Course List

islamic civilization and societies

For a current list of courses: Agora Course Schedule

Fine Arts
  • FA 174 Islamic Art and Civilization
  • FA 176 Jerusalem through the Ages
  • FA 203 Great Cities of the Islamic Lands
  • FA 213 Introduction to Islamic Art and Architecture
  • FA 214 The Art of the Silk Road
  • FA 234 Mosques, Minarets and Madresas
  • FA 235 The Arts of Persia: Peacocks, Pavilions, and Paradise
  • FA 276 Islamic Art
  • FA 280 Masterpieces of Islamic Art
  • FA 350 The Art of the Object/Islamic Art
  • FA 409 The Art of the Islamic Book
  • FA 410 Orientalism
  • FA 412 / 01 Cairo: City of 1001 Lights
  • FM 314 Cinema of the Greater Middle East

History

  • HS 207 / FA174 / TH174 Islamic Civilization in the Middle East
  • HS 208 Middle East in the Twentieth Century
  • HS 300.22 Study and Writing of History: Arabian Nights
  • HS / TH 315 Islam in South Asia
  • HS 326 History of Modern Iran
  • HS 339 Byzantium and Islam
  • HS 343 Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire
  • HS 344 History and Historiography of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
  • HS 575 Terror and the American Century

Philosophy

  • PL 407 Medieval Philosophy

Political Science

  • PO 403 Rise and Rule of Islamic States
  • PO 414 Politics and Society in Central Eurasia
  • PO 444 Intellectual and Politics in the Middle East
  • PO 449 Domestic Politics in Postwar Europe
  • PO 450 Seminar: France and the Muslim World
  • PO 475 Politics and Oil in the Gulf
  • PO 502 U.S-Iran Relations
  • PO 516 American Foreign Policy
  • PO 518 Liberalism, Nation Building, and American Foreign Policy
  • PO 638 Islamic Political Philosophy
  • PO 806 Political Cultures of the Middle East
  • PO 812 State-Church Relations in Modern Europe
  • PO 813 Islam in Europe

Romance Languages and Literatures

  • RL 299 Harmony and Dissonance: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Medieval Spain
  • RL 360 Literature and Culture Francophones
  • RL 611 Epocas I: Medieval Spain, Crossroads of the World

Slavic & Eastern Languages and Literatures

  • SL 017 / 018 Elementary Arabic I and II
  • SL 089 / 90 Intermediate Arabic I and II
  • SL 037 / 2 Modern Hebrew I and II
  • SL 091 Biblical History
  • SL 097 Independent Language Study: Turkish (Fall)
  • SL 099 Independent Language Study: Dari (Fall)
  • SL 103 Turkish Language Workshop
  • SL 110 Spoken Arabic Language Workshop (Spring)
  • SL 138 Independent Language Study: Tajik  (Fall)
  • SL 147 / SC148 Language, Memory and Identity in the Middle East
  • SL 148 Modern Middle Eastern and Arabic Literature
  • SL 150 States and Minorities in the Middle East
  • SL 171/172 Third-Year Arabic I and II
  • SL 181 Persian for Scholars I  (Spring)
  • SL 232 Literature of the other Europe in Translation
  • SL 249 Women of Eastern Europe at War and For Peace
  • SL 250 Conversion, Islam, and Politics in the Balkans
  • SL 251 / 252 Advanced Arabic
  • SL 000 Fourth Year Arabic
  • SL 272 War and Peace in Yugoslavia
  • SL / SC 280 Society and National Identity in the Balkans
  • SL 283 / TH 383 / CL 268 The Christian East: Orientale Lumen
  • SL 286 / EN 252 Exile and Literature
  • SL 291 Near East Civilization
  • SL 314 Old Persian and Avestan
  • SL 328 Classical Armenian
  • SL 359 The Structure of Biblican Hebrew
  • SL 381 Newspaper Arabic (Spring)

Sociology

  • SC 150 States and Minorities in the Middle East

Theology

  • TH 116 Medieval Religious Thought
  • TH 161 / 162 Religious Quest: Islam and Christianity
  • TH 325 Lebanon: Focal Point of Conflict
  • TH 351 Faith Elements in Conflicts: The Role of Theological Positions in Fomenting or Resolution of Conflict 
  • TH 352 Israelis and Palestinians: Two Peoples, Three Faiths 
  • TH 445 Mystical Poetry in the Islamic Humanities
  • TH 448 Prophetic Tradition and Inspiration: Exploring the Hadith
  • TH 509 Pathways to God: Spectrum of Islamic Theologies in Context
  • TH 531 Toward and Abrahamic Family Reunion: Issues of Religion and Identity
  • TH 554 Encountering the Qur'an: Contexts and Approaches
  • TH 577 Introduction to Islamic Philosophical Traditions
  • TH 000 Sainthood and the Rememberance of God: Litrugy, Devotional Life, Music and Spiritual Practice in the Islamic Humanities