ARIS6904 - Crisis of Democracy in the Islamic World

Semester 2, 2012  |  Credit Points: 6

Coordinator: Nijmeh Hajjar
Phone: +61 2 9036 7011
Email: nijmeh.hajjar@sydney.edu.au

Description

The unit focuses on the crisis of democracy in the Islamic world. It examines debates about compatibility and conflict between Islamic principles and ideas of democracy, Islamic alternatives to Western systems, and tension between theory and practice of democratization in several contemporary Islamic countries. The unit highlights dynamics of secularization and religious radicalism, change and progress, and attitudes to liberalism, pluralism, human rights, social justice and civic society. It analyses religious and secular discourse from historical and sociological perspectives.

Assessments

2x2000wd essays (70%), 2x1000wd oral presentations (30%)

Classes

1x2-hr seminar/week

Prohibitions

ARBC6901

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