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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
AS.010.329 (01)
Building an Empire: Architecture of the Ottoman Capitals, c. 1300–1600
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Rustem, Unver
Gilman 177
INST-GLOBAL
Building an Empire: Architecture of the Ottoman Capitals, c. 1300–1600 AS.010.329 (01)
Centered on modern-day Turkey and encompassing vast territories in Asia, Africa, and Europe, the Ottoman Empire (1299 – 1923) was the longest lived and among the most powerful Islamic states in history, with an artistic tradition to match. This course explores the functional and symbolic role that architecture played during the empire’s formative centuries, when three successive capital — Bursa, Edirne, and Istanbul — served to visualize the sultans’ growing claims to universal authority. With reference to mosques, palaces, tombs, and other categories of architecture, the course will examine the buildings in their artistic, social, and political contexts. Themes to be addressed include patronage and audience, architectural practice and the building trade, ceremonial and ritual, topography and urban planning, and the relationship of Ottoman architecture to other traditions.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Rustem, Unver
Room: Gilman 177
Status: Open
Seats Available: 15/20
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL
AS.010.338 (01)
Art and the Harem: Women’s Spaces, Patronage, and (Self-)Representation in Islamic Empires
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Rustem, Unver
Gilman 177
INST-GLOBAL
Art and the Harem: Women’s Spaces, Patronage, and (Self-)Representation in Islamic Empires AS.010.338 (01)
Long characterized in the Western imagination as exotic realms of fantasy, harems in Islamic tradition served as private domestic quarters for the women of elite households. This course explores the harem—as an institution, a physical space, and a community of women—from various art-historical perspectives, considering such topics as the harem’s architecture, the agency of its inhabitants as patrons and collectors, the mediating role of eunuchs in the harem’s visual and material culture, and the ability of harem women to make their mark through public artistic commissions. Our case studies will address a range of Islamic geographical and chronological contexts, though we will focus on the empires of the early modern period and, above all, the famous harem of the Ottoman sultans at the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul. In challenging popular misconceptions, the course will also look at the wealth of exoticizing imagery that the harem inspired in Western art, which we will consider through Orientalist paintings at the Walters Art Museum and illustrated rare books at Hopkins itself.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Rustem, Unver
Room: Gilman 177
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL
AS.010.352 (01)
Modern and Contemporary Art: Middle East and South Asia
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Brown, Rebecca Mary
Gilman 119
HART-MODERN, INST-GLOBAL
Modern and Contemporary Art: Middle East and South Asia AS.010.352 (01)
This course will explore modern and contemporary art in colonial and postcolonial contexts from Bangladesh to northern Africa. How do artists negotiate demands to support their national and local identities while participating in modernism across borders? What role do secularism and spirituality have in modern art? How do anticolonial, Marxist, and feminist politics shape art in these regions? How do global economic forces and the rise of powerful collectors, private museums, and international art fairs shape art and artists working across this geographic area? We will foreground the role of women as artists, collectors, patrons, and scholars throughout.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Brown, Rebecca Mary
Room: Gilman 119
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/15
PosTag(s): HART-MODERN, INST-GLOBAL
AS.070.267 (01)
Culture, Religion and Politics in Iran
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Haeri, Niloofar (Niloofar)
Hodson 301
INST-GLOBAL, INST-NWHIST, INST-CP, ISLM-ISLMST
Culture, Religion and Politics in Iran AS.070.267 (01)
This is an introductory course for those interseted in gaining basic knowledge about contemporary Iran. The focus will be on culture and religion and the ways they in which they become interwoven into different kinds of political stakes.
Freshman Seminar: Jerusalem: The Holy City AS.130.138 (01)
This course will survey the cultural history of Jerusalem over three millennia, primarily as the symbolic focus of three faiths: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The course content will focus on the transformation of sacred space as reflected by literary and archaeological evidence by examining the artifacts, architectural monuments, and iconography in relation to written sources. The creation of mythic Jerusalem through event and experience will be examined. Course requirements will focus on the development of advanced writing skills and critical thinking.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Mandell, Alice H
Room: Gilman 130G
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): NEAS-HISCUL
AS.194.102 (01)
Islamic Pasts in the Contemporary World
Th 4:30PM - 7:00PM
Roy, Arpan
Mergenthaler 252
INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP
Islamic Pasts in the Contemporary World AS.194.102 (01)
This course will focus on the intellectual and cultural legacies of “Islamic pasts.” It has been argued by scholars that Islam is not only a religion but a “civilization” with identifiable sensibilities, overlapping histories, and temporalities. This civilization once spread from the Atlantic coast of Africa to the Indian subcontinent and beyond, but regimes and dynasties have changed hands in many of these places, while remaining in place in others. What remains of Islamic pasts in places where Islam once reigned supreme but has either vanished, been reduced to minority status, or repressed in ongoing political projects? This course examines lost Islamic pasts in the contemporary world, using readings from anthropology, history, literature, and poetry. As the basis of this course, we will read four texts in their entirety focusing on four different geographic points of interest—Spain, India, the Balkans, and Palestine.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 4:30PM - 7:00PM
Instructor: Roy, Arpan
Room: Mergenthaler 252
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/10
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP
AS.194.202 (01)
Never Forget: Muslims, Islamophobia, and Dissent after 9/11
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Ziad, Homayra (Homayra)
3003 N. Charles OMA Lounge
INST-GLOBAL
Never Forget: Muslims, Islamophobia, and Dissent after 9/11 AS.194.202 (01)
In partnership with the social justice organization Justice for Muslims Collective, this community-engaged course and oral history project will explore how diverse Muslim communities navigated and contested belonging and political and cultural agency amidst state-sponsored violence and national debates on race, gender, citizenship and national security after 9/11 and during the ongoing War on Terror. Through history, ethnography, first-person narratives, film, fiction, and online resources, students will learn about the impact of 9/11 on American Muslim communities. This includes cultural and political resistance to imperialism, racism, and Islamophobia as well as to intersectional inequities within Muslim communities that were intensified in the context of Islamophobia. Students will learn about community activism and organizing from JMC, and complete a participatory action research project with the organization. This project is an oral history archive that will address gaps in the documentation of movement histories when it comes to early organizing against War on Terror policies by Muslim communities and communities racialized or perceived as Muslim. Students will be trained to record stories of resistance among leaders who organized and responded at the local and national-level in the Greater Washington region, to support the building of an archive that will shape a wide variety of future organizing and advocacy efforts.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Ziad, Homayra (Homayra)
Room: 3003 N. Charles OMA Lounge
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/20
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL
AS.375.115 (01)
First Year Arabic
MTWTh 9:00AM - 9:50AM
Jafire, Sana
Krieger 504
ISLM-ISLMST
First Year Arabic AS.375.115 (01)
Introductory course in speaking, listening, reading, and writing Modern Standard Arabic. Presents basic grammatical structures and a basic vocabulary. Through oral-aural drill in classroom, tapes in Language Laboratory, and reading/writing exercises, students attain a basic level of competence on which they can build in subsequent years of study.
No Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory
Credits: 4.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MTWTh 9:00AM - 9:50AM
Instructor: Jafire, Sana
Room: Krieger 504
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/12
PosTag(s): ISLM-ISLMST
AS.375.115 (02)
First Year Arabic
MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, TTh 10:30AM - 11:20AM
Jafire, Sana
Krieger 504 Gilman 381
ISLM-ISLMST
First Year Arabic AS.375.115 (02)
Introductory course in speaking, listening, reading, and writing Modern Standard Arabic. Presents basic grammatical structures and a basic vocabulary. Through oral-aural drill in classroom, tapes in Language Laboratory, and reading/writing exercises, students attain a basic level of competence on which they can build in subsequent years of study.
No Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory
Designed to bring students up to competency level required for third/fourth year Arabic. Students will consolidate and expand their mastery of the four basic skills acquired in AS.375.115-116. More authentic material--written, audio, and visual--will be used, and culture will be further expanded on as a fifth skill. Recommended Course Background: AS.375.115-116 or equivalent.
Designed to enhance students' ability to read, discuss, and write about various topics covered in traditional and contemporary Arabic texts. Recommended Course Background: AS.375.216 or equivalent.
