Current Courses

SPRING 2013 COURSES ON MUSLIM SOCIETIES AND CULTURES
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ARTS, LITERATURE AND CULTURE (more)
ANTHRO 341: The Archaeology of Religious Crusading in Medieval Europe
ARTHIST 205A: Islamic Painting: Landscape, Body, Power
ARTHIST 209/CLASSART 139: Art and Religious Experience in Byzantium and Islam
COMPLIT 144A: Istanbul the Muse: The City in Literature and Film
COMPLIT 146A/347: The Arab Spring in Arabic Literature
COMPLIT 151A/351A: Philosophies, Literatures, and Alternatives
COMPLIT 241B: Earthly and Heavenly Intoxication: Wine Imagery in Medieval Persian Poetry and Prose
COMPLIT 249C: Contemporary Iranian Theater
FRENCH 235/335: Nation in Motion: Film, Race, and Immigration in Contemporary French Cinema
ICA 250/ FILMSTUD 250B/COMPLIT 247: Bollywood and Beyond: An Introduction to Indian Film
MUSIC 186/ 286, RELIGST 159: Religion and Music in South Asia
MUSIC 187: Music and Culture from the Land of Fire: Introduction to Azerbaijani Mugham 

HISTORY (more)
HISTORY 48N: African History through Literature and Film
HISTORY 81B/181B: Formation of the Contemporary Middle East
HISTORY 82N: Modern Islamic Movements
HISTORY 102/INTNLREL 102: The History of the International System since 1914
HISTORY 209A/309A: Global Intellectual History
HISTORY 209C/309C: Liberalism and Violence
HISTORY 239D/339D: Capital and Empire
HISTORY 246C/346C/AFRICAAM 246C: Islam and Christianity in Africa
HISTORY 282E/382E: Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Ottoman World
HISTORY 481/JEWISHST 287S/481: Research Seminar in Middle East History
HISTORY 482D: Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Ottoman World Research Seminar

POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (more)
INTNLREL 140C: The U.S., U.N. Peacekeeping, and Humanitarian War
IPS 211: The Transition from War to Peace: Peacebuilding Strategies
POLISCI 149S: Islam, Iran, and the West
REES 320: State and Nation Building in Central Asia
THINK 26: How Do You Build a Nation? Inclusion and Exclusion in the Making of Modern Iran

RELIGION (more)
RELIGST 13N: Mystics and Mysticism
RELIGST 27: Exploring Islam
RELIGST 119A/ANTHRO 119A: Spirits, Selves, and the Social: Histories of Thinking about Religion
RELIGST 201A/301A: Gender in Classical Islamic Law
RELIGST 208A/308A: Ex Oriente Lux: Orientalism and the Study of Religion
RELIGST 209E/309E/CLASSGEN 189/289: Imperishable Heroes and Unblemished Goddesses: Myth, Ritual, and Epic in Ancient Iran
RELIGST 386: Research in Islamic Studies

LANGUAGES (more)
AMELANG 144C/145C/146C: Persian, Third Quarter (First-Year, Second-Year, Third-Year)
AMELANG 184C/185C/186C:Turkish (First-Year, Second-Year, Third-Year)
AMELANG 297/395: African and Middle Eastern Languages (Directed Reading, Graduate Studies)
ARABLANG 3/23/133/125C/143/297/395: Arabic, Third Quarter (First-Year, Second-Year, Third Year, Fourth-Year, Colloquial, Directed Reading, Graduate Studies)
ARABLANG 3H/23H/133H: Arabic for Heritage Learners, Third Quarter (Beginning, Second-Year, Third-Year)
ARABLANG 10: Arabic Calligraphy
ARABLANG 21A: Accelerated Second-Year Arabic, Part I
ARABLANG 126A: Media Arabic, First Quarter
COMPLIT 248C: Advanced Turkish for Research
SPECLANG 152C/153C/154C: Hindi, Third Quarter (First-Year,  Second-Year, Third-Year)
SPECLANG 192C:  Kazakh, Third Quarter (First-Year, Second-Year)
SPECLANG 239C: Second-Year Uzbek, Third Quarter

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WINTER 2013 COURSES ON MUSLIM SOCIETIES AND CULTURES
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ARTS, LITERATURE AND CULTURE (more)
ANTHRO 132: Religion and Politics in the Muslim World
ANTHRO 149/249: South Asia: History, People, Politics
ARCHLGY 132/232/332/ ANTHRO 332A: The Anthropology of Heritage: Concepts, Contexts and Critique
ARTHIST 205: Cairo: Architecture and Urbanism from the Middle Ages to the 19th century
COMPLIT 143A/342: Alla Turca Love: Tales of Romance in Turkish Literature
COMPLIT 145/JEWISHST 106/AMELANG 126: Reflection on the Other: The Jew in Arabic Literature, the Arab in Hebrew Literature
COMPLIT 149A/346: Classical Arabic Poetry and its Criticism
COMPLIT 242A: Short Stories from South Asia
COMPLIT 249B: Iranian Cinema in Diaspora
EDUC 132N: Religion, Music and Identity
REES 35: Films of Central Asia
REES 244A/ ANTHRO 144A: Practice of Everyday Life in Kazakhstan: From Nomadism to Modernity
Also see Religion

HISTORY (more)
HISTORY 39/139: Modern Britain and the British Empire
HISTORY 40: World History of Science
HISTORY 45B: Africa in the Twentieth Century
HISTORY 84N: The American Empire in the Middle East since the Cold War: Afghanistan, Iraq, and Israel/Palestine
HISTORY 87/187: The Islamic Republics: Politics and Society in Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan
HISTORY 96/196: Worlds of Gandhi: Johannesburg-Bombay-Jerusalem-Rome
HISTORY 202C/ JEWISHST 182C/POLISCI 224H: Heretics to Headscarves
HISTORY 284/384: The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1923
HISTORY 288/388/JEWISHST 288/388: Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
HISTORY 201A/301A: The Global Drug Wars

POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (more)
CSRE 166B/HISTORY 166B/366B: Immigration Debates in America, Past and Present
IPS 213: International Mediation and Civil Wars
POLISCI 114S/IPS 241: International Security in a Changing World
POLISCI 245R: Politics in Modern Iran

RELIGION (more)
RELIGST 5N: Religion and Politics: Comparing Europe to the US
RELIGST 110/310: Islam, Art, Modernity
RELIGST 130/JEWISHST 120: Genesis and Gender: Male and Female in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
RELIGST 205: Religious Poetry
RELIGST 220A: Great Books of Islamic World
RELIGST 386: Research in Islamic Studies

LANGUAGES (more)
AMELANG 144A/145B/144C: Modern Persian (First-Year, Second-Year, Third-Year)
AMELANG 184B/185B/186B: Turkish (First-Year, Second-Year, Third-Year)
AMELANG 297: Directed Reading in African and Middle Eastern Languages
AMELANG 395: Graduate Studies in African and Middle Eastern Languages
ARABLANG 2/22/132/142/125B: Arabic (First-Year, Second-Year, Third-Year, Fourth-Year, Colloquial)
ARABLANG 2A/22A: Accelerated Arabic (First-Year, Second-Year)
ARABLANG 2H/22H/132H: Arabic for Heritage Learners (First-Year, Second-Year, Third-Year)
ARABLANG 297: Directed Reading in Arabic
ARABLANG 395: Graduate Studies in Arabic
COMPLIT 248B: Reading Turkish II
SPECLANG 192B/193B: Kazakh (First-Year, Second-Year)
SPECLANG 239B: Second-Year Uzbek (Second Quarter)

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AUTUMN 2012 COURSES ON MUSLIM SOCIETIES AND CULTURES
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ARTS, LITERATURE AND CULTURE (more)
ANTHRO 28N: Secularism and its Critics
ANTHRO 147A/REES 247A: Folklore, Mythology, and Islam in Central Asia
ANTHRO 318: Democracy and Political Authority
ARCHLGY 129/229: Archaeology, Heritage, and the Contemporary Middle East
ARTHIST 105/305: Art & Architecture in the Medieval Mediterranean
ARTHIST 405: Art, Ekphrasis, and Music in Byzantium and Islam
COMPLIT 40Q/INTNLREL 71Q: Aesthetics of Dissent: the Case of Islamic Iran
COMPLIT 121: Poems, Poetry, Worlds: The Origins, Evolution, and Migration of the Ghazal
COMPLIT 125: Past Desire Made Present: The Traditions of Erotic Poetry in Medieval Iran and Europe
COMPLIT 141A: The Meaning of Arabic Literature: A Seminar Investigation into the Nebulous Concept of Adab
COMPLIT 249A: The Iranian Cinema: Image and Meaning
FRENCH 242: Seasons in North African Cinema and Literature
ILAC 157: Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Literatures
REES 35: Films of Central Asia

HISTORY (more)
HISTORY 82C/182C: The Making of the Islamic World, 600-1500
HISTORY 215K: The Crusades: A Cultural History
HISTORY 267: Religion in Twentieth Century American Life
HISTORY 289/389: The Indian Ocean World: Winds, Merchants & Empires

POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (more)
COMM 177Y/277Y: Specialized Writing and Reporting: Foreign Correspondence in the Middle East and Asia
INTNLREL 151: Decoding the Arab Spring and the Future of the Middle East
IPS 210: The Politics of International Humanitarian Action
IPS 264: Behind the Headlines: An Introduction to Contemporary South Asia
LAW 259: State-Building and the Rule of Law Workshop
POLISCI 118P: U.S. Relations in Iran
POLISCI 211P: International Security in South Asia: Pakistan, India and the United States

RELIGION (more)
RELIGST 224/324: Classical Islamic Texts
RELIGST 229/329: Winged Bulls and Sun Disks: Religion and Politics in the Persian Empire
RELIGST 302: Islamic Studies Proseminar
RELIGST 386: Research in Islamic Studies

LANGUAGES (more)
AMELANG 144A/145A: Modern Persian (First-Year, Second-Year)
AMELANG 184A/185A/186A: Turkish (First-Year, Second-Year, Third-Year)
AMELANG 297: Directed Reading in African and Middle Eastern Languages
AMELANG 395: Graduate Studies in African and Middle Eastern Languages
ARABLANG 1/21/131/141/125A/297: Arabic (First-Year, Second-Year, Third-Year, Fourth-Year, Colloquial, Directed Reading)
ARABLANG 1A/21A: Accelerated Arabic (First-Year, Second-Year)
ARABLANG 1H/21H/131H: Arabic for For Heritage Learners (First-Year, Second-Year, Third-Year)
ARABLANG 395: Graduate Studies in Arabic
COMPLIT 245: Introductory Ottoman Turkish
COMPLIT 248A: Reading Turkish I
SPECLANG 192A/193A: Kazakh (First-Year, Second-Year)
SPECLANG 239A: Second-Year Uzbek (First Quarter)