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Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences

History and Civilization
Bachelor of Human Sciences (History and Civilization)
Islh and Tajdd Movements in the Muslim World
HIST 3410
Core
Undergraduate
3
3
All semesters
Islah and Tajdid, or reform and revival activities in the Muslim world, is
indeed an important and ongoing phenomenon in Islamic history. Prophet
Muhamed (s.a.w.) is reputed as al Muslih al-Azim (Reformer Par
Excellence) and al-Khulafa al-Rashidun (The Rightly - Guided Caliphs)
had their distinguished contribution in this respect. Whenever a Muslim
society experiences decay, there will be reformers calling for the removal
of al-Bidac (un-Islamic practices) and the return with Islam to its original
purity. This course looks into the contribution of some early Mujaddids,
but the emphasis will be on the history of the movement since the 18th
century.
The basic objectives of the course are three:
1. To familiarize the students with the ongoing concept of Islah and Tajdid
that is based on the all important principle of Ijtihad.
Ijtihad.
2. To study the various approaches to cure the malaise of the Ummah in
modern times.
3. To acquaint the students with the role and scholarship of some Muslim
thinkers and activists in pre-modern and modern times.
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
1. analyze the intellectual legacy of Islam in pre-modern and modern times;
2. identify the Islamic and secular-oriented responses to the ongoing
challenge of Westernization in the Muslim World;
3. use appropriate skills to evaluate the merits of source materials, e.g.
documents, manuscripts, books and articles, on the issue of Tajdid;
Tajdid; and
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4. promote innovative and relevant programmes of Da wah that emphasize
the flexibility and universality of Islam.
content based teaching, task - based teaching
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Method

State weightage of each

type of assessment

1,2,3,4
1,2,3
1,2,3,4
1,2,3,4

Mid-term Exam
Open Book Exam
Test
Final Examination

30
10
20
40
100

Total
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Arshad Islam

Instructor (s)
Content Outlines
Weeks
1.

Topics
Definition of the terms Islah and Tajdid

Readings
Merad (1991): 141-163

2.

Survey of the role of some early Mujadids, particularly

al-Ghazali (1058-1111),
Ibn Taymiyyah (1263-1328), and
Al-Shatibi (d. 1388)

The Encyclopedia of Islam,

vol. II, (1979): 1039-1041;
Vol., III, (1979): 951-954;
Vol., IX, (1997): 364-366

3.

The Muwahidun (popularly known as the Wahhabi) movement

4.

Shah Wali Allah (1703-1762)

5.

The Challenge of Westernization

Lewis (1990): 98-99

Voll (1991): 59-62, 125-126,
128-131, 172-174 and 284286
Al-Ghazali (2001): 89-102;
Farooqui (2003): 177-194;
Arshad (2004): 81-102
Abu Sulayman (1993): 1-34

6.

The Islamic Movement in South Asia

Moten (2002): 59-96

7.

Saiyid Ahmad Khan (1817-1898)

8.

Jamal al-Din al-Afghani (1838-1897)

Zobairi (1971): 140-218;

Arshad (2007): 27-57
Hourani (1990): 103-129

9.

Muhammad Abduh (1849-1905)

Hourani (1990): 130-160

10.

Rashid Rida ( 1865-1935)

Hourani (1990): 222-244

11.

Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938)

12.

Saiyid Abu Acla al-Mawdudi (1903-1979)

13.

Hassan al-Banna (1906-1949)

Saiyidain (1977): 100-158;

Moinul Haq (1979): 503-530
Moten (2002): 17-25
Muslim World (July-October
2003): 391-413, 429-65 and
465-85
Mitchell (1993): 1-7

14.

An Overview of the Tajdid movement in South East Asia

Eliraz (2002): 47-77

References

Required
2

Hourani, Albert. (1990). Arabic thought in the Liberal Age 1798-1939.

1798-1939. London,
Oxford University Press.
Merad, A. (1979). The Encyclopedia of Islam (Vol. IV). Leiden: E. J. Brill.
Recommended:
Abdul Rashid, Moten. (2002). Revolution to revolution: Jamacat-E- Islmi in the politics
of Pakistan. Kuala Lumpur: Islamic Book Trust.
Abdul Hamid, Abu Sulayman.(1993). Crisis in the Muslim mind. Virginia: International
Institute of Islamic Thought.
Ali, Rehnama. (1995). Pioneers of Islamic Revival.
Revival. Kuala Lumpur: SIRD
Eliraz, G. (2002). The Islamic Reformist Movement in the Malay-Indonesian World in
the first four decades of the 20th century: Insights gained from a comparative look at
Egypt Studia Islamika (9, 2) 47-87.
Farooqui, Jamil. (2003). Sociological Thought of Shah Wali Allah Al-Dehlawi.
Al-Dehlawi. The
Islamic Quarterly;
Quarterly; Vol. XL VII, Number 3, 177- 194.
Islam, Arshad. (2004). Shah Waliullah Dehlavi: Some Aspects of his Life and Works
(1703-1762), Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society, Vol. LII, No. 3, pp. 81-110.
Islam, Arshad. (2007). Saiyid Ahmad Khan and the Muslim Shift to Modern Education,
Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society--All India Muslim League Centenary Special
Number, part 1, Vol. LIV, Nos. 1&2, pp. 27-64.
Lewis, Bernard. (1990). The Middle East and the West.
West. New York: Harper Torchbooks.
Muhmmad, Al-Ghazali. (2001). State and politics in the philosophy of Shah Wali Allah.
Islamabad: International Islamic Institute Thought.
Mitchell, R. P. (1993). The society of Muslim brotherhood.
brotherhood. London: Oxford University
Press.
Sayyid, Abul Acla Maududi. (1986). A short history of the revivalist movement in Islam
Tr. Al-Ashari, Lahore. The Islamic Publication Ltd.
Saiyidain, K.G. (1977). Iqbals Educational Philosophy.
Philosophy. Lahore: Sh. Muhammad Ashraf.
S. Moinul Haq. (1979). Islamic Thought and Movements in the subcontinent (711-1947),
(711-1947),
Karachi: Pakistan Historical Society.

2.

Voll, John Obert (1994). Islam: continuity and change in the modern world. Syracuse,
New York: Syracuse University Press.
Zobairi, Riazuddin H. (1987). The Educational and Social Ideas of Sir Syed Ahmad
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Khan.
Khan. (Southern Illinois University, Ph. D. thesis 1971), Ann Arbor, Michigan: University
Microfilms International,
3.
Proposed Start
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Students to be
affected
Prepared by:
Dr. Wan Suhana Wan Sulong

Checked by:

Approved by:

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Arshad Islam

Dr. Badri Najib Zubir