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Instructors: Shady Nasser and Khaled El-Rouayheb Description: An introduction to the medieval Arabic tradition of rhetoric (balagha). We will read Arabic texts that illustrate the historical evolution of the genre, as well as more systematic introductions...

This course focuses on arts of sound associated with Islam in South Asia and Central Asia (including Iran). We explore how specific musical procedures and uses of sound cut across these Asian regions, and how ideologies, philosophies, and texts—associated...

Instructors: Teren Sevea and Ali Asani Does thinking oceanically influence the study of Islam? Can we remember a people’s history of the Indian Ocean world? This course considers these questions and others as it focuses on religious worlds within port...

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...

Instructor: Ousmane Kane The aim of this seminar is to study the evolution of Islamic thought and political practices in Muslim societies from the 19th to the early 21st centuries. Attention will be devoted to the patterns of interaction between the...

Instructors: Ousmane Kane and 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...

Instructor: Ali Asani Description: What do Muslims think of acts of terrorism committed in the name of Islam, the mixing of religion with politics, the rights of women, the ``West''? This seminar investigates the viewpoints of prominent Muslim writers on...

Instructor: Ali Asani This course explores traditions of devotional poetry in South Asia through the lens of three genres: the qawwali, concerts of mystical poetry; sufiana kalam, Sufi romantic epics and folk poems; and the ginans, songs of wisdom. In...

Instructor: Ali Asani Description: A seminar for graduate students focusing on current scholarship on Islamic civilization in South Asia. Course Notes: Open to undergraduates with a background in Islamic or South Asian studies. Recommended Prep...

Instructor: Malika Zeghal An introduction to Middle Eastern Studies focusing on the modern period (19th and 20th centuries). Lectures will be broadly sequenced according to historical chronology but will be thematically organized. They will provide some...

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: Khaled El-Rouayheb Islamic Civilizations 145A is an introduction to some of the key problems and figures in medieval Islamic theology and philosophy. The main topics covered will be: The rise of theological controversies in early Islam and the...