- Docente: Marco Demichelis
- Credits: 10
- SSD: L-OR/10
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
First cycle degree programme (L) in
International Development and Cooperation (cod. 8890)
Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Languages, Markets and Cultures of Asia and Mediterranean Africa (cod. 9264)
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from Sep 27, 2022 to Dec 20, 2022
Course contents
First semester
Two lessons at week, the first of 2 and the second of 4 hourly units. Frontal lesson, prezi.com slides and video-documents.
First part. Historical excursus concerning the development of Islamic religious thought from its origins, the Umayyad, Abbassid phase up to the 14th century. Abrahamic roots, the Koran and the Tradition (Sunna), Islamic "Humanism", the affirmation of religious Orthodoxy, the legal schools, the fragmentation of the caliphate, the thought in al-Andalus, the Shiite Fatimite, al-Ghazali (d . 1111), Ibn Rushd (d. 1198), Ibn Taymiyya (d. 1328), Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406). Concept of decay?
Second part. The gunpowder empires and thought in the Mughal, Safavid and Ottoman empires. The Islamic Nahda, reformism and Tanzimat. The impact of the First World War and the era of Nationalism. Self-determination and Islamic revanchism. Orientalism-Westernism and the clash of civilizations, Islamic thought and the reaction to the West.
Readings/Bibliography
See the Italian version
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons, slide prezi.com, videos and docu-film.
Assessment methods
Oral exam (in Italian) on the topics of the course. Mastery achievement of the student with respect to the subject covered during the course will be assessed.
The student will be invited to compare himself with the exam bibliography and the contents of the lessons
We will then evaluate:
- The mastery of the contents and the ability to place any event or object of historical investigation in time and space.
-The ability to synthesize and analyze the contents.
-The ability to be able to express oneself adequately and in the specific language of the subject matter.
1. An in-depth mastery of the topics addressed in class, an excellent expository ability and the control of the specific language of the subject together with an excellent capacity for reasoning and argumentation of the topics covered. (28-30L).
2. A mnemonic knowledge of the subject, ability to synthesize and analyze articulated in a correct but not always appropriate language, poor analytical and reasoning skills. (25-27).
3. Training gaps and / or inappropriate language - albeit in a context of minimal knowledge of the exam material. (18-24).
4. Training gaps, inappropriate language, lack of orientation within the bibliographic material. (exam failed)
Teaching tools
Bibliography, slides and pdf articles.
Office hours
See the website of Marco Demichelis