Islamic History Minor

Requirements (15 credits)

5 courses from the following, depending on the student’s area of interest:

• ARIC 246/2346  -  Survey of Arab History (3 cr.)
• ARIC 320/3020  -  Introduction to Sufism (3 cr.)
• ARIC 321/3321  -  Zawiyas, Harems, Coffee shops, Everyday Life in the Pre-Modern Mideast (3 cr.)
• ARIC 322/3322  -  Land, Trade and Power: a History of Economic Relations in the Middle East, 600-1800 A.D. (3 cr.)
• ARIC 324/3324  -  Non-Muslim Communities in the Muslim World (3 cr.)
• ARIC 336/3336  -  Studies in Ibn Khaldun (3 cr.)
• ARIC 343/3343  -  Birth of Muslim Community and Rise of the Arab Caliphates (3 cr.)
• ARIC 344/3344  -  Caliphs and Sultans in the Age of Crusades and Mongols (3 cr.)
• ARIC 345/3345  -  Gunpowder Empires: Ottomans, Safavids and Mughols (3 cr.)
• ARIC 353/3353  -  Muslim Political Thought (3 cr.)
• ARIC 355/3355  -  State and Society in the Middle East, 1699-1914 (3 cr.)
• ARIC 356/3356  -  State and Society in the Middle East, 1906-present (3 cr.)
• ARIC 357/3397  -  Selected topic in Middle East History (3 cr.)
• ARIC 451/5133  -  Islamic Institutions (3 cr.)
• ARIC 460/5135  -  Selected Topics in Middle Eastern History, 600-1800 AD (3 cr.)
• HIST 440/4217  -  Colonialism and Imperialism in the Middle East and South Asia (3 cr.)