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    Arab-Islamic History: From Tribes to Empires

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    IsraelX , Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv via Edx

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    Duration

    8 Weeks

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    Free

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    Medium of instructions English
    Mode of learning Self study
    Mode of Delivery Video and Text Based
    Learning efforts 3-4 Hours Per Week

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    The syllabus

    Lesson 1: Early Islamic Arabia

    • 1.1: Introduction
    • 1.2: Pre-Islamic Arabia: The Local Scene
    • 1.3 Pre-Islamic Arabia: The Regional Scene
    • 1.4: Muhammad: The Individual
    • 1.5: Muhammad: The Community Leader
    • 1.6 Early Muslim Sources
    • Historian's Lab: Introduction
    • 1.7: Lesson’s Wrap Up - Early Islamic Arabia
    • Lesson 1: Quiz
    • Lesson 1: Discussion forum

    Lesson 2: Introducing the First Muslim States: The Rashidun & Umayyads

    • 2.1: The Transition Period after Muhammad’s Death
    • 2.2: Rashidun: the Rightly Guided Caliphs and the First Islamic State
    • 2.3: The Umayyad Dynasty
    • 2.4: The early Territorial Expansion
    • 2.5: Early Islamic Bureaucracy & Rulership
    • 2.6: Early Islamic Identity
    • Historian's Lab: Reading in a Muslim Chronicle
    • 2.7: Lesson’s Wrap Up - The First Muslim States: The Rashidun & Umayyads
    • Lesson 2: Quiz
    • Lesson 2: Discussion forum

    Lesson 3: The Abbasids - When Baghdad and the Arabs Ruled the World

    • 3.1: The Abbasid Coming to Power
    • 3.2: The Advent of Concubines and the Creation of the Harem
    • 3.3: The Abbasid Bureaucracy
    • Historian’s Lab - The Abbasid Harem: The View from Within
    • 3.4: Decentralization and the Meaning of Sovereignty
    • 3.5: The Limits of Abbasid Rule: the Buyhids and the Seljuks
    • 3.6: Threats on Abbasid Legitimation: The Umayyads in Iberia and the Fatimids in North Africa to Syria
    • 3.7: The Crusades and The Rise of Saladin
    • 3.8: Lesson’s Wrap Up - The Abbasid Period
    • Lesson 3 - Quiz
    • Lesson 3: Discussion forum

    Lesson 4: Turkic Peoples in the Pre-Modern Islamic World

    • 4.1: Acquaintance With the Turkic Peoples
    • 4.2: The Turkish Makeover: From Slaves to Rulers
    • 4.3: The Seljuk State: Changes and Legacies
    • Historian's Lab – Reconstructing Everyday Realities from Poetry and Artefacts
    • 4.4: The Birth of "Turkey"
    • 4.5: The Mamluk Sultanate: Military Slaves Turned Sultans
    • 4.6: The Mamluk Sultanate: The End
    • 4.7: Lesson’s Wrap Up - Turkic Peoples in the Pre-Modern Islamic World
    • Lesson 4: Quiz
    • Lesson 4: Discussion forum

    Lesson 5: The Mongols and the Post-Mongol Islamic world, 13th - 16th centuries

    • 5.1: The Beginning of the Muslim-Mongol Relations
    • 5.2: Interview with Prof. Michal Biran - The Mongol Conquest and its Long-term Legacies
    • 5.3: Mongol Influences on the Middle East: The establishment of the Mamluk Sultanate
    • 5.4: Mongol Influences: The Muslim-Mongol Dynasties
    • Historian’s Lab - Monuments that speak: Central Asian material culture
    • 5.5: Lesson’s Wrap Up - The Mongols and the Post-Mongol Islamic world
    • Lesson 5: Quiz
    • Lesson 5: Discussion forum
    • Part A Wrap Up - the Political Framework of the Rise of Muslim States and Empires

    Lesson 6: Environments, Societies, Individuals

    • 6.1: Intro to part B of the Course
    • 6.2: Typology of Urban Settlements in the Medieval Middle East
    • 6.3: Interview with Prof. Gideon Avni - The Changing Landscape and Settlements of the Middle East
    • 6.4: Philanthropy and its Importance in an Urban Setting
    • 6:5 Social Urban Institutions: Mosques and Hammams
    • 6.6: The Legal Systems of an Urban Community
    • Historian’s Lab - A View from the Outside: A Traveler Describes a Muslim Settlement
    • 6.7: Lesson’s Wrap Up - Men and the Landscape in the Middle East
    • Lesson 6 - Quiz
    • Lesson 6: Discussion forum

    Lesson 7: Religious Identities in the Middle East: Islam, Christianity, and Judaism

    • 7.1: The Religious Mosaic of the Middle East
    • 7.2: The formation of the Shiites: A three-hundred years process
    • Historian's Lab - The Shiite concept of rulership
    • 7.3: Christians and Jews: Theology and Legal Status
    • 7.4: The everyday realities of Non-Muslims in the Middle East
    • 7.5: Jerusalem: The Islamic Perspective
    • 7.6: Conversion to Islam in the Medieval Middle East
    • 7.7: Lesson’s Wrap Up: Religious Identities
    • Lesson 7: Quiz
    • Lesson 7: Discussion forum

    Lesson 8: Cultural Identities in the Middle East

    • 8.1: Cultural Identities in the Middle East
    • 8.2: Arab Identity: Shared experience, a local specific experience
    • 8.3: Arab culture: Orality and Written Language
    • 8.4: Persian-Muslim Culture
    • Historian's Lab - Illumination of Manuscripts: Persian art of Miniatures
    • 8.5: The Translation Project
    • 8.6: The Islamicate Culture
    • 8.7: Lesson’s Wrap Up - Cultural Identities
    • Lesson 8: Quiz
    • Lesson 8: Discussion forum
    • Final Exam
    • Course Wrap-Up

    Final Historian's Lab

    • Final Historian's Lab

    Instructors

    Ms Miri Shefer Mossensohn

    Ms Miri Shefer Mossensohn
    Professor
    Tel Aviv University,...

    Other Bachelors, Ph.D

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