TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Elective Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Doctorate Of Science
YEAR OF STUDY	-
SEMESTER	-
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	10
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	Professor Menderes Çınar Professor Banu Eligür
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) Learn the convergences and divergences of Islamisms as far as their social bases and political agendas are concerned, 2) Learn the specific historical, social and regional context of the difference of the Is-lamist movements, 3) Learn the relations between state, Islam and secularism and their impact on Islam-isms 4) Develop an understanding about the historicity of the concepts like the West, Westernization, secu-larism and Islam.
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	No
COURSE DEFINITION	This course rests on the postulate that Islamism is a social movement originating from the historical, societal and political contexts of Muslims rather than from the Islam itself as claimed in some Orientalist approaches. The course analyses the Islamism of Egypt, Malaysia, Indonesia and Turkey in a comparative perspective. This analysis scrutinises, whether or not there are foundational ideologies shaping Islamisms; if there are what are their successes and failures and influences on Islamisms; the conditions under which Islamist politics develops; the actors of Islamist politics and their interaction with the national and international contexts, by adopting democratization and moderation theories.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Introduction 2nd Week The Birth of Islamism and its principles 3rd Week Approaches to Islamism 4th Week The Problem of Orientalism/cultural essentialism 5th Week The role and place of Islam in the postcolonial constitutions of the nations 6th Week The founding ideologies, state capacities and secularisms 7th Week Social and political development of modern Islamist movements 8th Week Mid-term 9th Week Integration of Islam into political process and the nature of its interaction 10th Week Integration of Islam into political process and the nature of its interaction 11th Week Integration of Islam into political process and the nature of its interaction 12th Week Generational Differences in Islamism 13th Week Turkish Exceptionalism? 14th Week Conclusions and general evaluation
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Abdul Rahman Embong, State-led Modernization and the New Middle Class in Malaysia, (Palgrave: New York, 2002). Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid, ?Islamist Realignments and Rebranding of the Muslim Youth Movement of Malaysia,? Contemporary Southeast Asia, 30, 2 (2008): 215-240. Alexander Flores, ?Secularism, Integralism and Political Islam: The Egyptian Debate,? in Political Islam: Essays from Middle East Report (London: I.B Tauris, 1997). Anthony Shadid, Legacy of the Prophet: Despots, Democrats, and the New Politics of Islam (Boulder, CO: Westview, 2002). Antony Bubalo et al. Zealus Democrats: Islamism and Democracy in Egypt, Indonesia and Turkey, Lowy Institute for International Policy, New South Wales, Australia, 2008. Asef Bayat, Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 2007. Augustus Richard Norton, ?Thwarted Politics: The Case of Egypt?s Hizb al-Wasat,? in Remaking Muslim Politics: Pluralism, Contestation, Democratization, Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2005. Ben Thurkell-White, ?Political Islam and Malaysian Democracy,? Democratization, 13, 3 (2006): 421-441. Bjorn Olav Utvik, Islamist Economics in Egypt, Lynne Reinner Publishers, Boulder and London, 2006. Bridget Welsh, ?Real Change? Elections in the reformasi Era,? in The State of Malaysia: Ethnicity, Equity and Reform, ed. Edmund Terence Gomez, RoutledgeCurzon, London and New York, 2004. Bruce K. Rutherford, Egypt after Mubarak: Liberalism, Islam, and Democracy in the Arab World, Princeton University Burhanettin Duran, ?The Justice and Development Party?s `New Politics?: Steering Toward Conservative Democracy, a Revised Islamic Agenda or Management of New Crises?,? in Secular and Islamic Politics in Turkey: The Making of the Justice and Development Party, ed. Umit Cizre (London, Routledge, 2008). Carrie Rosefsky Wickham, ?The Path to Moderation: Strategy and Learning in the Formation of Egypt?s Wasat Party,? Comparative Politics, 36, 2 (January, 2004): 205-228. Carrie Rosefsky Wickham, Mobilizing Islam: Religion, Activism, and Social Change in Egypt (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002). Christina Phelps Harris, Nationalism and Revolution in Egypt: The Role of the Muslim Brotherhood, (Mouton & Co, The Hague: London and Paris, 1964). Cihan Tugal, ?The Appeal of Islamic Politics: Ritual and Dialogue in a Poor District of Turkey,? The Sociological Quarterly, 47 (2006): 245-273. Cihan Tuğal, Passive Revolution: Absorbing the Islamic Challange to Capitalism, (Standford University Press: Stanford, California, 2009). Daniel Blumberg, ?Rhetoric and Strategy: Islamic Movements and Democracy in the Middle East,? in Martin Kramer, ed., The Islamism Debate (Tel Aviv University: Moshe Dayan Center, 1997). Diane K. Mauzy, ?From Malay Nationalism to a Malaysian Nation?,? After Independence: Making and Protecting the Nation in Postcolonial and PostCommunist States, ed. Lowell W. Barrington, (The Univeristy of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor, 2006): 45-70. Diane Singerman, ?Rewriting Divorce in Egypt: Reclaiming Islam, Legal Activism and Coalition Politics,? in Remaking Muslim Politics: Pluralism, Contestation, Democratization, Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2005. Edmund Terence Gomez, ?Introduction: Politics, Business and Ethnicity in Malaysia: A State in Transition?,? in The State of Malaysia: Ethnicity, Equity and Reform, RoutledgeCurzon, London and New York, 2004.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Discussion,Presentation
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Assignment 3 40 Project 1 60 Total(%) 100 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 100 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 0 Total(%) 100
ECTS WORKLOAD	Activities Number Hours Workload Midterm exam Preparation for Quiz Individual or group work 14 8 112 Preparation for Final exam Course hours 14 3 42 Preparation for Midterm exam Laboratory (including preparation) Final exam Homework 3 25 75 Project 1 80 80 Total Workload 309 Total Workload / 30 10,3 ECTS Credits of the Course 10
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	Turkish
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No