Calendar--
 

Week/Date

1.          Decoding Messages
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                  Selected Reading 1
                  Safi, 1-29.
                  Times Atlas, 40-41.                                                                        Film
                  Middle East, 10-13, 16-17.
 

2.     What is Islam?

                    Safi, 98-127.                                                                         Map 1 due.
                  Atlas, 48-49.
                  Middle East, 34-35.
 

3.    The Third World & Colonial Legacies
                 Handout #2.

                   Fanon, 7-106.
                  Atlas, 64-71, 84-89, 98-105, 108-109, 124-25.
                  Middle East, 36-37.
 

4.    A Dual Challenge: Independence & the Nation

                  Fanon, 148-205, *107-47.
                  Atlas, 114-15; 128-29, 138-41, 148-49.
                  Middle East, 14-15, 38-39.                                                      Map 2 due
 

5.   Secular or Sacred State?

                   Atlas, 146-47.
                   Middle East, 20-28.
 

6.  Poverty, Population, & Economic Crises

                     Selected Readings 2-5.                                                                Films.
                     Middle East, 10-13, 18-19.
                     Atlas, 108-09, 150-51.                                                   Take-home Exam.
 

7.  Images of Others

                     Sacco, all.                                                                                     Film.
                     Selected Readings 6.
 

8.  Religion & Revolution

                   Jurgensmeyer, 1-116.
                   Selected Readings 7-8.
                   Safi, 78-97.

                                                                                          ** EXAM I due at the beginning of class**
 
 

9.  Cooperation & Confrontation

                      Jurgensmeyer, 119-243.
                      Selected Reading 9.                                                                     Film.
                      Safi, 33-77.
 

10.  Saints, Spirits, & Scholars

                      Safi, 128-44.                                                                               Film.
                      Selected Readings 10.
 

11.  Muslim Lives

                        Safi, 235-48; 147-62.
                        Selected Readings 11.                                                               Film.
 

12.  Alienation & Integration

                     Salih, all.
                      Selected Readings 12.
                     Middle East, 29-33.                                                                   Film.
 
 

13.   Islam in America

                      Malcolm X, ix-150;                                                                   Film.
                      Safi, 270-85.    .                                                   Take-home Exam.
 

14.   Malcolm's Pilgrimage into the 21st Century

                      Malcolm X, 151-382; *382-460.                                                Film.
                      Selected Readings 13.

15.  Now What?                                                                          Film

                      Safi, 306-19; 251-69.
 

     ** EXAM II due at the beginning of class **
 
 

(*) recommended reading.