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HDS 3057: Intro to Islam through Prophetic Traditions

Instructor: Yunus Kumek This course will engage in a critical reading and analysis of well-known Muslim prophetic traditions and a study of the practices of the Prophet Muhammad. Through analysis of Muslim prophetic traditions, such as “Hadith Jibril,” we...

RELIGION 1803/HDS 3339: Exploring the Quran

Instructor: Mohsen Goudarzi This course explores the contents of the Quran and probes its place in the history of human civilization. Students will learn about and critically reflect on the following subjects: 1) the Quran’s core ideas, stories, laws...

RELIGION 1807/HDS 3176: What is (Lived) Islam?

Instructor: Teren Sevea What are the anthropological and historical approaches to studying Islam? How do our academic approaches help us engage the question: what is lived Islam? This course begins by considering how ‘Islam’ is an object of academic...

HDS 3117: Animals and the Unseen

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...

ARABIC 150R: Travel and Autobiography in Arabic Literature

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...