Islam. Its history in the global contemporary perspective

Course Information
TitleΙσλάμ. Η Ιστορία του στη σύγχρονη παγκόσμια προοπτική / Islam. Its history in the global contemporary perspective
CodeΑ1
FacultyTheology
SchoolTheology
Cycle / Level2nd / Postgraduate
Teaching PeriodWinter
CoordinatorMarina anna Pyrovolaki
CommonNo
StatusActive
Course ID600020555

Programme of Study: PMS THrīskeía, Geōpolitikī kai Diethnīs Asfáleia

Registered students: 80
OrientationAttendance TypeSemesterYearECTS
KORMOSCompulsory Course117.5
Class Information
Academic Year2025 – 2026
Class PeriodWinter
Faculty Instructors
Weekly Hours3
Total Hours39
Class ID
600277196
Type Of Offer
  • Disciplinary Course
Course Type 2021
Specific Foundation
Mode of Delivery
  • Face to face
  • Distance learning
Digital Course Content
Language of Instruction
  • Greek (Instruction, Examination)
  • English (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
With the successful completition of this course the students will: Cognitive • Describe with critical understanding and details the important events and developments of the history, theology and textual tradition of Islam • Elaborate on the ethnic, cultural and religious groups that relate to Islam as they have been formed over the centuries Competencies • Manage historical knowledge and perspectives to understand complex and multifaceted forms of identity, intercultural diversity and integration issues related to Islam around the globe • Develop arguments in which they reconsider and, when necessary, revise conventional academic and popular perceptions • Evaluate the ways in which the claim by social groups for a single narrative regarding tradition and history creates new forms of polarization Skills • Use primary and secondary sources, libraries and related new technologies to study the History and Theology of Islam on a range of topics
General Competences
  • Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
  • Work autonomously
  • Work in teams
  • Work in an international context
  • Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
  • Be critical and self-critical
  • Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
• The Middle East before Islam • The life of the Prophet Muhammad and the emergence of Islam • The wars of apostasy and the rightly guided caliphs • The expasnion of Islam (futuh) • The disintegration of the community and the creation of Muhakkima • Alids and the genesis of Shiism • Zaydis and Isma'ilis • Imami Shi'ism and Iran • Imamate and caliphate, Turks, Persians, Arabs • Quran, Sunnah, Islamic Law • Islam and its rituals in history • Islam, history and modernity     
Keywords
Islam, Islamism, Pan-Arabism, Muslim Thinkers, Quran, Islamic Tradition, Modernity, Orientalism
Educational Material Types
  • Notes
  • Slide presentations
  • Video lectures
  • Multimedia
  • Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
  • Use of ICT in Course Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Communication with Students
  • Use of ICT in Student Assessment
Description
-part of the teaching is done online -audiovisual media are used in both distance and classroom teaching -faculty and students communicate through the university's electronic platforms through which students have access to a variety of materials -papers are submitted and evaluated electronically.
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
Lectures39✓
Seminars19✓
Reading Assigment73.5✓✓
Written assigments10✓✓
Exams46✓
Total187.5
Student Assessment
Description
Attendance and participation in the class that includes optional presentations Optional written assignments Oral examination
Student Assessment methods
  • Written Assignment (Summative)
  • Oral Exams (Summative)
  • Performance / Staging (Formative, Summative)
  • Report (Summative)
Bibliography
Additional bibliography for study
• Goldschmidt Jr, Ιστορία της Μέσης Ανατολής, Επίκεντρο, Θεσσαλονίκη, 2016Armstrong, Karen, Ισλάμ: Μια σύντομη Ιστορία, Πατάκης, 2002 • ARMSTRONG KAREN, ΜΩΑΜΕΘ: ΜΙΑ ΔΥΤΙΚΗ ΑΠΟΠΕΙΡΑ ΚΑΤΑΝΟΗΣΗΣ ΤΟΥ ΙΣΛΑΜ, ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ ΦΙΛΙΣΤΩΡ, 2003 • ARMSTRONG KAREN, ΙΣΛΑΜ, ΜΙΑ ΣΥΝΤΟΜΗ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ, ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ ΠΑΤΑΚΗΣ, 2009 • Bakhos Carol and Cook Michael Cook, Islam and its Past, Jahiliyya, Late Antiquity, and the Qur'an, Oxford Studies in the Abrahamic Religions, 2017 • Berkey, Jonathan, The Formation of Islam: Religon and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 • Cole, Juan, Muhammad, Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires, New York 2018 • Crone, Patricia, Islam the Ancient Near East and Varieties of Godlessness, Brill 2016 • Crone, Patricia, Medieval Islamic Political Thought, 1st Edition • Donner, Fred, Muhammad and the Believers, Harvard University Press 2012. • Donner, Fred, The Early Islamic Conquests, Princeton 1981 & Donner, Fred, The Islamic Conquests, in Youssef M. Choueiri (ed.): A Companion to the History of the Middle East, USA 2005, σσ. 28-51. • Donner, Fred, Muhammad and the Believers, Harvard University Press 2012. • Goldschmidt Jr, Ιστορία της Μέσης Ανατολής, Επίκεντρο, Θεσσαλονίκη, 2016 • Hawting Gerald, The Development of Islamic Ritual, Routledge, 2006 • Hoyland, Robert, η Αραβία και οι Άραβες, εκδόσεις Οδυσσέας, 2009 • Hoyland, Robert G., In God’s Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire, Oxford University Press 2015 • Hughes, Aaron, Theorizing Islam: Disciplinary Deconstruction and Reconstruction, New York: Routledge, 2014 • Hugh, Οι μεγάλες αραβικές κατακτήσεις, πως η εξάπλωση του Ισλάμ άλλαξε τον κόσμο που ζούμε, εκδόσεις Ενάλιος • Kennedy, Hugh, H αυλή των Χαλίφηδων, Η άνοδος και η πτώση της Μεγαλύτερης Ισλαμικής Δυναστείας, Εκδότης Ενάλιος • Κονδύλη Ελένη, Αραβικός Πολιτισμός, Πεδιο, 2016 • Lapidus, A History of the Islamic Societies, • McHugo, John, Σουνίτες και Σιίτες, μια θρησκεία, δυο κόσμοι, Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Κρήτης • Nash, Geoffrey, Marmaduke Pickthall, Islam and the Modern world, Brill, 2017 • Reynolds, Gabriel Said, the Quran in its Historical Context, Routledge, 2009 • Rippin Andrew, Bernheimer, Teresa, Muslims, Their Religious Beliefs and Practices • Rodinson, Maxime, Μωάμεθ, Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Κρήτης, 2006 • Said W. Edward, Οριενταλισμός, Εκδόσεις Νεφέλη, 1996, Μετάφραση Τερζάκης Γεώργιος • Shahab Ahmed, What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic, Princeton 2016 • Shahid, I., Byzantium and the Arabs in the sixth century, Washington D.C 1995 • Χουράνι Αλμπερτ, Η ιστορία του αραβικού κόσμου • Yapp, Malcolm, The Making of the Modern Near East 1792-1923
Last Update
11-04-2025