RELV225/RELV325 Islam (haust 2011)

Fagleg innhald (kortversjon)

Studenten skal gjennom studiet tileigna seg utdjupa kunnskapar om islam som religion. Både historiske tema og aktuelle tema vert fokusert på: Koranen og Korantolking, hadithlitteraturen, islamsk rettsvitskap, og muslimsk rituelt liv, men også islam og kjønn, muslimske rørsler og retningar, og visuelle uttrykk for muslimske trusforestillingar.

Pensum

Litteratur merka med * er bøker, resten finst i kompendium

Litteratur merka ** kan lastast ned via UiBs nett

Koranen

*Cook, Michael. Koranen: En meget kort introduktion. København: Forlaget Vandkunsten, 2003, ISBN: 87-91393-03-5, ib. [NB! Alternativ om den danske omsettinga ikkje er tilgjengeleg: Cook, Michael. The Koran: A very short introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000]

Robinson, Neal. “The Qur’an as Experienced by Muslims”. I Neal Robinson, Discovering the Qur’an. A Contemporary Approach to a Veiled Text, 2. utg. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2003, s. 9-24, ISBN: 1-58901-024-8

Hadith

Om hadith, sjå Knut Vikør, Mellom Gud og stat, nedafor.

Eit utval hadith, ca. 40 s.

Rettsvitskap

*Vikør, Knut. Mellom Gud og stat: ei historie om islamsk lov og rettsvesen. Oslo: Spartacus, 2003, s. 13-307, ISBN: 82-430-0287-1 ib.

Moors, Annelies. “Registering a Token Dower: The Multiple Meanings of a Legal Practice”, i Baudouin Dupret, Barbara Drieskens og Annelies Moors, Narratives of Truth in Islamic Law. London: I. B. Tauris, 2008, s. 85-104, ISBN: 978-1-84511-187-8

Islam i moderne tid

**Moors, Annelies. “Introduction: Public Debates on Family Law Reform. Participants, Positions, and Styles of Argumentation in the 1990s”. I Islamic Law and Society 10/1, s. 1-11. E-tekst tilgjengeleg via: http://www.jstor.org/stable/i367908

**Bayat, Asef. “Islam and Democracy: What is the Real Question?”. ISIM Paper, 8, Amsterdam University Press, 2007, 14 sider. E-tekst tilgjengeleg via: https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/1887/12452/1/paper_bayat.pdf

**Bayat, Asef. “A Women’s Non-Movement: What it Means to be a Woman Activist in an Islamist State”. I Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, vol. 27, no. 1, 2007, s. 160-172. E-tekst tilgjengeleg via: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/comparative_studies_of_south_asia_africa_and_the_middle_east/v027/27.1bayat.pdf

Sufisme

*Ernst, Carl W. The Shambhala Guide to Sufism. An essential introduction to the philosophy  and practice of the mystical tradition of Islam. Boston og London: Shambhala, 1997, s. 1-228, ISBN: 9781570621802

Shi'a-islam

*Momen, Moojan. An Introduction to Shi‘i Islam. The History and Doctrines of Twelwer  Shi'ism. New Haven og London: Yale University Press, 1985, s. 1-299, ISBN: 9780300035315

Ritualer

Denny, Frederick M. “Islamic ritual”. I Approaches to Islam in Religious Studies, utg. Richard C. Martin, 2. utg. Oxford: Oneworld, 2001, s. 63-77, ISBN: 1-85168-268-6

Roff, William R. «Pilgrimage and the history of religions: Theoretical approaches to the hajj.» I Approaches to Islam in Religious Studies, utg. Richard C. Martin, 2. utg. Oxford: Oneworld, 2001, s. 78-89, ISBN: 1-85168-268-6

Flaskerud, Ingvild. “‘Oh, my heart is sad. It is Moharram, the month of Zaynab’: The role of aesthetics and women’s mourning ceremonies in Shiraz”, i Kamran Scot Aghaie (red.), The women of Karbala: Ritual performance and symbolic discourses in modern Shi‘i Islam, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005, s. 65-92, ISBN: 0292709366

Graham, William A. “Islam in the Mirror of Ritual”, i R. G. Hovannisian og Speros Vryonis jr. (red.), Islam’s Understanding of Itself, Malibu, California: Undene Publications, 1983, s. 53-71, ISBN: 0890031355

Lasarus-Yafeh, Hava. “Muslim Festivals”, i Hava Lasarus-Yafeh, Some Religious Aspects of  Islam, Leiden, 1978, s. 38-47 og 143-145 (noter), ISBN: 90-04-06329-3

Lasarus-Yafeh, Hava. “The Religious Dialectics of the Hadjdj”, i Hava Lasarus-Yafeh, Some  Religious Aspects of Islam, Leiden, Brill, 1978, s. 17-37 og 136-142 (noter), ISBN: 90-04-06329-3

Visuell kultur

**D’Alisera, JoAnn, “I © Islam: Popular Religious Commodities, Sites of Inscription, and Transnational Sierra Leonean Identity”, i Journal of Material Culture 6 (2001), 91-110. E-tekst tilgjengeleg via: http://mcu.sagepub.com/content/vol6/issue1/

**Starrett, Gregory, “The Political Economy of Religious Commodities in Cairo”, i American Anthropologist 97 (1995), 51-68. E-tekst tilgjengeleg via: http://www.jstor.org/stable/i227567

RJN & MB 5. mai 2011