Instructor: Khaled El-Rouayheb

Reinforcement of advanced classical Arabic grammar and stylistics, and introduction to the genres of usul, kalam, mantiq and falsafa.

Recommended Prep:

Three years of Arabic or equivalent level...

Instructor: Khaled El-Rouayheb

Readings on selected topics in Islamic philosophy.

Recommended Prep:

Three years of Arabic or equivalent.

Instructor: Luis Giron Negron

Does love have a history? This course will explore a particularly rich, multisecular episode in the literary history of this emotion: the efflorescence and varieties of love poetry, both lyrical and narrative, in Europe and the Middle East from the...

Instructor: Gareth Doherty

This lecture course views landscape through social and cultural practices. Through people, we will explore landscape’s critical, ethical, and political power to shape the world. The course will provide students with fieldwork skills to understand human...

Instructor: Melani Cammett

A research seminar covering social science literature on the Middle East and major debates in comparative politics of the region. Emphasis placed on methods of analysis, theory-building and testing, and the formation of research proposals and papers....

Instructors: David Roxburgh and Petricio del Real 

Examines major works of world architecture and the unique aesthetic, cultural, and historical issues that frame them. Faculty members will each lecture on an outstanding example in their area of expertise, drawing from various...

Instructor: David Roxburgh

Texts of the Persian literary tradition that were illustrated constitute our focus, including Firdawsi's Shahnama and Nizami's Khamsa. Study of word and image is staged through key examples to open new lines of inquiry.

Instructor: Yasir Fahmy

This course will engage in a critical reading and analysis of Hadith Jibril. Also known as Umm Al-Hadith (or the mother of Prophetic narrations), this narration gathers the essential acts and practices that are to be performed, internally and externally, in...

Instructor: Yunus Kumek

This course introduces students to practices of spiritual care from a Muslim Perspective. As we will survey spiritual care practices of different Muslim cultures, our focus will be the relevant application of these practices in North America with a special...

Instructor: Teren Sevea

This course considers how we can write histories of religious animals and the Unseen. Students will be introduced to academic literature that has criticized scholarly and popular conceptions of humans having a special status, and assumptions that the...

Instructor: Khalil Abdur-Rashid

This course, as part of the new HDS Initiative on Islamic Spiritual Life and Service, is intended for students preparing for vocation in a variety of settings in which they will provide Islamically-inspired service and support. The course will...

Instructor: Teren Sevea

How did Islamic missions and missionaries reform Muslim South and Southeast Asia? What Islamic missionary idioms, orientations and movements emerged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? Were South and Southeast Asia global centers of Islamic missionary...

Instructor: Ali Asani

The course is an introduction to the fundamental concepts of Islam and the role that religious ideas and institutions play in Muslim communities around the world. Its main concern is to develop an understanding of the manner in which diverse notions of...

Instructor: Arianne Urus

Muslims first arrived on the shores of the Americas at the turn of the sixteenth century, yet their long history in the western hemisphere has been largely forgotten. For centuries Islam was the second-most widely practiced monotheistic religion in the...

Instructor: Salma Waheedi

Prerequisite: This course is open to students who have taken or are concurrently taking an HLS human rights course.

Exam Type: No Exam

This course will focus on Islamic law and human rights...

Instructor: Tarek Masoud

(Previously offered as DPI-440)  Explores the major political, economic, social, and security challenges facing - and emanating from - the Middle East. Particular attention paid to the causes of the so-called Arab Spring and the prospects for...

Instructor: Malika Zeghal

This graduate seminar explores the transformation of Islamic institutions in the modern period, such as religious endowments (Awqaf), sharia courts, and Islamic education. We will engage with the historiography of these institutions and with primary sources...

Instructor: William Granara

Examines the roots and issues of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-90) and its continuing impact on modern Arabic fiction. The syllabus pairs realistic and romanticized representations of family, sectarianism, and gender binaries against the destruction and...

Instructor: Malika Zeghal

Meeting approximately every other week, students will establish digital maps and databases based on al-Manar and other periodicals in Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt in the Inter War Period. Enrollment only by instructor's permission.

Instructor: Justine Landau

This seminar explores the porous boundaries between fiction and science in premodern Persian literature, with readings selected from major prose and poetic texts from the 10th to the 16th century. Students will engage in the close reading of chosen...