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Instructor: Rosie Bsheer The principal analytical focus in this seminar will be the role of oil in shaping the cultural, social, political, and economic relations of the Arabian Peninsula. This region has long been at the center of global circulations of...

Instructor: Gulru Necipoglu-Kafadar Course Description: Critically explores the historiography and interpretations of Islamic ornament. Themes include ornamentality and abstraction, theories of perception, orientalist discourses on the so-called...

Instructor: Gulru Necipoglu-Kafadar, Jinah Kim, and Melissa McCormick This course introduces sophomore concentrators to on-site study of art and architecture through the case study of a particular geographic and cultural area. This year: India

Instructor: David Roxburgh The seminar examines cities and monuments built in Greater Iran and Central Asia from the 11 th through 15 th centuries spanning three principal dynastic periods (Seljuqs, Mongols, and Timurids). Various functional types—mosques...

Instructor: David Roxburgh and Lisa Haber-Thompson 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...

Instructor: Ali Asani Individual reading course. A course for students with native or near-native proficiency with readings in a variety of genres from Hindi and/or Urdu literature based on student interest.

Instructor: Ali Asani Instruction in Hindi-Urdu in topics not covered in the regular curriculum.

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 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...

Instructor: Shady Nasser Travel is a persistent feature of Arabophone societies through which they have consistently sought to understand and extend their physical, spiritual and imaginative worlds. This course explores the literary tropes of travel and...

Instructor: Shady Nasser Recommended prep: Three years of Arabic or equivalent level of proficiency.

Instructor: Khaled El-Rouayheb This course offers a reading of a number of major works of Islamic Civilization, for example from the universal chronicle of al-Tabari (d. 923), the forty hadith of al-Nawawi (d. 1277), a work on the lives of the Shi’i Imams...