HISTORY OF NORTH AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST

The course aims to trace the complex history of the Muslim world, the Arab–Muslim world in particular, from the nineteenth century up to the contemporary age.

According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:

1) knowledge and understanding skills about the political and social processes as well as the main conflicts that have characterized the Muslim world, the Arab–Muslim world in particular, from the nineteenth century up to the contemporary age;

2) ability to apply knowledge and understanding to place properly the current crises in the complex picture of contemporary Islamic world and in the international arena;

3) ability to integrate knowledge and to to think, with critical tools, over the different narratives of these countries;

4) ability to communicate one's knowledge clearly and unambiguously to specialist and non-specialist interlocutors;

The main method of teaching is “lecture-based” learning. During the course, primary sources, related to the topics, will also be read and discussed.

The course includes two modules.

After the main stages of the history of Mediterranean Africa and the Middle East from the French invasion of Egypt (1798) to the first half of the twentieth century, in the first module space will be given to the definition of the different types of European imperialism, to the birth of the political ideologies and reformisms.

In the second module the affirmation of the nation-states and nationalism in its diverse declinations will be considered. Furthermore, attention will be given to the diverse forms of power in the Arab–Islamic world and the main conflicts in the area that emerged over the course of the twentieth century.

1. M. Campanini, Storia del Medio Oriente, 1798-2006, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008, 258 p. (include cronologia, letture consigliate, indice).
2. M. Campanini, Il pensiero islamico contemporaneo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2009, 202 p. (include indice).
3. A. Pellitteri, Introduzione allo studio della storia contemporanea del Mondo arabo, Roma-Bari, Editori Laterza, 2008, 208 p. (include indice).
4. B. Scarcia Amoretti, Il mondo musulmano. Quindici secoli di storia, Roma, Carocci, 2013, pp. 163-264.

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.