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Instructor: Rosie Bsheer Description: How was the region of North Africa and West Asia between the Atlantic and Central Asia constructed, physically and discursively, as “the Middle East”? What were the major local, regional, and global events that have...

Instructor: Rosie Bsheer This course is a critical history of political economy that centers on the Middle East and South Asia. It begins with readings in classical political economy, liberalism, and Enlightenment thought, coupled with colonial...

Instructor: Hajnalka Kovacs Iqbal's Urdu Poetry is a comprehensive introduction to Sir Muhammad Iqbal’s (1877–1938) Urdu poetry. Along with reading and translating selected poems from Iqbal’s collections Bāng-e Darā, Bāl-e Jibrīl, Zarb-e Kalīm, and...

Instructor: Nurhaizatul Jamil This course aims to ethnographically examine the relation among pious subject-formation, race, and gender as they relate to Muslim women’s social media engagements. We will interrogate the ways that Muslim women function as...

Instructor: Rahina Muazu The perception of the female voice in Muslim West Africa as part of her ʿ awra (nudity, nakedness), which is determining socially and religiously acceptable gender roles for women, is not only a result of difference in legal...

Instructor: Giovanni Bazzana The course will focus on the history of Israel/Palestine in the span of time of almost a millennium that witnessed the emergence of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Specific attention will be devoted to the changing landscape...

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...

Instructor: Khalil Abdur-Rashid This course is designed to prepare students to effectively engage with Islam, members of the Muslim community, and the Muslim world broadly speaking. The first portion of the course provides students with a broad...

Instructor: Kristen Stilt Prerequisite: None Exam Type: One Day Take-Home This course is a broad introduction to Islamic law in historical and contemporary forms. We will first cover the origins and early development of Islamic law, with a focus on how...

Instructor: Mary Elston In Arabic and European-language media, Islamic education is often decried as a perpetuator of rote memorization, the oppression of women, and Islamic radicalism. These assertions reflect negative stereotypes about Islam as a...

Instructor: Mohsen Goudarzi The birth of Islam in the seventh century C.E. was a momentous historical turning point, but many aspects of this crucial process remain vigorously contested in modern scholarship. Was the Prophet Muhammad a local preacher of...

Instructor: Gulru Necipoglu-Kafadar Three empires from the Balkans to Bengal developed distinctive architectural, urban, material, and ornamental cultures rooted in their Timurid-Turkman pasts and transformed by cosmopolitan regional traditions. An inter...