ISLAMIC STUDIES

L-OR/10 - 6 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

LAURA BOTTINI


Detailed Course Content

The course includes two modules.

The first module aims at defining Islam as a “religious phenomenon”. Particular attention will be paid to the Qur'ān and the sense of revelation, to the concept of prophecy and the sources of authority, to the emergence of different religious currents as well as to the formation of legal and theological schools both Sunni and Shiʽi.

The second module aims at retracing the expansion and the formation of the Islamic empire, and finally its progressive fragmentation in a series of new state entities and new forms of power. Particular attention will be paid to the caliphate institution, following its transformations over the centuries.



Textbook Information




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