Huvudgrupp 1

Information om kurslitteratur ges vid kursstart.

• Chadwick, Robert, First civilizations: ancient Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt, 2. ed., London, Equinox Pub., 2005
• Kennedy, Hugh, Prophet and the age of the caliphates: the Islamic Near East from the sixth to the eleventh century, 2015
• Kassab, Elizabeth Suzanne, Contemporary Arab thought: cultural critique in comparative perspective, New York, Columbia University Press, cop. 2010 (p. 17–47.)
• Cleveland, William L.; Bunton, Martin P., A history of the modern Middle East, Sixth edition., Boulder, CO, Westview Press, 2016