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A seminar for graduate students focusing on current scholarship on Islamic civilization in South Asia.

Instructor: Ali Asani A seminar for graduate students focusing on current scholarship on Islamic civilization in South Asia.

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: 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...

Instructor: Diana Eck An exploration of the classical texts, spiritual teachings, epic narratives, and religious movements that have shaped a complex civilization for some three thousand years, from the Indus Valley to today. Readings in primary sources –...

Instructor: Teren Sevea How did Islamic missions and missionaries reform Muslim South and Southeast Asia? What Islamic missionary idioms, orientations and movements emerged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? Were South and Southeast Asia global...

Instructor: Ousmane Kane The aim of this seminar is to study the evolution of Islamic thought and political practices in Muslim societies from the 19th to the early 21st centuries.Attention will be devoted to the patterns of interaction between the Muslim...

Instructors: Ahmed Ragab and Katharine Park How did people understand nature in the Middle Ages? Is “premodern science” a contradiction in terms? What does it mean for science to be “religious”? How did medieval “Western” and “Islamic” civilization differ...

Instructor: Robert Ames This course offers an overview of the development of classical Persian literature through the lens of ethics (broadly conceived as normative or prudent conduct), from the 10th through 15th centuries. Students will become acquainted...

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...