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FA 2011
Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Turkish, and Islamic Studies
AAPTIS
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First Year Seminar in Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Turkish, and Islamic Studies
Section
001
Religion and Revolutions: A Comparison of the French, Russian, Turkish and Iranian Cases
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Course Note:
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First year seminar to be offered on special topics. Courses would not be part of the permanent curriculum, but offered by visiting faculty or permanent faculty for special purposes.
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Credits:
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3
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Requirements & Distribution:
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HU
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Other:
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FYSem
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Waitlist Capacity:
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99
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Advisory Prerequisites:
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Enrollment restricted to first-year students, including those with sophomore standing.
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Repeatability:
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May not be repeated for credit.
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Primary Instructor:
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Cipa,Hakki Erdem
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(real time availability for all sections)
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This course raises the central questions concerning the struggle between the received dogma of religion, and freedom of thought and conscience by focusing on issues such as:
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Views of the 18th century on Man, religion, and reason
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efforts of the 19th century thinkers like Marx, Comte, Durkheim, Weber to change society in a more “rational” direction
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role of the French Revolution in bringing down the traditional underpinnings of European society
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Russian Revolution and the development of the Marxist position on religion
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Turkish secularist revolution and the destruction of the Ottoman Empire
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Iranian Civilization and the Iranian Revolution
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Huntington’s concept of the “Clash of Civilizations.”
Among the questions we will be dealing with are:
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Is it possible to have a “secular” world?
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Is it still possible to have a unified “religious”
vision?
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What is the relationship of “religion” to a “secular” state or to a “secular” public?
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How can religious traditions relate to each other, in a constructive and creative fashion, without descending into violence, at a time when they are obliged to come into closer and more intimate relations with each other than ever before?
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What is the relationship between religion and revolution?
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Is religion on the way out, or is it on the way in?
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What contributes to the phenomenal rise in fundamentalist commitment in so many places?
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Are there exceptions?
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Are we condemned to have a Star Wars like “clash of civilizations” between Islam and “the West”?
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