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Instructor: Ousmane Kane An estimated 450 to 500 million Muslims live in Africa—close to a third of the global Muslim population. The overwhelming majority of them live in the northern half of the continent, above the equator. The spread of Islam...

Instructor: 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-inspired...

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: Ali Asani A course on selected topics in Shii History, Thought and Literature. Permission of the instructor required.

Instructor: Ali Asani People from diverse religious backgrounds are in closer contact with one another than ever before. Yet, without the intellectual tools needed to engage with and understand religious difference, this closer contact often has resulted...

Instructor: Malika Zeghal Today’s news headlines consistently point to the role that religion plays in the political life of Middle Eastern societies. But do these headlines tell the whole story? This course will challenge simplistic explanations of the...

Instructor: Khaled El-Rouayheb This course introduces students to recent scholarship on Islamic intellectual history, as well as to competing approaches to intellectual history as a discipline. We will read about the major approaches to intellectual...

Instructor: Mary Elston What counts as Islamic knowledge, how should it be transmitted, and who gets to decide? Muslim communities have grappled with these questions since the early days of Islam, yet in the 19th and 20th centuries such questions took on...

Instructor: Shiraz Hajiani Eight out of ten Muslims, today, may identify as Sunni. In studying the past; however, even the most careful scholars tend to project this make-up of Muslim societies into history. The Shiʿis were not always marginalised...

Instructor: Diana Eck How does our society deal with religious, ethical, and cultural diversity, and what challenges do we face as people of different faith communities encounter one another in cities and public institutions, schools and businesses...

Intructor: Jacob Olupona This course focuses on the history and phenomenology of African peoples’ religious experiences in the Americas. The historical and social processes that led to the emergence of African diasporic religions in Latin America and the...

Instructor: Intisar Rabb Description: This course will survey core concepts of Islamic law ( sharia) in historical and comparative modern contexts. Popular perceptions of this legal system imagine it to be a static code from 7th-century Arabia. Islamic...