Muslim Studies Minor Courses

Courses

All courses are 4-credit hours.

*Other courses may count toward the minor with the approval of the CURA director.

Humanities

History of Art & Architecture

  • CAS AH 220 Islamic Art and Architecture
  • CAS AH 313 Imperial Reflections: Early Modern Islamic Art and Architecture
  • CAS AH 314 After Genghis Khan: Art and Architecture in Central Asia and Iran
  • CAS AH 317 From Morocco to Timbuktu: Art and Architecture at the Saharan Crossroads
  • CAS AH 540 Europe and the Islamic World: Medieval and Early-Modern Cultural Exchange

Religion

  • CAS RN 105 Introduction to the World’s Religions
  • CAS RN 214 Islam
  • CAS RN 220 Holy City: Jerusalem in Time, Space, and Imagination
  • CAS RN 249 Islamaphobia and Anti-semitism
  • CAS RN 316 Modern Islamn
  • CAS RN 322 History of Judaism
  • CAS RN 338 Mysticism and Philosophy: Medieval Jewish Perspectives
  • CAS RN 340 The Quran
  • CAS RN 341 Sufism
  • CAS RN 345 Shariah Law
  • CAS RN 348 Rumi and Persian Sufi Poetry
  • CAS RN 355 Religion and Violence
  • CAS RN 375 Culture, Society, and Religion in South Asia (meets with CAS AN 375)
  • CAS RN 379 Religion and Politics
  • CAS RN 382 History of Religion in Pre-Colonial Africa
  • CAS RN 390 Archeology in the Holy Land
  • CAS RN 435 Women, Gender, and Islam
  • CAS RN 561 Religion and Politics

Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies

  • CAS WS 380 Gender and Identity in Contemporary Middle Eastern Film

World Languages & Literatures

  • CAS LH 283 Israeil Culture Through Film
  • CAS LT 304 Turkey in the Middle East
  • CAS LT 388 World Cities: Istanbul
  • CAS LT 491/LT 492 Directed Study: Turkish
  • CAS LY 350 Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature
  • CAS LY 411 Arabic Society Through Hip Hop and Cartoons
  • CAS LY 420 Media Arabic
  • CAS LY 441 1001 Nights in the World Literary Imagination
  • CAS LY 470, 471 Topics in Arab Culture and Arabic Literature (meets with CAS XL 470, 471)
  • CAS LY 491 Directed Study in Arabic and Islamic Studies
  • CAS LZ 211, 212 Second-Year Modern Persian
  • CAS LZ 380 Persian Epic and Romance
  • CAS LZ 381 Rumi and Persian Sufi Poetry
  • CAS LZ 470 Topics in Persian Literature and Culture
  • CAS LZ 492 Directed Study in Persian
  • CAS XL 223 Introduction to Comparative Literature: Middle Eastern Literature
  • CAS XL 315 Tradition and Modernity in Iranian Film and Literature
  • CAS XL342 Travel Writing and the Muslim World
  • CAS XL343 Alexander the Great in the East
  • CAS XL 382 Gender and Identity in Contemporary Middle Eastern Film

Social Sciences

Anthropology

  • CAS AN 307 Turkey and Middle East in Comparative Perspective
  • CAS AN 319 Anthropology of Muslim Cultures and Politics
  • CAS AN 320 Women in the Muslim World
  • CAS AN 327 Islam in Africa
  • CAS AN 355 Religious Fundamentalism in Anthropological Perspective
  • CAS AN 375 Culture, Society, and Religion in South Asia
  • CAS AN 384 Anthropology of Religion
  • CAS AN 524 Language and Culture Contacts in Africa
  • CAS AN 532 Literacy and Islam in Africa
  • CAS AN 548 Topics in Muslim Societies and Islamic Civilizations
  • CAS AN 563 Public Religion and Politics Across Cultures

Archaeology

  • CAS AR 221 Archaeology of the Islamic World
  • CAS AR 342 Archaeology in the Holy Land
  • CAS AR 532 Studies in Near and Middle Eastern Archeology

History

  • CAS HI 213 Sacred and Secular Power in Christianity and Islam
  • CAS HI 229 The Great Powers and the Eastern Mediterranean
  • CAS HI 234 Introduction to India and South Asia
  • CAS HI 320 Understanding Revolution: France and Algeria
  • CAS HI 349 History of Religion in Pre-Colonial Africa
  • CAS HI 354 History, Religion, and Politics in the MENA
  • CAS HI 381 History of Modern Iran, 1900-Present
  • CAS HI 382 Turko-Persia in the Twentieth Century
  • CAS HI 383 Modern History and Geopolitics of the Caucasus
  • CAS HI 385 History of Premodern Iran
  • CAS HI 387 Introduction to the Middle East
  • CAS HI 389 Americans and the Middle East
  • CAS HI 390 Mecca to Dubai: Cities in the Middle East
  • CAS HI 391 Media Revolutions in the Modern Middle East
  • CAS HI 392 Israel: History, Politics, Culture, Identity
  • CAS HI 393 Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
  • CAS HI 484 Revolutionary Change in North Africa and the Middle East
  • CAS HI 485 Selected Problems in the Modern Middle East
  • CAS HI 595 Morocco: History on the Cusp of Three Continents
  • CAS HI 596 Muslim Societies: An Interdisciplinary History

    International Relations

    • CAS IR 307 Intro to Middle East Politics
    • CAS IR 312 Comparative Development in the Middle East
    • CAS IR 325 Great Powers of the Eastern Mediterranean (meets with CAS HI 229)
    • CAS IR 328 Turko-Persia in the Twentieth Century (meets with CAS HI 382)
    • CAS IR 369 Southeast Asia in World Politics (meets with CAS PO 354)
    • CAS IR 372 International Relations of South Asia (meets with CAS PO 355)
    • CAS IR 382 Understanding the Middle East (meets with CAS GE 382)
    • CAS IR 383 Understanding Modern North Africa (meets with CAS PO 376)
    • CAS IR 397 History of Modern Iran 1900–Present (meets with CAS HI 381)
    • CAS IR 503 The US in the Middle East (meets with CAS PO 503)
    • CAS IR 504 Seminar: The Persian Gulf/Arabian Peninsula (meets with CAS PO 577)
    • CAS IR 507 Islam and Politics
    • CAS IR 511 The Middle East Today
    • CAS IR 533 Contentious Politics and the Arab Spring in the Middle East
    • CAS IR 561 Religion and International Relations
    • CAS IR 563 Religion and Politics Across Cultures

    Political Science

    • CAS PO 334 Political Violence
    • CAS PO 354 Southeast Asia in World Politics
    • CAS PO 355 International Relations of South Asia
    • CAS PO 368 Introduction to Middle East Politics
    • CAS PO 376 Understanding Modern North Africa
    • CAS PO 378 Religion and Politics
    • CAS PO 589 Religion and International Relations

      Sociology

      • CAS SO 438 Seminar on International Migration

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