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DRS Course Guide Course DRS Email: 35Tuj.Leonhardt-Balzer@Abdn.Ac.Uku35t SCHOOL OF DIVINITY, HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY ACADEMIC SESSION 2015-2016 RS400A THE IMAGE OF JESUS IN THE QUR'ĀN AND ISLAMIC TRADITION DR502P ‘Īsā: The Islamic Image of Jesus 2015-2016 30 credits 11 weeks 26TPLEASE NOTE CAREFULLY26T: The full set of school regulations and procedures is contained in the Undergraduate Student Handbook which is available online at your MyAberdeen page. Students are expected to familiarise themselves not only with the contents of this leaflet but also with the contents of the Handbook. Therefore, ignorance of the contents of the Handbook will not excuse the breach of any School regulation or procedure. You must familiarise yourself with this important information at the earliest opportunity. COURSE CO-ORDINATOR/COURSE TEAM Dr. Zohar Hadromi-Allouche King's College KCG17 Office hours by appointment Tel.: 01224-27-3112 Email: [email protected] 2016 - Dr. Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer 2015 King’s College KCS 12 Office hours by appointment Tel.: 01224-27-3248 DRS Course Guide Course DRS Email: [email protected] 1 Discipline Administration: Mrs Claire Hargaden 50-52 College Bounds Room CB001 01224 272366 [email protected] TIMETABLE Tuesday 3pm – 4pm Meston, MT159 Friday 10am – 12noon King’s College, KCT04 Students can view their university timetable at 35TUhttp://www.abdn.ac.uk/infohub/study/timetables-550.phpU35T COURSE DESCRIPTION In this course we will discuss the biography and characterisation of Jesus, a major Muslim prophet and the expected mahdī (Islamic messiah). The course will look at the existing sources for this biography and the problems that they present to modern scholars. It will examine in comparable detail possible Christian origins of this figure. Through a comparative discussion of the main episodes in the life of Jesus according to Islam and Christianity, we will learn of the various ways for understanding his character. The course will also discuss the status of Jesus against other prophets in Islam, especially Muhammad, and against the Qur'an. INTENDED AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES On successful completion of the course students will have 2016 - 1. A detailed knowledge of the life of Jesus according to Muslim sources. 2015 2. A good knowledge of available Muslim sources for the life of Jesus and how to use them. 3. A good knowledge of the Christian origins of the Muslim image of Jesus. DRS Course Guide Course DRS 2 The course aims are: - To introduce students to, and familiarise them with the main episodes in the life of the Jesus according to Islam. - To introduce students to, and familiarise them with the construction of Jesus' image in Islam. - To introduce students to, and familiarise them with Muslim sources for the study of Jesus' life. - To introduce students to, and familiarise them with Christian sources for the Muslim traditions about Jesus. LECTURE/SEMINAR PROGRAMME Week / Dates Topic Assessment deadlines 1/ 14–18 Sep Introduction 2015 2/ 21–25 Sep Biography and sources - NT 2015 3/ 28 Sep–02 Biography and sources - Islam Quiz 10% Oct 2015 02.10.2015 4/ 05–09 Oct Jesus as word and spirit of God - 2015 NT 5 12–16 Oct Jesus as word and spirit of God - Essay topic, ToC and initial 10% 2015 Islam bibliography 16.10.2015 6/ 19–23 Oct Jesus as the Messiah - NT 2015 7/ 26–30 Oct Jesus as the Messiah - Islam The 2 texts (unmarked) 2015 30.10.2015 8/ 02–06 Nov Jesus as the performer of 2015 miracles and exorcism - NT 9/ 09–13 Nov Jesus as the performer of Introduction 10% 2015 miracles and exorcism - Islam 13.11.2015 10/ 16–20 Nov Jesus and Muhammad - NT 2015 2016 - 11/ 23–27 Nov Jesus and Muhammad - Islam 2015 12/ 30 Nov–04 Presentations Presentations 10% Dec 2015 01.12.2015/ 04.12.2015 13/ O7–11 Dec Essay 60% 2015 U10.12.2015 3pm DRS Course Guide Course DRS 3 READING LIST UWeek 1: Introduction At the beginning of the course the students should have read a. The Gospel of Mark b. Robinson, Neal. "Jesus." 10TEncyclopaedia of the Qurʾān10T. Jane Dammen McAuliffe, ed. Georgetown University, Washington DC. Brill, 2001– 2006. UFloor 7 Reference (Ref 297 Kor ) c. Ramadan, Tariq. The messenger: the meanings of the life of Muhammad. 22TLondon: Allen Lane, 2007. 21T22TUFloor 7U18T21T 18T 20TU(297.094 Ram)U UWeek 2: Biography and sources – NT The New Testament – in any version Marvin W. Meyer (ed.), The Nag Hammadi library in English, translated [from the Coptic], Leiden : Brill, 1977. (2731 Nag e) Allison, Dale C. , The historical Christ and the theological Jesus, Grand Rapids, Mich. ; Cambridge : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2009. (232.908 All) Bond, Helen K.(Helen Katharine) , The historical Jesus [electronic resource] : a guide for the perplexed / Helen K. Bond., London : T & T Clark, 2012. Meier, John P. , A marginal Jew : rethinking the historical Jesus , New York : Doubleday, 1991-2001 (232.9 Mei) Schweitzer, A., The quest of the historical Jesus : a critical study of its progress from Reimarus to Wrede, London : A. & C. Black, 1954. (232 Schw q ) Theissen, Gerd, The historical Jesus : a comprehensive guide, London : SCM Press, 1998. (232.9 The ) Van Voorst, Robert E. , Jesus outside the New Testament : an introduction to 2016 - the ancient evidence, Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans, 2000. 2015 (232.9 Van) UWeek 3: Biography and sources – Islam Secondary: DRS Course Guide Course DRS 4 Emran El-Badawi. “The impact of Aramaic (especially Syriac) on the Qur’ān.” 49TReligion Compass 8.7 (2014), pp. 220-28. Meshal, R.A. and M. Rheza. "Islamic Perspectives on Jesus." In Delbert Royce Burkett, Ed. The Blackwell Companion to Jesus. Blackwell, 2011. Pp. 232-249. Floor 7 Khalidi, Tarif. The Muslim Jesus: Sayings and Stories in Islamic Literature (Convergences: Inventories of the Present). Harvard University Press (New Ed edition), 2003. Introduction (pp. 1-45). UFloor 7 (297.2465 MUS) Shoemaker, Stephen J. "Christmas in the Qur'ān: The Qur'ānic Account of Jesus’ Nativity and Palestinian Local Tradition." Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 28 (2003). Pp. 11-39. Oddbjorn Leirvik. Images of Jesus Christ in Islam. Continuum; 2nd Revised edition (2010), Pp. 20–24. Online access Anawati, G.C. "‘Īsā". Encyclopaeida of Islam (2nd edition). Vol. 49T4, pp. 81–8649T. UFloor 7 Reference (Ref 297 Enc2) Tottoli, Roberto. Biblical Prophets in the Qur'ān. (297.246 Tot) Heavy demand. Griffith, Sidney H. "The Gospel, the Qur'ān and the Presentation of Jesus in al- Ya'qūbī's Ta'rīkh." In John C. Reeves (ed.). Bible and Qur'ān. SBL, 2003. pp. 133-160. Klar, Marianna. "Stories of the Prophets." In Andrew Rippin (ed.). The Blackwell Companion to The Qur'ān. Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Pp. 338- 349. Sonn, Tamara. "Introducing." In Andrew Rippin (ed.). The Blackwell 2016 - Companion to The Qur'ān.Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Pp. 3-17. 2015 Primary: Q 112 (sūrat al-Ṣamad) The Qur'ān (any translation). verses 3:33-54; 5:17,46,70-78,110-117; 19:2-36. DRS Course Guide Course DRS 5 Commentaries to the Qur'ān: 1. Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥāllī (d. 864 ah / 1459 ce) and Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī (d. 911 ah / 1505 ce), Tafsīr Al-Jalālayn14T, trans. Feras Hamza14T. 14T© 2013 Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, Amman.14T 2. ‘Abdallāh Ibn ‘Abbās, Tanwīr al-Miqbās min Tafsīr Ibn ‘Abbās, 14Ttrans. Mokrane Guezzou. © 2013 Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, Amman, Jordan.14T 3. Wāḥidī (al-), Abū al-Ḥasan ‘Alī bin Aḥmad al-Naysābūrī (d. 468 A.H./ 1076 C.E.). Asbāb al-Nuzūl, t14Trans. Mokrane Guezzou.14T 4. Tustarī (al-), Nūrallāh bin ‘Abdallāh (d. 1019 A.H./ 1610 C.E.), Tafsīr al-Tustarī, 14Ttrans. Annabel Keeler and Ali Keeler14T. 14T © 2013 Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, Amman, Jordan. The above (and more) commentaries are available from: 35TUhttp://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=74&tSoraNo=1& tAyahNo=1&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2U35T 5. Ibn Kathīr, Imām Abū al-Fidā' Ismā‘īl. Tafsīr Ibn Kathīr (abridged). Ṣafī al- Raḥmān Mubārakfūrī, ed. Riyadh, London, Darussalam, 2003. 2nd ed. Collections of stories of the prophets: 1. Kisā'i (al-), Muhammad Ibn 'Abd Allāh and W. M. Thackston, Tales of the Prophets: Qiṣaṣ al-Anbiyā'. Great Books of the Islamic World, 1997. UFloor 7 (297.18 KIS) 2. Ibn Kathīr, Imām Abū al-Fidā' Ismā‘īl. Stories of the Prophets. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (1 edition), 2013. 3. Tha'labī (al-), Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, d. 1035. '36TU Arā'is al-majālis fī qiṣaṣ al-anbiyā', or, [electronic resource] : Lives of the prophets / as recounted by Abū Isḥāq Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Tha'labī ; translated and 2016 - annotated by William M. Brinner.U36T Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2002. Pp. 638-648. 2015 Available from: 37TUhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/aberdeenuniv/Doc?id=10090603U37T Ṭabarī, Ibn Jarīr, d. 923. The Children of Israel . William M. Brinner, trans. and annotation. Albany : State University of New York Press, c1991. UFloor DRS Course Guide Course DRS 6 7 (297.63 TAB ) UWeek 4: Jesus as the word and spirit of God - NT Texts to read: Gospel of John Matthew 18.19-21 Borgen, Peder, Logos was the true light, and other essays on the Gospel of John, [Trondheim, Norway] : Tapir, 1983. (226.504 Bor) Johnston, George, The spirit-paraclete in the Gospel of John, Cambridge [Eng.]: University Press, 1970. (Per 200 Soc NTS) Koester, Craig R., The word of life : a theology of John’s Gospel, Grand Rapids, Mich. ; Cambridge : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2008. (226.506 Koe) Mack, Burton Lee. , Logos und Sophia : Untersuchungen zur Weisheitstheologie im hellenistischen Judentum, Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, [1973] (296 Mack l) Sadananda, Daniel Rathnakara, The Johannine exegesis of God : an exploration into the Johannine understanding of God, Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, c2004.
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