Schedule of Classes

SCHEDULE OF CLASSES
	Th 8/18		Introduction and planning
MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC STUDIES
		F 8/26		- Thomas Aquinas, selection from Summa Contra Gentiles. - James Kritzeck, Peter the Venerable and Islam.
		F 9/2		al-Shahrastani, al-Milal wa-l-Nihal, trans. Kazi and Flynn.
ORIENTALIST SCHOLARSHIP
		F 9/9		Ignaz Goldziher, Muslim Studies, vol. 2, 1-251.
		F 9/16		Theodor Noldeke, Geschichte des Qorans, 1-74.
		F 9/23		Louis Massignon, Hallaj: Mystic and Martyr.
		F 9/30		Marshall Hodgson, The Venture of Islam.
CONTEMPORARY DIRECTIONS
		F 10/7		Edward Said, Orientalism.
		F 10/14		Clifford Geertz, Islam Observed.
		F 10/21		Wifred Cantwell Smith, The Meaning and End of Religion.
		F 10/30		Brannon Wheeler, Comparative Islamic Studies.
		F 11/4		Omid Safi, Progressive Muslims.
		F 11/11		- Samuel Huntington, "The Clash of Civilizations?" - John Esposito, The Islamic Threat.
	(F 11/18 NO CLASS due to American Academy of Religion meeting.)
	THANKSGIVING BREAK 11/23-11/27
	F 12/2		Individual "statement of approach" due.