Al Musharaka - Religion A42

A collaborative course, partially developed through the help of  NITLE

 
The Students
 
Pictures Fall 2006
Video-Charades - 9/1/3/2006
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 Student Topics
 
 Qur'an Collaboration: terms on whiteboard
 
 Midterm Study Guide: 
Student generated Questions
Sample Midterm Exam
Final Exam Study Guide: 
Student generated Questions
 Style Guides / Bibliography Guides
Furman's CCLC Writing Resources
UTEL MLA-Style Bibliography Builder 1.0b, by Dennis G. Jerz
University of Vermont: Citation Guides and Style Manuals
Harvard University Writing Center Resources
 

  
  

 
Lectures: 
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9/12
9/13
9/14
9/15
(battery dead after 11 minutes, sorry)
  in class video
9/19
9/20
9/21
9/22
9/25
9/26
9/27
9/28 (short, battery dead)
9/29
9/29
2nd part
10/02 10/03 10/04 10/05 10/06
10/09 10/10 10/11 10/12 10/13
10/16 10/17 10/18 Midterm no class
10/23 10/24 10/25 10/26 10/27
Fall Break Fall Break 11/01 11/02 11/03
11/06 11/07 11/08 11/09 11/10
11/13 11/14 11/15 11/16 11/17
11/27 11/28 11/29 11/30 12/01
12/04 12/05 12/06
Collaborating Institutions and Teachers:
 
Juniata College
Belle Tuten
Furman University
Alfons H Teipen

Furman Syllabus Agreement Form
  
  

Web Readings


 
  Secondary Readings
Primary Readings
Quran Tradition / Sira / Hadith
Website on Hajj (please browse)
Resources
on Qur'an 
and Tafsir
Seyyed Hossein Nasr: The Prophet and Prophetic Tradition -
The Last Prophet and Universal Man
  Qur'an on Jesus Excerpts from Ibn Ishaq
  Why do Muslims fast, by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Quran on human nature, creation, Iblis
Hadiths on the Jews of Medina
Ahmed von Denffer, Ulum al-Quran, Chapter 2
  Qur'an on Abraham
Hadith on Isra' and Mi'raj
Sura 12: Yusuf
The Science of Hadith
  Qur'an on Free Will / Determinism
Hadith on Change of Qiblah
Secondary
Readings
M. Ayoub, The Excellences of Imam Husayn In Sunni Hadith Tradition
 Richard Kroes: Missionary, dilettante or visionary? 
A review of Ch. Luxenberg. 
Medieval Sourcebook: Al-Baladhuri: 
The Battle Of The Yarmuk (636) and After
Nasr, Spiritual Significance of Jihad
  Medieval Sourcebook: 
Accounts of The Arab Conquest of Egypt, 642
  Abu Hanifa's Fiqh al-Akbar
  Yakut: 
Baghdad under the Abbasids, c. 1000 CE
  S.H. Nasr, The Interior Life in Islam
An Islamic Catechism, The Ajwiba
 
  Omar Khayyam: 
The Rubiayat, c. 1120 CE
 
Joseph Schacht, Law and Justice
More Resources
Styles of Veil(ing): BBC News Virtual Isfahan (animated film) Animated Map: Imperial History of the Middle East (Maps-of-War)

(Re)Search Tools:


 
Quranic Texts
 Tradition: Hadith / Sira
Other Research Resources
Search the Qur'an (USC-MSA) Search for Hadith (USC-MSA)

 

Recommended Links / Further Explorations



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
Arab Culture and Civiliazation Website / NITLE
Alan Godlas' page
(comprehensive page on Islam w. tons of  excellent links)
  Links to Ancient Qur'an Manuscripts: Brannon Wheeler at the United States Naval Academy 
  Luxenberg materials
 
Princeton Online Arabic Poetry

Overheads:

 
Life of Muhammad 1
Life of Muhammad 2
Life of Muhammad 3
Quran: Textual history
Marriages of Muhammad
Genealogical Chart of Quraysh (PDF)
Qur'an and the "People of the Book"
Quran: Context / Tehology Jesus in the Qur'an
The Qur'an: Technical Observations
Rightly Guided Caliphs, Early Conquests
Quran: Traditional verus critical perspectives Islam's "Grand - Narrative"
Ghusl and wudu'
Shiite Imams
Women in Fiqh
5/6 Pillars of Islam
Classical and modern readings on Jihad Jihad As-Sayf (according to Firestone)
Qur'an context and theology
Sharia
Sufism
Ihram 
Hajj Overhead
Madhhabs
Theology: Ah'arites vs. Mu'tazilites
Timeline - Empires to 1250