Section outline

      1. Introduction to Islamic intellectual history
      2. Islamic reformism: 1900-2000
      3. Political Islam (Muslim Brotherhood)
      4. Year 1979 and Islamic Revolution Movements
      5. Islamic governance: republics and kingdoms
      6. Saudi Arabia and the Conservative Revolution
      7. Transnational jihadism - from Afghanistan to Syria
      8. Islam and democracy
      9. Arab Spring and post-Islamism
      10. Sectarianism and confessional conflict on BV
      11. Liberal Islam, feminism and modern theology
      12. Islam in Europe