College of Arts and Sciences

Course List

islamic civilization and societies

Not all courses are offered each academic year.

Economics
  • EC277 Economics of the Middle East
English
  • EN408 Islamic Women's Writing
Fine Arts
  • FA174 Islamic Art and Civilization
  • FA176 Jerusalem through the Ages
  • FA203 Great Cities of the Islamic Lands
  • FA213 Introduction to Islamic Art and Architecture
  • FA214 The Art of the Silk Road
  • FA234 Mosques, Minarets and Madresas
  • FA235 The Arts of Persia: Peacocks, Pavilions, and Paradise
  • FA276 Islamic Art
  • FA280 Masterpieces of Islamic Art
  • FA350 The Art of the Object/Islamic Art
  • FA409 The Art of the Islamic Book
  • FA410 Orientalism
  • FA412 / 01 Cairo: City of 1001 Lights
  • FM314 Cinema of the Greater Middle East
History Department
  • HS207 / FA174 / TH174 Islamic Civilization in the Middle East
  • HS208 Middle East in the Twentieth Century
  • HS300.22 Study and Writing of History: Arabian Nights
  • HS / TH315 Islam in South Asia
  • HS326 History of Modern Iran
  • HS339 Byzantium and Islam
  • HS343 Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire
  • HS344 History and Historiography of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
  • HS353 Africa, Islam, and Europe
  • HS385 Modern South Asia
  • HS412 The Crusades
  • HS465 Odysseys in the Western and Islamic Traditions
  • HS610 The City in the Pre-Modern Eastern Mediterranean
  • HS666 Travelers and Spices: Lawrence of Arabia
  • HS667 Jews and Islamic Civilization
Political Science Department
  • PO403 Rise and Rule of Islamic States
  • PO414 Politics and Society in Central Eurasia
  • PO449 Domestic Politics in Postwar Europe
  • PO450 Seminar: France and the Muslim World
  • PO475 Politics and Oil in the Gulf
  • PO502 U.S-Iran Relations
  • PO516 American Foreign Policy
  • PO517 Liberalism, Democracy, and American Foreign Policy
  • PO524 Russia, Eurasia and the World
  • PO638 Islamic Political Philosophy
  • PO806 Political Cultures of the Middle East
  • PO812 State-Church Relations in Modern Europe
  • PO813 Islam in Europe
Romance Languages
  • RL299 Harmony and Dissonance: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Medieval Spain
  • RL360 Literature and Culture Francophones
  • RL611 Epocas I: Medieval Spain, Crossroads of the World
Slavic and Eastern Languages
  • SL017 / 018 Elementary Arabic I and II
  • SL089 / 90 Intermediate Arabic I and II
  • SL037 / 2 Modern Hebrew I and II
  • SL091 Biblical History
  • SL097 Independent Language Study: Turkish (Fall)
  • SL099 Independent Language Study: Dari (Fall)
  • SL103 Turkish Language Workshop
  • SL110 Spoken Arabic Language Workshop (Spring)
  • SL138 Independent Language Study: Tajik  (Fall)
  • SL147 / SC148 Language, Memory and Identity in the Middle East
  • SL148 Modern Middle Eastern and Arabic Literature
  • SL150 States and Minorities in the Middle East
  • SL171/172 Third-Year Arabic I and II
  • SL181 Persian for Scholars I  (Spring)
  • SL232 Literature of the other Europe in Translation
  • SL249 Women of Eastern Europe at War and For Peace
  • SL250 Conversion, Islam, and Politics in the Balkans
  • SL251 / 252 Advanced Arabic
  • SL000 Fourth Year Arabic
  • SL272 War and Peace in Yugoslavia
  • SL / SC280 Society and National Identity in the Balkans
  • SL283 / TH383 / CL268 The Christian East: Orientale Lumen
  • SL286 / EN252 Exile and Literature
  • SL291 Near East Civilization
  • SL314 Old Persian and Avestan
  • SL328 Classical Armenian
  • SL359 The Structure of Biblican Hebrew
  • SL381 Newspaper Arabic (Spring)
Sociology
  • SC367 Social Justice in Israel/Palestine
  • SC368 Culture and Society in the Middle East
  • SC389 Middle East on Film: Anthropological Perspectives
Theology
  • TH116 Medieval Religious Thought
  • TH161 / 162 Religious Quest: Islam and Christianity
  • TH325 Lebanon: Focal Point of Conflict
  • TH351 Faith Elements in Conflicts: The Role of Theological Positions in Fomenting or Resolution of Conflict 
  • TH352 Israelis and Palestinians: Two Peoples, Three Faiths 
  • TH445 Mystical Poetry in the Islamic Humanities
  • TH448 Prophetic Tradition and Inspiration: Exploring the Hadith
  • TH509 Pathways to God: Spectrum of Islamic Theologies in Context
  • TH531 Toward and Abrahamic Family Reunion: Issues of Religion and Identity
  • TH554 Encountering the Qur'an: Contexts and Approaches
  • TH577 Introduction to Islamic Philosophical Traditions
  • TH000 Sainthood and the Rememberance of God: Litrugy, Devotional Life, Music and Spiritual Practice in the Islamic Humanities