RELI30663

This course provides an overview of the major trends, developments, and issues in modern Islamic thought and the global Muslim world. This course begins in the nineteenth century with the transformations caused by the rise of European power, European colonialism, modern science and technology, the printing press, mass education, and the nation state. Muslims around the world responded to these transformations through several strategies including modernism, fundamentalism, secularism, and neo-traditionalism. We will examine these and other trends, as well as Muslim perspectives on a range of pressing contemporary global issues such as politics, violence, gender, economics, science, technology, and the environment. The course concludes with a look at possible futures of the global Muslim world.

Undergraduate

OPT - Student Option

CORE - GA (Global Awareness), CORE - HUM (Humanities), MES - MES (Middle East Studies)