Regularly offered Middle Eastern and Islamic studies graduate courses may be lectures, colloquia, or seminars. Unless otherwise noted, all nonlanguage courses listed below are colloquia.

For elementary and intermediate courses in Middle Eastern languages, see the current College of Arts and Science (CAS) Bulletin.

Courses on Middle East-related topics offered by the Departments of Anthropology, Classics, Comparative Literature, Economics, History, Politics, and Sociology and by the Institute of Fine Arts are open to students with permission of the instructor and may be credited toward a degree in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies in accordance with departmental rules and requirements.

Problems and Methods in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
G77.1687  Required of all incoming M.A. and Ph.D. students. 4 points.

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN LANGUAGE AND CIVILIZATION

Introduction to Ancient Egyptian I, II
G77.1359, 1360  Goelet. 4 points per term.
Introduction to hieroglyphics; readings in ancient Egyptian texts.

Advanced Ancient Egyptian I, II
G77.1390, 1391  Identical to G43.3817. Prerequisite: G77.1360 or the equivalent. Goelet. 4 points per term.
Advanced readings in ancient Egyptian texts.
Note: Advanced readings courses in hieroglyphic texts, Old Egyptian, and Coptic are also offered.

ARABIC LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Prerequisite for advanced Arabic language courses: Intermediate Arabic or the equivalent.

Advanced Media and Literary Arabic I, II
G77.1005, 1006  Prerequisite: Advanced Arabic or the equivalent. Ferhadi. 4 points per term.

Advanced Arabic I, II
G77.1112, 1113  Prerequisite: Intermediate Arabic or the equivalent. Ferhadi. 4 points per term.

Medieval Arabic Literature: Prose
G77.1114  Kennedy. 4 points.
Readings in selected authors from the 8th century to the 12th century.

Medieval Arabic Literature: Poetry
G77.1115  Identical to G29.1115. Kennedy. 4 points.
Readings in selected poets from the 8th century to the 12th century.

Medieval Arabic Literature: Qur’an and Tafsir
G77.1116  Kennedy. 4 points.
Readings from the Qur’an and Tafsir.

Arabic Literature: Modern Prose and Poetry
G77.1117  Identical to G29.1732. Mikhail. 4 points.
Introduction to the genres of modern Arabic prose and poetry, with readings in each.

Colloquial Arabic: Egyptian
G77.1118  Prerequisite: one year or the equivalent of modern standard Arabic. Mikhail. 4 points.
Practice in aural/oral communication in the colloquial Arabic dialect of contemporary Egypt.

Topics in 20th-Century Literature
G77.1122  Identical to G29.1122. Staff. 4 points.
Selected topics in 20th-century Arabic literature from a global perspective.

Recognition and Anagnorisis in Arabic, Islamic, and European Narrative
G77.1124  Identical to G29.1124. Kennedy. 4 points.
Investigates narrative epistemology (the themes and dynamic of knowledge, ignorance, and discovery) in Islamic and European narrative from the ancient world to the modern novel.

Arabic Texts
G77.1127  Kennedy. 4 points.

History and Modern Arab Literature
G77.1150  Halim. 4 points.

Modern Arabic Literary Theory
G77.1155  Halim. 4 points.

Introduction to the Qu’ran
G77.1609  Katz. 4 points.

Introduction to Islamic Texts
G77.1705  Haykel, Katz. 4 points.
Acquaints students with the most important tools for the understanding, contextualization, and critique of classical Arabic texts.

20th-Century Arabic Literature in Translation
G77.1710  Identical to G29.1710. Mikhail. 4 points.
Introduction to 20th-century Arabic literature.

Modern Arabic Literary Criticism
G77.1777  Identical to G29.1777. Mikhail. 4 points.
Selected topics in 20th-century Arabic literary criticism.

Drama and the Mass Media in the Arab World
G77.1778  Mikhail. 3 points.
This seminar investigates the origins of modern Arabic drama and its intimate interfacing with mass media in contemporary Arab societies.

Seminar in Medieval Arabic Literature
G77.3192  Kennedy. 4 points.
Selected topics in medieval Arabic literature.

Seminar in Modern Arabic Literature
G77.3193  Khouri. 4 points.

Seminar in Modern Arabic Literature II
G77.3197  Identical to G29.3197. Staff. 4 points.
Selected topics in modern Arabic literature.

See also the Arabic language courses listed in the College of Arts and Science Bulletin under Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies.

PERSIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Prerequisite for the following courses: Intermediate Persian or the equivalent. Staff: Chelkowski, Khorrami, McChesney.

Persian Historical and Biographical Texts
G77.1412  4 points.

Advanced Persian: Poetry
G77.1413  4 points.

Advanced Persian: Contemporary Literature
G77.1415  4 points.

Persian Literary Prose
G77.1416  4 points.

TURKISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Prerequisite for the following courses: Intermediate Turkish or the equivalent. Staff: Erol.

Turkish Literary Texts: Ottoman Historical Texts
G77.1512, 1513  4 points per term.

Turkish Literary Texts: Modern Turkish Literature
G77.1514, 1515  4 points per term.

OTHER LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE

Advanced Urdu I, II G77.1107, 1108  Naqvi. 4 points per term.

MIDDLE EASTERN HISTORY

Note: The following are lecture courses.

History of the Middle East, 600-1200
G77.1640  Identical to G57.1502. el-Leithy. 4 points.
Survey of the history of the Middle East from 600 to 1200.

History of the Middle East, 1200-1800
G77.1641  Identical to G57.1641. Peirce. 4 points.
Survey of the history of the Middle East from 1200 to 1800.

History of the Middle East, 1750-Present
G77.1642  Identical to G57.1642. Fahmy, Lockman. 4 points.
Survey of the history of the Middle East from 1750 to the present.

Note: The following are colloquia.

Literature of the Field: Modern Middle Eastern History
G77.1643  Identical to G57.1643. Staff. 4 points.

Literature of the Field II: Modern Middle Eastern History
G77.1644  Identical to G57.1644. Staff. 4 points.

Topics in Medieval Islamic History
G77.1646  Identical to G57.1521. Staff. 4 points.
Topics in medieval Middle Eastern social, cultural, economic, and political history.

Topics in Ottoman History
G77.1651  Identical to G57.1513. Staff. 4 points.
Topics in Ottoman political, social, economic, and cultural history.

Classical Islamic Literature of Ethics and Advice
G77.1708  Rowson. 4 points.

The Late Ottoman Empire
G77.1652  Identical to G57.1652. Staff. 4 points.
Topics in the history of the Ottoman Empire from the 18th century to the First World War.

Modern Iran (1800 to the Present)
G77.1661  Identical to G57.1541. Chelkowski. 4 points.
History of Iran in the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing on the internal and external forces that have helped shape modern Iranian history in its political, economic, social, cultural, and religious dimensions.

Egypt in Modern Times
G77.1664  Identical to G57.1511. Fahmy, Lockman. 4 points.
Modern Egyptian history from the end of the Ottoman-Mamluk period to the present, largely through an exploration of the scholarly literature and of various paradigms that have been used to interpret that history.

Note: The following are seminars.

Medieval Identities and Histories
G77.1647  Identical to G57.1647. el-Leithy. 4 points.
Social and cultural history of communities and their identities in the premodern Middle East.

Medieval Islamic Texts and Contexts
G77.1648  Identical to G57.1648. el-Leithy. 4 points.
Medieval Arabic texts.

Seminar in the History of the Modern Middle East I
G77.1653  Identical to G57.1653. Lockman. 4 points.
Topics in the history of the modern Middle East.

Seminar in the History of the Modern Middle East II
G77.1654  Identical to G57.1654. Staff. 4 points.
Topics in the history of the modern Middle East.

Introduction to Islamic Philosophy and Theology
G77.2720 Rowson. 4 points.

MIDDLE EASTERN AND ISLAMIC CULTURES, SOCIETIES, AND ECONOMIES

Topics in the Sociology of the Modern Middle East
G77.1612  Identical to G90.1576. Staff. 4 points.

Cities of the Middle East
G77.1626  Identical to G14.1626 and G65.1021. Gilsenan. 4 points.
Issues of modernity in Middle Eastern cities and regions. Topics may include approaches to the transformation of cities in the Middle East; colonial and postcolonial urban spaces; architecture, politics, and social identities; discourses of the city; tradition and modernity; and everyday life, work, and gender issues.

Representing the Middle East: Issues in the Politics of Culture
G77.1616  Shohat. 4 points.

Anthropology for Middle Eastern Studies
G77.1636  Identical to G14.1322. Gilsenan. 4 points.
Assessment of the contribution of anthropological research to the study of Middle Eastern history, politics, literature, and civilization.

Introduction to Islamic Studies
G77.1700  Identical to G90.1700. Peters. 4 points.
Approaches and methods used in the study of Islam as a religion and of Islamic history.

Imaging Palestine/Israel: Issues in the Politics of Representation
G77.1735  Shohat. 4 points.

Shi’i Islam
G77.1750  Identical to G90.1577 and G93.1618. Chelkowski. 4 points.
Survey of the origins, development, forms, and significance of Shi’i Islam.

Topics in Economic and Social History of the Middle East
G77.1782  Staff. 4 points.

Islam in the Modern World
G77.1803  Identical to G90.1803. Staff. 4 points.
Social, political, and cultural roles of Islam in the modern period.

Islamic Legal Theories
G77.1851  Katz. 4 points.

Islamic Law and Society
G77.1852  Identical to L05.4525. Haykel. 4 points.
Introduction to Islamic law in theory and as social practice.

Women and Islamic Law
G77.1854  Haykel. 4 points.
Islamic law and its treatment of women in theory and practice.

Islam and Politics
G77.1855  Haykel. 4 points.
Political dimensions of Islam.

Muhammad and the Qur’an
G77.1857  Identical to G90.1502. Peters. 4 points.
Life, times, and works of Muhammad and the Qur’an as a sacred text.

Modern Bodies
G77.2789  Fahmy. 4 points.

COURSES OFFERED IN CONJUNCTION WITH OTHER DEPARTMENTS

Government and Politics of the Middle East
G77.2590  Identical to G53.2590 (Politics). Kazemi, Mitchell. 4 points.

RESEARCH AND READING

Department faculty may also offer various specialized reading, directed study, independent study, and master’s thesis and dissertation research courses. These courses require permission of both the instructor and the director of graduate studies and, where appropriate, command of the relevant language.

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