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Instructor: David Roxburgh and Lisa Haber-Thompson 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: David Roxburgh The seminar examines cities and monuments built in Greater Iran and Central Asia from the 11 th through 15 th centuries spanning three principal dynastic periods (Seljuqs, Mongols, and Timurids). Various functional types—mosques...

Instructor: Gulru Necipoglu-Kafadar, Jinah Kim, and Melissa McCormick This course introduces sophomore concentrators to on-site study of art and architecture through the case study of a particular geographic and cultural area. This year: India

Instructor: Gulru Necipoglu-Kafadar Course Description: Critically explores the historiography and interpretations of Islamic ornament. Themes include ornamentality and abstraction, theories of perception, orientalist discourses on the so-called...

Instructor: Rosie Bsheer The principal analytical focus in this seminar will be the role of oil in shaping the cultural, social, political, and economic relations of the Arabian Peninsula. This region has long been at the center of global circulations of...

Instructor: Melanie Cammett Why are some countries governed democratically while dictators seem to have a firm grasp on power in others? Why do people threaten and even kill each other in the name of ethnicity or religion in some places and times but not...

Instructor: Mariam Sheibani Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111) is known as “The Proof of Islam” and is widely considered to be the most influential philosopher, theologian, and mystic in Sunni Islam. This course will serve as an inquiry into al-Ghazālī’s...

Instructor: Khalil Abdur-Rashid This course will examine Islam and the American Muslim community as a case study which reveals the challenges and perspectives emerging from the encounter of a global faith community in America with the intersection of race...

Instructor: Yasir Fahmy This course will engage in a critical reading and analysis of Hadith Jibril. Also known as Umm Al-Hadith (or the mother of Prophetic narrations), this narration gathers the essential acts and practices that are to be performed...

Instructor: Alicia Izharuddin This course engages with critical issues in gender and emotions at the intersection of Muslim identity and culture. It brings to the fore interdisciplinary scholarship – spanning media studies, anthropology and sociology –...

Instructor: 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 service and...

Instructor: Cemal Kafadar Since the fifteenth century, individuals and societies in different parts of the world adopted a gradually but unmistakably quickening tempo in their everyday lives and started to make more uses of the nighttime –for socializing...