Recommended Reading

The following are documents for Madrasa-Midrasha: Islamic and Jewish Texts:

February 9 – Religious Law and Authority
Kugle Rebel between Spirit and Law

February 23 – Women and Gender Roles
Texts for class
Women in Jewish Tradition-Rabbinic Period
Gender Equity in Islam: Basic Principles
Women verses
Women and Gender Roles in Jewish Texts

March 2 – Seeing the “Other”
Handout Zellentin
Visotzky
Margin of Error

March 9 – Cultural Production: From the Sacred to the Secular
Intro-David Biale
Secularism_Preface_David-Biale
Asad-AnthroIslam
mahmood secularism
Talal Asad intro to Formations of the Secular