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 - Early Islamic History (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 Mughals (3 cr.)
• ARIC 353/3353 - Islamic 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 Topics 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.)