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4.00 Credits
The Arabian Nights have been an essential and dynamic literary meeting point between Arabic/ Islamic literature and the Western canon. This course examines both sides of this cultural dichotomy. Literary analysis of the tales includes close reading of the structure of the original, as well as modern variations by authors such as Poe and Rushdie.
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4.00 Credits
Addresses the rich literary product of modern and contemporary South Asia. Offers more advanced undergraduates a window on a rich and culturally varied area of the world, as well as an understanding of aspects of South Asian history and society as represented in translations of modern prose writing (short stories and novels) originally written in South Asian languages.
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4.00 Credits
An introductory course designed to acquaint students with the great works of the ancient Indian literary tradition, a major part of which was written in Sanskrit. The earliest form of that language, called Vedic Sanskrit, is the language of the Vedic hymns, especially those of the Rig Veda. Sanskrit has had an unbroken literary tradition for over 3,000 years. This rich and vast literary, religious, and philosophical heritage is introduced in this course. In addition, students work with excerpts from the Jain and Buddhist canons written in Prakrits and examples of Tamil poetry. Selections from the Vedic literature, classical drama, epics, story literature, and lyric poetry are studied in English translation.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the religious beliefs of the ancient Egyptians, including the nature of the gods, syncretism, private religion, theories of divine kingship, the judgment of the dead, cultic practices, the life of priests, the relationship between this world and the afterlife, wisdom literature as moral thought, festivals, funerary practices, creation myths, and foreign gods and influences-all illustrated by Egyptian religious texts or scenes from temples and tombs.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the main stylistic features of classical Arabic for students who have completed two semesters of Arabic. Students gain a flavor of an older, yet essential, register of Arabic through the most important texts of the Islamic tradition. These texts constitute the core of Islam to the present: the Qur'an and the Hadith (Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad). The syllabus also includes samples from the Tafsir tradition (Koranic hermeneutics), Sufi/mystical literature (poetry and prose), philosophical novels, and pious tales from the popular sphere (the Arabian Nights tradition). The Koran provides a sustained focus for the course, with particular attention paid to its influence on all categories of Arabo-Islamic literature-linguistically, stylistically, thematically, and doctrinally.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the rights, roles, and physical appearance of Muslim women. Investigates the complexity of the messages and models relating to gender in one of the world's most influential religious traditions. Beginning with the rise of Islam, observes how foundational texts and personalities are interpreted and reinterpreted for changing times.
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4.00 Credits
See description under Politics in this Bulletin.
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4.00 Credits
Advanced undergraduate course that focuses on specific issues in contemporary politics in the Middle East. Topics vary each time it is offered, but include such themes as social movements, urban politics, or globalization.
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4.00 Credits
See description under Politics in this Bulletin.
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4.00 Credits
Brings together a set of theoretical, critical, and literary texts about travel from antiquity to the late 20th century with a focus, albeit not an exclusive one, on the Middle East. The first sessions of the course are devoted to theoretical and critical reflections on travel literature and the historically and culturally changing categories in relation to which it should be read. These include "imaginative geography"; Greek versus Barbarian; the hajj, trade routes, and knowledge-seeking as motives; Orientalism, Occidentalism, and ethnography; transnationalism in relation to class and gender; tourism; migrant workers; and exile and narratives of return. The literary texts to be read later in the course demonstrate the contrasting conventions of representations of travel in different times and places in relation to the issues raised in the introductory sessions.
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