Shady H. Nasser

MUSIC 190R: Topics in World Music: Music in Islamic Contexts: South and Central Asia

This course focuses on arts of sound associated with Islam in South Asia and Central Asia (including Iran). We explore how specific musical procedures and uses of sound cut across these Asian regions, and how ideologies, philosophies, and texts—associated...

DPI 397: Islam in the American Public Sphere: A Case Study for Strategic Diversity Leadership

Instructor: Khalil Abdur-Rashid This course will examine Islam and the American Muslim community as a case study which reveals the challenges and perspectives emerging from the encounter of a global faith community in America with the intersection of race...

HIST 2014: Historiography of the Modern Middle East: Proseminar

Instructor: Rosie Bsheer This graduate seminar aims to familiarize students with some of the major debates in the field of modern Middle East history and pays careful attention to competing theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches. It will...

DPI 440: Middle Eastern Politics and Policy

Instructor: Tarek Masoud 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 prospects for genuine...

ISLAMCIV 170/HDS 3368: Islam, Modernity and Politics

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...

RELIGION 2810/ISLAMCIV 218: Islamic Institutions - Middle East and Beyond: Modern Transformations and Debates (19th-21st centuries)

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...

HDS 3357/Islamic Civilization 179: Critical Perspectives on the Dynamics and Development of Islam in Africa

Instructor: Ousmane Kane An estimated 450 to 500 million Muslims live in Africa—close to a third of the global Muslim population. The overwhelming majority of them lives in the northern half of the continent, above the equator. The spread of Islam...

Middle Eastern Politics and Policy

DPI-440 This course 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 prospects for genuine democratization...

Getting and Keeping Democracy

DPI-407 This is a course about how democracy comes into being and how it breaks down, and about what citizens, activists, and policymakers around the world can do to make the former more likely and the latter less so. Around the world, there is an...

Political Institutions and Public Policy

DPI-101 This is a course about fundamental problems of participation, democratic governance, and conflict in contemporary political systems. It will provide students with an analytical toolkit for understanding and acting on the political dimensions of...

Architecture in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

Instructor: Gulru Necipoglu-Kafadar Architecture of the eastern Mediterranean basin (at Italian, Ottoman, and Mamluk courts) with emphasis on cross-cultural encounters and transmission of the Romano-Byzantine heritage, science and technology...

Reading al-Manar in the Interwar Period

What is Good in Islam? Ethics in the Islamic Tradition

Upper-Level Classical Arabic I

The World's Religions in Multicultural America: Case Studies in Religious Pluralism

The Volatile Veil: Gender, Sexuality, and Islam

The Concept of Knowledge in Maghribi Mystics: From Zarruq (d. 1483) to Ahmad ibn Idris (d.1873)

Terrorism or Freedom Fighter

Spiritual Cultivation in Islam Part I: The Classical Era

This course, as part of the new HDS Initiative on Islamic Spiritual Life and Service, is intended for students preparing for vocation in a variety of settings in which they will provide Islamically-inspired service and support. The course will acquaint...

Approaches to Studying Indo-Muslim Culture and South Asian Islam

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