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Instructor: David Roxburgh Texts of the Persian literary tradition that were illustrated constitute our focus, including Firdawsi's Shahnama and Nizami's Khamsa. Study of word and image is staged through key examples to open new lines of inquiry.

Instructors: David Roxburgh and Petricio del Real 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: Salma Waheedi Prerequisite: This course is open to students who have taken or are concurrently taking an HLS human rights course. Exam Type: No Exam This course will focus on Islamic law and human rights advocacy in Muslim majority and...

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: Yunus Kumek This course introduces students to practices of spiritual care from a Muslim Perspective. As we will survey spiritual care practices of different Muslim cultures, our focus will be the relevant application of these practices in...

Instructor: Arianne Urus Muslims first arrived on the shores of the Americas at the turn of the sixteenth century, yet their long history in the western hemisphere has been largely forgotten. For centuries Islam was the second-most widely practiced...

Instructor: Justine Landau This seminar explores the porous boundaries between fiction and science in premodern Persian literature, with readings selected from major prose and poetic texts from the 10th to the 16th century. Students will engage in the...

Instructor: Tarek Masoud (Previously offered as DPI-440) 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...

Instructor: Melani Cammett A research seminar covering social science literature on the Middle East and major debates in comparative politics of the region. Emphasis placed on methods of analysis, theory-building and testing, and the formation of research...

Instructor: Luis Giron Negron Does love have a history? This course will explore a particularly rich, multisecular episode in the literary history of this emotion: the efflorescence and varieties of love poetry, both lyrical and narrative, in Europe and...

Instructor: William Granara Examines the roots and issues of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-90) and its continuing impact on modern Arabic fiction. The syllabus pairs realistic and romanticized representations of family, sectarianism, and gender binaries...

Instructor: Gareth Doherty This lecture course views landscape through social and cultural practices. Through people, we will explore landscape’s critical, ethical, and political power to shape the world. The course will provide students with fieldwork...