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HDS 3147: Islamic Modernities: A Sociological Approach

Instructor: Francesco Piraino This course will explore the multiplicity of Islamic modernities by examining how different Islamic movements and intellectual figures approach issues such as race, gender, diversity, sexuality, and class. We will focus on...

MODMDEST 202: Shi’a Islam and Politics in the Middle East

Instructor: Mohammad Sagha From the rise of the Axis of Resistance and U.S.-Iran rivalry in the region, to the war in Yemen between the Shi'a Ansarallah (Houthis) and Saudi Arabia, and the battle over the future of Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, the rise of...

HLS 2517: Islamic Law and Human Rights

Instructor: Salma Waheedi This reading group offers students the opportunity to engage with current and emerging debates on Islamic law, social justice, and human rights. After a brief introduction to Islamic law and jurisprudence, we will examine legal...

HLS 2517: Islamic Law and Human Rights

Instructor: Salma Waheedi This reading group offers students the opportunity to engage with current and emerging debates on Islamic law, social justice, and human rights. After a brief introduction to Islamic law and jurisprudence, we will examine legal...

ISLAMCIV 180: Islamic Heritage in Modern Times: Rediscovering, Reimagining, and Reclaiming the Past

Instructor: Fouad Ben Ahmed This course provides an in-depth exploration of how Muslims have engaged with their historical and intellectual heritage across the centuries. Focusing on key moments of rediscovery, reinterpretation, and cultural revival...

ISLAMCIV 181: Islam and Religious Diversity

Instructor: Nicholas Boylston Questions arising from the diversity of religions recur in all of the major branches of Islamic thought and appear in complex permutations in diverse cultural contexts. Focusing primarily on pre-modern Islam, this course...

PERSIAN 131R: Classical Persian Bridge

Instructor: Nicholas Boylston Students learn the details of Classical Persian grammar, lexicography, and prosody, and work with modern Persian academic commentaries on classical works. Students gain the reading fluency necessary for research in Classical...

RELIGION 3004: Pedagogy in the Study of Religion

Instructor: Mohsen Goudarzi This course is designed for graduate students in the Committee on the Study of Religion, and is open to students in related fields who teach courses pertaining to religion. The course aims to equip students with skills to be...

HDS 3349/RELIGION 1892: Before and After Muhammad: The Rise and Rivalry of Monotheisms in Late Antiquity

Instructors: Mohsen Goudarzi and Charles Stang The period known as Late Antiquity (c. 3rd-9th cent. CE) witnessed major religious transformations that still define our world today, including most importantly the rise of rival monotheisms, the “Abrahamic”...

COMPLIT 100: Contemporary Southeast Asia through Literature and Film

Instructor: Annette Lienau This course will explore contemporary literature and cinema across Southeast Asia, focusing on regional developments after the Asian financial crisis of 1997 through the present. Themes discussed include literature’s...

COMPLIT 140Y: Literature after the Arab Spring

Instructor: Annette Lienau This course offers an introduction to contemporary Arabic literature focusing on developments after the seismic period of regional transition within North Africa and the Middle East known as the “Arab spring” (2011). Course...

HAA 11: Landmarks of World Architecture

Instructor: David Roxburgh and Vishal Khandelwal 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...