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科目名稱：中東專題研究

Course Name: Seminar in Middle Eastern Studies
  • 學年學期：114-1 Fall Semester, 2025
  • 科目代碼：502942001 Course No.502942001

修別：選

Type of Credit: Elective

3.0

學分數

Credit(s)

20

預收人數

Number of Students

課程資料Course Details
  • 開課單位：阿文三、阿文四 Course Department:Arabic Language and Culture/B/3&4
  • 授課老師：張景安 Instructor: CHANG CHING-AN
  • 先修科目：無Prerequisite(N/A)
  • 上課時間：四234 Session: thu09-12

課程簡介Course Description

Middle Eastern studies includes a wide spectrum of important topics. For the purpose of helping students earn a comprehensive idea of the scopes of the Middle Eastern studies, this course aims at discussing various crucial research topics related to the Middle East. The course consists of 6 parts, religion, society, culture, politics, economy, and gender. Except politics taking three weeks lecturing, the rest of the topics will be conducted two weeks respectively.

核心能力分析圖 Core Competence Analysis Chart

能力項目說明

    課程目標與學習成效Course Objectives & Learning Outcomes

    At the end of the class, students will learn various important topics related to the Middle Eastern studies, and have the abilities to develop their own research agenda on the Middle East.

    每周課程進度與作業要求 Course Schedule & Requirements

      

    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

     

     

     

    2

     

    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.).
    1. preview
    2. lecture
    3. seminar

    3

    6

    3

     

    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).
    1. preview
    2. lecture
    3. seminar

    3

    6

    4

     

    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)
    1. preview
    2. lecture
    3. seminar

    3

    6

    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).
    		  

    3

    6

    6

     

    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).
    1. preview
    2. lecture
    3. seminar

    3

    6

    7

     

    Midterm

     

     

     

     

    8

    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).
    1. preview
    2. lecture
    3. seminar
    		     3        6

    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).
    1. preview
    2. lecture
    3. seminar

    3

    6

    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).
    1. preview
    2. lecture
    3. seminar

    3

    6

    11

     

    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.
    1. preview
    2. lecture
    3. seminar

    3

    6

    12

     

    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).
    1. preview
    2. lecture
    3. seminar

    3

    6

    13

     

    Essay discussion

    		 Discuss the final essay writing with the course organiser.  

    3

    6

    14

     

    Gender (1): 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).
    1. preview
    2. lecture
    3. seminar

    3

    6

    15

     

    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.
    1. preview
    2. lecture
    3. seminar

     3

    6 

    16

    Presentations

    Group presentation.

      

    3

    6

     

     

    授課方式Teaching Approach

    50%

    講述 Lecture

    30%

    討論 Discussion

    20%

    小組活動 Group activity

    0%

    數位學習 E-learning

    0%

    其他： Others:

    評量工具與策略、評分標準成效Evaluation Criteria

    1. Group presentation (10%)
    2. Participation in seminar (35%)
    3. A 3000 words essay related to the Middle East conflict (50%).
    4. Attendenance (5%).
    5. Plagiarism will be given zero marks for the course.

    指定/參考書目Textbook & References

    1. Anderson, L., Absolutism and the Resilience of Monarchy in the Middle East, Political Science Quarterly, 1991, 106:1.
    2. Armstrong, K., Islam: A Short History, New York: Modern Library, 2002.
    3. Askari, H., Collaborative Colonialism: The Political Economy of Oil in the Persian Gulf, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
    4. Bates, D.G., and Amal Rassam, Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East, New Jersy:Prentice-Hall, 1983.
    5. Catherwood, C., A brief history of the Middle East, New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2006.
    6. Christie, K. and Mohammad Masad (eds.) State Formation and Identity in the Middle East and North Africa, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
    7. Dalacoura, K., Homosexuality as cultural battleground in the Middle East: culture and postcolonial international theory, Third World Quarterly, 2014, 35:7.
    8. Derichs, C. 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.
    9. El-Hamamsy, W. and Mounira Soliman (eds.), Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa: A postolonial outlook, New York & London: Routledge, 2013.
    10. Hallaq, W.B., An Introduction to Islamic Law, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
    11. Hammond, A., Pop Culture Arab World! Media, Arts, and Lifestyle, Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2005.
    12. Harik, I., “The origins of the Arab state system,” The International Spectator: Italian Journal of International Affairs, 1985, 20:2.
    13. Hinnebusch, R. and Anoushiravan Ehteshami (eds.), The Foreign Policies of Middle East States, Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2002.
    14. Issawi, C., An economic history of the Middle East and North Africa, New York: Columbia University Press, 1982.
    15. Joseph, S., “Brother/Sister Relationships: Connectivity, Love, and Power in the Reproduction of Patriarchy in Lebanon,” American Ethnologist (1994) 21:1.
    16. Kamrava, M., The Modern Middle East, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2011.
    17. Khoury, P.S. and Joseph Kostiner (eds.), Tribes and state formation in the Middle East, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
    18. Kirabaev, N. 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.
    19. Matthiesen, T., The Other Saudis: Shiism, Dissent and Sectarianism, New York: Cambridge University Press.
    20. Murray, S. and Will Roscoe, Islamic homosexualities: Culture, history, and literature, New York & London: New York University Press.
    21. Owen, R., State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, London & New York:Routledge, 2004.
    22. Priest, T., “The Dilemmas of Oil Empire,” Journal of American History, 2012, 99:1.
    23. Ross, M.L., The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations, Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2012.
    24. Salhi, Z. S., Gender and violence in Islamic societies: Patriarchy, Islamism and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa, London & New York: I.B. Tauris, 2013.
    25. Schwedler, J., (ed.), Understanding the contemporary Middle East, Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2008.
    26. Tagliapietra, S., The political economy of Middle East and North Africa oil exporters in times of global decarbonisation, Working paper, Bruegel, 2017.
    27. Warde, I., Islamic Financa in the Global Economy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000.
    28. Wehrey, F., Beyond Sunni and Shia: The roots of sectarianism in a changing Middle East, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.

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