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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Uralic peoples in central, northern, and eastern Europe and Siberia. Their history, social organization, traditional economy, literature, folklore, and sociolinguistic patterns.
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3.00 Credits
Study and analysis of selected readings from Persian literature in English translation. May concentrate on a particular theme, period, or author. Special attention paid to the historical and cultural contexts of the works, as well as problems in translation, critical analysis, and interpretation. May be repeated with a different topic for a total of 9 credits in U372 and/or NELC N380.
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Examines the Persian literature of Islamic mysticism in English translation. Following an introduction to the history and doctrines of Sufism, the class will turn to detailed readings and discussions of works in several prose and poetic genres: hagiographic biography, allegorical epic, mystical lyric, and gnostic meditation. Credit given for only one of U373 or NELC N385.
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3.00 Credits
Analysis of environmental, social, and economic issues in the immense region of Central and Northern Eurasia. Examines the new geopolitical situation that emerged after the collapse of the U.S.S.R. and the crucial role the region plays in global security and stability.
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3.00 Credits
Surveys the complex of religious belief and practice centered on shrines and pilgrimage to holy places in Islamic Central Asia, from the earliest accounts down to the present, with emphasis on the role of shrine-centered religious activity in the social, political, economic, and cultural life of Central Asia.
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3.00 Credits
Surveys the history and legacy of the Yasavi tradition of Sufism in Islamic Central Asia from the twelfth century to the present, and other issues in the religious history of Central Asia linked to the Yasavi tradition.
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3.00 Credits
The course will examine the historical background and contemporary status of Islam and the nationalities of Islamic heritage in Russia and the newly independent republics of the former U.S.S.R. The focus will be on understanding the distinctive pressures experienced and exerted by Islam, as a religion and as a social system, in the Soviet and post-Soviet context.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the politics and society of Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia. Examines the methods and effects of Communist party rule in the region and the emergence of new independent states.
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3.00 Credits
General anthropological introduction to social institutions and cultural forms of the Arab countries of North Africa and the Near East, Israel, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan. Topics: ecology, development of Islam and Muslim empires, traditional adaptive strategies, consequences of colonialism, independence and rise of nation-states, impact of modernization, changing conceptions of kinship, ethnicity, gender. Credit given for only one of ANTH E397, CEUS U397, or NELC N397.
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3.00 Credits
General anthropological introduction to societies and cultures of contemporary Muslim successor states of former Soviet Central Asia,Western China (Xinjiang), and Iran and Afghanistan. Topics: ecology, ethnohistory, traditional subsistence strategies, family, kinship, gender, sociopolitical organization, impact of colonial rule of tsarist and Soviet Russia and China, development of modern nation-states in Iran and Afghanistan, dynamics of current conflicts and future prospects. Credit given for only one of CEUS U398 or ANTH E398.
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