Essay Question
The Qur’an claims to be the guide for all people and for all time offering instructions for how to pursue life in this world and the realities of life in the Hereafter. What factors might hinder Muslims particularly in Australia from implementing Qur’anic teaching in full? Discuss.
Marking Criteria
In order for students to receive an optimal mark, the essay must:
• Completely meet general requirements.
• Have captivating introduction, clear thesis, and direction.
• Be excellently written, logical, coherent, and lucid.
• Have excellent structure and organisation.
• Have high level of critical thought, analysis, and argument.
• Be thoroughly researched with evidence of wide reading and originality.
• Have a high level of demonstrated knowledge of Islam and its adherents.
• Thoroughly address the topic and answer the question.
• Have complete and accurate referencing of sources
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Texts
The Key texts for this unit are:
Saeed, Abdullah. The Qur‟an: An Introduction. London: Routledge, 2008.
(It is the responsibility of the student to secure the text book)
Additional texts
 Abdel Haleem, M A S. Understanding the Qur’an: Themes and Styles, London: IB Tauris, 2001.
 Abdel Haleem, M.A.S. Abdel. The Qur’an: A New Translation, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
 Al-Khui, Abu al-Qassim al-Musawi. “The Collection of the Qur‟an”. The Prolegomena and the Quran translated with an Introduction by Abdulaziz A. Sachedina, New York: Oxford University Press: 1998.
 Buck, Christopher. “Discovering”, in Andrew Rippin, ed., The Blackwell Companion to the Qur‟an. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006.
 Cragg, Kenneth. “Having the Text By Heart”, in The Mind of the Qur‟an, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1973, pp. 26-37.
 Fazlur Rahman, Major Themes of the Qur’an, Minneapolis, MN: Bibliotheca Islamica, 1994.
 Izutsu, Toshihiko. Ethico-Religious Concepts of the Qur‟an. Montreal: McGill University Press, 2002.
 Lawrence, Bruce. The Qur‟an: A Biography. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2006.
 Lumbard, Joseph. “Prophets and Messengers of God” in Vincent Cornell, ed., Voices of Islam. Connecticut: Praeger, 2007, vol. 1., pp. 101-123.
 Madigan, Daniel. “Revelation and Inspiration” in Jane Dammen McAuliffe, ed., Encyclopaedia of the Qur‟an. Leiden: Brill, 2004, vol 5., pp. 437-447.
 Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. Islam: Religion, History and Civilization, San Francisco: HarperCollins, 2002.
 Saeed, Abdullah. Interpreting the Qur’an: Towards a contemporary approach, London: Routledge, 2006.