Honors Humanistic Traditions I: Week 7

Fiero 10-11

Questions

• Why did Islam capture the imagination of so many so quickly?
• Why did Islamic art develop in the unique manner that it did?
• How did people live in the middle ages?
• How did those of different religious traditions relate to each other?
• What is a hero?
• What is a monster?
• What is courtly love?

Birth & Rise of Islam

History & Theology

• Timeline of Muslim History
• Internet Islamic History Sourcebook
• Muslim Heritage.com
• IslamicWeb - introduction and answers to commonly asked questions from an Islamic point of view.
• Maps on Islamic History
• Allie's pictures of Spain - Moorish landmarks
  
  

Basics of Islam

• Five Pillars

Art & Literature

• Islamic Art & Architecture
• Rumi
  • Rumi, excerpts from the Masnavi
  • Poems
  • Rumi's Poetry

Philosophy

• Ibn Rushd (Averroes)
  • On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy
• Islamic Political Philosophy
• Islamic Philosophy Online
• Islamic Philosophy

The Beginning of the European "Middle Ages"

• Celtic World (Internet Medieval Sourcebook)

Charlemange

• Carolingians and After (Internet Medieval Sourcebook)

Epic

Beowulf

• Adaptations
  • Michael Crichton, Eaters of the Dead
  • 13th Warrior
  • Beowulf (2007)
  • Beowulf & Grendel
• Only known manuscript of Beowulf (British Library)
• Beowulf (Child translation)
• Beowulf guide
• Beowulf in Hypertext
• Electronic Beowulf
• Resources for the Study of Beowulf
• Robert Yaeger, "Why Read Beowulf?"
• Monsters and their Meanings
  • Grendel, Grendel's mother, dragon
  • Monsters
  • Monsters at the Edge of the World
    • What Makes a Monster?