Week	Date	Lecture Topic	Assignment
	8/29	Organizational Meeting
1	9/1	Middle Eastern Societies Before Islam	Kennedy 1-14
	9/3	Arabia before Muhammad	Kennedy 15-28
	9/5	Section: Pre-Islamic Poetry	Mu'allaqa of Labid (cp)
2	9/8	Muhammad at Mecca	Kennedy, 29-33; Koran, 257-64, 391-435
	9/13	Muhammad at Medina	Kennedy, 33-49; Koran, 165-240; Watt, Islamic Political Thought, 130-35 (cp)
	9/12	Section: The Koran	Koran, 11-60; Lewis, Islam, 2:1-3
3	9/15	Conquest and Empire	Lewis, Islam, 1:1-20, 209-13, 228-41
	9/17	Economic change & urbanism	Islam, 2:124-44; Hitti, 169-77 (r)
	9/19	Section: Religion and Government	Lewis, Islam, 1:149-83
4	9/22	The Four Righteous Caliphs	Kennedy, 50-81; Lewis, Islam, 1:20-24
	9/24	The Umayyads (1)	Kennedy, 82-103
	9/26	Section: The Pirenne Thesis	Tierney, Middle Ages, 41-75 (cp); Lewis, Islam, 2:124-72
5	9/29	The Umayyads (2)	Kennedy, 103-23
	10/1	The Abbasid Revolution	Kennedy, 124-33; Lewis, Islam, 1:24-26; 2:50-81
	10/3	Section: Ma'mun and the Mu'tazila	Tabari, 32:198-223 (cp); Hitti, Makers, 76-94 (r)
6	10/6	Early Abbasids; review for prelim	Kennedy, 133-57
	10/8	Prelim #1
	10/10	No Class: Yom Kippur
7	10/13	Fall Break
	10/15	Early Abbasids	Lewis, Islam, 1:27-39
	10/17	Science and Philosophy	Hitti, 363-407 (r); Lewis, 2:173-92
8	10/20	Middle Abbasids	Kennedy, 158-75; Lewis, Islam, 1:39-42, 184-201
	10/22	Middle Abbasids	Kennedy, 175-99
	10/24	Section: Slavery	Lewis, Islam, 2:236-56
9	10/27	States and Dynasties	Lewis, Islam, 2:69-105
	10/29	Countryside and City	Lewis, Islam, 2:124-72
	10/31	Section: Islamic Law	Koran, 26-42, 60-80; Lewis, Islam, 2:33-49; Mi'yar, 9, 261-66 (cp)
10	11/3	The Buyids	Kennedy, 212-49
	11/5	Kurds, Hamdanids, etc.	Kennedy, 250-308
	11/7	Section: Status of Non-Muslims	Lewis, Islam, 2:217-35
11	11/10	Egypt and the Fatimids	Kennedy, 309-45; Lewis, Islam, 1:43-59; 201-208, 217-18; 2:3-18
	11/12	Seljuks	Kennedy, 346-49; Lewis, Islam, 1:68-76
Change-->	11/14 or 11/15	Islamic Art	Johnson Museum Teaching Room Friday 3:30 -5:00 p.m. and Saturday 10:00-11:30 a.m.. Sign up for one of these two times. No section at 12:20 on Friday.
12	11/17	Al-Andalus	Hitti, 617-32 (r); Lewis, Islam, 1:110-34
	11/19	Crusades	Holt, 1-59; Lewis, Islam, 1:59-67, 218-27
	11/21	Section: Usama b. Munqidh	Hitti, Arab-Syrian Gentleman, 63-133, 161-71 (cp)
13	11/24	Ayyubids	Holt, 60-81
	11/26	Thanksgiving Recess
	11/28	Thanksgiving Recess
14	12/1	Mamluks	Holt, 82-98; Lewis, Islam, 1:97-109
	12/3	Islamic Warfare	Hitti, 709-18 (r); Lewis, Islam, 1::214-27
	12/5	Final Session; review for final
Final	12/19	Final Exam: 9:00-11:30 a.m.

REQUIRED TEXTS Dawood, N. J. (tr.). The Koran. Viking/Penguin ($6.95) Holt, P.M. The Age of the Crusades. Longman ($31.95). Kennedy, H. The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates. Longman ($31.95) Lewis, Islam from the Prophet Muhammad to the Capture of Constantinople, volume 1. Oxford ($13.95) Lewis, Islam from the Prophet Muhammad to the Capture of Constantinople, volume 2. Oxford ($14.95) COURSE PACKET (cp) Mu'allaqa of Labid Watt, Islamic Political Thought, 130-35 Tierney, Middle Ages, 41-75 Tabari, 32:198-223 Mi'yar: 9, 261-66 RESERVE ITEMS (r) Hitti, A History of the Arabs Hitti, Makers, 76-94 Hitti, Arab-Syrian Gentleman, 63-133, 161-71 Back to top of page Back to main course page URL:http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/nes257/syllabus.html Revised 9/2/97 © Jo Miller (djm8@cornell.edu)