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Instructor: Malika Zeghal This course examines colonization and decolonization in the Maghreb—Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia—and Egypt. Through the historiography of colonialisms and nationalisms in the region, as well as primary sources, we will focus on the...

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: 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: 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...