Università Roma Tre

The course is aimed to provide students with an exhaustive picture of the main events in the history of Islamic countries, from the advent of the prophet Muḥammad, up to the main events that have marked the medieval, modern and contemporary ages. In order to have a greater understanding of the historical-cultural horizon in which these events unfold, monographic lessons will be provided on specific themes, i.e. on the main institutions on which the Arab-Islamic world is still built today - starting from the Holy Book of Islam, the Koran, which expresses the Law of Islam (Šarī'a), passing through the sunna (Tradition), which integrates and clarifies the Koran, and the law (fiqh) which makes the Law accessible to human kind. The lessons will be accompanied by slides to follow the historical evolution of the Arab-Islamic world on maps and charts, from pre-Islamic Arabia to the construction of medieval dār al-Islām, to supranational empires, up to national states.

Il Corano, introduzione, traduzione e commento di Alessandro Bausani;
Lapidus, Ira M., A History of Islamic Societies, Cambridge University Press, 2014
Vercellin, Giorgio, Istituzioni del mondo musulmano, Einaudi, 2002;
Campanini, Massimo, Storia del Medio Oriente contemporaneo, Il Mulino, 2017