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MUSLIM LIFE THROUGH FATWĀS, ANCIENT AND MODERN (RS-630) Yahya M. Michot

Legal opinions issued by Muslim scholars relate to all individual and collective aspects of the material and spiritual life of the believers who ask for them. When used with an appropriate methodology, they offer great avenues, sometimes even amazing ones, to explore the everyday realities and interrogations of Muslim societies, past and present. Coffee, tobacco, cannabis, opium and other drugs, music, dance, trance and sex, astrology, magic, extremism and violence, pious practices and social conventions, relations with non-Muslims and j ihâd are among the topics considered in this course. Mamlûk, Ottoman and modern sources (both from books and the internet) will be read and commented on. A basic knowledge of Islam and the history of Muslim societies would be useful. Class will meet: ten weekdays, from Monday May 15th to Friday May 26th, 9 am - 1 pm. Course Objectives

1) Students should be able to find their way around in the major reference works on fatwā jurisprudence. 2) They are expected to gain an acquaintance with some major social-cultural debates in classical and modern Islamic societies. 3) They should also be able to have an informed opinion on some modern religious controversies. 4) They should be able to benefit from the methodological approach adopted in these classes and apply it for their own studies and/or research projects. Course Requirements

1) It is strongly recommended that the student arrive at the first class already having a general knowledge of the Arabic language, about the religion of Islam, and about the history and geography of Muslim peoples. They should also be able to find their way around in the major reference tools for Islamic Studies (Encyclopaedia of Islam, Index Islamicus…). 2) Daily preparations and readings (THE ASSIGNMENTS ARE ESSENTIAL), class participation, final presentation.

3) Attendance in class is required. If you know that you will be unable to attend a class please inform the professor in advance. Missing two classes will result in an automatic lowering of your final grade by 30%. Missing three or more classes will result in automatic failure of the course. The final grade will be based upon the following:

1) Active class participation (60%). 2) The presentations during Class X (May 26). Students shall join in groups of 2 or 3 individuals. Each group will be responsible for the oral presentation, commentary on, and discussion of one or two fatwās, past or present, and their social-cultural context. This oral presentation (20%) will be based on an original written research paper (10 pages maximum, 20%), to be submitted to the teacher, and circulated on paper in the class, before the presentation. The topic should be chosen by the end of class V in consultation with the professor. * All written work is to conform to the seminary writing guidelines, which can be found online at: http://www.hartsem.edu/student/forms/researchpaperguide.pdf. It must use the transliteration system given in class I. It must be run through a grammar and spell-check program or read by the writing tutor if necessary before submission. The Hartford Seminary Grading Guidelines will be the standard of evaluation for work in the course. IMPORTANT: Plagiarism, the failure to give proper credit for the words and ideas of another person, whether published or unpublished, is strictly prohibited. All written material submitted by students must be their own original work; where the words and ideas of others are used they must be acknowledged. Credit will not be given for work containing plagiarism, and plagiarism will lead to failure of a course. Please see the Hartford Seminary Catalogue for the full plagiarism policy. GENERAL REFERENCES

ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF ISLAM, INDEX ISLAMICUS… ENDRESS, Gerhard, Islam: An Historical Introduction. Translated by Carole HILLENBRAND (Edinburgh:

Edinburgh University Press, 2002 – 2d ed.), viii & 301 p., ISBN 0-‐7486-‐1620-‐9. DS35.6 .E5313 2004 LAPIDUS, I. M., A History of Islamic Societies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988). RUTHVEN, Malise, with Azim NANJI, Historical Atlas of the Islamic World (Oxford: Oxford University Press,

2004), 208 p., 0-‐19-‐860997-‐3. G1786 .S1 R9 2004 HEWER, Christopher, Understanding Islam: The first ten steps (London: SCM Press, 2006), xi & 244 p. 0334-

04032-9. MASUD, M. Kh. - MESSICK, B. - Powers, D. S., Islamic Legal Interpretation. Muftis and their Fatwās

(Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University press, 1996). K1 .I853 1996 STILT, Kristen, Islamic Law in Action. Authority, Discretion, and Everyday Experiences in Mamluk Egypt

(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), xv & 238 p., ISBN 978-0-19-960243-8. HEYD, U., Some Aspects of the Ottoman fetvā, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 39

(London, 1969), p. 37-46. SHOURIE, Arun, The World of Fatwas, or the Shariah in Action (New Delhi: HarperCollins Publishers India,

1995), viii & 685 p., ISBN 81-7223-259-4. AL-MUSNAD, M. b. ‘A. ‘A., Fatawa Islamiyah - Islamic Verdicts. Collected by —. From the Noble Scholars

Shaykh ‘Abdul-‘Aziz bin ‘Abdullah bin Baz, Shaykh Muhammad bin Salih Al-‘Uthaimin, Shaykh ‘Abdullah bin ‘Abdur-Rahman Al-Jibreen, Along with The Permanent Committee and the decisions of the Fiqh Council , 8 vols. (Riyadh, etc: Darussalam, 2001-2002). KBP492 .F38 2001

ELGAWHARY, Tarek & FRIEDLANDER, Nuri (Translated by), Responding from the Tradition. One Hundred Contemporary Fatwas by the Grand Mufti of Egypt, Sheikh ‘Ali GOMAA (Louisville: Fons Vitae, 2011), 345 p., ISBN 978-189178544-3.

SCHANZER, Jonathan & MILLER, Steven, Facebook Fatwa: Saudi Clerics, Wahhabi Islam, and Social Media (Washington: Foundation for Defense of Democracies Press, 2012), vii & 81 p., ISBN 978-0981971261.

Class Schedule

I. MONDAY, MAY 15. INTRODUCTION. MUFTĪS, THEIR FATWĀS, AND MUSLIM SOCIETIES General references: EI2 (= Encyclopedia of Islam), art. Fatwā. AKGÜNDÜZ, Ahmed, Introduction to Islamic Law. Islamic Law in Theory and Practice (Rotterdam: IUR Press, 2010),

406 p., 978-90-807192-6-2. QARĀFĪ (AL-), Aḥmad b. Idrīs (d. 1285), al-Iḥkâm fî tamyîz al-fatâwâ ‘an al-aḥkâm wa taṣarrufât al-qâḍî wa l-imâm

(Aleppo: Islâmiyya, 1967). — Also: Cairo: al-Maktab al-thaqafî li-l-nashr wa l-tawzî‘, 1989). BUNT, Gary R., Islam in the Digital Age. E-Jihad, Online Fatwās and Cyber Islamic Environments. Critical

Studies on Islam (London: Pluto Press, 2003). GUTHRIE, Sh., Arab Social Life in the Middle Ages. An Illustrated Study (London: Saqi Books, 1995). IRWIN, R., The Arabian Nights: A Companion (London: Penguin Books, 1994). AND, Metin, 16. Yüzyılda İstanbul : Kent - Saray - Günlük Yaşam) [Istanbul au XVIe s. : la ville, le palais, la

vie journalière] (Istanbul : Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat Yayıncılık Ticaret ve Sanayi A. Ş., « Yapı Kredi Yayınları - 3245 Sanat - 170 », 2009), 315 p., 978-975-08-1832-5.

DÜZDAG, Mehmet Ertugrul, Seyhülislâm Ebussu'ûd Efendi’nin fetvalarina göre Kanunî Devrinde Osmanli Hayati [Ottoman life in the time of Soliman the Magnificent, according to the fetwas of Shaykh al-Islâm Abû l-Su‘ûd] (Istanbul: Sûle Yayinlari, ‘Tarihi Gerçekler Dizisi, 7’, 1998).

LAGARDÈRE, Vincent, La vie sociale et économique de l’Espagne musulmane aux XIe et XIIe siècles à travers les fatwas du Mi‘yâr d’al-Wansarisi, in Mélanges de la Casa de Velásquez (Paris: E. de Boccard, 1990).

ABOU EL FADL, Khaled, And God Knows the Soldiers: The Authoritative and Authoritarian in Islamic Discourses (Lanham: University Press of America, 2001), viii & 204 p., ISBN 978-0761820840.

LEWIS, G. L., The Balance of Truth by Kātib Chelebi. Translated with an Introduction and Notes (London: George Allen and Unwin, “Ethical and Religious Classics of East and West”, 1957). BP25 .H127L

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatw%C4%81. Assignments: MASUD, M. Kh. - MESSICK, B. - Powers, D. S., Islamic Legal Interpretation. Muftis and their Fatwās

(Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University press, 1996). — Chapter I: Muftis, Fatwas, and Islamic legal Interpretation, p. 3-32.

Choose from books, the press, journals, or the internet, for presentation and discussion in class, a fatwa, article or video relating to this class’ topics.

II. TUESDAY, MAY 16. MUSIC, DANCE AND TRANCE General references: EI2, art. Samā‘, Raḳṣ, Wadjd. SHILOAH, A., The Dimension of Sound, in B. Lewis (ed.), The World of Islam. Faith - People - Culture

(London: Thames & Hudson, 1976), p. 161-180. DS36.85 .I75 1992 SHILOAH, A., Music in the World of Islam (Wayne State University Press, 2003). AL FARUQI, L. L., The Sharî‘ah on Music and Musicians, in al Faruqi, I. R. (ed.), Islamic Thought and

Culture. Papers presented to the Islamic Studies Group of American Academy of Religion (Herndon: IIIT, 1402/1982), p. 25-51. BP165 .I86 1982

MACDONALD, D. B., Emotional Religion in Islām as affected by Music and Singing. Being a translation of a Book of the Iḥyā’ ‘Ulūm ad-Dīn of al-Ghazzālī with Analysis, Annotation, and Appendices, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1901-1902), p. 195-252, 705-748, 1-28.

MICHOT, Y. J., Musique et danse selon Ibn Taymiyya. Le Livre du Samâ‘ et de la danse (Kitâb al-samâ‘ wa l-raqṣ) compilé par le Shaykh Muḥammad al-Manbijî. Traduction de l’arabe, présentation, notes et lexique,

« Études musulmanes, XXXIII » (Paris: J. Vrin, 1991). ROUGET, Gilbert, Music and Trance: A Theory of the Relations Between Music and Possession (The

University of Chicago Press, 1985). AVERY, Kenneth, S., A Psychology of Early Sufi Samā‘: Listening and Altered States, London, Routledge, 2004. GRIBETZ, Arthur, The Samā‘ Controversy: Sufi vs. Legalist, in Studia Islamica, 74, 1991, p. 101-144. Assignment: BAIG, Khalid, Slippery Stone. An inquiry into Islam’s stance on music (Garden Grove, CA: Openmind Press,

2011), xxii & 359 p., ISBN 978-0-9755157-2-3. — Chapter 10: The Rulings of the Jurists, p. 227-252. Choose from books, the press, journals, or the internet, for presentation and discussion in class, a fatwa,

article or video relating to this class’ topics. III. WEDNESDAY, MAY 17. CANNABIS, OPIUM, ETC.

General references: EI2, art. Afyūn, Bandj. ROSENTHAL, F., The Herb. Hashish versus Medieval Muslim Society (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1971). MATTHEE, Rudi, The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900 (Washington:

Mage Publishers, 2005). LOZANO, I., Tres tratados arabes sobre el cannabis indica. Textos para la historia del hachis en las socie-

dades islamicas, S. XIII-XVI (Madrid: M.A.E. Agencia Española de Cooperacion Internacional, 1990). —, Solaz del espíritu en el hachís y el vino y otros textos árabes sobre drogas (Con fragmentos de P. Alpino

y A. Russell). Introducción, traducción y notas (Granada: Editorial Universidad de Granada, 1998). MICHOT, Y., Ibn Taymiyya. Le haschich et l’extase. Textes traduits de l’arabe, présentés et annotés (Beirut:

Albouraq, “Fetwas d’Ibn Taymiyya, 3”, 1422/2001). —, L’opium et le café. Édition et traduction d’un texte arabe anonyme, précédées d’une première exploration

de l’opiophagie ottomane et accompagnées d’une anthologie (Paris–Beirut: Albouraq, 1429/2008). Assignments: A) AḤMAD AL-RŪMĪ AL-AQḤIṢĀRĪ, Against Smoking. An Ottoman Manifesto. Introduction, Editio Princeps and

Translation by Y. MICHOT. Foreword by Mohammad AKRAM NADWI (Oxford: Interface Publications - Markfield: Kube Publishing, 1431/2010), xvi & 108 p. – 978-1-84774-020-5. — P. 45-70.

(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Against-Smoking-Manifesto-Ahmad-Al-Aqhisari/dp/1847740200/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271968400&sr=8-1)

B) BASHEER, Taha, The Use of Drugs in the Islamic World, in British Journal of Addiction, 76 (1981), p. 233-243.


IV. THURSDAY, MAY 18. COFFEE AND TOBACCO General references: EI2, art. Ḳahwa, Tutun. SARAÇGIL, A., Generi voluttuari e ragion di stato. Politiche repressive del consumo di vino, caffè e tabacco

nell’ impero ottomano nei secc. XVI e XVII, in Turcica, 28 (1996), pp. 163–194. GREHAN, J., Smoking and “Early Modern” Sociability: The Great Tobacco Debate in the Ottoman Middle

East (Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries), in American Historical Review (Dec. 2006), pp. 1352–1377. KLEIN-FRANKE, F., No Smoking in Paradise: The Habit of Tobacco Smoking Judged by Muslim Law, in Le

Muséon, 106 (1993), pp. 155–192. PEKIN, Ersu (ed.), Bir taşım keyif. Türk kahvesinin 500 yıllık öyküsü (Istanbul : T.C. Kültür ve Turizm

Bakanlığı, Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi - Türk Kahvesi Kültürü ve Araştırmaları Derneği, 2015), 453 p., 978-605-149-722-8.

Assignments: A) HATTOX, R. S., Coffee and Coffeehouses. The Origins of a Social Beverage in the Medieval Near East

(Seattle–London: University of Washington Press, 1996). — Chapter 3: Coffee, Coffeehouses and the Opposition & Chapter 4: Wine, Coffee, and the Holy Law, p. 29-60. GT2919.N33 H37 1985

B) LEWIS, G. L., The Balance of Truth by Kātib Chelebi. Translated with an Introduction and Notes (London: George Allen and Unwin, “Ethical and Religious Classics of East and West”, 1957). — Chapters 5: Tobac-co, 6: Coffee, 7: Laudanum, Opium, and Other Drugs, p. 50-64. BP25 .H127L


V. FRIDAY, MAY 19. MARRIAGE, LOVE AND SEXUALITY General references: BOUHDIBA, A., Sexuality in Islam (London: Saqi Books, 2001). BP190.5.S4 B6813 1985 EL FEKI, Shereen, Sex and the Citadel. Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World (New York: Pantheon Books,

2013), xxi & 346 p., ISBN 978-0-307-37739-5. MERNISSI, Fatema, Scheherazade Goes West. Different Cultures, Different Harems (New York: Washington

Square Press, 2001), ix & 228 p., 0-7434-1242-7. AL-ṬŪSĪ, Naṣīr al-Dīn, The Sultan’s Sex Potions. Arab Aphrodisiacs in the Middle Ages. A Critical Edition,

Translated and Introduced by Daniel L. Newman (London: Saqi, 2014), 208 & 72 p., 978-0863-5674-76. MURRAY, S. O. - Roscoe, W., Islamic Homosexualities. Culture, History, and Literature (New York -

London: New York University Press, 1997). SAAD, Bassam A., “Copuler est ma loi”. Un érotisme arabe islamique (Le Moulin du Chateau: Éditions de l’Aube,

2007), 558 p., 978-2-7526-0343-2.

NAFZAWĪ, Abū ‘Abd Allâh (al-), The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nefzawi. Translated by Sir Richard F. Burton and Edited with an Introduction and Additional Notes by Alan Hull Walton (London: Book Club Associates, 1982).

D’OYEN, Fatima M., The Miracle of Life. A Guide on Islamic Family Life and Sex Education for Young People (Leicester: The Islamic Foundation, 1417/1996).

ZARINEBAF, Fariba, Crime & Punishment in Istanbul (1700-1800) (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010), xiii & 288 p., 978-0-520-26221-8. — Chapter 5: Prostitution and the Vice Trade, p. 86-111

MICHOT, Y., Un célibataire endurci et sa maman : Ibn Taymiyya (m. 728/1328) et les femmes, in C. Cannuyer (ed.), La femme dans les civilisations orientales, « Acta Orientalia Belgica, XV » (Brussels: Société Belge d’Études Orientales, 2001), p. 165-90.

Assignments: A) IBN TAYMIYYA, Fatwās of Muslim Women. Translated by Sayed GAD (El-Mansoura: Dar al-Manarah,

1420/2000). — P. 177-194. B) ANDREWS, W. G. & KALPAKLı, M., The Age of Beloveds. Love and the Beloved in Early-Modern

Ottoman and European Culture and Society ( Durham– London: Duke University Press, 2005). — Chapter 9, Part 1: Beloveds and the Law, p. 270-288.


VI. MONDAY, MAY 22. ASTROLOGY AND MEDICINE General references: BERLEKAMP, Persis, Wonder, Image, & Cosmos in Medieval Islam (New Haven - London: Yale University

Press, 2011), xi & 220 p., 978-0-300-17060-3.

PORMANN, P. E. & SAVAGE-SMITH, E., Medieval Islamic Medicine (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2007).

BLAKE, Stephen P., Astronomy and Astrology in the Islamic World (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016), ix & 163 p., 978-0-7486-4909-9.

SALIBA, G., The role of the astrologer in medieval Islamic society, in REGOURD, A. & LORY, P., Sciences occultes et Islam. Bulletin d'Études Orientales, 44 (Damascus: Institut Français d’Études Arabes de Damas, 1993), p. 45-69.

NYKL, A. R., Ali Ibn Abi Talib Horoscope, in Ars Islamica, X (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1943), p. 152-153.

Assignments: A) MICHOT, Y., Ibn Taymiyya on Astrology. Annotated Translation of Three Fatwās, in Journal of Islamic

Studies, vol. 11/2 (Oxford: May 2000), p. 147-208. — P. 188-196. (http://www.muslimphilosophy.com) B) RISPLER-CHAIM, Vardit, Postmortem Examinations in Egypt, in MASUD, M. Kh. - MESSICK, B. - Powers,

D. S., Islamic Legal Interpretation. Muftis and their Fatwās. — Chapter XXV, p. 278-285. Choose from books, the press, journals, or the internet, for presentation and discussion in class, a fatwa,

article or video relating to this class’ topics. VII. TUESDAY, MAY 23. MAGIC

General references: THORNDIKE, Lynn, A History of Magic and Experimental Science During the First Thirteen Centuries of our Era, Vol. I

(New York - London, Columbia University Press, 1923). ULLMANN, Manfred, Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1972). DOUTTÉ, Edmond, Magie et religion dans l’Afrique du Nord. La société musulmane du Maghrib (Alger: Typographie

Adolphe Jourdan, 1909), 618 p. – Anastatic reprint: Brussels: ESH-Éditions, 2013, 978-2-8053.

SAVAGE-SMITH, E. (éd.), Magic and Divination in Early Islam (Aldershot: Ashgate - Variorum, “The Formation of the Classical Islamic World, 42,” 2004).

KNIGHT, Michael Muhammad, Magic in Islam (New York: TarcherPerigee, 2016), 246 p., 978-0-399-17670-8. LEONI, Francesca (ed.), Power and Protection. Islamic Art and the Supernatural (Oxford : Ashmolean Museum, 2016),

104 p., 978-1-910807-09-5. AL-BŪNĪ, Aḥmad b. ‘Alī, Kitāb Shams al-ma‘ārif al-kubrā wa laṭā’if al-‘awārif (Qom: Kitābkhāne-ye Urūmiyye,

1400/1980). —, Talismans : Le soleil des connaissances. Traduit et présenté par Pierre LORY et Jean-Charles COULON. Calligraphies

de Saïd BENJELLOUN ([Paris]: Orients, 2013). GARDINER, Noah, Forbidden Knowledge? Notes on the Production, Transmission, and Reception of the Major Works of

Aḥmad al-Būnī, in Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 12 (2012), p. 81-143. VARLI, Mustafa, İmam Gazali: Dualar, Büyüler ve Çözümleri “Define ve Korunma”. Sirril Mâsum vel Cevheril

Meknun. İlm-i Cifir ve Müsellesin Şerhi (Istanbul: Esma Yayınları, 2015), 384 p., 978-975-6354-61-2. IBN ‘ARABĪ, İlm-i Cifir, Şerhi ve havası - Kitāb ‘ilm al-jifr, ed. Mustafa VARLI (Istanbul: Esma Yayınları, n.d.), 180 &

84 p.

ZADEH, T., Commanding Demons and Jinn : the Sorcerer in Early Islamic Thought, in A. KORANGY & D. J. SHEFFIELD (eds), No Tapping around Philology. A Festschrift in Honor of Wheeler McIntosh Thackston Jr’s 70th Birthday, (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014), p. 131-160.

—, Touching and Ingesting: Early Debates over the Material Qur’an, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, 129/3 (2009), p. 443-466.

LEMAY, R., Books of Magic in Translation from the Arabic and the Birth of a Theology of the Sacraments of the Church

in the Twelfth Century, in R. GYSELEN (ed.), Charmes et sortileges, magie et magiciens (Bures-sur-Yvette: Groupe pour l’Étude de la Civilisation du Moyen-Orient, “Res Orientales, XIV,” 2002), p. 165-192.

BOSWORTH, C. E., The Mediaeval Islamic Underworld. The Banū Sāsān in Arabic Society and Literature. I: The Banū Sāsān in Arabic Life and Lore (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1976). HV4591.9 .A3 B67 1976

KHAN, Ali Hassan (Translated by), The Fatwa regarding the Gawth, Qutb, Abdal and Awtad by Shaykh-ul-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (Fatwā fī l-ghawth wa l-quṭb wa l-abdāl wa l-awtād). Edited by Shaykh Uzayr SHAMS (Fattomand Gujranwala (Pakistan): Umm-ul-Qura Publications, 1432/2011), 208 p.

Assignments: A) LORY, Pierre, Divination and Religion in Islamic Medieval Culture, & GRUBER, Christiane, From Prayer

to Protection: Amulets and Talismans in the Islamic World, in LEONI, Francesca (ed.), Power and Protection. Islamic Art and the Supernatural. — P. 13-51.

B) IBN KHALDÛN, The Muqaddimah. An Introduction to History. Translated from the Arabic by Franz ROSENTHAL. Edited and abridged by N. J. DAWOOD (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989). — P. 391-397.

C) AL-MUSNAD, M. b. ‘A. ‘A., Fatawa Islamiyah - Islamic Verdicts. Collected by —. From the Noble Scholars Shaykh ‘Abdul-‘Aziz bin ‘Abdullah bin Baz, Shaykh Muhammad bin Salih Al-‘Uthaimin, Shaykh ‘Abdullah bin ‘Abdur-Rahman Al-Jibreen, Along with The Permanent Committee and the decisions of the Fiqh Council , 8 vols. (Riyadh, etc: Darussalam, 2001-2002). — Vol. viii, p. 316-323.


VIII. WEDNESDAY, MAY 24. THE CITY, THE MARKET, THE COUNTRYSIDE General references: GRABAR, O., Cities and citizens. The growth and culture of urban Islam, in B. Lewis (ed.), The World of

Islam, p. 89-116. DS36.85 .I75 1992

RAYMOND, André (ed.), Cairo, City of History. Translated by Willard WOOD (Harvard University Press, 2000), 436 p. ISBN 0-674-00316-0.

IŞIN, Ekrem, Everyday Life in Istanbul. Social Historical Essays on People, Culture and Spatial Relations. Translated by Virginia Taylor SAÇLIOĞLU (Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 3rd ed., 2008), 363 p., ISBN 978-975-08-0008-7. Especially Ch. 2: Modernization and Everyday Life in the 19th Century, p. 73-103.

LAPIDUS, Ira, Muslim Cities in the later Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), xvi & 208 p., ISBN 0-521-27762-0.

AL-SHAYZARĪ, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān b. Naṣr, The Book of the Islamic Market Inspector, Nihāyat al-Rutba fi Ṭalab al-Ḥisba (The Utmost Authority in the Pursuit of Ḥisba). Translated with an Introduction and Notes by R. P. Buckley (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999). HF5475.I74 S54 1999

Assignments: A) STILT, Kristen, Islamic Law in Action. Authority, Discretion, and Everyday Experiences in Mamluk Egypt

(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011). — Chapter 4: Serious crimes or minor offenses?, Chapter 8: Currency and taxes, p. 89-108, & 175-193.

B) MICHOT, Y., Ibn Taymiyya on Natural disasters, p. 1-4. Choose from books, the press, journals, or the internet, for presentation and discussion in class, a fatwa,

article or video relating to this class’ topics. IX. THURSDAY, MAY 25. TYRANNY, JIHĀD, MUSLIMS AND NON-MUSLIMS

General references: BONNEY, R., Jihæd: From Qur’æn to bin Laden. Foreword by Sheikh Dr Zaki Badawi (Basingstoke - New

York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). BP182 .B66 2004

ABOU EL FADL, Khaled, Rebellion & Violence in Islamic Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).

FIRESTONE, R., Jihad: The Origin of Holy War in Islam (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999). TAHIR-UK-QADRI, Muhammad, Introduction to the Fatwā on Suicide Bombings and Terrorism.

(http://www.minhajbooks.com/english/bookid/376/Fatwa:-Suicide-Bombing-and-Terrorism-by-Shaykh-ul-Islam-Dr-Muhammad-Tahir-ul-Qadri.html)

MICHOT, Y., Muslims under Non-Muslim Rule. Ibn Taymiyya on fleeing from sin, kinds of emigration, the status of Mardin (domain of peace/war, domain composite), the conditions for challenging power. Texts translated, annotated and presented in relation to six modern readings of the Mardin fatwā. Foreword by J. PISCATORI (Oxford-London: Interface Publications, Dec. 2006). BP52.5 .I2813 2006

Mardin, The Abode of Peace (http://www.mardin-fatwa.com/index.php). Assignments: A) MICHOT, Y., The Fatwa of Shaykh Yûsuf al-Qaradâwî against Gaddafi. Translation, with the

collaboration of S. Metwally, sur www.scribd.com, 15 mars 2011, p. 1-13. B) MICHOT, Y., Ibn Taymiyya’s “New Mardin Fatwa”. Is genetically modified Islam (GMI) carcinogenic?,

in The Muslim World, 101/2, avril 2011, p. 130-181. X. FRIDAY, MAY 26. BE YOUR OWN MUFTI, Individual presentations I

Fatwā Banks & Collections: ISLAMONLINE.NET: http://www.islamonline.net/completesearch/english/CounsellorSearch.asp?hID=0. ISLAM TODAY: http://en.islamtoday.net/Fatwa-Archive. FATWĀISLAM.COM: http://www.fatwaislam.com/fis/. Assignment: On the basis of your research paper, present and discuss with the class, in their societal

context, one or two ancient or modern fatwās concerning one of the topics NOT explored during these two weeks.

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