教學大綱 Syllabus

週次

Week

課程主題

Topic

課程內容與指定閱讀

Content and Reading Assignment

教學活動與作業

Teaching Activities and Homework

學習投入時間

Student workload expectation

課堂講授

In-class Hours

課程前後

Outside-of-class Hours

1

Introduction

Introduction to the course

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Religion (1):

sectarian issue

1. Frederic Wehrey, Beyond Sunni and Shia: The roots of sectarianism in a changing Middle East, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017 (Ch. 1).
2. Toby Matthiesen, The Other Saudis: Shiism, Dissent and Sectarianism, New York: Cambridge University Press (Intro.).

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Religion (2):

Islamic law and finance

1. Wael B. Hallaq, An Introduction to Islamic Law, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009 (Intro-Ch.2).
2. Ibrahim Warde, Islamic Financa in the Global Economy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000 (Intro. & Ch. 1).

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Society (2): kinship

1. Suad Joseph, “Brother/Sister Relationships: Connectivity, Love, and Power in the Reproduction of Patriarchy in Lebanon,” American Ethnologist (1994) 21:1.
2. Jillian Schwedler (ed.), Understanding the contemporary Middle East, Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2008 (Ch.10)

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5

Culture (1):

Islamic culture

1. Nur Kirabaev and Yuriy Pochta (ed.), Values in Islamic Culture and the Experience of History: Russian Philosophical Studies, I, Washington: The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2002 (Ch.1).
2. Daniel G. Bates and Amal Rassam, Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East, New Jersy:Prentice-Hall, 1983 (Ch.3).

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Culture (2):

popular culture

1. Andrew Hammond, Pop Culture Arab World! Media, Arts, and Lifestyle, Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2005 (Ch.1).
2. Walid El-Hamamsy and Mounira Soliman (eds.), Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa: A postolonial outlook, New York & London: Routledge, 2013 (Intro. & Ch12).

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Economy (1): pre-oil Middle East

1. Hossein Askari, Collaborative Colonialism: The Political Economy of Oil in the Persian Gulf, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 (Ch.1).
2. Charles Issawi, An economic history of the Middle East and North Africa, New York: Columbia University Press, 1982 (Ch.1).

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8

Midterm

9

Economy (2): discovery of oil

1. Michael L. Ross, The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations, Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2012 (Ch.1).
2. Simone Tagliapietra, The political economy of Middle East and North Africa oil exporters in times of global decarbonisation, Working paper, Bruegel, 2017.
3. Tyler Priest, “The Dilemmas of Oil Empire,” Journal of American History, 2012, 99:1.
4. Jillian Schwedler (ed.), Understanding the contemporary Middle East, Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2008 (Ch.8).

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10

Politics (1): state formation

1. Iliya Harik, “The origins of the Arab state system,” The International Spectator: Italian Journal of International Affairs, 1985, 20:2.
2. Kenneth Christie and Mohammad Masad (eds.) State Formation and Identity in the Middle East and North Africa, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 (Ch. 1).
3. Roger Owen, State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, London & New York:Routledge, 2004 (Ch.1).

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Politics (2): state system

1. Lisa Anderson, Absolutism and the Resilience of Monarchy in the Middle East, Political Science Quarterly, 1991, 106:1.
2. Mehran Kamrava, The Modern Middle East, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2011 (Ch. 9).
3. Claudia Derichs and Thomas Demmelhuber, “Monarchies and Republics, State and Regime, Durability and Fragility in View of the Arab Spring,” Journal of Arabian Studies, 2014, 4:2.

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Politics (3): regional and international relations

1. Raymond Hinnebusch and Anoushiravan Ehteshami (eds.), The Foreign Policies of Middle East States, Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2002 (Ch.2 & 3).

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Gender (1): male vs. female

Zahia Smail Salhi, Gender and violence in Islamic societies: Patriarchy, Islamism and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa, London & New York: I.B. Tauris, 2013 (Ch. 1 &3).

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Gender (2): LGBT

Katerina Dalacoura, Homosexuality as cultural battleground in the Middle East: culture and postcolonial international theory, Third World Quarterly, 2014, 35:7.

Stephen Murray and Will Roscoe, Islamic homosexualities: Culture, history, and literature, New York & London: New York University Press (Ch.2).

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Migration, Refugee, and diaspora in MENA

Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena and others, ‘Introduction: Refugee and Forced Migration Studies in Transition’, in Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh and others (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies.

Coming to and coming from the Middle East: The unfolding of diaspora, Abdelhady, D. & Aly, R. (2022) in Abdelhady, D. & Aly, R. (eds) Routledge Handbook on Middle Eastern Diasporas, London: Routledge.

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16

Presentations

Group presentation.

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Essay writing

18

Essay writing

The students should hand in their essay this week.