Muslim Studies Program

The Muslim Studies Program is an interdisciplinary home for the study of Islam and Muslims in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Humanities and social science faculty offer a broad range of courses focusing on Muslim societies and civilizations, including religion, history, politics, art, architecture, film, literature, and language; other courses address diaspora communities and Islamophobia. A list of current courses and their descriptions can be obtained by contacting the program. Muslim Studies also organizes lectures and programs open to the Boston University community.

Our graduate certificate and undergraduate minor help students gain an interdisciplinary understanding of Muslim life and thought, past and present, within Muslim-majority societies and in minority and diaspora communities.