Asian Languages & Civilization 282 - Muslim Reformers 19/20th
Spring
2018
01
4.00
Tariq Jaffer, Monica Ringer
TTH 02:30PM-03:50PM
Amherst College
ASLC-282-01-1718S
CHAP 203
tjaffer@amherst.edu; mmringer@amherst.edu
RELI-281-01,HIST-281-01,ASLC-282-01
(Offered as REL 281 and HIST 281) A study of eminent Muslim reformers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, hailing from diverse Islamic cultures and geographical locations including South Asia, West Africa, Egypt, Arabia, Iran, Central Asia, and the Ottoman Empire. We will examine ways in which religion intersected with social and political reform projects, explore thematic conversations among these reformers that transcend time and place, and look at ways in which many of these issues continue to resonate to the present day.
Limited to 25 students. Spring semester. Professors Jaffer and Ringer.