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Instructor: Khaled El-Rouayheb Readings on selected topics in Islamic philosophy.

Instructor: Khaled El-Rouayheb This course offers a reading of a number of major works of Islamic Civilization, for example from the universal chronicle of al-Tabari (d. 923), the forty hadith of al-Nawawi (d. 1277), a work on the lives of the Shi’i Imams...

Instructor: Shady Nasser Recommended prep: Three years of Arabic or equivalent level of proficiency.

Instructor: Shady Nasser Travel is a persistent feature of Arabophone societies through which they have consistently sought to understand and extend their physical, spiritual and imaginative worlds. This course explores the literary tropes of travel and...

Instructor: Malika Zeghal This graduate seminar explores the transformation of Islamic institutions in the modern period, such as religious endowments (Awqaf), sharia courts, and Islamic education. We will engage with the historiography of these...

Instructor: Malika Zeghal An introduction to Middle Eastern Studies focusing on the modern period (19th and 20th centuries). Lectures will be broadly sequenced according to historical chronology but will be thematically organized. They will provide some...

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

Instructor: Ali Asani Individual reading course. A course for students with native or near-native proficiency with readings in a variety of genres from Hindi and/or Urdu literature based on student interest.