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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: Evridiki Georganteli Crusading expeditions in the Holy Land, Spain, and Eastern Europe from 1096 until the end of the Middle Ages shaped the political, socio-economic, and cultural map of Europe and the Middle East. This course explores the...

Instructor: Khaled El-Rouayheb This course offers a reading of a number of major works of Islamic Civilization, for example from the universal chronicle of al-Tabari (d. 923), the forty hadith of al-Nawawi (d. 1277), a work on the lives of the Shi’i Imams...

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: Khaled El-Rouayheb This course offers a reading of a number of major works of Islamic Civilization, for example from the universal chronicle of al-Tabari (d. 923), the forty hadith of al-Nawawi (d. 1277), a work on the lives of the Shi’i Imams...

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: 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...