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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course examines the outlines of Islamic ritual law. It starts with a general survey of the term and logic of the pre-modern Islamic legal discourse. It then continues to focus on such issues as Islamic festivals, religious rituals for the occasions of birth and death, the concepts of worship and sacrifice, and various Islamic acts of devotion in matters such as prayer, fasting, almsgiving and annual pilgrimage to Mecca.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The Caucasus region has served as a contested borderland from time immemorial and has fascinated outsiders for nearly as long. It is today a tense and explosive region. This course surveys the history of the north and south Caucasus. It begins with an overview of the region's geography, peoples, and religions, and then examines in more detail the history of the Caucasus from the Russian conquest to the present day. Topics covered include ethnic and religious conflict and coexistence, Sovietization, the formation of national identities, and pipeline politics.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The rise of revivalist and radical religious movements in Muslim societies understandably has spurred interest in the politics of Islam. Yet Muslims have also had extensive experience with secular politics. Central Asia and the Middle East in the 20th century saw secularization projects that fundamentally transformed Muslim societies and left legacies that will persist long into the 21st century. Drawing on the disciplines of history, religious studies, anthropology, and political science, this course explores how Central Asian and Middle Eastern Muslims embraced and rejected, assimilated and resisted, constructed and negotiated secularism.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Addresses complexities of the Middle East. Focuses on both major players' individual foreign policies and wider regional structural forces that determine them. Starts with historical overview of Middle East--how states were created from a collapsing Ottoman Empire and how Cold War superpower rivalry affected states' foreign policy traditions. Next, structural influences--political economy of oil, globalization and identity; also analyze foreign policies of region key players. Concludes with recent debates regarding regional reconfigurations, Iranian nuclear program, Turkey's new ambition, and Iraq war aftermath.
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The main aim of this course is to provide a thematic approach to the study of conflict and terrorism in the Middle East, with a critical inquiry over `what we think we know' about terrorism and conflict in the Middle East. To do that, the course will start of with an exposition of the competing theories on conflict and terrorism. Then, it will move on to the creation of the contemporary `conflict structures' in the Middle East during World War I. The class will then move onto case studies such as the Arab-Israeli conflict, examples of religious or secular terrorisms, and the modern manifestations of the Sunni-Shia conflict.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Among the most pressing issues of our time is the perceived divide between the Islamic "East" and the European and American "West." As this course explores, the meeting of Islamicate and western civilizations has a long, complicated history. We shall examine the roots of this tension and the ways in which the two perceived one another from the Middle Ages to modernity through classic works of literature and art. The seminar will further examine the historical development of the East-West divide and the relationship between religion and culture in the formation of identity.
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This course provides a historical and thematic overview of the three structural pillars of Turkish political sociology. It explains how political polarization in Turkey such as Islam-secularism and liberalism-nationalism have evolved politically through the republican period, offering students a good understanding of the most critical themes in Turkish political sociology today.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The Middle East is often represented and imagined as a space with a surplus of morality, with too much religion, or too much politics. This course aims to critically investigate and historically contextualize both concepts and practices of morality in the modern Middle East by delving into key issues drawn from the realms of law, religious culture, society, and everyday life. Topics may include: the nature of moral discourse; the interplay of law and society; the ethics and politics of the colonial encounter; issues of gender and sexual morality; controversial social practices; and the moral and ethical dimensions of religious revival.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Covers the rise of the golden age of Hebrew poetry in Muslim Spain; the Arabic literary background; lyrical, liturgical, and contemplative verse by great poets of the 11th and 13th centuries (Shmuel ha-Nagid, Ibn Gabirol, Judah Halevi, Todros Abulafia, etc.); and narratives in rhymed prose. Two weeks will be devoted to developments outside Spain: the 12th and 13th century martyrdom poems from France and the Rhineland, and, in conclusion, the adoption of Romance forms, especially the sonnet, in the Hebrew poetry of Italy.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
In this seminar we shall be looking at aspects of the relations between the Church and the Empire in Late Antiquity. Special attention will be given to early and late antique Christian views of the Empire and the role of the emperor, to the age of Constantine and the political theology of Eusebius of Caesarea, and to the subsequent manifestation of the Eusebean conception of the emperor during the reign of Justinian in the 6th century. Primary sources in translation (legal texts, patristic literature, acts of Church councils) will be studied in the light of secondary literature.
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