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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
AS.010.423 (01)
Modern and Contemporary Art in South Asia
M 4:30PM - 7:00PM
Brown, Rebecca Mary
Gilman 119
HART-NW, HART-MODERN, ISLM-ISLMST
Modern and Contemporary Art in South Asia AS.010.423 (01)
How does modernism operate in the colonial context, work with and against the nationalisms of new countries (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bangladesh), challenge existing norms of the art world and the art market, engage with the difficult and violent upheavals of Partition and sectarian conflict, and allow for experimentations and new forms all the while? This course will explore the history of the art of the subcontinent from c. 1880 to the present by critical engagement with the art, artists, and theories at play in the South Asian region.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 7/15
PosTag(s): HART-NW, HART-MODERN, ISLM-ISLMST
AS.194.401 (01)
Themes in Medieval Islamic Thought
T 1:30PM - 3:50PM
Ferrario, Gabriele
Krieger Laverty
ISLM-ISLMST
Themes in Medieval Islamic Thought AS.194.401 (01)
This seminar examines medieval Muslim thinkers who addressed themes at the intersection of theology, philosophy, science, and ethics: the definition of the nature of God’s attributes, His uniqueness, transcendence and omnipotence; human freewill and the limits of human knowledge; the nature of the world; and the relationship among reason, religion, and science. The course will look at how these and other crucial themes were addressed by major medieval philosophers and philosophical schools not only in Islam, but also in Judaism and Christianity, and highlight similarities and differences among the three major monotheistic faiths.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/15
PosTag(s): ISLM-ISLMST
AS.194.210 (01)
Race, Gender, Citizenship: Being Muslim in America
M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Ziad, Homayra
Mergenthaler 426
ISLM-ISLMST, INST-AP
Race, Gender, Citizenship: Being Muslim in America AS.194.210 (01)
This course explores how American Muslims navigate and contest complex notions of belonging in the context of national conversations on race, gender, citizenship, and national security. With a focus on specific case studies that range from Black Muslim movements of the early twentieth century to the ongoing War on Terror, the course will add complexity to the public conversation on what it means to be Muslim - and what it means to be American. The course will draw on history, ethnography, first-person narratives, films, blogs, documentaries and fiction.
ISIS, “virgins” in paradise, the sexual slavery of Yazidi women…. This course will use anthropological and historical studies to examine the long history of how rules and understandings about sex, sexuality, and gender have mattered in how people think about Islam.
Continuation of AS.375.115. 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. Accelerated students should register for Section 01. May not be taken Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory
Credits: 4.50
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 8/12
PosTag(s): ISLM-ISLMST
AS.194.201 (01)
Jews, Muslims, and Christians in the Medieval World
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Ferrario, Gabriele
Shriver Hall 104
ISLM-ISLMST
Jews, Muslims, and Christians in the Medieval World AS.194.201 (01)
The three most widespread monotheisms have much more in common than is generally portrayed: a common founding figure, a partly shared succession of prophets, closely comparable ethical concerns and religious practices, a history of coexistence and of cultural, religious, social and economic interaction. This course will focus on a number of key texts and historical events that have shaped the relationships between Jews, Muslims, and Christians during the Middle Ages and contributed to their reciprocal construction of the image of the “other.” The geographical center of the course will be the Mediterranean and the Near and Middle East, a true cradle of civilizations, religions, and exchange.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 22/30
PosTag(s): ISLM-ISLMST
AS.010.103 (01)
Introduction to the Art of Asia
MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Brown, Rebecca Mary
Gilman 119
ISLM-ISLMST
Introduction to the Art of Asia AS.010.103 (01)
A survey of the art and architecture of Asia, from the ancient world to the present and including the Indian subcontinent, China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 12/25
PosTag(s): ISLM-ISLMST
AS.070.465 (01)
Concepts: How to Read Hindu and Islamic Texts
F 2:00PM - 4:30PM
Das, Veena, Khan, Naveeda
Mergenthaler 426
INST-GLOBAL, INST-NWHIST, ISLM-ISLMST
Concepts: How to Read Hindu and Islamic Texts AS.070.465 (01)
What is the nature of anthropological concepts and what relations do they bear to concepts internal to a society? We invite students to think with key ideas from Hindu and Islamic traditions, asking if anthropological concepts are best seen as abstractions from the particular or as intertwined with ongoing lines of inquiry, say into the nature of the real and continual efforts to test it? Topics in ritual theory, grammar, aesthetics, translation, revelation, luminosity, figuration and the mythological among those to be considered.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-NWHIST, ISLM-ISLMST
AS.070.374 (01)
What Does it Mean to be Religious?
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Haeri, Niloofar, Ziad, Homayra
Mergenthaler 426
What Does it Mean to be Religious? AS.070.374 (01)
What do we mean when we say that something or someone is “religious?” We unpack this question in a comparative approach, and pay special attention to the ways in which this term has been applied to the study of Islamic cultures and Muslim experience. Through an exploration of the categories of experience, creativity and the individual, we offer a more capacious way of imagining what it means to be religious.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 13/20
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.375.116 (02)
First Year Arabic II
MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM, TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Hassan, Inas, Jafire, Sana
Maryland 104
ISLM-ISLMST
First Year Arabic II AS.375.116 (02)
Continuation of AS.375.115. 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. Accelerated students should register for Section 01. May not be taken Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory
Credits: 4.50
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/12
PosTag(s): ISLM-ISLMST
AS.375.216 (01)
Second Year Arabic II
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Hassan, Inas, Jafire, Sana
Krieger 300
ISLM-ISLMST
Second Year Arabic II AS.375.216 (01)
Continuation of AS.375.215. 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. Accelerated students should register for Section 01.
Recommended Course Background: AS.375.215 or permission required.
Credits: 4.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/16
PosTag(s): ISLM-ISLMST
AS.375.216 (02)
Second Year Arabic II
MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Hassan, Inas, Jafire, Sana
Maryland 201
ISLM-ISLMST
Second Year Arabic II AS.375.216 (02)
Continuation of AS.375.215. 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. Accelerated students should register for Section 01.
Recommended Course Background: AS.375.215 or permission required.
Credits: 4.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 11/16
PosTag(s): ISLM-ISLMST
AS.375.402 (01)
Fourth Year Arabic II
TTh 9:00AM - 9:50AM
Hassan, Inas
Krieger 522
Fourth Year Arabic II AS.375.402 (01)
This is an introductory course to different periods of the Arabic literature. Selections of famous Arabic poetry and short prose works are the substance of the course. Continuation of AS.375.401. Recommended Course Background: AS.375.302 or equivalent.
Credits: 2.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/6
PosTag(s): n/a
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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
AS.070.267 (01)
Culture, Religion and Politics in Iran
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Haeri, Niloofar
Mergenthaler 426
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.
The course will focus on the origin and development of the Arab-Israeli conflict from its beginnings when Palestine was controlled by the Ottoman Empire, through World War I, The British Mandate over Palestine, and the first Arab-Israeli war (1947-1949). It will then examine the period of the Arab-Israeli wars of 1956, 1967, 1973, and 1982, the Palestinian Intifadas (1987-1993 and 2000-2005); and the development of the Arab-Israeli peace process from its beginnings with the Egyptian-Israeli treaty of 1979, the Oslo I and Oslo II agreements of 1993 and 1995, Israel's peace treaty with Jordan of 1994, the Road Map of 2003; and the periodic peace talks between Israel and Syria. The conflict will be analyzed against the background of great power intervention in the Middle East, the rise of political Islam and the dynamics of Intra-Arab politics, and will consider the impact of the Arab Spring.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/35
PosTag(s): INST-IR, INST-CP, ISLM-ISLMST
AS.010.319 (01)
Medieval Art and Architecture of the Holy Land
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Zchomelidse, Nino
Gilman 177
ISLM-ISLMST, HART-MED
Medieval Art and Architecture of the Holy Land AS.010.319 (01)
The course focuses on art and architecture in the political and religious contexts of the Middle East, from the 4th to the 14th c. The three monotheistic religions all claimed specific territories -- in particular the city of Jerusalem -- for cult practices. This situation resulted in military conflicts that had an impact of Jewish, Medieval, Byzantine, and Islamic art in the Holy Land. The political conflicts, which still plague the region today, are rooted in the complex situation of the medieval period. The Roman, Arab, Byzantine, and crusader invasions resulted however in exciting eclectic styles that characterize the art and architecture of the region. We will discuss concepts behind political and religious leadership, as they intersect with the power of the arts.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 16/19
PosTag(s): ISLM-ISLMST, HART-MED
AS.100.374 (01)
Conquest, Conversion, and Language Change in the Middle Ages
Conquest, Conversion, and Language Change in the Middle Ages AS.100.374 (01)
Examines case-studies of imperial conquests (Islamic, Mongol, reconquista, early colonialism) and attendant changes in religion (Christianization; Islamization) and in language (Arabization; transition from Latin to European vernaculars) across medieval Eurasia.
History of Science: Antiquity To Renaissance AS.140.301 (01)
The first part of a three-part survey of the history of science. This course deals with the origins, practice, ideas, and cultural role of scientific thought in Graeco-Roman, Arabic/Islamic, and Medieval Latin/Christian societies. Interactions across cultures and among science, art, technology, and theology are highlighted.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.140.301 (03)
History of Science: Antiquity To Renaissance
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Ferrario, Gabriele, Principe, Lawrence
Hodson 313
History of Science: Antiquity To Renaissance AS.140.301 (03)
The first part of a three-part survey of the history of science. This course deals with the origins, practice, ideas, and cultural role of scientific thought in Graeco-Roman, Arabic/Islamic, and Medieval Latin/Christian societies. Interactions across cultures and among science, art, technology, and theology are highlighted.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.130.364 (01)
Archaeology of Arabia
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Harrower, Michael James
Gilman 119
ISLM-ISLMST, ARCH-ARCH
Archaeology of Arabia AS.130.364 (01)
This course examines the archaeology of the Arabian Peninsula from the earliest Paleolithic in the region (c. 1.5 million years ago) through the first few centuries of the Islamic era (c. 1000 AD). We will review basic geology and environmental conditions, examine the development of animal herding and crop cultivating lifeways, and scrutinize the rise of ancient South Arabian complex societies and civilizations. Co-listed with AS.131.664.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/15
PosTag(s): ISLM-ISLMST, ARCH-ARCH
AS.010.110 (02)
Art of the Islamic World
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM, F 2:00PM - 2:50PM
Rustem, Unver
Gilman 55
ISLM-ISLMST
Art of the Islamic World AS.010.110 (02)
This course is an introduction to the art of the Islamic world, covering a geography that stretches from Spain to India and a chronology that extends from the seventh century into our own time. Within this rich and varied continuum, we will look at a range of art forms—including architecture, painting, sculpture, ceramics, and calligraphy—in relation to such themes as patronage, production, function, and audience. A number of the artworks will be viewed firsthand in local collections. We will also explore the intersection of Islamic art with today’s political realities.
Credits: 4.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 16/19
PosTag(s): ISLM-ISLMST
AS.010.110 (01)
Art of the Islamic World
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM, F 1:00PM - 1:50PM
Rustem, Unver
Gilman 55
ISLM-ISLMST
Art of the Islamic World AS.010.110 (01)
This course is an introduction to the art of the Islamic world, covering a geography that stretches from Spain to India and a chronology that extends from the seventh century into our own time. Within this rich and varied continuum, we will look at a range of art forms—including architecture, painting, sculpture, ceramics, and calligraphy—in relation to such themes as patronage, production, function, and audience. A number of the artworks will be viewed firsthand in local collections. We will also explore the intersection of Islamic art with today’s political realities.
Credits: 4.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 16/19
PosTag(s): ISLM-ISLMST
AS.140.301 (02)
History of Science: Antiquity To Renaissance
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Ferrario, Gabriele, Principe, Lawrence
Hodson 313
History of Science: Antiquity To Renaissance AS.140.301 (02)
The first part of a three-part survey of the history of science. This course deals with the origins, practice, ideas, and cultural role of scientific thought in Graeco-Roman, Arabic/Islamic, and Medieval Latin/Christian societies. Interactions across cultures and among science, art, technology, and theology are highlighted.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.194.105 (01)
Islam and its Cultural and Religious Diversity, 600-1600
MWF 1:30PM - 2:20PM
Ferrario, Gabriele
Shaffer 300
ISLM-ISLMST, INST-GLOBAL
Islam and its Cultural and Religious Diversity, 600-1600 AS.194.105 (01)
While media often present Islam as a fairly univocal and compact cultural and religious system, news reports about tensions, hostility and at times open conflict within the Islamic world itself are frequent. Unity and internal diversity characterize Islam nowadays and have historical roots that have deeply shaped Islam since its very inception.
This course will explore the historical origins of the dynamics of unity and diversity in Islam from the predication of Muhammad and the expansion of the first caliphate, to the formation of the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires. By focusing on the historical events and the cultural production of the first millennium of Islam, this course will offer a thorough historical introduction to its cultural and religious complexity.
For over a thousand years, the Sufi tradition has been a dynamic force in Islamic social, political and spiritual life. The tradition offers a treasure trove of devotional literature and music, philosophical treatises, contemplative practices, and institutions of social and political organization. After unpacking the politics of the term “Sufi,” we will trace the historical development of the tradition from the early ascetics in Iraq and Syria to the age of trans-national Sufi orders, with case studies from South Asia, Turkey, and the United States. We will then move into some of the key constructs of the tradition of spiritual growth and character formation: the divine-human relationship, the stages of the spiritual path, contemplative and practical disciplines, ideas of sainthood, discipleship and ethical perfection, and the psychology of love. Throughout the class, we will explore the nature of experiential language and interrogate the tradition through the lens of gender. We will also experience Sufism through ritual and music.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/19
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-NWHIST, ISLM-ISLMST
AS.375.215 (01)
Second Year Arabic
MTWTh 9:00AM - 9:50AM
Alsayed Suliman, Anas
Krieger 302
ISLM-ISLMST
Second Year Arabic AS.375.215 (01)
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.
Credits: 4.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 11/16
PosTag(s): ISLM-ISLMST
AS.375.115 (02)
First Year Arabic
MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM, TTh 10:30AM - 11:20AM
Jafire, Sana
Hodson 303
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
Credits: 4.50
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/16
PosTag(s): ISLM-ISLMST
AS.363.329 (01)
Gender and Sexuality Beyond the Global West: Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Art in North Africa and the Middle East
W 2:00PM - 4:30PM
Ince, Ezgi
ISLM-ISLMST
Gender and Sexuality Beyond the Global West: Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Art in North Africa and the Middle East AS.363.329 (01)
This course aims to explore how gender and sexuality is situated in contemporary artistic practices in the geographical Middle East, through concepts of religion, war, revolution, resistance, nation-state, post-colonialism, and neoliberalism, especially as written and observed first-hand by artists, curators and scholars from the Middle East and North Africa region and their diasporas. Every week, under an overarching topic, notions of gender and sexuality will be questioned through works of selected artists across the region, as well as texts that provide the historical, theoretical, sociological and political background.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Canceled
Seats Available: 15/15
PosTag(s): ISLM-ISLMST
AS.375.401 (01)
Fourth Year Arabic
MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Alsayed Suliman, Anas
Krieger 517
ISLM-ISLMST
Fourth Year Arabic AS.375.401 (01)
This is an introductory course to different periods of the Arabic literature. Selections of famous Arabic poetry and short prose works are the substance of the course.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 16/16
PosTag(s): ISLM-ISLMST
AS.375.115 (01)
First Year Arabic
MTWThF 9:00AM - 9:50AM
Jafire, Sana
Hodson 303
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: 4.50
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 12/16
PosTag(s): ISLM-ISLMST
AS.375.215 (02)
Second Year Arabic
MTWTh 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Alsayed Suliman, Anas
ISLM-ISLMST
Second Year Arabic AS.375.215 (02)
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.
Credits: 4.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/16
PosTag(s): ISLM-ISLMST
AS.375.301 (01)
Third Year Arabic
MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Jafire, Sana
Hodson 303
ISLM-ISLMST
Third Year Arabic AS.375.301 (01)
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.
