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I'm excited to offer this course in Fall 2020, "HIST 387: Jihad in the Islamic World," @GeorgeMasonU: historyarthistory.gmu.edu/courses/hist38…. D.C. area students can enroll through the Consortium (registrar.gmu.edu/topics/washing…). Friends & colleagues at D.C. area universities, please spread the word! Image
I'm also teaching 2nd new topics course Fall 2020, "GOVT 444: Revolutionary Islam & the State: Militants, Nationalists, Rebels," from Kharijites to Khomeini to IS" @GeorgeMasonU. D.C. area students enrollment through Consortium (registrar.gmu.edu/topics/washing…). Please spread the word! Image
The second course covers ideological and political-theological interpretations of "Islam" by different states, movements & organizations throughout history from the Kharijites and the 'Abbasid revolution to Ayatullah Khomeini, religion in pan-Arab Ba'thism, up to AQ & IS(IS).
Both courses include not only key secondary studies on weekly course topics but also prioritize exposure to select primary sources in transl., w/ 'reading guides/terminology lists' where helpful to students. Modeling this after my co-teaching of McGill Islam & Politics courses.
Teaching a new topics course @ScharSchool @GeorgeMasonU: "GOVT 444: Revolutionary Islam & the State: Militants, Nationalists, and Rebels";

Course examines 'Islam' as revolutionary mobilizing tool from 7th century till today:

Open to D.C. Consortium universities' students: ImageImage
Course looks at how Islam has been used as a mobilization tool by states, non-state actors from nation-state Islamists, transnational social movement organizations, jihadi groups, the Ba'th, & military-Islamist alliances;

Prioritizes primary as well as secondary readings. Image
Though writing a syllabus is time-consuming, I'm having a pretty good time designing my @ScharSchool GOVT 444 topics course 'Revolutionary Islam & the State,' particularly incl. case studies from the 'Abbasid revolution to Khomeini, AQ, & IS + a 'Past & Present Kharijites' week.
It's official, no longer listed as being taught by an amorphous "Staff" instructor:

@GeorgeMasonU

(1) HIST 387: Jihad in the Islamic World

(2) GOVT 444: Revolutionary Islam & the State: Militants, Nationalists, & Rebels ImageImage
COURSE OUTLINE: "GOVT 444: Revolutionary Islam & the State: Militants, Nationalists, & Rebels" @ScharSchool (Fall 2020, enrollment open now): ImageImageImageImage
COURSE OUTLINE: "HIST 387: Jihad in the Islamic World" @HistArthGMU (Fall 2020);

Enrollment open to GMU degree & non-degree students & members of the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area: ImageImageImage
Finalized the primary sources for both of my Fall courses. Most assigned for home & there will be some additional, including part of Islamic State's 'Structure of the Caliphate' in class:

First, GOVT 444: Revolutionary Islam & the State: Militants, Nationalists, and Rebels: Image
Finalized the primary sources for both of my Fall courses.

Second, HIST 387: Jihad in the Islamic World (online course): Image
Adding selections from Malik ibn Anas, Ibn Rushd, & Ibn Taymiyya to HIST 387.
Non-degree students may enroll in either HIST 387: Jihad in the Islamic World or GOVT 444: Revolutionary Islam & the State: Militants, Nationalists, and Rebels. Both will be accessible as online courses.

www2.gmu.edu/admissions-aid…
Instead of forcing students to view 2 weekly 45-minute video lectures, I've opted for shorter 7-20 minute mini-lectures organized topically/thematically.

Some of the slides from this week's mini-lectures for HIST 387: Jihad in the Islamic World: ImageImageImageImage
Instead of forcing students to view 2 weekly 45-minute video lectures, I've opted for shorter 7-20 minute mini-lectures organized topically/thematically.

Some of the slides from this week's mini-lectures for HIST 387: Jihad in the Islamic World: ImageImageImageImage
Second (synchronous online) class of GOVT 444: Revolutionary Islam & the State: Militants, Nationalists, and Rebels, which included a discussion of @Hegghammer's working typology proposal for a preference vs. theology-based lens for different types of Islamist groups: ImageImageImageImage
Week 2 of HIST 387: Jihad in the Islamic World: ImageImageImageImage
Week 2 of HIST 387: Jihad in the Islamic World: ImageImageImageImage
Week 2 of GOVT 444: Revolutionary Islam & the State: Militants, Nationalists, and Rebels:

Thinking about the conception(s) of "revolution"/thawra in Islamic thought & history and the multifaceted nature of individual & group identities: ImageImageImageImage
Week 2, HIST 387: Jihad in the Islamic World:
"Conceptions of Jihad Throughout History" ImageImageImage
Week 2 of GOVT 444: Revolutionary Islam & the State: Militants, Nationalists, and Rebels: ImageImageImageImage
Week 2 of GOVT 444: Revolutionary Islam & the State: Militants, Nationalists, and Rebels: ImageImageImage
GOVT 444: Revolutionary Islam & the State: Militants, Nationalists, and Rebels

Week 3 (Sept. 7 & Sept. 9): Social Movement Theory (Framing, Culture, Ideology, & Identity Formation) ImageImageImageImage
HIST 387: Jihad in the Islamic World

Week 3 (Sept. 6-12): Sufi Conceptions of Jihad in Early & Medieval Islamic History ImageImageImageImage
HIST 387: Jihad in the Islamic World

Week 5 (Sept. 20-26): From Expansion to Empire ImageImageImageImage
HIST 387: Jihad in the Islamic World

Week 5 (Sept. 20-26): From Expansion to Empire ImageImageImage
HIST 387: Jihad in the Islamic World

Week 6 (Sept. 27-Oct. 3): Jihad in the Age of the Crusades ImageImage
GOVT 444: Revolutionary Islam & the State: Militants, Nationalists, and Rebels

Week 6 (Sept. 28 & 30): Thinking about Islamist Rebel Proto-States, Rebellion, & Revolution ImageImageImageImage
GOVT 444: Revolutionary Islam & the State: Militants, Nationalists, and Rebels

Week 7 (Oct. 5 & 7): The Abbasid Revolution: A Premodern Case ImageImageImage
GOVT 444: Revolutionary Islam & the State: Militants, Nationalists, and Rebels

Week 7 (Oct. 5 & 7): The Abbasid Revolution: A Premodern Case Image
HIST 387: Jihad in the Islamic World

Week 8 (Oct. 11-17): Jihad & Resistance in the Age of Colonialism, Part 1 ImageImageImage
GOVT 444: Revolutionary Islam & the State: Militants, Nationalists, and Rebels

Week 8 (Oct. 13 & 14): Kharijites & the Emergence of Al-Qaeda and Global Jihadism

CLASS 1: Past & Present Kharijites: The First Muslim Rebels & Their Legacy (Oct. 13) Image
GOVT 444: Revolutionary Islam & the State: Militants, Nationalists, and Rebels

Week 8 (Oct. 13 & 14): Kharijites & the Emergence of Al-Qaeda and Global Jihadism

CLASS 2: Al-Qaeda and the Origins of ‘Global Jihadism’ (Oct. 14) ImageImageImageImage
GOVT 444: Revolutionary Islam & the State: Militants, Nationalists, and Rebels

Week 8 (Oct. 13 & 14): Kharijites & the Emergence of Al-Qaeda and Global Jihadism

CLASS 2: Al-Qaeda and the Origins of ‘Global Jihadism’ (Oct. 14) ImageImageImageImage
GOVT 444: Revolutionary Islam & the State: Militants, Nationalists, and Rebels

Week 9 (Oct. 19 & 21): Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)
Part 1 Image
HIST 387: Jihad in the Islamic World

Week 9 (Oct. 18-24): Jihad & Resistance in the Age of Colonialism, Part 2

The Dervishes of Somalia Image
HIST 387: Jihad in the Islamic World

Week 9 (Oct. 18-24): Jihad & Resistance in the Age of Colonialism, Part 2

Views on Jihad in Colonial India ImageImage
GOVT 444: Revolutionary Islam & the State: Militants, Nationalists, and Rebels

Week 9 (Oct. 19 & 21): Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)
Part 2: Islamic State & Rebel Governance ImageImage
One week on IS was enough time.

The next two weeks in GOVT 444: Revolutionary Islam & the State: Militants, Nationalists, and Rebels focuses on the Iranian Revolution, then Sudan, Hizbullah, the Islamic Courts Union & Al-Shabab, & the role of "Islam" in Ba'th Syria & Iraq.
GOVT 444: Revolutionary Islam & the State: Nationalists, Militants, & Rebels

Week 10 (Oct. 26 & 28): Khomeini & Shi’ite Revolution in Iran: Islamizing Nationalism: PART 1 ImageImage
HIST 387: Jihad in the Islamic World

Week 10 (Oct. 25-31): Conceptualizing Martyrdom in Religions ImageImageImage
GOVT 444: Revolutionary Islam & the State: Nationalists, Militants, & Rebels

Week 10 (Oct. 26 & 28): Khomeini & Shi’ite Revolution in Iran: Islamizing Nationalism: PART 2

In class we discussed not only Imami Shi'i legal ideas but also the influence of Platonic philosophy. ImageImage
GOVT 444: Revolutionary Islam & the State: Nationalists, Militants, & Rebels

Week 11 (Nov. 2 & 4): Khomeini & Shi’ite Revolution in Iran: Islamizing Nationalism: PART 2 ImageImage
HIST 387: Jihad in the Islamic World

Week 11 (Nov. 1-7): The ‘Martyr’ in Islam ImageImage
GOVT 444: Revolutionary Islam & the State: Nationalists, Militants, & Rebels

Week 12 (Nov. 9 & 11): Revolutionary Sudan: Military Coup & Turabi’s ‘Islamist Democracy’

Class 1. ImageImageImage
GOVT 444: Revolutionary Islam & the State: Nationalists, Militants, & Rebels

Week 12 (Nov. 9 & 11): Revolutionary Sudan: Military Coup & Turabi’s ‘Islamist Democracy’

Class 2 + Current Events Class-initiated discussion topics. ImageImage
HIST 387: Jihad in the Islamic World

Week 12 (Nov. 8-14): Contemporary ‘Jihadi’ Militancy, Part 1 ImageImage
HIST 387: Jihad in the Islamic World

Week 13 (Nov. 15-21): Classical vs. Global Jihad & the Rise of Al-Qaeda ImageImageImage
GOVT 444: Revolutionary Islam & the State: Nationalists, Militants, & Rebels

Week 13 (Nov. 16 & 18): Hezbollah ImageImageImage
GOVT 444: Revolutionary Islam & the State: Nationalists, Militants, & Rebels

Week 13 (Nov. 16 & 18): Hezbollah, Class 2 ImageImageImage
GOVT 444: Revolutionary Islam & the State: Nationalists, Militants, & Rebels

Week 14: Al-Shabab & the Islamic Courts Union in Somalia: Islamist Proto-States in Africa ImageImageImageImage
GOVT 444: Revolutionary Islam & the State: Nationalists, Militants, and Rebels

Week 15 (Nov. 30 & Dec. 2): Islam & ‘Secular’ Pan-Arab Nationalism: The Syrian and Iraqi Ba’th Parties

CLASS 1: Islam & Pan-Arab Nationalism: The Case of the Ba’th Party & Ba’thist Syria ImageImage
Last week of classes:

HIST 387: Jihad in the Islamic World

Week 15: Shi’ism, Sunnism, & Sectarianism: Takfir & Inter-Communal Violence as ‘Jihad’ ImageImageImageImage

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