fundamentalism and Modernity. Routledge, 1988, p. 88-90

Recommended

Олбрайт Мадлен. Религия и мировая политика (Religion and World Politics), М, 2007, с.139-142.

Seminar 2. Spread of political Islam in the contemporary world.

Aim: to find out reasons of political Islam spreading.

Discussion

• Positive features of Islam for its followers.
• Causes of Islamic states formation in the second half of the XX c
• Impact of globalization on Muslim societies.
• Islamic Fundamentalism in the context of globalization

Reading List

Mandatory

Askar Nursha, Yermek Chukubaev. Islam and Geopolitics, as they drive Central Asia’s Development. In: Central Asia Affairs, 1(13), 2006, p. 23-24

Adeeb Khalid. Islam after Communism. Religion and Politics in Central Asia. University of California Press, 2007, p.16-18.

Graham E. Fuller. The Future of Political Islam. N.Y./Houndmills:Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, p. 41-46

Recommended

Олбрайт Мадлен. Религия и мировая политика (Religion and World Politics), М., 2007, с.26-27, 144-145.

Seminar 3. Militant Islam, terror and state security.

Aims at discussing links between ideological and religious sources of terrorism, interconnections between Islam and terrorism.

Terrorism has been known since the ancient times butnowadays everyone speaks about Islamic terrorism. The roots of this statement are in the norms of Sharia.

Ground for a violent radical movement.

Discussion:

• Why are some Islamic movements militant?
• When and where did the Islamic militant movements emerge?
• What world regions the Islamic militant groups are most active in? Why in these particular regions?
• Is militant Islam real threat to the world security?