Security and Foreign Policy in the Muslim World

Security and Foreign Policy in the Muslim WorldInstructor: Dr. Jaan Islam Date times: June 28 August 16, Sundays 12 PM 2 PM US Eastern Standard Time Course level: Intermediate Advanced Course description: How do shifts in global power affect the prospects for independence in the Muslim world? How can political actors craft realistic foreign policies grounded in the Islamic tradition? This landmark course introduces a new paradigm to security and international relations (IR) in the Muslim world.

Abdulhamid’s reign was the longest in two centuries

the rise of Selim I and his decisive defeat of the Mamluks

The course will also examine institutional changes and other people who had been part of the process in achieving the victory

Ibn Khaldūn or other Islamic authors and demonstrate the consistency and strength of Islamic historiography

and what an Islamic economic alternative might look like

Possible makeup/review

(c) development of Islamic sciences

Umayyad strife

Theorizing a framework of Political jurisprudence (siyasa shari’yya) from the tradition

Islamic Economy between Capitalism and

A Series of Defeats

and the relationship between agency and international structure