COMPARATIVE ISLAMISM

PSIR615

Course Code: PSIR615
Semester: -
Theory+Practice: 3 + 0
ECTS: 10

Course Type

Elective Course

Course Level

Doctorate Of Science

Year of Study

Semester

ECTS

Name of Lecturer(s)

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

Learn the convergences and divergences of Islamisms as far as their social bases and political agendas are concerned,
Learn the specific historical, social and regional context of the difference of the Is-lamist movements,
Learn the relations between state, Islam and secularism and their impact on Islam-isms
Develop an understanding about the historicity of the concepts like the West, Westernization, secu-larism and Islam.

Mode of Delivery

Face to face

Prerequisites

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Course Description

This course rests on the postulate that Islamism is a social movement originating from the historical, societal and political contexts of Muslims rather than from the Islam itself as claimed in some Orientalist approaches. The course analyses the Islamism of Egypt, Malaysia, Indonesia and Turkey in a comparative perspective. This analysis scrutinises, whether or not there are foundational ideologies shaping Islamisms; if there are what are their successes and failures and influences on Islamisms; the conditions under which Islamist politics develops; the actors of Islamist politics and their interaction with the national and international contexts, by adopting democratization and moderation theories.

Course Contents

WEEK	TOPICS
1^st Week	Introduction
2^nd Week	The Birth of Islamism and its principles
3^rd Week	Approaches to Islamism
4^th Week	Approaches to Islamism
5^th Week	The Problem of Orientalism/cultural essentialism
6^th Week	The role of Islam in the postcolonial constitutions of the nations
7^th Week	The place of Islam in the postcolonial constitutions of the nations
8^th Week	The founding ideologies, state capacities and secularisms
9^th Week	Social and political development of modern Islamist movements
10^th Week	Integration of Islam into political process and the nature of its interaction
11^th Week	Integration of Islam into political process and the nature of its interaction
12^th Week	Integration of Islam into political process and the nature of its interaction
13^th Week	Generational Differences in Islamism
14^th Week	Turkish Exceptionalism

Recommended or Required Reading

Abdul Rahman Embong, State-led Modernization and the New Middle Class in Malaysia, (Palgrave: New York, 2002).
Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid, Islamist Realignments and Rebranding of the Muslim Youth Movement of Malaysia, Contemporary Southeast Asia, 30, 2 (2008): 215-240.
Alexander Flores, Secularism, Integralism and Political Islam: The Egyptian Debate, in Political Islam: Essays from Middle East Report (London: I.B Tauris, 1997).
Anthony Shadid, Legacy of the Prophet: Despots, Democrats, and the New Politics of Islam (Boulder, CO: Westview, 2002).
Antony Bubalo et al. Zealus Democrats: Islamism and Democracy in Egypt, Indonesia and Turkey, Lowy Institute for International Policy, New South Wales, Australia, 2008.
Asef Bayat, Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 2007.
Augustus Richard Norton, Thwarted Politics: The Case of Egypt's Hizb al-Wasat, in Remaking Muslim Politics: Pluralism, Contestation, Democratization, Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2005.
Ben Thurkell-White, Political Islam and Malaysian Democracy, Democratization, 13, 3 (2006): 421-441.
Bjorn Olav Utvik, Islamist Economics in Egypt, Lynne Reinner Publishers, Boulder and London, 2006.
Bridget Welsh, Real Change Elections in the reformasi Era, in The State of Malaysia: Ethnicity, Equity and Reform, ed. Edmund Terence Gomez, RoutledgeCurzon, London and New York, 2004.
Bruce K. Rutherford, Egypt after Mubarak: Liberalism, Islam, and Democracy in the Arab World, Princeton University
Burhanettin Duran, The Justice and Development Party's `New Politics: Steering Toward Conservative Democracy, a Revised Islamic Agenda or Management of New Crises, in Secular and Islamic Politics in Turkey: The Making of the Justice and Development Party, ed. Umit Cizre (London, Routledge, 2008).
Carrie Rosefsky Wickham, The Path to Moderation: Strategy and Learning in the Formation of Egypt's Wasat Party, Comparative Politics, 36, 2 (January, 2004): 205-228.
Carrie Rosefsky Wickham, Mobilizing Islam: Religion, Activism, and Social Change in Egypt (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002).
Christina Phelps Harris, Nationalism and Revolution in Egypt: The Role of the Muslim Brotherhood, (Mouton & Co, The Hague: London and Paris, 1964).
Cihan Tugal, The Appeal of Islamic Politics: Ritual and Dialogue in a Poor District of Turkey, The Sociological Quarterly, 47 (2006): 245-273.
Cihan Tuğal, Passive Revolution: Absorbing the Islamic Challange to Capitalism, (Standford University Press: Stanford, California, 2009).
Daniel Blumberg, Rhetoric and Strategy: Islamic Movements and Democracy in the Middle East, in Martin Kramer, ed., The Islamism Debate (Tel Aviv University: Moshe Dayan Center, 1997).
Diane K. Mauzy, From Malay Nationalism to a Malaysian Nation, After Independence: Making and Protecting the Nation in Postcolonial and PostCommunist States, ed. Lowell W. Barrington, (The Univeristy of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor, 2006): 45-70.
Diane Singerman, Rewriting Divorce in Egypt: Reclaiming Islam, Legal Activism and Coalition Politics, in Remaking Muslim Politics: Pluralism, Contestation, Democratization, Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2005.
Edmund Terence Gomez, Introduction: Politics, Business and Ethnicity in Malaysia: A State in Transition, in The State of Malaysia: Ethnicity, Equity and Reform, RoutledgeCurzon, London and New York, 2004.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Discussion
Presentation

Assessment Methods and Criteria

	Quantity	Percentage (%)
Assignment	3	40
Project	1	60
Total(%)		100
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)		100
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)		0
Total(%)		100

ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload

Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work	14	7	98
Preparation for Final exam
Course hours	14	3	42
Preparation for Midterm exam
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam
Homework	3	32	96
Project	1	69	69
Total Work Load			305
Total Work Load / 30 (h)			10.16
ECTS Credit of the Course			10

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Programme Qualifications / Learning Outcomes

	LO1	LO2	LO3	LO4
K1
K2
K3
K4
K5	X		X
K6	X	X	X
K7
K8		X
K9	X	X	X	X
K10				X
K11	X	X	X	X
K12