1. Demonstrate knowledge and critical understanding of development of political Islam over the 20th/early 21st centuries.
2. Demonstrate a critical understanding of the historiography of Islamism and Islamist movements and the ideas and beliefs underlying it.
3. Reflect in a self-aware manner on the issue of religious and ethnic stereotyping and its impact on popular narratives about different cultures.
4. Communicate information and ideas effectively, acknowledging historical conventions and offering reasoned arguments based on an analysis of sources.

The Sources Assignment (1000 words, 30%) entails the submission of written coursework in which students will be asked to critically analyse a primary source or sources. The assignment requires the critical analysis of primary source materials as well as research, contextual understanding and critical analysis in terms of their source’s context, content, validity, reliability, and insight. This assignment specifically evaluates learning outcomes¿Knowledge & Understanding,¿Analysis, Application, Reflection and Communication.¿



The Topic Assignment (70% Choice of 1) 3000 word essay or 2) 15 minute podcast or minidocumentary plus annotated script) is chosen from a range of specific essay question choices. The Assignment requires independent research, contextual understanding and critical reflection alongside the application of planning, drafting and appropriate referencing techniques.¿¿¿
Learning outcomes¿Knowledge & Understanding,¿Learning, Problem Solving,¿Enquiry, Analysis, Reflection, Communication.¿
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100% Coursework

This module delivers a history of the development of Islamist (political Islamic) movements from World War One to the present day, incorporating literatures and approaches which focus on social history and colonialism to historicise and contextualise the study of political Islam. Incorporating a broad geographical spread - from South and West Asia and Europe - the use of case studies will highlight the diversity of thought and practice in political Islam and the historical relationship of Islamic political formations to the rest of the world.



The module will include consideration of the situation after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, colonial Egypt, Palestine and India, Salafism and Wahhabi Islam, feminism, the Iran’s Islamic Revolution Islamic nationalism and transnational terrorism.

The principal modes of teaching will be lectures and seminars, supported by tutorials. Lectures will address the key

concepts and debates related to each topic on the syllabus and, as many students will not have studied this subject before, set out a basic historical framework within which these scholarly debates are contextualised. Seminars will follow the lecture programme and will enable students to discuss topics in further detail and to develop their understanding and analytical skills. A particular focus will be on the development of their critical, team-working and discussion abilities and their ability to handle complex and nuanced arguments on controversial topics. This will be achieved through a combination of group discussion and small group exercises.



The learning outcomes will be summatively assessed by one short piece of source-based writing and one extended essay

or piece of audio-visual coursework. Student progress will be monitored and supported by regular small group tutorials and

preparation activities to support assessment planning.

John McHugo, A Concise History of Sunnis and Shiis (London: Saqi, 2019)
Thomas Hegghammer, The Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad (Cambridge: CUP, 2020)
Saba Mahmood, The Politics of Piety (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2004)
Beth Baron, The Orphan Scandal: Christian Missionaries and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2014)
Leila Ahmed, Women and Gender in Islam (New Haven: Yale UP, 1993)
Raphael Lefevre, Jihad in the City: Militant Islam and Contentious Politics in Tripoli (Cambridge: CUP, 2021)

Library books, journals and electronic resources, including online subscription resources such as Oxford Reference Online and Blackwell Reference Online.
The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available (where relevant) to support this module.¿Teaching space with digital projection.