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3.00 Credits
History & Tradition Sector. All classes. Zettler. The archaeology of the complex societies of the Old and New Worlds from the end of the paleolithic up to and including the earliest civilizations.
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Arts & Letters Sector. All Classes. Allen/Gold. This course is team-taught by four professors with specialties in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Turkish literatures. The course deals with the modern literature within each tradition and focuses on poetry, short story and the novel. The readings are all in English. The course is conducted in a seminar format. Students are expected to participate in classroom discussion of the materials assigned for each session, and evaluation is partially based on the quality of that participation. A short paper is assigned on the poetry and the short stories, and there is a final, longer term paper.
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May be counted as a General Requirement Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Allen. This course provides a survey of the genres and major figures in Arabic literary history from the 6th century up to the present day. Selections will be read in translation after a general introduction to the cultural background and a session devoted to the Qur'an and its influence, a sequence of sessions will be devoted to poetry, narratives, drama, and criticism. Each set of texts is accompanied by a collection of background readings which place the authors and works into a literary, political and societal context. This course thus attempts to place the phenomenon of "literature" into the larger context of Islamic studies by illustrating the links between Arab litterateurs and other contributors to the development of an Islamic/Arab culture on the one hand and by establishing connections between the Arabic literary tradition and that of other (and particularly Western) traditions.
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3.00 Credits
Cobb. Was Genghis Khan really such a bad guy after all Were the Mongol Invasions of the 13th century really a disaster It almost seems immoral to ask questions like this, but in this class we'll go ahead and ask them anyway. This course is a survey of the history of the medieval Mongol Empire, which, at its greatest extent, stretched from Korea to Germany. We will focus more specifically on that smaller Middle Eastern piece of the empire known as the Il-Khanate, which merely stretched from Turkey to Afghanistan, and made Iran a locus for synthesizing the cultures of Iran, the Arab world, Central Asia, and China. It also produced a lasting political, economic, and cultural legacy throughout much of the Middle East and beyond.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. Typical forms of mystical experience in Islam. The cultural assimilation of ideas achieved by Muslim mystics. The development of Sufism and the formation of the sufi orders. Medieval trends of Sufi speculation and esoteric doctrine. Emphasis on primary readings.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Lowry. This course will introduce students to classical Islamic law, the all-embracing sacred law of Islam. Among the world's various legal systems, Islamic law may be the most widely misunderstood and even misrepresented; certainly, misconceptions about it abound. Islamic law is, however, the amazing product of a rich, fascinating and diverse cultural and intellectual tradition. Most of the readings in this course will be taken from primary sources in translation. Areas covered will include criminal law, family law, law in the Quran, gender and sexuality, the modern application of Islamic law, Islamic government and other selected topics.
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3.00 Credits
Zettler. This course surveys the cultural traditions of ancient Mesopotamia, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, a region commonly dubbed "cradle of civilization" or "heartland of cities," from an archaeological perspective. It will investigate the emergence of sedentism and agriculture; early villages and increasingly complex Neolithic and Chalcolithic cultures; the evolution of urban, literate societies in the late 4th millennium; the city-states and incipient supra-regional polities of the third and second millennium; the gradual emergence of the Assyrian and Babylonian "world empires," well-known from historical books of the Bible, in the first millennium; and the cultural mix of Mesopotamia under the successive domination of Greeks, Persians and Arabs. The course seeks to foster an appreciation of the rich cultural heritage of ancient Mesopotamia, an understanding of cultural continuities in the Middle East and a sense of the ancient Near Eastern underpinnings of western civilization. No Prerequisite.
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3.00 Credits
Frame. Prerequisite(s): NELC 101 or permission of the instructor. The Assyrians appear as destructive and impious enemies of the Israelites and Judeans in various books of the Bible and this view is reflected in Lord Byron's poem: "The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, / And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold" (Hebrew Melodies. The Destruction of Sennacherib). In the ninth, eighth and seventh centuries BCE, Assyrian armies marched out from their homeland in northern Iraq to Iran in the East, Egypt in the West, the Persian Gulf in the south and central Turkey in the north, and they created the largest empire known up until that time. They built impressive palaces and cities, created great works of art and have left us a vast number of documents preserving ancient literature and scholarly knowledge. In the course we will look at the structure of the Assyrian state, Assyrian culture, the development of the Assyrian empire, and its sudden collapse at the end of the seventh century. While the course will emphasize the use of textual sources, archaeological and iconographic data will also be used to help us arrive at an understanding of the great achievements of the ancient Assyrians.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Tigay. Careful study of a book of the Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament) as a literary and religious work in the light of modern scholarship, ancient Near Eastern documents, comparative literature and religion, and its reverberations in later Judaism, Christianity, and Western (particularly American) Civilization. May be repeated for credit. Benjamin Franklin Seminar. Fulfills Distribution CRS Arts & Letters-class of '09 and prior and Cross Cultural Analysis - Class of '10 and after.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Exploration of the issues relating to the identification and history of the people who produced and used these materials as well as the claims made about the inhabitants of the Qumran site near the caves in which the scrolls were discovered, with a focus on what can be known about the community depicted by some of the scrolls, its institutions and religious life, in relation to the known Jewish groups at that time (the beginning of the Common Era). This will involve detailed description and analysis of the writings found in the caves -- sectarian writings, "apocrypha" and "pseudepigrapha," biblical texts and interpretations.
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