Religion 382 - Islamic Intellec Trad

Fall
2016
01
4.00
Tariq Jaffer
TH 02:30PM-05:00PM
Amherst College
RELI-382-01-1617F
MORG 110
tjaffer@amherst.edu
RELI-382-01,ASLC-382-01

(Offered as RELI 382 and ASLC 382 [WA].) This course introduces students to the intellectual tradition of Islam. It focuses on the pre-modern period. We will explore works of theology, philosophy, and political theory that were composed by Muslim intellectuals of various stripes. We will use primary sources in English translation to examine the ideas that Muslim intellectuals formulated and the movements that they engendered. In our discussions we will investigate questions concerning the rise of sectarianism, language and revelation, prophecy, heresy and apostasy, God and creation, causality and miracles, the role of logic and human reasoning with respect to the canonical sources (Quran and Hadith), and conceptions of the Islamic state.


Falll semester. Professor Jaffer.

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.