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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: Ali Asani The course is an introduction to the fundamental concepts of Islam and the role that religious ideas and institutions play in Muslim communities around the world. Its main concern is to develop an understanding of the manner in which...

Instructors: Kay Shelemay, Kate van Orden, Cemal Kafadar Mediterranean Mobilities, Past and Present. This course will provide insight into music’s powerful role in human mobility, seeking to break down barriers between historical and ethnographic methods...

Instructor: Khaled El-Rouayheb Islamic Civilizations 145 is an introduction to some of the key problems and figures in medieval Islamic theology and philosophy. The main topics covered will be: The rise of theological controversies in early Islam and the...

Instructor: Khaled El-Rouayheb Islamic Civilizations 145A is an introduction to some of the key problems and figures in medieval Islamic theology and philosophy. The main topics covered will be: The rise of theological controversies in early Islam and the...

Instructor: Nicholas Boylston In this course we will explore the major genres of classical Persian Sufi poetry and prose. In addition to examining the formation of these genres and their contexts of composition, we will pursue a range of broader questions...

Instructor: Diane Moore This course will take place in January 2019. In this interdisciplinary field study seminar we will examine a diversity of narratives regarding displacement and belonging in both Israel and the West Bank. Through direct encounters...

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...