Pre-modern Arabic literature, Pre-modern Islamic Intellectual History, Islamic Law and Jurisprudence, Sufism; Qurʾānic Exegesis, Pre-Islamic Arabic Poetry, Islam in South Asia
Teaching
courses taught
ARAB 1011 - Introduction to Arab and Islamic Civilizations
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Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Fall 2024
Provides an interdisciplinary overview of the cultures of the Arabic-speaking peoples of Southwest Asia and North Africa from the rise of Islam in the 7th century to the present. Readings include historical, religious, literary and cultural texts from both the medieval and modern eras. Taught in English.
ARAB 2110 - Intermediate Arabic 1
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Fall 2022 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
Proficiency-based course emphasizes speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Covers a variety of topics. Students give classroom presentations and write short essays in Arabic. Speaking ability is assessed through an oral proficiency interview.
ARAB 3340 - Representing Islam
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Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2023
Explores the cultural politics of representations of the Arab and Islamic worlds both with an emphasis on literary representations of the Islamic world in travel narratives and novels from both the West and the Arab world. Examines historical, anthropological, and visual texts to consider how Islam has been narrated in colonial European imaginings about the Islamic world as well as contemporary representations. Taught in English.
ARAB 3360 - Tradition, Authenticity, and Reform in Islam
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Spring 2021 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2024
Introduces students to the Islamic genre of hadith, or Prophetic traditions. The main concern of the course is to develop an understanding of how prophetic religious authority was understood and communicated in written form and what the relationship of the hadith form has been to alternative claims on prophetic authority in Islam. Finally, the course examines the role that the Prophetic hadith -- and their contestation -- have played in Islamic reform movements during the modern period. Recommended prerequisite: ARAB 1011.
ARAB 3410 - Gender, Sexuality and Culture in the Modern Middle East
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Spring 2021 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2024
Examines the issues of gender and sexuality in the modern Middle East and North Africa from the colonial period to the present, focusing on how feminist movements, Arab women's writing, and constructions of gender and sexuality have been shaped by local, national and international factors. Taught in English. Same as WGST 3410.
WGST 3410 - Gender, Sexuality and Culture in the Modern Middle East
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Spring 2021 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2024
Examines the issues of gender and sexuality in the modern Middle East and North Africa from the colonial period to the present, focusing on how feminist movements, Arab women's writing, and constructions of gender and sexuality have been shaped by local, national and international factors. Taught in English. Same as ARAB 3410.
