Courses

  • Advanced Topics in Islamic Cosmography (RLST) - Zadeh
  • Al-Ghazali and Maimonides (RLST) - Griffel
  • Early Arabic Philosophy (NELC)- Gutas*
  • Intermediate Persian (NELC) - F. Shayesteh
  • Introduction to Arabic and Islamic Studies (NELC) - Gutas*
  • Introduction to Islam (RLST) - Bowering
  • Introduction to Islamic Theology (RLST) - Griffel
  • Introduction to the Quran (RLST) - Zadeh
  • Islam and Modernity (RLST) - Griffel
  • Islam, Conquest, and Conversion (RLST) Zadeh
  • Islam Today: Jihad and Fundamentalism (RLST) - Griffel
  • Islamic Law and Ethics (RLST) - March
  • Islamic Theology & Philosophy (RLST) - Griffel
  • Muhammad and the Qur’an (RLST) - Bowering
  • Orientalism, Magic, and Religion (RLST) - Zadeh
  • Problems in Early Islamic History (RLST) - Zadeh
  • Representing Muhammad (RLST) - Zadeh
  • Salafiyya Movement in Islam (RLST) - Griffel
  • Seminar in Arabic Philosophy (RLST - Griffel
  • Seminar in Islamic Religious Thought (RLST) - Bowering*
  • Seminar in Sufism (RLST) - Bowering*
  • Seminar on Islam and Modernity (RLST) - Griffel*
  • Seminar on Islamic Theology (RLST) - Griffel*
  • Seminar on the Qur’an and its Interpretation (RLST) - Bowering*
  • The Growth of Islam: Conquest, Culture, and Conversion (RLST) - Bowering
  • The Crisis of Islam (RLST) - Grewal
  • The Religion of Islam (RLST) - Bowering
  • Theories and Methods in Islamic Studies (RLST) - Zadeh
  • Vocabularies of Islam (RLST) - Zadeh

*=Arabic and instructor’s permission required

Students in Islamic Studies are within the Department of Religious Studies (RLST) but also take courses with faculty members in the Departments of History (HIST), Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC), and Political Science (PS).