Search

Instructor: Shady Nasser Reinforcement of advanced classical Arabic grammar and stylistics, and introduction to various genres of historical, geographical and biographical texts.

Instructor: Shady Nasser The course provides a comprehensive introduction to the Quran, with a focus on its origins, form, reception, and transmission history, while also considering its contemporary role in Muslim societies. Prior knowledge of Arabic or...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Instructor: Annette Lienau This course will explore contemporary literature and cinema across Southeast Asia, focusing on regional developments after the Asian financial crisis of 1997 through the present. Themes discussed include literature’s...

Instructors: Mohsen Goudarzi and Charles Stang The period known as Late Antiquity (c. 3rd-9th cent. CE) witnessed major religious transformations that still define our world today, including most importantly the rise of rival monotheisms, the “Abrahamic”...

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...

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...

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...