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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: 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: Giovanni Bazzana The course will focus on the history of Israel/Palestine in the span of time of almost a millennium that witnessed the emergence of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Specific attention will be devoted to the changing landscape...

Instructor: Rahina Muazu The perception of the female voice in Muslim West Africa as part of her ʿ awra (nudity, nakedness), which is determining socially and religiously acceptable gender roles for women, is not only a result of difference in legal...

Instructor: Nurhaizatul Jamil This course aims to ethnographically examine the relation among pious subject-formation, race, and gender as they relate to Muslim women’s social media engagements. We will interrogate the ways that Muslim women function as...

Instructor: Hajnalka Kovacs Iqbal's Urdu Poetry is a comprehensive introduction to Sir Muhammad Iqbal’s (1877–1938) Urdu poetry. Along with reading and translating selected poems from Iqbal’s collections Bāng-e Darā, Bāl-e Jibrīl, Zarb-e Kalīm, and...

Instructor: Rosie Bsheer This course is a critical history of political economy that centers on the Middle East and South Asia. It begins with readings in classical political economy, liberalism, and Enlightenment thought, coupled with colonial...

Instructor: Rosie Bsheer Description: How was the region of North Africa and West Asia between the Atlantic and Central Asia constructed, physically and discursively, as “the Middle East”? What were the major local, regional, and global events that have...

Instructor: Jacob Olupona Religion is pivotal to the understanding of the history, culture, and politics of Nigeria's nation-state. The seminar examines the historical development of religion in Nigeria and explores its intersection with ethnic identity...

Instructor: Kimberley Patton Description: A comparative course on the theme of weeping and lamentation in religious experience. One of the earliest human expressions of distress, tears remain a profound existential signifier at all stages of life...

Instructor: Jacob Olupona This course focuses on the history and phenomenology of African peoples’ religious experiences in the Americas. The historical and social processes that led to the emergence of African diasporic religions in Latin America and the...

Instructor: Jocelyne Cesari Nationalism is not simply an ideology: it is also a set of practices by which territory, political power and the cultural identity of the people that inhabit this territory are constituted in a unique and singular fact. The...