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Introduction to Islam, 15 credits

Swedish name: Introduktion till islam
This syllabus is valid: 2020-04-13 valid to 2025-02-23 (newer version of the syllabus exists)
Syllabus for courses starting before 2025-02-23
Course code: 1RE216
Credit points: 15
Education level: First cycle
Main Field of Study and progress level: Religion and Theology: First cycle, has only upper-secondary level entry requirements
Grading scale: Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail
Responsible department: Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies
Established by: Faculty director of studies, Faculty of arts, 2020-04-16

Required Knowledge

General entry requirements

Literature

Cook Michael
The Koran : a very short introduction
Oxford : Oxford University Press : 2000 : 162 p :
ISBN: 0-19-285344-9
Mandatory
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Curtis Edward E.
Islam in Black America : identity, liberation, and difference in African-American Islamic thought
Albany : State University of New York Press : 2002. : x, 174 s. :
ISBN: 0-7914-5369-3
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Donner Fred McGraw
Muhammad and the believers : at the origins of Islam
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press : 2010 : xviii, 280 s. :
ISBN: 9780674050976
Mandatory
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Green Nile.
Sufism : a global history
Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwee : 2012 : 263 s. :
ISBN: 9781405157612
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Hjärpe Jan
Bilden av profeten : berättelserna om Muhammed och deras funktion förr och nu
Stockholm : Leopard : 2011 : 160 s. :
ISBN: 9789173433273
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Hughes Aaron W
Muslim Identities : An Introduction to Islam
New York : Columbia University Press : 328s. : 2013 :
Mandatory

Metcalf Barbara Daly
Islam in South Asia in practice
Princeton : Princeton University Press : cop. 2009 : xxv, 474 p. :
ISBN: 9780691044217
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Islam : en religionsvetenskaplig introduktion
Olsson Susanne, Sorgenfrei Simon
1. uppl. : Stockholm : Liber : 2015 : 351 s. :
ISBN: 9789147112043
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Sorgenfrei Simon
Islam i Sverige : de första 1300 åren
Bromma : Myndigheten för stöd till trossamfund : [2018] : 347 sidor :
ISBN: 9789198345322
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Jihad and death : the global appeal of Islamic State
Roy Olivier, Schoch Cynthia
London : C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd. : 2017 : vi, 130 pages :
ISBN: 1849046980
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Bernström Mohammed Knut
Koranens budskap : med kommentarer och noter
Stockholm : Proprius : 2002 : xii, [2],1166, [1] s. :
ISBN: 91-7118-899-1 : 112:00
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Ali Kecia
The lives of Muhammad
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press : 2014 : 342 s. :
ISBN: 978-0-674-05060-0
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Bernström Mohammed Knut
Koranens budskap : med kommentarer och noter
Stockholm : Proprius : 2002 : xii, [2],1166, [1] s. :
ISBN: 91-7118-899-1 : 112:00
Mandatory
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Cook Michael
The Koran : a very short introduction
Oxford : Oxford University Press : 2000 : 162 p :
ISBN: 0-19-285344-9
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

Green Nile.
Sufism : a global history
Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwee : 2012 : 263 s. :
ISBN: 9781405157612
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

Hjärpe Jan
Bilden av profeten : berättelserna om Muhammed och deras funktion förr och nu
Stockholm : Leopard : 2011 : 160 s. :
ISBN: 9789173433273
Mandatory
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Metcalf Barbara Daly
Islam in South Asia in practice
Princeton : Princeton University Press : cop. 2009 : xxv, 474 p. :
ISBN: 9780691044217
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

Islam : en religionsvetenskaplig introduktion
Olsson Susanne, Sorgenfrei Simon
1. uppl. : Stockholm : Liber : 2015 : 351 s. :
ISBN: 9789147112043
Mandatory
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Jihad and death : the global appeal of Islamic State
Roy Olivier, Schoch Cynthia
London : C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd. : 2017 : vi, 130 pages :
ISBN: 1849046980
Mandatory
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Shepard William E.
Introducing islam
2nd ed. : New York, NY : Routledge : 2014 : xxiv, 424 s. :
ISBN: 9780415533454
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Brockopp Jonathan E.
The Cambridge Companion to Muḥammad
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 2010. :

Cook Michael
The New Cambridge History of Islam. Volume 1–6
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 2010 :