Competing conceptions of the ideology of “jihad in the path of God” in classical and modern Islamic thought and practice. Warfare and military conquest? An interior spiritual struggle to be a better person? Both? Something else? Examine how Muslims have answered these pressing existential questions in the context of the early Islamic imperial conquests, the Crusader period, the early modern Islamic empires, 19th- and 20th-century jihadist movements, and the post-9/11 world.
Prerequisite
3 credits of HIST; Sophomore standing.
Textbooks and Materials
Section 801
Required
- Jihad and Jew Hatred: Islamism, Nazism, and the Roots of 9/11 (2007)
Matthias Küntzel
ISBN: 978-0914386391 - Understanding Jihad, 2nd Ed. (2015)
David Cook
ISBN: 978-0520287327 - The Al Qaeda Reader: The Essential Texts of Osama Bin Laden’s Terrorist Organization (2007)
Ibrahim, Raymond
ISBN: 978-0767922623
Textbooks and materials can be purchased at the CSU Bookstore unless otherwise indicated.
Instructors
James E. Lindsay
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james.lindsay@colostate.edu
I joined the Department of History at Colorado State University in 1996. My teaching repertoire includes courses on ancient, medieval, and modern Middle East history. My research is focused on the history and historiography of the Islamic Near East in the middle ages.
Learn more at: http://history.colostate.edu/people/lindsayj/
