Meets with F430.  An examination of folk and popular ideologies,
practices, and related manifestations in Moslem-Arab and related
societies.
	I. An introduction: historical backgrounds to contemporary
religious ideologies and worldviews. Religious belief systems in the
ancient Middle East (Nile Valley--Egypt, Mesopotamia, Assyria). The
emergence of monotheism. Modes of expression associated with these
systems. Semitic monotheism: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
	II. Islam as a sacred ideology and an inclusive charter for
living. "Five Pillars". The concepts of "jihād" and "martyrdom."
Religious faith and the state.
	The development of sects and religio political movements
(Sunni, Shiite, Kharijite). The impact of these movements on art,
literature, lore, and worldviews.
	III.  Movements of revitalization, reinterpretation and
syncretism, revivalism (fundamentalism). Revitalized Islamic
ideologies and the modern state: from "Caliphate"
to "kingdom"/ "republic". The role of the head of state. The position
of non-Moslems.
	IV. In depth study of the belief practice systems of selected
groups: cosmology, God, supernatural beings, the soul. Prophethood
and sainthood. Sufi and similar organizations and their role in
contemporary social and political life.
	Expressive forms associated with folk and popular religious
ideologies (madīh, zikr, "epic sīrah dealing with Crusades and other
holy wars, the political and the religious ballad, masrah at-tacziyah
(miracle play) etc.
	V. The structure and composition of the belief-practice
spectrum as cognitive-affective system.