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HIST 618

Islamic Thought, Law and Society in the Modern Age

This is a graduate seminar tracing how Muslim societies, Ottoman and beyond, rethought law, politics, and faith from roughly the late premodern period through the colonial encounter, treating "reform" not as a single liberalizing arc but as competing responses to sharia, caliphate, constitutionalism, and European power. Weekly work centers on heavy primary and secondary readings (Shahab Ahmed, Hourani, Mardin, Kuran, plus Ottoman pamphlets and translated Arabic sources), one presentation, sustained in-class participation, and two essays culminating in a research paper. It assumes you can already read scholarly historiography critically, and it feeds directly into thesis work on late Ottoman, Middle Eastern, or Islamicate intellectual history.

Kredi3ECTS5FakülteFaculty of Economics, Administrative, and Social SciencesBölümHistoryKoordinatörBerke Torunoğlu

Haftalık müfredat 14 hafta

Hafta 114–20 Eyl
İslam nedir sorusu ve Hanefî hukukun kuruluşu
 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)
Shahab Ahmed What is Islam? Bölüm 1-4Guy Burak Second Formation of Islamic Lawerken modern Osmanlı Hanefîliği
Hafta 221–27 Eyl
İslam'ı tanımlama ve Kadızadeli hareketi
 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'?”
Shahab Ahmed What is Islam? Bölüm 5-6Marinos SariyannisKadızadeli hareketimercantile ethic
Hafta 328 Eyl – 4 Eki
Osmanlı siyasi düşüncesinde hilafet ve şeriat
 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.
Hüseyin Yılmaz Caliphate Redefinedmystical turnH. Erdem Çıpa şeriatın sınırlarıTunç Şen medrese kütüphaneleri
Hafta 45–11 Eki
İslami reformun kökenleri ve matbaanın ekonomi politiği
 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.
Islamic reformmass printingOttoman EmpireFazlur Rahman
Hafta 512–18 Eki
İslam hukuku ve ekonomik geri kalma tartışması
 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.
Timur Kuran The Long DivergencePrinceton Readings in Islamist ThoughtMevdudiThe Islamic Law
Hafta 619–25 Eki
Yeni Osmanlılar ve meşveret düşüncesi
 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.
Şerif Mardin Genesis of Young Ottoman ThoughtAlbert Hourani Arabic Thought in the Liberal AgeMustafa Fazıl Paşa'nın mektubu 1866Namık Kemal Hürriyet 1868
Hafta 726 Eki – 1 Kas
Pan-Islamism ve Hejaz Railway
 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.
Pan-IslamismHejaz RailwayKemal H. Karpatgeç Osmanlı
Hafta 82–8 Kas
Cedidizm, Avrupa imparatorlukları ve al-Afghani
 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).
JadidismCentral AsiaIslam and the European EmpiresSayyid Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani
Hafta 99–15 Kas
Kadın, eğitim ve mektepler tartışması
 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).
Qasim Amin The Liberation of Womensıbyan mektepleriJun Akiba kız mektepleriAbdullah Cevdet toplumsal eğitimciler okulu
Hafta 1016–22 Kas
İslam hukukunda modernleşme ve ıslah düşüncesi
 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).
Leor Halevi Modern Things on TrialSamy Ayoub geç Hanefî fıkhıMalcolm Kerr Islamic ReformAbduh Theology of Unity
Hafta 1123–29 Kas
Şeriat yargısının yeniden örgütlenmesi ve tefsir geleneği
 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).
Susan Gunasti The Qur'an between Empire and RepublicJun Akiba kadıdan naibeTanzimat şer'î yargı reformuQasim Zaman sömürge Hindistan'ında ulema
Hafta 1230 Kas – 6 Ara
Muhalefet olarak ulema ve Osmanlı anayasacılığı
 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.
İsmail Kara Turban and FezÜmit Kurt ve Owen Miller softa ve yaftageç Osmanlı toplumsal protestolarıSusan Gunasti ulema anayasacılığı
Hafta 137–13 Ara
Osmanlı'da bilim, İslam ve Renan tartışması
 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
M. Alper Yalçınkaya Learned PatriotsErnest Renan Islam and Science 1883Namık Kemal Renan MüdafaanamesiAl-Afghani Answer to Renan
Hafta 1414–20 Ara
Ortadoğu'da Darwin ve laiklik teolojileri
 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.
Marwa Elshakry Reading DarwinMahmoud Sadri sacral defense of secularismSoroush Shabestari KadivarAhmed Rıza l'islamisme

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Presentations A 10-15-minute oral presentation of the weekly readings. 15%
In-class participation Preparation of readings and active class participation. 15%
Essay A critical review (about 1,000 words) of a book 20%
Research essay theoretically informed historiographical essay 50%
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