Concentration: Islam

Primary Source Language: Arabic.
Students who have already met this requirement upon entry to the program may want to consider further study in another Islamic language.

Prerequisite: RELIG 211 and RELIG 212 or their approved equivalent from another institution.

Requirements: (a) One 400-level course in Islamic throught or history, (b) RELIG 510 each quarter and (c)at least three of the following:

ARAB 454 Quran and its Interpretation
ARAB 455 Ritual and Legal Texts in Islam
RELIG 430 Scripture and Law in Islam
RELIG 432 Ritual and Territory in Islam
RELIG 435 Prophet Muhammad

(c) and at least one of the following:

ARAB 462 Sirah and Maghazi Texts
ARAB 470 Stories of the Prophets
ARAB 472 Quran and Bible Masorah
ARAB 481 South Arabian Epigraphic
ARAB 482 North Arabic Inscriptions

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Related Courses

ANTH/SISSE 314 Civilization of Island Southeast Asia
ANTH 318 Peoples and Cultures of the Islamic Middle East
ANTH 357 Text and Performance in Island South Asia
ANTH 401 West African Societies
ANTH 419 Islamic Peoples of Southwest and South Asia
HIST 261 Survey of the Muslim Near East
HIST 361 Wars in the Modern Near East
HIST 370 History of the Expansion of Islam
HIST 461 History of the Middle East: 622-1300
HIST 462 History of the Middle East: 1258-1798
HIST 463 History of the Middle East Since 1789
HSTAS/SISSE 221 History of Southeast Asia
HSTAS 402 History of Medieval and Mughal India
HSTAS 403 History of Modern India to 1900
HSTAS 462 Southeast Asian History to 1800
HSTAS 463 Southeast Asian History from 1800
HSTEU 453 History of the Balkans, 1400 to the Present
MUSIC 316 Music Cultures of the World
MUSIC 439 Music of Indonesia and the Philippines
MUSIC 444 Music of the Near East
NEAR E 242 Cultural History of Turkey: From Empire to Nation
NEAR E 250 Iranian Culture and Civilization
NEAR E/SISRE 375 Turkic Peoples of Central Asia
NEAR E 402 Classical Arabic Literature in Translation
NEAR E 423 Persian Literature in Translation
NEAR E 440 Calligraphy in Islamic Culture
NEAR E 442 Turkish Literature in Translation
NEAR E/SISRE 450 Survey of the Cultures of the Turkic Peoples of Central Asia
NEAR E/SISME 495 Trends in the Contemporary Middle East
POL S 331 Government and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa
POL S/SISSA 340 Government and Politics of South Asia
POL S/SISSE 343 Politics and Change in Southeast Asia.
POL S 431 International Relations in the Middle East
POL S 433 International Relations in Southeast Asia
POL S/SISSA 434 International Relations of South Asia
SIS 406/POL S 432 Political Islam and Islamic Fundamentalism.
SISME/NEAR E 210 Introduction to Islamic Civilization
SISME 430 Economic Development of the Middle East
SISRE 410 Writers and Intellectuals of Central Asia

Related Language Courses

AFRAM 306, 307, 308 Basic Swahili
AFRAM 309 Intensive Basic Swahili
ALTAI 401, 402, 403 Written Mongolian
ALTAI 415, 416, 417 Spoken Mongolian
ARAB 401 Intensive Elementary Arabic
ARAB 411, 412, 413 Elementary Arabic
ARAB 414, 415, 416 Spoken Arabic
ARAB 421, 422, 423 Intermediate Arabic
ARAB 431, 432, 433 Advanced Arabic
ARAB 451 Adab Prose: Jahiz
ARAB 452 Maqamat: Hamadhani, Hariri
ARAB 453 Historians
ARAB 456 Islamic Political Theorists
ARAB 457 Grammatical and Lexical Texts
ARAB 458 Modern Poetry
ARAB 459 Islamic Philosophical Literature
ARAB 460 Islamic Theological and Mystical Literature
ARAB 461 Modern Prose
ARAB 490 Supervised Study
ARAB 499 Undergraduate Research
CR SB 401, 402, 403 Elementary Croatian/Serbian
CR SB 404, 405, 406 Advanced Croatian/Serbian
INDN 403 Introduction to Written Urdu
INDN 404 Readings in Urdu Literature
INDN 411 First-Year Intensive Bengali
INDON 111, 112, 113 Elementary Indonesian
INDON 211, 212, 213 Intermediate Indonesian
INDON 311, 312, 313 Advanced Indonesian
INDON 499 Undergraduate research
PRSAN 401 Intensive Elementary Tajik
PRSAN 411, 412, 413 Elementary Persian
PRSAN 421, 422, 423 Intermediate Persian
PRSAN 431, 432, 433 Advanced Persian
PRSAN 451 Introduction to Persian Literature
PRSAN 452 Modern Persian Literature: A Survey
PRSAN 453 Classical Persian Literature: A Survey
PRSAN 454 The Epic Tradition in Iran
PRSAN 455 The Persian Ghazal
PRSAN 456 Sufism: Thought and Expression
PRSAN 490 Supervised Study
PRSAN 499 Undergraduate Research
TKIC 401 Intensive Elementary Uzbek
TKIC 402 Intensive Elementary Kazak
TKIC 403 Intensive Elementary Kirghiz
TKIC 404 Intensive Intermediate Uzbek
TKIC 405 Intensive Intermediate Kazakh
TKIC 411, 412, 413 Elementary Uzbek
TKIC 414, 415, 416 Introduction to Kazakh
TKIC 417, 418, 419 Introduction to Uighur
TKIC 421, 422, 423 Intermediate Uzbek
TKIC 451 Introduction to Turkic Studies
TKIC 454, 455, 456 Introduction to Uzbek Literature
TKIC 490 Supervised Study
TKIC 499 Undergraduate Research
TKISH 411, 412, 413 Elementary Turkish
TKISH 421, 422, 423 Intermediate Turkish
TKISH 451 Readings in Turkish Literary History I: Modern
TKISH 452 Readings in Turkish Literary History II: Literature of the Ottoman Empire
TKISH 454 Turkish Literary Genres: Prose
TKISH 455 Turkish Literary Genres: Poetry
TKISH 456 Introduction to Ottoman Turkish
TKISH 490 Supervised Study
TKISH 499 Undergraduate Research

Related Faculty

JERE L. BACHARACH PhD Michigan (1967). Professor Emeritus, Jackson School of International Studies. Islamic history.

JONATHAN BROWN - on leave Spring 2008. PhD University of Chicago (2006). Assistant Professor, Near East Languages and Civilization; Islamic Studies.

ELLIS GOLDBERG PhD California-Berkeley (1983). Associate Professor, Political Science. Islam, Religion and politics in the Middle East.

JAMES W. GREEN PhD Washington (1972). Senior Lecturer, Anthropology. Cross-cultural, Mental health, Comparative aging, West Indies, Pakistan, Islam.

STEVAN C. HARRELL PhD Stanford (1974). Professor, Anthropology and Jackson School of International Studies. Chinese folk religion, Anthropology of religion.

MARTIN S. JAFFEE PhD Brown (1980). Professor, Jackson School of International Studies. Rabbinic Judaism, Study of religion.

SCOTT NOEGEL PhD Cornell (1995). Professor, Chair of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization. Hebrew Bible, Ancient Near Eastern languages and religions.

FLORIAN SCHWARZ. Associate Professor, University of Tubingen; History.
Pre-modern Middle East.

ROBERT C. STACEY PhD Yale (1983). Professor, History. Medieval Christianity and Judaism.

JOEL WALKER PhD Princeton (1998). Associate Professor, History. Religion and society in the late Roman Empire, Late Antiquity, Syriac Christian literature and history.

EUGENE WEBB PhD Columbia (1965). Professor Emeritus, Comparative Literature and Jackson School of International Studies. Philosophy of religion, Christian thought, Religion and literature.

Related Units on Campus

American Ethnic Studies

Asian Law Program

Department of Asian Languages and Literature

Department of History

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization

Middle East Center

Near and Middle East Studies Interdisciplinary PhD Program

South Asia Center

Southeast Asia Center

Selected Links

Al-Azhar

American Institute of Pakistan Studies

American Research Center in Egypt

CDEISI

Center for the Study of Muslim Networks

Institute of Ismaili Studies

Islamic Area Studies

Middle East Studies Association

Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies

School of Oriental and African Studies

SERMEISS

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