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Instructor: Ali Asani Instruction in Hindi-Urdu in topics not covered in the regular curriculum.

Instructor: Tarek Masoud Explores the major political, economic, social, and security challenges facing - and emanating from - the Middle East. Particular attention paid to the causes of the so-called Arab Spring and the prospects for genuine...

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 lives 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: David Roxburgh Is Genghis Khan’s characterization “as terrifying as genocide and as dreadful as the plague” (Time, Dec. 31, 1999) sufficient? His legacy entailed the destruction of social and cultural order, but paradoxically, his empire also...

Instructor: David Roxburgh The seminar examines the medium of drawing in the Islamic lands, focusing on the post-Mongol through early modern periods throughout the Middle East, Iran, India, and Central Asia. Topics include the medium, materiality and...

Instructors: Patricio de Real and David Roxburgh 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: Gulru Necipoglu-Kafadar Examines multimedia arts, monuments, gardens, and cities of the Ottoman Empire straddling Asia, Europe and Africa. The selective fusion of Ottoman-Islamic, Byzantine, and Italian Renaissance artistic traditions, and the...

Instructor: Gulru Necipoglu-Kafadar Three empires from the Balkans to Bengal developed distinctive architectural, urban, material, and ornamental cultures rooted in their Timurid-Turkman pasts and transformed by cosmopolitan regional traditions. An inter...

Instructor: Mohsen Goudarzi The birth of Islam in the seventh century C.E. was a momentous historical turning point, but many aspects of this crucial process remain vigorously contested in modern scholarship. Was the Prophet Muhammad a local preacher of...

Instructor: Mary Elston In Arabic and European-language media, Islamic education is often decried as a perpetuator of rote memorization, the oppression of women, and Islamic radicalism. These assertions reflect negative stereotypes about Islam as a...

Instructor: Kristen Stilt Prerequisite: None Exam Type: One Day Take-Home This course is a broad introduction to Islamic law in historical and contemporary forms. We will first cover the origins and early development of Islamic law, with a focus on how...