Syllabus for Seminar Religion 8480:  Research in Islamic Studies     

Dr. Godlas   Spring 2006

Tues/Thurs 12:30-1:45  Seminar Room, Peabody

godlas@uga.edu   542-1486

 

Course Objective: To become proficient in the skills necessary for doing M.A. and Ph.D. level research in Islamic Studies and Arabic.

 

Topical Outline:

Resources in Western Languages:

Library of Congress, Arabic Romanization  (& online at Dr. G's website)

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/arabic.pdf

Encyclopedia of Religion, ed. Eliade

Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World

Encyclopaedia of Islam

Index Islamicus  and Inter-library loan office

Brockelmann, Geschichte Der Arabischen Litteratur

Sezgin, Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums

Wright, A Grammar of the Arabic Language

E.W. Lane, Arabic-English Lexicon

The Chicago Manual of Style

 

Resources in Arabic

Muhammad Fu'ad, al-Mu'jam al-mufahras  li-alfaz al-Qur'an al-karim

Wensinck, Concordance et indices de la tradition musulmane (al-Mu'jam al-mufahras  li-alfaz al-hadith al-nabawi)

Al-Zirikli, al-'Alam

Kahhalah, Mu'jam al-mu'allifin

 

Online Resources:

Online Unicode Fonts for Transliterating Arabic: See Dr. Godlas' website

Arabic Papyrology School:

http://orientx.unizh.ch:8080/aps_test_2/home/index.jsp

Online Qur'an and Hadith Searching in English, see Dr. G's website.

"Arabicizing Your Computer," see Dr. G's website.

Searching Google in Arabic

Al-Waraq Online Library of Arabic Texts

http://www.alwaraq.com

Online Arabic Dictionaries at alwaraq.com:

á  Lisan al-'Arab of Ibn Manzur.

á  Taj al-'Arus of Zabidi.

Online hadith index of the major hadith collections: http://hadith.al-islam.com/

Online Qur'an and tafsir search at http://www.altafsir.com/

 

Texts:

Khalid Abou el Fadl, Great Theft

Bruce Lawrence, Messages to the World: Statements of Osama Bin Laden

Online texts of Osama Bin Laden

 

Method:

Presentations by instructor and students.  Student research based on the Great Theft and Messages to the World , and also research paper.

 

Grading:  Based on Student projects and attendance

 

Honesty Policy

The UGA Academic Honesty Policy will be followed.  See http://www.uga.edu/ovpi/academic_honesty/academic_honesty.htm

 

Changes to this Syllabus

The instructor reserves the right to make any changes to this syllabus.  Changes will be posted on WebCT.