Guiora 2015 - Middle Eastern Law University of Utah Law School

Middle Eastern Law 7625-001 Syllabus Professor Guiora Fall 2015

Course:

Middle Eastern Law 7625-001 Room: TBA Day(s): Wednesday & Thursday Time: 10:35 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Course Description:

The evolution of legal traditions in the Middle East will be examined, analyzed and discussed through the lens of multi-disciplinary readings reflecting the law, history, culture, human rights, and contemporary political dilemmas.

Course Structure: The course is based on assigned readings (see syllabus) and class discussion.

Grading: Final grades will be based on class participation (20%) and a final paper (80%).

1) AUG 26-27

BACKGROUND/DEFINING THE MIDDLE EAST READINGS: Timeline Middle Eastern History Since 1900 Osman Nuri Özalp: Where is the Middle East? The Definition and Classification Problem of the Middle East as a Regional Subsystem in International Relations Roderic H. Davison: Where is the Middle East Richard Haas: The New Middle East Bernard Lewis: The West and the Middle East

2) SEPT 2-3

HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST READINGS: C. Ernest Dawn: From Ottomanism to Arabism; The Origin of an Ideology Stanford J. Shaw, Gökhan Çetinsaya, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World: Ottoman Empire Prof. David Friedman: Legal Systems Very Different From Our Own

Middle Eastern Law 7625-001 Syllabus Professor Guiora Fall 2015

3) SEPT 9-10

HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST READINGS:

Barkey: Political Legitimacy and the Ottoman Empire

4) SEPT 16-17

GREAT POWER INVOLVEMENT/SYKES-PICTOT AGREEMENT/BALFOUR DECLARATION/WW2-PRESENT DAY READINGS: Bernhard Zand: Century of Violence: What World War I Did to the Middle East Ian S. Lustick: The Absence of Middle Eastern Great Powers: Political "Backwardness" in Historical Perspective A. Henry McMahon: British and French Governments: The Sykes-Picot Agreement (May 15-16, 1916) Peter A. Shambrook: Contradictory Promises Samuel P. Huntington: The Clash of Civilizations?

5) SEPT 23-24

DEMOCRACY V NON-DEMOCRACY READINGS:

David Suurland, A Genealogy of Radical Islamic Theory and Practice David Suurland, Totalitarian and Radical Islamic Ideologies

6) SEPT 30-OCT 1

SHARIA READINGS: Machteld Zee: Islamic Fundamentalism Amira Mashhour: Islamic Law and Gender Equality

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Middle Eastern Law 7625-001 Syllabus Professor Guiora Fall 2015

7) OCT 7-8

LAW AND EXTREMISM/RELIGIOUS V SECULAR READINGS: Martin Kramer, Coming to Terms: Fundamentalists or Islamists Amos N. Guiora, What is Religious Speech? Amos N. Guiora, Tolerating Intolerance

8) OCT 14-15 FALL BREAK 9) OCT 21-22

INDIVIDUAL LIBERTIES AND FREEDOMS IN THE MIDDLE EAST READINGS: Hallie Ludson, Relational Rights Masquerading as Individual Rights Nimer Sultany, Against Conceptualism: Islamic Law, Democracy and Constitutionalism in the Aftermath of the Arab Spring Bernard Lewis: Freedom and Justice in the Modern Middle East Lisa Anderson: Searching Where The Light Shines; Studying Democratization in the Middle East

10) OCT 28-29

MIDDLE EAST AND HUMAN RIGHTS READINGS: Heiner Bielfeldt: Muslim Voices in the Human Rights Debate Fred Halliday: Relativism and Universalism in Human Rights: the Case of the Islamic Middle East Bassam Tibi: Islamic Law/Shari'a, Human Rights, Universal Morality and International Relations

11) NOV 4-5

CONSTITUTIONAL ISLAMIZATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS READING: Ahmed and Ginsburg: Constitutional Islamization and Human Rights: The Surprising Origin and Spread of Islamic Supremacy in Constitutions

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Middle Eastern Law 7625-001 Syllabus Professor Guiora Fall 2015

12) NOV 11-12

CRIMINAL LAW IN THE MIDDLE EAST READINGS: Sherifa Zuher, Gender, Sexuality and the Criminal Laws in the Middle East and North Africa: A Comparative Study

13) NOV 18-19

CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES/ISIS READINGS: (additional readings will be added) Graeme Wood, What is the Islamic State The 2011 Uprisings in the Arab Middle East; Political Change and Geopolitical Implications

14) NOV 25-26 THANKSGIVING/NO CLASS 15) DEC 2-3: TBD

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