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Unit 3: The Prophet Muhammad

Excerpts from Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah in The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Isḥāq’s Sīrat Rasūl Allāh. Translated by Alfred Guillaume. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1955.

Read the excerpts from Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah that are listed below. The page numbers given are the page numbers of the PDF linked to above, so to get to each page, do a page number search in the PDF.

1. The Beginning of the Sending Down of the Qur’ān (page 79)

2. Khadīja, Daughter of Khuwaylid, Accepts Islam (page 79)

3. The Prescription of Prayer (page 80)

4. ‘Alī B. Abū Ṭālib The First Male to Accept Islam (page 81)

5. The Companions Who Accepted Islam at the Invitation of Abū Bakr (page 81)

6. The Apostle’s Public Preaching and the Response (page 82)

7. How the Apostle Was Treated by His Own People (page 89)

8. The Coming Down of ‘Why Has Not an Angel Been Sent Down to Him’ (page 114)

9. The Coming Down of ‘Apostles Have Been Mocked Before Thee’ (page 114)

10. The Night Journey and the Ascent to Heaven (page 114)

11. The Ascent to Heaven (page 116)

12. How God Dealt with the Mockers (page 117)

13. The Hijra of the Prophet (page 133)

14. The Beginning of the Apostle’s Illness (page 364)

15. The Apostle’s Illness in the House of Ā’isha (page 364)
Akkad, Moustapha, dir. The Message. Filmco International Productions, 1976. (2:51 hr)

Unit 4: The Qur’ān

Sūrahs from The Qur’ān. Translated by M. A. S. Abdel Haleem. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Read the Sūrahs from the Qur’ān that are listed below.

1. The Opening (p. 3)

4. Women (pp. 50–66)

17. The Night Journey (pp. 175–182)

21. The Prophets (pp. 203–208)

22. The Pilgrimage (pp. 209–214)

23. The Believers (pp. 215–219)

24. Light (pp. 220–226)

33. The Joint Forces (266–271)

35. The Creator (pp. 277–280)

47. Muhammad (pp. 331–333)

49. The Private Rooms (pp. 338–339)

50. Qaaf (pp. 340–342)

55. The Lord of Mercy (pp. 353­–355)

59. The Gathering [of Forces] (pp. 365–367)

75. The Resurrection (pp. 399–400)

103. The Fading Day (p. 435)

107. Common Kindness (p. 439)

112. Purity of Faith (p. 444)
Ernst, Carl W. “The History and Form of the Qur’an and the Practices of Reading.” In How to Read the Qur’an, 26–51, 58–61. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.

Unit 5: The Five Pillars of Islam

Renard, John. “Devotion, Ritual, and Personal Prayer.” In Seven Doors to Islam: Spirituality and the Religious Life of Muslims, 35–53. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

To access page 35, open the PDF of the reading and enter the number 35 in the box between the blue arrows at the bottom of the screen. Please read pages 35 to 53.
Renard, John. “On the Five Pillars.” In Windows on the House of Islam: Muslim Sources on Spirituality and Religious Life, edited by John Renard, 59–64, 74–77, 85–92, 107–116. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
Afsaruddin, Asma. “Views of Jihad throughout History.” Religion Compass 1, no. 1 (2007): 165–69.

Unit 6: The Sunnah of the Prophet—The Prophet as Moral Exemplar

Schimmel, Annemarie. “Muhammad the Intercessor, and the Blessings Upon Him.” In And Muhammad is His Messenger: Veneration of the Prophet in Islamic Piety, 81–104. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985.
Schimmel, Annemarie. “Poetry in Honor of the Prophet.” In And Muhammad is His Messenger: Veneration of the Prophet in Islamic Piety, 176–215. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985.

Unit 7: The Sharī‘ah

Bunt, Gary R. “Sunni Religious Authority on the Internet I: Muslim Majority Contexts.” In Islam in the Digital Age: E-Jihad, Online Fatwas, and Cyber Islamic Environments, 135–66. London: Pluto Press, 2003.
Razavy, Maryam. “Canadian Responses to Islamic Law: The Faith-Based Arbitration Debates.” Religious Studies and Theology 32, no. 1 (2013): 101–17.

Unit 8: Philosophy and Theology

Netton, Ian Richard. “The Origins of Islamic Philosophy.” In Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy, edited by Brian Carr and Indira Mahalingam, 764–81. London: Routledge, 1997.

Unit 9: Shī‘ism

Malekpour, Jamshid. “Islam and the Ta’ziyeh.” In The Islamic Drama, 16–24. London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2005.
Malekpour, Jamshid. “The Ta’ziyeh in Performance.” In The Islamic Drama, 78–97. London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2005.
Jackson, Roy. “Sayyid Ruhollah Khomeini (1902–1989).” In Fifty Key Thinkers in Islam, pp. 186–90. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2006.

Unit 10: Sufism

Ernst, Carl, W. “The Names of God, Meditation, and Mystical Experience.” In The Shambhala Guide to Sufism, 81–119. Boston: Shambhala Publications Inc., 1997.
Dakake, Maria Massi. “‘Walking Upon the Path of God Like Men’?: Women and the Feminine in the Islamic Mystical Tradition.” In Sufism: Love and Wisdom, edited by Jean-Louis Michon and Roger Gaetani, 131–51. Bloomington: Worldwisdom Inc., 2006.
Chittick, William, ed. “The Music of the Spheres.” In Sufism: A Short Introduction, 89–96. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2000.

Unit 11: Islamic Responses to Modernity

Jackson, Roy. “Muhammad Abduh,” “Muhammad Iqbal,” “Sayyid Abdul Ala Mawdudi,” and “Hasan al-Bana.” In Fifty Key Figures in Islam, 172–76, 181–86, 190–201. New York: Routledge, 2006.

Unit 12: Women in Islam

Ahmed, Leila. “Women and the Rise of Islam.” In Women and Gender in Islam, 41–63. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
Kassam, Zayn. “Politicizing Gender and Religion: Love for Women, Love for Islam.” In Love, Sex, and Gender in World Religions, edited by Joseph M. Runzo and Nancy M. Martin, 223–37. London: Oneworld Publications, 2000.
Bullock, Katherine. “Multiple Meanings of Hijāb.” In Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil: Challenging Historical and Modern Stereotypes, 85–135. London: International Institute of Islamic Thought, 2003.
Jameelah, Maryam. “A Voice of Conservative Islam.” In Makers of Contemporary Islam, edited by John L. Esposito and John O. Voll, 54–67. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Wadud, Amina. “Aishah’s Legacy.” New Internationalist, May 1, 2002, https://newint.org/features/2002/05/01/aishahs-legacy/

Unit 13: Islam in a Global and Post-9/11 World

Cesari, Jocelyne. “Islamophobia in the West: A Comparison between Europe and the United States.” In Islamophobia: The Challenge of Pluralism in the 21st Century, edited by John L. Esposito and Ibrahim Kalin, 21–43. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Nimer, Mohamed. “Muslims in American Public Life.” In Muslims in the West: From Sojourners to Citizens, edited by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, 169–86. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Karim, Karim, H. “Crescent Dawn in the Great White North: Muslim Participation in the Canadian Public Sphere.” In Muslims in the West: From Sojourners to Citizens, edited by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, 262–78. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Spencer, Robert. “Does the West Really Have Nothing to Fear from Islam?” In Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions about the World’s Fastest-Growing Faith, 165–76. New York: Encounter Books, 2003.
Ramadan, Tariq. “Interreligious Dialogue” and “Conclusion.” In Western Muslims and the Future of Islam, 200–13, 224–27. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Ramadan, Tariq. “Conclusion.” In Western Muslims and the Future of Islam, 224–27. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.