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HDS 3175/RELIGION 1821: Indian Ocean Islam

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Instructor: Teren Sevea 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 cities and the...

HDS 3117/RELIGION 1014TS: Animals and the Unseen

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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...

HAA 128: Topics in Arabic Art and Culture: Art of the Qur'an

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Instructor: David Roxburgh A problem-oriented inquiry into Arabic art and culture (from the formation of Islam through the late medieval period), focusing on regions circling the Mediterranean, from the Iberian Peninsula to the Levant, as well as the...

HAA 11: Landmarks of World Architecture

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Instructor: David Roxburgh and Vishal Khandelwal 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...

COMPLIT 140Y: Literature after the Arab Spring

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Instructor: Annette Lienau This course offers an introduction to contemporary Arabic literature focusing on developments after the seismic period of regional transition within North Africa and the Middle East known as the “Arab spring” (2011). Course...

RELIGION 3004: Pedagogy in the Study of Religion

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Instructor: Mohsen Goudarzi This course is designed for graduate students in the Committee on the Study of Religion, and is open to students in related fields who teach courses pertaining to religion. The course aims to equip students with skills to be...

PERSIAN 131R: Classical Persian Bridge

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Instructor: Nicholas Boylston Students learn the details of Classical Persian grammar, lexicography, and prosody, and work with modern Persian academic commentaries on classical works. Students gain the reading fluency necessary for research in Classical...

ISLAMCIV 181: Islam and Religious Diversity

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Instructor: Nicholas Boylston Questions arising from the diversity of religions recur in all of the major branches of Islamic thought and appear in complex permutations in diverse cultural contexts. Focusing primarily on pre-modern Islam, this course...