College of Arts and Sciences
Islamic Studies
Director Herbert W. Mason (HI/RN/UNI)
Anthropology Barfield, Barth, Haeri (WS), Hefner, Lindholm (UNI), Smith-Hefner, J. White
Core Curriculum Tabatabai
History Anderson, Glick, Wylie
International Relations Chehabi, Dunbar, Goldstein, Haqqani, Mughal, Norton (AN)
Modern Languages and Comparative Literature Micallef, Mustafa, Sharma
Political Science Gendzier
Religion Ali, Korom (AN), Swartz
Sociology Kibria
Members of the College of Arts and Sciences humanities and social science faculty offer a broad range of courses focusing on the Muslim societies and civilizations of the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Specialization in Islamic studies is possible within the religion concentration offered through the Department of Religion. For complete descriptions of the courses listed below, refer to departmental sections or visit the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations.
Courses
CAS AH 220 Islamic Art and Architecture
CAS AH 540 Europe and the Islamic World: Medieval and Early-Modern Cultural Exchange
CAS AN 307 Turkey and Middle East in Comparative Perspective
CAS AN 317 Power and Society in the Middle East (meets with UNI SS 317)
CAS AN 318 Southeast Asia: Tradition and Development
CAS AN 319 Anthropology of Muslim Cultures and Politics
CAS AN 320 Women in the Muslim World
CAS AN 355 Religious Fundamentalism in Anthropological Perspective
CAS AN 360 The Nomadic Alternative
CAS AN 547/548 Topics in Muslim Societies and Islamic Civilizations
CAS AR 221 Archaeology of the Islamic World
CAS HI 291 Reconstructing the African Past
CAS HI 327 Early Medieval Spain
CAS HI 392 Introduction to the Middle East
CAS HI 484 Revolutionary Change in North Africa and the Middle East
CAS HI 485 Selected Problems in the Modern Middle East
CAS HI 486 Islamic History
CAS IR 328 Turko-Persia in the Twentieth Century (meets with CAS HI 398)
CAS IR 382 Understanding the Middle East (meets with CAS GE 382)
CAS IR 503 U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East
CAS IR 504 Seminar: The Persian Gulf/Arabian Peninsula
CAS IR 507 The Muslim and Western Worlds—Prospects for a Clash of Civilizations
CAS IR 508 Islamic Political Movements and U.S. Policy
CAS IR 509 Islam in Middle East Politics (meets with CAS PO 573)
CAS IR 511 The Middle East Today
CAS IR 514 Major Themes in the Middle East Peace Process
CAS IR 586 Islam in South Asian Politics
CAS IR 587 Political Economy of the Middle East
CAS IR 591 The Making of the Modern Middle East (Meets with CAS HI 591 and UNI SS 591)
CAS LT 111, 112 First-Year Turkish
CAS LT 211, 212 Second-Year Turkish
CAS LY 111, 112 Elementary Modern Arabic
CAS LY 211, 212 Second-Year Modern Arabic
CAS LY 281 Contemporary Arabic Literature: Subversion, Censorship, Exile (in English translation)
CAS LY 282/RN 349 Qur'anic Negotiations: Contemporary Muslim Writers and the Holy Book
CAS LZ 111, 112 First-Year Modern Persian
CAS LZ 211, 212 Second-Year Modern Persian
CAS LZ 280 Persian Epic and Romance (in English translation)
CAS PO 560 Politics and Society in North Africa and the Middle East
CAS RN 214 Islam
CAS RN 340 The Quran
CAS RN 341 Islamic Mysticism: Sufism
CAS RN 343 Global Islam
CAS RN 344 Islam and the West
CAS RN 345 Islamic Law
CAS RN 347 Islamic Philosophy and Theology
CAS RN 375 Culture, Society, and Religion in South Asia (meets with CAS AN 375)
CAS RN 435 Women, Gender, and Islam
CAS RN 475, 476 Directed Study in Islamic Studies
CAS RN 493, 494 Directed Study in Classic Arabic
CAS SO 328 Contemporary South Asian Societies
CAS SO 438 Seminar on International Migration
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