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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...

Instructor: Mohsen Goundarzi In the early seventh century, a man named Mu ammad son of Abdallah founded a movement that in time grew into a global religion, empire, and civilization. This course introduces students to three discourses that developed...

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: 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...

Instructor: Mohammad Sagha From the conflict in Yemen pitting the Shi'a Houthis against a Saudi-led coalition, to the civil war in Syria and the Shi'a majority militia-led fight against the remnants of ISIS in Iraq, dominant media narratives portray...

Instructor: Amina Elbendary This course discusses various themes of social and cultural history of the pre-modern Middle East. The rise of Islam, the expansion of the Arab-Muslim umma and the establishment of the Caliphates changed the Middle East. These...

Instructor: Amina Elbendary This course aims to place recent uprisings within the trajectory of protest and dissent in Middle Eastern history. It aims to look at various types and instances of protest in Middle East History to bring to light the tradition...

Instructor: Nicholas Boylston In this course we will explore the major genres of classical Persian Sufi poetry and prose. In addition to examining the formation of these genres and their contexts of composition, we will pursue a range of broader questions...

Instructor: Nicholas Boylston This seminar examines the major intellectual and literary genres that shaped the formation of the classical Persian poetic tradition and the contexts in which this occurred from the 10th to 12th centuries CE. Reading classic...