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Guidelines for the Take-Home Test in Islamic Studies

Submission Dates and Guidelines

1. You can submit your test anytime, but no later than next Friday, November 19th at 11:59 pm. All submissions must be uploaded to Quercus by the deadline; do not email them to me. You can work on it over several sittings, and for as long as you want.


2. The take-home test is open book. This means that all readings, class notes, slides, and reputable academic sources can be used, but no other individuals can be consulted.


3. Absolutely no collaboration or discussion of the test among classmates or with any other individual (e.g.: parents, friends, pets) is allowed. This will be considered a breach of academic integrity and will be investigated and addressed as an academic offence. The test is intended to test your understanding of the material, and not that your colleagues and friends. This means that once you read the test questions, you can no longer discuss course content with your colleagues, share your thoughts about early Islam, ask for their notes, etc.


All assignments will be screened through Turnitin.
4. Formal citations are not necessary. However if you are drawing on an author we read, or referring to an interpretation by a scholar or historian mentioned in one of the readings, noting the name or source in your essay or in brackets (e.g.: ‘Donner’) is strongly recommended.


Pro-tip 1: The more sources you work with, the better and more nuanced your answers will be.
Pro-tip 2: Do not copy and paste from the readings. You need to express ideas in your own words.

5. Please submit your entire test in one file, and clearly indicate for each of your answers which of the questions you are responding to.
If you have any questions about these guidelines or about the test questions below, please get in touch with me.

Please answertwo of the three questions in essay form. Each of your answers should be 700-1000 words.
1. What isthe Muslim account about how the Qur’an was compiled? What evidence is it based on and why have some Western historians rejected the Muslim narrative? Describe at least two alternative theories Orientalists have proposed and examine the evidence and sources they rely on to support these theories? How would you assess these alternative theories? Finally, how has the discovery of Qur’an fragments contributed to these ongoing debates (e.g.: supporting, disproving, or revising older theories)?


2. What methodology did Muslim hadith critics develop to sift through hadiths attributed to Muhammad to distinguish authentic reports from fabrications? Why did they develop this methodology and what were its goals? How effective do you think the methodology of Muslim hadith critics and why?


3. How did the succession to Mu?ammad and the martyrdom of ?usayn contribute to the construction of a distinct Sh??? identity? How did these two events contribute to the Sh??? institution of the Im?mate? In what ways does the Sunni historical narrative about these events concur with Sh??? historical memory, and in what ways does it diverge? Which narrative do you find more compelling and why?

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