Demonstrate critical understanding of the contours and phases of this period of Islamic history, and its key personalities, events and institutions and to show analytical awareness of the terminology, discourses and debates surrounding this period of history.

Muslim History

To write a critical review essay of 1,500 words in which two readings on Islamic history are compared and analysed.

1. Demonstrate critical understanding of the contours and phases of this period of Islamic history, and its key personalities, events and institutions and to show analytical awareness of the terminology, discourses and debates surrounding this period of history.

2. Demonstrate developed insight into the historiographical and interpretive complexity of the textual traditions through which knowledge of this period of Islamic history in its various phases is revealed.