Hafta 1
Shahab Ahmed, What is Islam? (2016), chapters 1 -4, pp. 3-297. Guy Burak, The Second Formation of Islamic Law The Hanafi School in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire, (Cambridge, 2015)
Hafta 2
Shahab Ahmed, What is Islam? chapters 5-6, pp. 301-546. Marinos Sariyannis, “The Kadizadeli Movement as a Social and Political Phenomenon: The Rise of a ‘Mercantile Ethic'?”
Hafta 3
Hüseyin Yılmaz, Caliphate Redefined: the Mystical Turn in Ottoman Political Thought, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018). H. Erdem Çıpa, “Empire or Faith: Stretching the Boundaries of the Shariʿa in Ottoman Institutional Practice” Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, Volume 8, Number 2, Winter 2021, pp. 211-225. Tunç Şen, “The Sultan’s Syllabus Revisited: Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Madrasa Libraries and the Question of Canonization” Studia Islamica, May 2021.
Hafta 4
Ahmad Dallal, “The Origins and Early Development of Islamic Reform,” in The New Cambridge History of Islam (2010), vol. 6, 107-47. Required: Metin M. Coşgel, Thomas J. Miceli, Jared Rubin, “The political economy of mass printing: Legitimacy and technological change in the Ottoman Empire” in Journal of Comparative Economics 40 (2012) 357–371. Fazlur Rahman, Islam, (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966), pp.193-235.
Hafta 5
Timur Kuran, the Long Divergence – How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011). Roxanne L. Euben and Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought, Chapter 3 “Sayyid Abu’l-A’la Mawdudi” and “The Islamic Law” pp.79-107.
Hafta 6
Şerif Mardin, The Genesis of Young Ottoman Thought: A Study in the Modernization of Turkish Political Ideas (Princeton, 1962). Albert Hourani, Arabic thought in the liberal age 1789-1939, (Cambridge, 1983) Lettre du Prince Moustafa Fazil a Sa Majesté Abdul Aziz, 1866. Namık Kemal, “ve şavirhüm fi’l-emr” and “usul-ü meşverete dair …” Hürriyet, 1868.
Hafta 7
Azmi Özcan, Pan-Islamism – Indian Muslims, the Ottomans and Britain (1877-1924), (Brill, 1997). Kemal H. Karpat, The Politicization of Islam: Reconstructing Identity, State, Faith, and Community in the Late Ottoman State, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001). ‘Arif, Muhammad, al-Sa‘āda al-Nāmiyya al-Abadiyya fi al-Sikka al-Hadidiyya al-Hijāziyya [The Increasing and Eternal Happiness – the Hejaz Railway] (1900), translation as: Jacob Landau, The Hejaz Railway and the Muslim Pilgrimage (Detroit, 1971), pp. 41-44, 124-129, 144-156.
Hafta 8
Adeeb Khaleed, The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999). David Motadel, “Islam and the European Empires” The Historical Journal, 2012;55(3): 831-856. Nikki R. Keddie, An Islamic Response to Imperialism Political and Religious Writings of Sayyid Jamal ad-Din "al-Afghani", (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968).
Hafta 9
Qasim Amin, The Liberation of Women; and, The New Woman : Two Documents in The History of Egyptian Feminism, translated by Samiha Sidhom Peterson (Cairo: AUC Press, 2000). İsmail Kara and Ali Birinci, eds., Bir Eğitim Tasavvuru Olarak Mahalle/Sıbyan Mektepleri: Hatıralar, Yorumlar, Tetkikler (Istanbul: Dergâh Yayınları, 2005), Jun Akiba, ““Girls Are Also People of the Holy Qur’an” Girls’ Schools and Female Teachers in Pre-Tanzimat Istanbul” Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World 17 (2019) 21–54 Abdullah Cevdet, De la nécessite d’une école pour les éducateurs sociaux, (Paris :1900).
Hafta 10
Leor Halevi, Modern Things on Trial: Islam’s Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865–1935 (Columbia University Press, 2019). Samy Ayoub, Law, empire, and the Sultan: Ottoman imperial authority and late Hanafî jurisprudence, (Oxford, 2020). Malcolm Kerr, Islamic Reform: The Political and Legal Theories of Muhammad ‘Abduh and Rashid Rida (1966), 1-18, 103-52. ‘Abduh, Theology of Unity (1898; 1966).
Hafta 11
Susan Gunasti, The Qur'an between the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic An Exegetical Tradition, (London: Routledge. 2019) Required: Jun Akiba, “From Kadı to Naib: Reorganization of the Ottoman Sharia Judiciary in the Tanzimat Period” in Frontiers of Ottoman Studies, ed. Colin Imber and Keiko Kiyotaki, vol. 1, pp. 43-60. London: I.B. Tauris, 2005. Qasim Zaman, “Islamic Law and ‘Ulama in Colonial India” in the Ulama in Contemporary Islam – Custodians of Change, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002).
Hafta 12
İsmail Kara, “Turban and Fez: Ulema as Opposition,” in Elizabeth Özdalga, Late Ottoman Society: The Intellectual Legacy (London, Routledge, 2005), pp. 162-200. Ümit Kurt, Owen Miller, “Softa and Yafta: Revisiting Power, Protests, and Massacres in the Late Ottoman Empire” in Die Welt des Islams (2025) 1–39. Susan Gunasti, “Late Ottoman Ulama Constitutionalism,” Islamic Law and Society 2016.
Hafta 13
M. Alper Yalçinkaya, Learned Patriots: Debating Science, State, and Society in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015) Ernest Renan, “Islam and Science” (1883) Namık Kemal, “Renan Müdafaanamesi” (1883) Al-Afghani, “Answer to Renan” (1883) Sir Sayyed Ahmad Khan
Hafta 14
Marwa Elshakry, Reading Darwin in the Middle East, 1860-1950, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013). Mahmoud Sadri, “Sacral Defense of Secularism: The Political Theologies of Soroush, Shabestari, and Kadivar” in International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, Vol. 15, No. 2, Winter 2001 Ahmed Rıza, « l’islamisme” » La Revue Occidentale, 1891. Ahmed Rıza, « Tolérance Musulman » La Revue Occidentale, 1896.