This is the description: Each of you will write a research paper (10 pages/3500 words including bibliography and references, double spaced, Times New Roman, 12) on a topic of their choice relating to the course materials and making use of literature. You should use at least 7 texts from the syllabus and at least 3 texts outside the syllabus. The research essay is worth 25% of your course grade while the presentation is 10%. For the presentation, you can apply the same rules that we applied in the midterm presentations.
You can choose to write on topic of your own interest in consultation with me provided that it is relevant to the general topic and discussion of the class. You should demonstrate a thorough research in preparing for the essay. A minimum of 10 sources (books and/or journal articles) should be used, and these sources should be referenced and cited using either APA, MLA, or Chicago. You can use any citation model as long as you are consistent. A late paper can only be accepted with a written medical excuse.
These are the sources from the syllabus:
University Press, 2017.
Roger Allen, Shawkat Toorawa (eds.). Islam: A Short Guide to the Faith, Wm. B.
Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2011.
Black, Antony, The History of Islamic political thought: From the Prophet to the present.
2nd ed. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
Blackwell, 2012.
Ayoob, Mohammed. The Many faces of political Islam: Religion and politics in the
Muslim world, University of Michigan Press, 2007.
Euben, Roxanne Leslie and Muhammad Qasim ZAMAN (eds.), Princeton readings in
Islamist thought: Texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden, Princeton University
Press, 2009.
Gerhard Bowering (ed.), Islamic Political Thought: An Introduction, Princeton
University Press, 2015.
L. Hamid W. McCants, Rethinking Political Islam, Oxford University Press, 2017.
J. L. Esposito & N. J. Delong-Bas (eds.), Shariah: What everyone needs to know, Oxford
University Press, 2018.
Volpi, Frederic (ed.), Political Islam: A critical reader, Routledge, 2011.
Mandeville, Peter, Islam and Politics, 2nd edition, Routledge, 2014.