Syllabus

C1. "Jihadism and You:
A Critical Look at the Contemporary Phenomenon of Militant Jihadism"

Bibliography Assignment

electronic classroom

10 credits, Daily, 9:00 am - 11:00 am Room CC 3460

Guiding Questions

• Most Arabs are Muslim but most Muslims are not Arab; what is the significanc of this for understanding Jihadism
• How did the relationship between the Arab and Euro American worlds develop.
• What is the practical significance of Jihadism for Americans?

course text

Sohaib Sultan, Koran for Dummies (KFD)

David Cook, Understanding Jihad (UJ)

Maxime Rodinson, Arabs (A)

cdavis@sccd.ctc.edu or nsccwriteright@yahoo.com

Rick Olguin

IB2325B

(206) 527-7003

erolguin@sccd.ctc.edu

Office Hours:           C.Davis         M-F 11-12 p.m.

                                    R. Olguin        M-F 12-1 p.m.

Required Texts and Materials

Milestones. Qutb, Sayyid. Mother Mosque Foundation, McGraw-Hill, 1964.

Quick Access Compact. Hesse, Douglas and Troyka, Lynn Quitman. Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007.

The Arabs. Rodinson, Maxime. University of Chicago Press, 1981.

The Koran for Dummies. Sultan, Sohaib. Wiley Publishing, 2004.

Understanding Jihad. Cook, David. University of California Press, 2005.

A spiral notebook with pocket folders

A thesaurus

A college dictionary