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Required Textbooks:
- Karen Armstrong, Islam. A Short History, London: Phoenix Press, 2000. This should be read during the first week of the course.
- Beverley Milton-Edwards, Islamic Fundamentalism since 1945, London, Routledge, 2005.
- Beverley Milton-Edwards, Islam and Politics in the Contemporary World, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2004.
- Gilles Kepel, Jihad. The Trail of Political Islam, London, I.B. Tauris, 2004.
- Pascal Menorett, The Saudi Enigma: History, London, Zed Books, 2005.
Other Mandatory Readings:
- Fawaz Gerges, America and Political Islam, Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- Roger Owen, State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, London, Routledge, 2000.
- Reinhard Schulze, A Modern History of the Islamic World, New York University Press, 2000.
- Fred Halliday, Islam and the myth of confrontation: religion and politics in the Middle East, London, I.B. Tauris, 2003.
- Mir Zohair Husain, Global Islamic Politics, Longman, 2003.
- Amin Saikal, Islam and the West. Conflict or cooperation?, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
- Graham Fuller, The Future of Political Islam, New York, Palgrave, 2004.
- Anthony Shadid, Legacy of the Prophet, Boulder, Westview Press, 2002.
- John Esposito, Unholy War. Terror in the Name of Islam, Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Gilles Kepel, The war for Muslim minds: Islam and the West, Belknap Press, 2004.
- Francois Burgat, L'Islamisme a l'heure d'Al-Qaida, Paris, La Decouverte, 2005. (the book is only in French at the moment).
- Gerd Nonneman, 'Rentiers and autocrats, monarchs and democrats, state and society: the Middle East between globalisation, human 'agency', and Europe', International Affairs, 77, 1, 2001.
- Adrian Karatnycky, 'Muslim countries and the democracy gap', Journal of Democracy, 13, 1, 2002.
- Kazem Alamdari, 'The power structure of the Islamic Republic of Iran: transition from populism to clientelism, and militarization of government', Third World Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 8, 2005.
- Sanford Lakoff, 'The reality of muslim exceptionalism', Journal of Democracy, vol. 15, no. 4, October 2004.
- Fareed Zakaria, 'Islam, democracy and constitutional liberalism', Political Science Quarterly, vol. 119, no. 1, 2004.
- Robbert Woltering, 'The roots of Islamist popularity', Third Worl Quarterly, 23, 6, 2002.
- John Waterbury, 'Hate your policies, love your institutions', Foreign Affairs, 82, 1, 2003.
- James Toth, 'Islamism in Southern Egypt: A case study of a radical religious movement', International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 35, 2003.
- Sheri Berman, 'Islamism, revolution and civil society', Perspectives on Politics, 1, 2, 2003.
- Mona El-Ghobashy, 'The metamorphosis of the Egyptian Muslim Brothers', International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 37, 2005.
- Lisa Anderson, 'Shock and awe. Interpretations of September 11', World Politics, 56, 4, 2004.
- Michael Willis, 'Containing radicalism through the political process in North Africa', Mediterranean Politics, vol. 11, no. 2, 2006.
- Katerina Dalacoura, 'US democracy promotion in the Arab Middle East since 11 September 2001: a critique', International Affairs, vol. 81, no. 5, 2005.
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