World Islamic and Middle East Studies
WIMES Program Presentation
The undergraduate programs in World Islamic and Middle East Studies offer students language-based interdisciplinary training about the Islamic world. Combining humanities and social-science approaches, the programs introduce students to the textual traditions and social life of Muslims 鈥� and the non-Muslims interacting with them 鈥� in different times and places, including but not limited to the Middle East.
Students in the programs learn about the complexity and variety of Muslim societies and cultures across the world, paying attention to regional specificities but also becoming aware of past and present global links. With solid grounding in language training (Arabic, Persian, Turkish or Urdu), students take courses on history, law, sciences, philosophy, art, literature, political science, and anthropology, combining knowledge about the contemporary Islamic world and the traditions that are important for understanding it.
The Institute of Islamic Studies offers a Major and a Minor Concentration, an Honours and Joint Honours Program for students wishing to pursue more in-depth studies, and Language Minors in Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Urdu for students interested in language training.
To register for a WIMES program, you must have been offered admission into the Bachelor of Arts program at 涩里番. The Institute of Islamic Studies does not administer undergraduate admissions. Please refer to this link on Undergraduate 涩里番 for further information.
Major Concentration World Islamic & Middle East Studies (36 Credits)
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During Winter 2020, the S/U option applied to all courses. For Fall 2020 and Winter 2021 terms, you could have used the S/U option for a total of 6 credits over the two terms that were taken to satisfy a program requirement.
Complementary Courses (36 Credits)
12-15 credits (2 levels) in one language: Arabic, Persian, Turkish, or Urdu. One level is 6 credits. In the case of Arabic, the first two levels involve 15 credits. The extra 3 credits may count toward the 6-9 credits at any level category of the complementary courses' requirement.
NOTE: Hebrew courses (JWST 220D1/D2, 320D1/D2, 340D1/D2), listed under Non-ISLA Courses, are considered non-language courses.
21-24 credits (21 if the 3 extra Introductory Arabic credits are used), of complementary courses selected from the World Islamic and Middle East Studies course lists as follows:
3 credits of 200-level non-language ISLA courses;
6 credits of 300-level non-language ISLA courses;
6 credits of 400-/500-level non-language ISLA courses;
6-9 credits at any level, including more language courses, but no more than 6 non-language credits overall at the 200-level. Students may fulfill these credits by taking complementary courses from the list of the Non-ISLA Courses below.听
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Languages (Two levels, 12 credits)
Arabic 听
ISLA 221D1. Introductory Arabic.
Credits: 4.5
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to Modern Standard Arabic, including pronunciation and reading and writing of the Arabic script; and speaking and comprehension of basic sentences, commands, statements in the present tense.
- Prerequisites: Permission of the Institute required.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ISLA521D1/D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 221D1 and ISLA 221D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Students must register for both ISLA221D1 and ISLA 221D2.
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ISLA 221D2. Introductory Arabic.
Credits: 4.5
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 221D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 221D1 and ISLA 221D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Students must register for both ISLA221D1 and ISLA 221D2.
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ISLA 322. Lower Intermediate Arabic.
Credits: 6
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Speech, comprehension, reading and writing of more complex grammatical structures, including the conditional sentence, case endings, and verbs and verbal constructions.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 221D1/D2 or ISLA 521D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the Institute.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 522 or ISLA 522D1/D2.
- Students are expected to have knowledge of basic Arabic grammar and vocabulary.
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ISLA 322D1. Lower Intermediate Arabic.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Speech, comprehension, reading and writing of more complex grammatical structures, including the conditional sentence, case endings, and verbs and verbal constructions.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 221D1/D2 or ISLA 521D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the Institute.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 522 or ISLA 522D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA322D1 and ISLA 322D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 322D1 and ISLA 322D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- ISLA 322D1 and ISLA 322D2 together are equivalent to ISLA 322
- Students are expected to have knowledge of basic Arabic grammar and vocabulary.
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ISLA 322D2. Lower Intermediate Arabic.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite:ISLA 322D1, ISLA 221D1/D2 or ISLA 521D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the Institute.
- Students must register for both ISLA322D1 and ISLA 322D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 322D1 and ISLA 322D2are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- ISLA 322D1 and ISLA 322D2 together are equivalent to ISLA 322
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 522 or ISLA 522D1/D2.
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ISLA 423D1. Higher Intermediate Arabic.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to advanced grammatical constructions and vocabulary through readings of longer texts in Arabic, as well as conversation, and exposure to video/audio cultural materials. Continued exposition of Arabic grammar, including active and passive participles, conjunction of irregular verbs, and active and passive voices.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 322D1/D2 or ISLA 322 or ISLA 522D1/D2 or ISLA 522 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 523D1/D2.
- Fall and Winter
- Students must register for both ISLA 423D1 and ISLA 423D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 423D1 and ISLA 423D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
- Students are expected to have knowledge of intermediate-level Arabic grammar and vocabulary.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 423D2. Higher Intermediate Arabic.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 423D1
- Fall and Winter
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 423D1 and ISLA 423D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
- Students are expected to have knowledge of intermediate-level Arabic grammar and vocabulary.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 524. Advanced Arabic 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced level of the Arabic language study.
- Note: Language of instruction is Arabic.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 423D1/D2 or ISLA 523D1/D2 or ISLA 623D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the instructor
- Note: Language of instruction is Arabic.
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ISLA 525. Advanced Arabic 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced level of the Arabic language study.
- Note: Language of instruction is Arabic.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 524 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Note: Language of instruction is Arabic.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 526. Colloquial Arabic.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Dialectical vocabulary and grammar structures.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA322D1/D2 or equivalent, placement test, or permission of the instructor.
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Persian 听
ISLA 241D1. Introductory Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to the Persian language, beginning with pronouncing, reading and writing the Persian script, and moving to vocabulary and grammatical structures needed to communicate in simple dialogues, read simple texts, and write simple paragraphs.
- Prerequisite: Placement test or permission of the instructor
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 541 D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA 241D1 and ISLA 241D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 241D1 and ISLA 241D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 241D2. Introductory Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 241D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 241D1 and ISLA 241D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 342D1. Lower Intermediate Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Speech, comprehension, and reading and writing of more complex grammatical structures, embedded within a variety of short authentic Persian texts.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 241D1/D2 or ISLA 541D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 542D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA 342D1 and ISLA 342D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 342D1 and ISLA 342D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Students are expected to have knowledge of basic Persian grammar and vocabulary.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 342D2. Lower Intermediate Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 342D1 and ISLA 241D1/D2 or ISLA 541D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 342D1 and ISLA 342D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 443D1. Upper Intermediate Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to authentic texts about Persian culture, history, geography, politics, arts, and other topics relevant to Iran, as well as canonical poems of various modern and classical poets, and selected Persian proverbs and their meanings and connotations.
- Fall
- Prerequisite: ISLA 342D1/D2 or ISLA 542D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 543 and ISLA 544.
- Note: Language of instruction is Persian.
- Students must register for both ISLA 443D1 and ISLA 443D2
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 443D1 and ISLA 443D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 443D2. Upper Intermediate Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 443D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 443D1 and ISLA 443D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 545. Advanced Persian 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced level of Persian language study.
- Note: Language of instruction is Persian.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ISLA 443D1/D2, or ISLA 543, or ISLA 544, or ISLA 643D1/D2, or placement test, or permission of instructor.
- Note: Language of instruction is Persian.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 546. Advanced Persian 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced level of Persian language study.
- Note: Language of instruction is Persian.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 545 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Note: Language of instruction is Persian.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
Turkish
ISLA 232D1. Introductory Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to speaking and comprehension of basic sentences, commands, statements in the present and future tenses. Introduction to simple daily conversations.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ISLA532 D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA232D1 and ISLA 232D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 232D1 and ISLA 232D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 232D2. Introductory Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 232D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 232D1 and ISLA 232D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 333D1. Lower Intermediate Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Listening comprehension, reading, and writing of more complex grammatical structures, including the subjunctive, future, and past tenses.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 232D1/D2 or ISLA 532D1/D2 or permission of the Institute.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 533D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA333D1 and ISLA 333D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 333D1 and ISLA 333D2 are successfully completed inconsecutive terms.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 333D2. Lower Intermediate Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 333D1, ISLA 232D1/D2 or ISLA 532D1/D2 or permission of the Institute.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 333D1 and ISLA 333D2 are successfully completed inconsecutive terms.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 533D1/D2.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 434D1. Higher Intermediate Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Contemporary cultural texts in Turkish, including literature and media. Reading materials supported by audio visual media featuring modern spoken Turkish.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 333D1/D2 or ISLA 533D1/D2 or permission of the instructor.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 534D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA 434D1 and ISLA 434D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 434D1 and ISLA 434D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 434D2. Higher Intermediate Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 434D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 434D1 and ISLA 434D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 535D1. Advanced Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Language acquisition - advanced Turkish.
- Students must register for both ISLA 535D1 and ISLA 535D2
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 535D1 and ISLA 535D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Prerequisites: ISLA 434D1/D2 or ISLA 534D1/D2 or ISLA 634D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 535D2. Advanced Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 535D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 535D1 and ISLA 535D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 560. Ottoman Turkish
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Ottoman Turkish language, including the Ottoman script, grammar, vocabulary, and calligraphy styles.
- Prerequisites: ISLA 333D1/D2 or ISLA 633D1/D2 or permission of the instructor.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
Urdu
ISLA 251D1. Introductory Urdu-Hindi.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to Urdu-Hindi language including pronunciation and reading and writing of either Urduor Hindi script, speaking and comprehension of basic sentences, commands, statements in the present tense.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA551D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA251D1 and ISLA 251D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 251D1 and ISLA 251D2are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 251D2. Introductory Urdu-Hindi.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 251D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 251D1 and ISLA 251D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 352D1. Intermediate Urdu-Hindi.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Speech, comprehension, and reading and writing of more complex grammatical structures, including the subjunctive, future, and past tenses.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 251D1/D2 or ISLA 551D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 552D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA352D1 and ISLA 352D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 352D1 and ISLA 352D2 are successfully completed inconsecutive terms.
- Students are expected to have knowledge of basic Urdu-Hindi grammar and vocabulary.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 352D2. Intermediate Urdu-Hindi.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 352D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 352D1 and ISLA 352D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
- Students are expected to have knowledge of basic Urdu-Hindi grammar and vocabulary.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 553. Advanced Urdu-Hindi 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Builds upon Intermediate Urdu-Hindi to introduce students to advanced grammatical constructions through reading of longer texts in the Urdu or
Hindi script, conversation, and video/audio cultural materials.
- Prerequisites: ISLA 352D1/D2 or ISLA 552D1/D2 or ISLA 652D1/D2 or equivalent or permission of the instructor.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 554. Advanced Urdu-Hindi
2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced study of grammatical constructions through reading long texts in the Urdu or Hindi script, conversation, and video/audio cultural materials.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 553 or permission of the instructor.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 555. Urdu Poetry.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Interpretation of Urdu poetry for students with intermediate to advanced-level knowledge of Urdu-Hindi language. Includes advanced grammar topics, cultural and historical background, and interpretation and analysis.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 352D1/D2 or permission of the instructor.
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Non-Language Courses (21-24 credits)
ISLA 200-Level
3 credits from:
ISLA 200. Islamic Civilization.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to, and survey of, the religious, literary, artistic, legal, philosophical and scientific traditions that constituted Islamic civilization from the 7th Century until the mid-19th Century.
- Fall
- Note: All readings are in English.
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ISLA 210. Muslim Societies.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to the different, often disparate, ways in which Muslims live and think in the modern world (19th-21st centuries). Muslim social contexts across the globe and cyberspace.
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ISLA 300-Level
6 credits from:
ISLA 300. Special Topics 7.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Subject matter will vary year to year, according to the instructor. Topic will be made available in Minerva.
- Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 305. Topics in Islamic History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Subject matter will vary year to year, according to the instructor. Topic will be made available in Minerva.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 310. Women in Islam.
Credits: 0-3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The socio-legal status, conditions, and experiences of various groups of women in Middle Eastern societies. These features are explored within the framework of Islamic feminism and Western feminist discourses, and the tensions and conflicts between them. The dynamics of seclusion, veiling, and polygamy are explored in connection to Medieval Arab ruling elites as a background to some of the discussions and debates over the status of women in modern postcolonial Arab society. Socio-economic divisions, state policies, patriarchy, and colonialism are investigated as key factors in understanding the modern historical transformation of gendered relations and women's roles.
- Prerequisites::Either ISLA 200 or ISLA 210.
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ISLA 315. Ottoman State and Society to 1839.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The emergence and development of the Ottoman Empire from its beginnings around 1300 until the Tanzimat Edict of Reform in 1839. A trajectory of Ottoman history from a small principality to a centralized empire, then to a decentralized governmental structure. In addition to chronological developments, questions of imperialideology and the management of ethnically and religiously diverse communities across a vast territory. Exploration of the place of the Ottomans in the early modern world, and their ideological and diplomatic rivalry with other major empires.
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ISLA 325. Introduction to Shi'i Islam.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Developments in doctrines, legal school, rituals and political thought of Twelver Shi'ite Muslims during early and late medieval periods (centuries VII-XIII). The emergence of the earliest Shi'ite communities in Arabia, Yemen, Iraq and Iran stressing the relationship of the Shi'ite Imams and their religious scholars to the Sunnite Caliphates.
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ISLA 330. Islamic Mysticism: Sufism.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The varieties of "mystical" thought in Islam, primarily as seen in Sufism, its historical development and its place in Islamic culture. Analytical study of major authors, their writings and their central problems.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 200 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 350. From Tribe to Dynasty.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The political and intellectual developments shaping Arab and Persian societies from the rise of Islam in the 7th century until the early mid 8th century, including the major social changes, political revolts, religious schisms, and the consolidation of lasting cultural institutions.
- Restriction: Not open to U0 or U1 students.
- Fall
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ISLA 355. Modern History of the Middle East.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Assessment of the historical transformation of the modern Middle East concentrating on its internal socio-economic changes, as well as the colonial experience and encounters with the West since the early 19th century. Examination of the historical conditions that led to the rise of nationalism, the nation-state, the Arab-Israeli conflict.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 360. Islam and Politics in Africa
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Assessment of the relationship between Islam and politics in the contemporary Africa through various analytic themes, including political economy, social movement and gendered analysis.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or AFRI 200.
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ISLA 365. Middle East Since the 1970's.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Changes that have occurred in the Middle East since the 1970's, viewed through the lens of themes such as migration, consumerism, war, communications, and ideology.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 370. The Qur鈥檃n: History and Interpretation.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
It examines the history of the codification of the text, its form, and modes of interpretation in both the modern and pre-modern periods. Presentation of different schools of Qur鈥檃nic exegesis, including traditional hermeneutical approaches, and modern approaches such as feminist interpretations of the Qur鈥櫮乶.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 200 or permission of instructor
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ISLA 380. Islamic Philosophy and Theology.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A survey of the most important philosophers and theologians in Islamic intellectual history, with a focus on the theories they articulated and the movements they engendered. The impact of European thought on 19th and 20th century Islamic intellectual history is also examined.
- Note: Reading and discussion in English.
- Note: Reading and discussion in English.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 200 or permission of instructor.
- Note: Reading and discussion in English.
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ISLA 383. Central Questions in Islamic Law.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An integrative view of Islamic law in the past and present, including landmarks in Islamic legal history (e.g., sources of law; early formation; intellectual make-up; the workings of court; legal change; legal effects of colonialism; modernity and legal reform) and a structured definition of what it was/is.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ISLA 200 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 385. Poetics and Politics in Arabic Literature.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Major issues in classical and modern Arabic literature; how poetics and politics interact in classical and modern, popular folktales and high literature, novels and poetry. The politics of translation from Arabic into English.
- Note: Reading and discussion in English.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
- Note: Reading and discussion in English.
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ISLA 388. Persian Literature.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Examination of literature produced in the Persian-speaking world from the mid 10th to the late 20th century C.E. A broad selection of texts (prose and poetry) will be studied in translation.
- Fall
- Prerequisite: ISLA 200 or permission of instructor.
- Note: Readings in English.
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ISLA 392. Arabic Literature as World Literature.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Consideration of Arabic literature as part of world literature, including exploration of tensions between reading Arabic literature as local, discrete and self-contained and as part of larger global phenomena.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 395. Melancholic Migrants
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The histories, cultures, and racial politics of South Asians and Muslims of North America and the United Kingdom from the 16th century to the present. Focusing on South Asians (regardless of religious identity), Black Muslims, Latine Muslims, Arabs and Berbers, Turks and other post-/Ottoman peoples, Iranians, and white Muslims, with special attention to the Montreal context.
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* ISLA 499. World Islamic and Middle East Studies Internship.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Internship with an approved host institution or organization.
- Restriction(s): Open to U2 and U3 students with a minimum CGPA of 2.7, and permission of the departmental Internship Adviser. This course will not normally fulfill program requirements for seminar or 400-level courses. A letter from a supervisor at the institution must attest to successful completion of the student's tenure (minimum 150 hours). Students attain credit by writing a research project based on and inspired by their internship experience. This research paper is written after the Internship is completed.
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ISLA 400-/500-Level
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ISLA 410. History: Middle-East 1798-1918.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A study of the Middle East from Napoleon's invasion of Egypt to the end of WWI. Emphasis will be on the emergence of nationalisms in the context of European imperialism; political, social, and economic transformation; religion and ideology; and changing patterns of alliances.
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ISLA 411. History: Middle-East 1918-1945.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The impact of WWI on Middle Eastern society and politics; the British and French mandates; the growth of nationalisms, revolutions and the formation of national states; WW II and the clash of political interests within the region.
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ISLA 415. Modern Iran: Anthropological Approach.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The modern history, social, and cultural anthropology of contemporary Iran.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 420. Indo-Islamic Civilization: Medieval.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The rise of Islam in South Asia in the 8th Century and its subsequent expansion; evolution of Indo-Islamic civilization and its apogee during Mughal rule up to 1707. Themes include state and religion; ruling institutions; political theory, Sufism and the process of conversion, as well as the formation of a composite culture.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ISLA 200 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 421. Islamic Culture - Indian Subcontinent.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Survey of Islamic culture (faith systems, literature, music, art) on the Indian subcontinent from the early modern period to the present, with a focus on conflict and relations between Muslims and non-Muslims, and between majority and minority Muslim groups.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 420 or permission of instructor.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 200 or ISLA 210 or permission of the instructor.
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ISLA 430. Islamdom: Baghdad to Cordoba .
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The course examines the major socio-political developments in Iraq, Persia, Syria, Egypt, North Africa and Spain from the 9th to the 13th Century. Emphasis is laid on the Umayyad Caliphate centered in Cordoba, and the 'Abbasid Caliphate centered in Baghdad, and the rise of important local dynasties leading up to the Mongol invasion. The course underscores the formation of Islamic cultures in distinct geographical settings and the transformation of religious life under new socio-economic conditions. It also explores shifting notions of civil society and orthodoxy.
- Prerequisite(s): Either ISLA 200 or ISLA 350 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 488. Tales of Wonder-Islamic World.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Reading of literary masterpieces of Islamic world focused on three collections of marvelous tales in Arabic, Persian and Urdu: The Arabian Nights, the Shahnameh, and the Adventures of Amir Hamza. May include film screenings, visual art, viewing of rare materials.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 200, ISLA 210, or permission of instructor.
- Taught in translation.
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ISLA 489. Special Topics 6.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Selected topics in Islamic and Middle East studies. Subject matter will vary year to year, according to the instructor. Topic will be made available in Minerva.
- Fall and/or Winter
- Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
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ISLA 501. The Qur'an: Text and History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A study of the Qur'an's teachings, structures, style, and history in the light of classical and modern scholarship.
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ISLA 502. Art in the Age of Empires.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course offers a wide-ranging survey of visual culture under the three Muslim superpowers of the early modern period: the Mediterranean-based Ottomans, the Safavids of Iran, and the Mughals of India. The course will examine the nature of these states and their distinctive and vibrant artistic idiom on a comparative basis. Topics include the formation of imperial ideology and its visual articulation; palaces and court culture; artistic organization, authorship, and agency; patronage, gender, piety, as well as cross-cultural interaction.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 320 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 505. Islam: Origin and Early Development.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The Qur'an, Hadith, the Shari'a and their major themes. The early development of law, theology and Sufism. The development and formation of an Islamic "orthodoxy", the development and nature of competing interpretations of Islam during the Classical Period. Topics: God, revelation, prophecy, the community and the individual and the meaning of history.
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ISLA 506. Revolutions: Arab Middle East and North Africa.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The post-Ottoman Arab world; major socio-political transformations and revolutions in the 20th century Middle Eastern and North African Arab countries; the historical contexts that shaped them and their implications. Interdisciplinarity (anthropology, psychology, sociology, psychiatry, law), effects of revolutionson individuals and societies; the cause of these revolutions; the impact of the modernization/reforms, colonialism and the rise of nationalist movements on them; the diverse compositions and aims of these revolutions; types of social groups and political organizationsand societies that were drawn to these revolutions and why; and the role colonial and postcolonial powers played in them.
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ISLA 511. Medieval Islam, 10th-12th Century.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Socio-political, religious and intellectual developments in Muslim societies following the weakening of the Arab-Sunni Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad during the tenth century. Emphasis will be placed on the historical formation and features of the Seljuq and Buyid dynasties as well as the Fatimid Caliphate in Egypt.
- Prerequisites: Isla 200
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have take ISLA 511D1/D2
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ISLA 512. Art of the Ottoman Empire.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course examines artistic production of the large and long-lived empire of the Ottomans. Focusing on key monuments of art and architecture, discussion will revolve around issues relating to imperial identity, patronage, court-culture, and cross-cultural exchange.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 320 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 515. The Medieval School in Islam.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Schooling in medieval Islamic society particularly in Iraq, Greater Syria, Persia, and Egypt. Sheds light on the structure of learning, aims of education, the life of students including women, and their relationship to their teachers. Illuminates forms of academic evaluation, and looks closely at the "scholarly license" as an accrediting tool delineating its function and scope. Through a set of representative studies on the medieval school, it brings attention to the heated debates surrounding the academic rigor of this form of learning, and the place of scientific learning in it, as well as the historical connection between it and the early European college.
- Prerequisite(s): Either ISLA 200 or ISLA 350 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 516. Medieval Islam, 13th-15th Century.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The historical circumstances surrounding the Crusades against Muslims in Greater Syria and Egypt. The socio-economic, political, and cultural transformation of Muslim society following the destruction of the Abbasid Caliphate, and the rise of the Ikl-Khanid Mongols in Iran and Iraq, as well as the Mamluks in Syria and Egypt. Emphasis will be placed on the integration of new Persian, Turkish, and Indian populations into Islamic imperial culture.
- Prerequisites; ISLA 200
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 511D1/D2.
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ISLA 531. Survey Development of Islamic Thought.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A survey of the development of the major intellectual traditions of Islamic civilization in medieval and modern times.
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ISLA 555. Urdu Poetry.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Interpretation of Urdu poetry for students with intermediate to advanced-level knowledge of Urdu-Hindi language. Includes advanced grammar topics, cultural and historical background, and interpretation and analysis.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 352D1/D2 or permission of the instructor.
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ISLA 581. Special Topics 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Selected topics in Islamic studies.
- Fall and/or Winter
- Note: Subject matter will vary year to year, according to the instructor. Topic will be announced at the beginning of the term.
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ISLA 582. Special Topics 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Selected topics in Islamic Studies.
- Subject matter will vary from term to term, according to the instructor. Topic will be announced at the beginning of the term.
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ISLA 585. Arab Women's Literature.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Explorations of writings by Arab women. Issues include: translation/reception, gender and genre, categories of knowledge about Arab women, feminist and post-colonial theories/methodologies.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 392 or permission of instructor.
- Note: Readings in English translation.
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Non-ISLA Courses听 (0-9 credits)
ANTH 209. Anthropology of Religion.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Nature and function of religion in culture. Systems of belief; the interpretation of ritual. Religion and symbolism. The relation of religion to social organization. Religious change and social movements.
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ANTH 318. Globalization and Religion.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The interactions between religion and the economic, social and cultural transformations of globalization: relations between globalization and contemporary religious practice, meaning, and influence at personal and collective levels.
- Winter
- Prerequisites: U2 standing or above and ANTH 209, or ANTH 204, or ANTH 355 or ANTH 352 or RELG 207
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ANTH 327. Anthropology of South Asia.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to anthropological research in India and greater South Asia. Topics include politics, caste, class, religion, gender and sexuality, development and globalization.
- Fall
- Prerequisite: ANTH 202, or ANTH 205, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 209, or permission of instructor
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ANTH 340. Middle Eastern Society and Culture.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Exploration of daily life, culture and society in the Middle East, through examination of ethnographic accounts.
- Fall
- Prerequisites: U2 or U3 standing; and ANTH 202, or ANTH 204, or ANTH 205, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 209, or ANTH 212, or ANTH 227, or permission of instructor
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HIST 209. Introduction to South Asian History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Charts the making of South Asian civilization, 2500 BCE- 1707 CE, through a selection of key themes and major trends. Focus on the transformation of local kinship ties into regional kingdoms and empires, the evolution of religion and the legacy of the expansion of Islam and consequent rise of Turkish, Afghan and Mughal empires in this area.
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HIST 240. Modern History of Islamic Movements.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Islamic revival in the Middle East which led to the rise of different versions of Islamic traditions and beliefs. Emphasis on the nature and character of leading nationalist and Islamic movements and their ideologues since the late 19th century.
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Course information not available.
HIST 340. History of Modern Egypt.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Explores the history of Egypt from the 18th Century to today. Topics include: Ottoman Egypt, the impact of French and British Colonialism, Nasserism, Camp David and economic liberalization, and the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.
- Prerequisite(s): HIST 201, HIST 240 or ISLA 210 recommended.
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HIST 341. Themes in South Asian History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Exploration of a theme in the history of South Asia.
- Prerequisite: HIST 209 recommended.
- Themes may vary from year to year.
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HIST 435. Topics in South Asian History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
In-depth discussion and research on a topic in the history of South Asia.
- Prerequisite(s): HIST 310 or HIST 341 or permission of instructor.
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HIST 446. Topics in Middle East History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Examination of a selected topic in the history of the modern Middle East from the late 19th century to the present.
- Prerequisite(s): Any class on the history of the Middle East or permission of the instructor
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JWST 220D1. Introductory Hebrew.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Language acquisition - introductory Hebrew.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Students must register for both JWST 220D1 and JWST 220D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 220D1 and JWST 220D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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JWST 220D2. Introductory Hebrew.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Prerequisite: JWST 220D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 220D1 and JWST 220D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- JWST 220D1 and JWST 220D2 together are equivalent to JWST 220
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JWST 245. Jewish Life in the Islamic World.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Until the early modern period, most of the world鈥檚 Jews spoke Arabic and called the Islamic world home. This course explores the Jewish experience among Muslims from the seventh century until the present. Through close readings of primary sources and historical scholarship, students will learn how Jews under Islam shaped modern Judaism, how engagement with Arabic in Islamic Spain
led to the revival of Hebrew, and how the Jewish-Muslim relationship fared in the twentieth century. The course also probes themes of history and memory in light of the departure of Jews from the Islamic world in the 1950s and 1960s.
- For detailed course content go to .
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JWST 261. History of Jewish Philosophy and Thought.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to Jewish philosophy and thought from the Hellenistic period (Philo) to the beginning of the modern era (Spinoza) focusing on topics such as prophecy and philosophy, God and the world; the Law as a canon of ethical rules and as a political constitution. Survey of the treatment of such issues by Jewish thinkers from Philo to Maimonides.
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JWST 312. Modern Jewish History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Exploration of major transformations to Jewish society and identity in the modern period. Topics include nationalism, emancipation, acculturation, modernity,
relations with non-Jews, popular culture, and literature.
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JWST 320D1. Intermediate Hebrew.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course is designed to integrate students at various levels into one group with the aim of improving their basic language skills and preparing them for advanced Hebrew.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Students must register for both JWST 320D1 and JWST 320D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 320D1 and JWST 320D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- JWST 320D1 and JWST 320D2 together are equivalent to JWST 320
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JWST 320D2. Intermediate Hebrew.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
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- Prerequisite: JWST 320D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 320D1 and JWST 320D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- JWST 320D1 and JWST 320D2 together are equivalent to JWST 320
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JWST 323. The Israeli Novel.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
In-depth examination of selected Israeli novels written during the past fifty years of national formation and consolidation. Authors may include Agnon, Yehoshua, Oz, Shabtai, Shalev and others.
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JWST 334. Jews and Muslims: A Modern History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course examines the modern history of Jewish-Muslim relations beyond just conflict. We will look at the experience of Jews and Muslims -- as individuals and communities -- who charted new cultural territory while navigating colonialism, nationalism, war, and decolonization, through close readings of a wide variety of primary sources (including letters, memoirs, fiction, music, film, and photography) and historical scholarship.
- For detailed course content go to .
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JWST 338. Jewish Philosophy and Thought 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Focuses on either a period, a current of thought or the work of a thinker in the history of Jewish thought from the Middle Ages to Modern Times, paying particular attention to the relationship of Jewish thinkers to intellectual trends in their respective cultural contexts. themes and concerns of Jewish theology and on Jewish responses to contemporary trends in European thought.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Winter
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JWST 340D1. Advanced Hebrew.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Language acquisition - advanced Hebrew.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Prerequisite: JWST 200 or JWST 320 or permission of the Hebrew Language Coordinator
- Students must register for both JWST 340D1 and JWST 340D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 340D1 and JWST 340D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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JWST 340D2. Advanced Hebrew.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Prerequisite: JWST 340D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 340D1 and JWST 340D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- JWST 340D1 and JWST 340D2 are together equivalent to JWST 340
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JWST 348. Modern Jewish Studies.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Topics in Jewish Studies. Semesters will be devoted to specific issues and periods of the Jewish Experience since 1500 and the literature produced by Jews during this period.
- For detailed course content go to .
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JWST 366. History of Zionism.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of the development of the Zionist idea, the most influential expression of modern Jewish nationalism, which led to the creation of the Jewish state. The transformation of elements of traditional Jewish messianism into a modern political ideology. Hibbat Zion, Political Zionism, Cultural and Synthetic Zionism will be discussed.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Recommended: JWST 365
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JWST 367. Hebrew through Israeli Cinema.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An opportunity to analyze Israeli cinema from different periods, spanning 1948 to the present. While participating primarily in Hebrew with some assignments in English, students in this course will be invited to engage actively with the social, political, psychological and aesthetic dimensions of these films.
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- Fall
- Prerequisite: JWST 340 or permission of instructor
- This course is conducted at an advanced level of Hebrew. Please contact the instructor to assess your language proficiency.
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JWST 368. A Taste of Hebrew Literature.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to short literary forms in Hebrew from the mid-20th Century to the present. Short stories and poems will be discussed in terms of their literary qualities, as well as in relation to their cultural, social, political and historical contexts with the ultimate aim of fostering an improved ability to read, write and speak in Hebrew.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Winter
- Prerequisite: JWST 340 or permission of instructor
- This class is conducted at an advanced level of Hebrew. Please contact the instructor to assess your language proficiency.
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JWST 369. History of the Hebrew Language.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An exploration of the evolution of the Hebrew language from Biblical texts to contemporary Israeli slang, including Rabbinical commentary, Medieval hymns, poetry by Jewish authors of the Islamic world, Haskalah literature in the modern Jewish Enlightenment, and contemporary texts to showcase the revival of a spoken Hebrew after 2000 years in exile. Linguistic patterns, literary structures and vocabulary.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Fall
- Prerequisite: JWST 340 or permission of instructor
- This course is conducted at an advanced level of Hebrew. Please contact the instructor to assess your language proficiency.
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JWST 370. Israeli Popular Culture.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Israel's multifaceted contemporary culture including music, theatre and the visual arts, as well as stand-up comedy, dance, film and TV series, and contemporary Israeli society.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Winter
- Prerequisite: JWST 340 or permission of instructor
- This course is conducted at an advanced level of Hebrew. Please contact the instructor to assess your language proficiency.
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PHIL 356. Early Medieval Philosophy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of selected works in the Christian, Islamic and Jewish traditions. Topics in moral and political philosophy, logic and metaphysics, philosophical psychology and epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophical theology may be discussed.
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POLI 340. Comparative Politics of the Middle East.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of the societies, political forces and regimes of selected countries of the Eastern Arab world (Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia).
- Note: The area in the field of Comparative Politics is Developing Areas
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Comparative Politics or a course on the region or written permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
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POLI 341. Foreign Policy: The Middle East.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of the changing regional security environment and the evolving foreign policies and relationships of Arab states in three areas - relations with non-Arab regional powers (Israel, Iran), inter-Arab relations, Great Power relations. The course will focus particularly on Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
- Note: The field is International Politics
- Prerequisite: A 200- or 300- level course in International Relations or Middle East politics or permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is International Politics.
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POLI 347. Arab-Israel Conflict, Crisis, Peace.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Concepts - protracted conflict, crisis, war, peace; system, subsystem; Conflict-levels of analysis; historical context; images and issues; attitudes, policies, role of major powers; Crises-Wars - configuration of power; crisis models; decision-making in 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982 crisis-wars; conflict- crisis management; Peace-Making - pre-1977; Egypt-Israel peace treaty; Madrid, Oslo, Israel-Jordan peace; prospects for conflict resolution.
- Note: The field is International Politics
- Prerequisite: POLI 243 or POLI 244.
- Note: The field is International Politics.
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RELG 204. Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to the beliefs, practices, and religious institutions of these three world religions.
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RELG 307. Bible, Quran and Interpretations.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Jewish, Christian and Muslim scriptures as responses to earlier sacred texts and in the light of post-scriptural interpretations. The debates, polemics, interpretative strategies, and intellectual and spiritual sharing produced by these three religions in accepting, explaining, amplifying, modifying, and selectively rejecting their and other sacred scriptures.
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RELG 309. World Religions and Cultures They Create..
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The constitution and mutual entanglements of selected religions and cultures originating and thriving in varied regional contexts. Focus on highlighting the symbolic (visual, aural) expressivity of religions via ritual, myth, and rational speculation and its impact on high and popular cultures.
- Prerequisite: RELG 204, RELG 207, RELG 252, or RELG 253 recommended
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken RELG 208.
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RELG 440. Global Islam.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Western scholarship has oscillated between orientalizing Islam and co-opting it into the Western (Abrahamic) fold of religious traditions. The course will challenge both perspectives by exploring Islam鈥檚 dynamic unfolding across a variety of civilizational regions and during subsequent epochs. Its patterns of premodern globalization are nowadays retrieved, sometimes by fitting Islamic cultures into neoliberal patterns of globalization, more often by sidelining or overlaying the Westphalian system of sovereign nation-states. The course will show how Islamic traditions have, both in history and in the present, developed unique intellectual tools and practical resources to interface both with 鈥榬adical鈥� (Abrahamic) and 鈥榙ialogic鈥� (non-Abrahamic) religious traditions: from the West (also via labor-based migration), through Central and South Asia, to East and Southeast Asia.
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RELG 573. Religions in Global Society.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This seminar is devoted to the study of a plurality of often intersecting religious traditions in a globalizing world, based on interdisciplinary scholarship drawing from history, sociology, anthropology and archaeology. It starts from locating religious phenomena within intersecting social, cultural and political fabrics around the world. It articulates the relation between a multi-faith appreciation of the role of religions in a variety of societies and the emergence of diverse patterns of secularity in them. It facilitates a rich understanding of a complex past to shed light on the new challenges of globalization, including the opening of horizons of postsecular understandings and arrangements.
- Prerequisite(s): RELG 208 or RELG 331 or permission of instructor
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Honours World Islamic & Middle East Studies (60 Credits)
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Honours students must maintain a program GPA of 3.30 in their World Islamic and Middle East Studies courses and, according to Faculty regulations, a minimum CGPA of 3.00 in general.
During Winter 2020, the S/U option applied to all courses. For Fall 2020 and Winter 2021 terms, you could have used the S/U option for a total of 6 credits over the two terms that were taken to satisfy a program requirement.
Required Courses (6 Credits)
ISLA 495. World Islamic and Middle East Studies Research Seminar.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Research seminar on topics in world Islamic and Middle East studies.
- Restriction(s): Open to final year WI&MES Joint Honours and Honours students and to others by permission of the Program Coordinator.
- Not open to students who have taken MEST 495.
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ISLA 496. Independent Reading and Research.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Supervised independent reading and research on an approved topic.
- Restriction(s): Open to WI&MES Honours students and to others by permission of the Program Coordinator.
- Not open to students who have taken MEST 496.
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Complementary Courses (54 Credits)
54 credits of complementary courses selected from the World Islamic and Middle East Studies course lists as follows:
18-21 credits (3 levels) in one language: Arabic, Persian, Turkish, or Urdu.听One level is 6 credits. In the case of Arabic, the first three levels involve 21 credits. The extra 3 credits may count toward the 9-12 credits at any level category of the complementary courses鈥� requirement.
NOTE: Hebrew courses (JWST 220D1/D2, 320D1/D2, 340D1/D2), listed under Non-ISLA Courses, are considered non-language courses.
33-36 credits (33 if Introductory Arabic has been chosen and the 3 extra credits are counted), distributed as follows:
3 credits of 200-level non-language ISLA courses;
12 credits of 300-level non-language ISLA courses;
9 credits of 400-/500-level non-language ISLA courses;
9-12 credits at any level, including more language courses, but no more than 9 non-language credits overall at the 200-level. Students may fulfill these credits by taking complementary courses from the list of the Non-ISLA Courses below.
Languages (Three levels, 18 credits)
Arabic
ISLA 221D1. Introductory Arabic.
Credits: 4.5
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to Modern Standard Arabic, including pronunciation and reading and writing of the Arabic script; and speaking and comprehension of basic sentences, commands, statements in the present tense.
- Prerequisites: Permission of the Institute required.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ISLA521D1/D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 221D1 and ISLA 221D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Students must register for both ISLA221D1 and ISLA 221D2.
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ISLA 221D2. Introductory Arabic.
Credits: 4.5
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 221D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 221D1 and ISLA 221D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Students must register for both ISLA221D1 and ISLA 221D2.
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ISLA 322. Lower Intermediate Arabic.
Credits: 6
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Speech, comprehension, reading and writing of more complex grammatical structures, including the conditional sentence, case endings, and verbs and verbal constructions.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 221D1/D2 or ISLA 521D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the Institute.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 522 or ISLA 522D1/D2.
- Students are expected to have knowledge of basic Arabic grammar and vocabulary.
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ISLA 322D1. Lower Intermediate Arabic.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Speech, comprehension, reading and writing of more complex grammatical structures, including the conditional sentence, case endings, and verbs and verbal constructions.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 221D1/D2 or ISLA 521D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the Institute.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 522 or ISLA 522D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA322D1 and ISLA 322D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 322D1 and ISLA 322D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- ISLA 322D1 and ISLA 322D2 together are equivalent to ISLA 322
- Students are expected to have knowledge of basic Arabic grammar and vocabulary.
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ISLA 322D2. Lower Intermediate Arabic.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite:ISLA 322D1, ISLA 221D1/D2 or ISLA 521D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the Institute.
- Students must register for both ISLA322D1 and ISLA 322D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 322D1 and ISLA 322D2are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- ISLA 322D1 and ISLA 322D2 together are equivalent to ISLA 322
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 522 or ISLA 522D1/D2.
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ISLA 423D1. Higher Intermediate Arabic.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to advanced grammatical constructions and vocabulary through readings of longer texts in Arabic, as well as conversation, and exposure to video/audio cultural materials. Continued exposition of Arabic grammar, including active and passive participles, conjunction of irregular verbs, and active and passive voices.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 322D1/D2 or ISLA 322 or ISLA 522D1/D2 or ISLA 522 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 523D1/D2.
- Fall and Winter
- Students must register for both ISLA 423D1 and ISLA 423D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 423D1 and ISLA 423D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
- Students are expected to have knowledge of intermediate-level Arabic grammar and vocabulary.
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ISLA 423D2. Higher Intermediate Arabic.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 423D1
- Fall and Winter
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 423D1 and ISLA 423D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
- Students are expected to have knowledge of intermediate-level Arabic grammar and vocabulary.
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ISLA 524. Advanced Arabic 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced level of the Arabic language study.
- Note: Language of instruction is Arabic.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 423D1/D2 or ISLA 523D1/D2 or ISLA 623D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the instructor
- Note: Language of instruction is Arabic.
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ISLA 525. Advanced Arabic 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced level of the Arabic language study.
- Note: Language of instruction is Arabic.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 524 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Note: Language of instruction is Arabic.
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ISLA 526. Colloquial Arabic.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Dialectical vocabulary and grammar structures.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA322D1/D2 or equivalent, placement test, or permission of the instructor.
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Persian
ISLA 241D1. Introductory Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to the Persian language, beginning with pronouncing, reading and writing the Persian script, and moving to vocabulary and grammatical structures needed to communicate in simple dialogues, read simple texts, and write simple paragraphs.
- Prerequisite: Placement test or permission of the instructor
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 541 D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA 241D1 and ISLA 241D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 241D1 and ISLA 241D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
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ISLA 241D2. Introductory Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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- Prerequisite: ISLA 241D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 241D1 and ISLA 241D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
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ISLA 342D1. Lower Intermediate Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Speech, comprehension, and reading and writing of more complex grammatical structures, embedded within a variety of short authentic Persian texts.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 241D1/D2 or ISLA 541D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 542D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA 342D1 and ISLA 342D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 342D1 and ISLA 342D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Students are expected to have knowledge of basic Persian grammar and vocabulary.
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ISLA 342D2. Lower Intermediate Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 342D1 and ISLA 241D1/D2 or ISLA 541D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 342D1 and ISLA 342D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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ISLA 443D1. Upper Intermediate Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to authentic texts about Persian culture, history, geography, politics, arts, and other topics relevant to Iran, as well as canonical poems of various modern and classical poets, and selected Persian proverbs and their meanings and connotations.
- Fall
- Prerequisite: ISLA 342D1/D2 or ISLA 542D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 543 and ISLA 544.
- Note: Language of instruction is Persian.
- Students must register for both ISLA 443D1 and ISLA 443D2
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 443D1 and ISLA 443D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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ISLA 443D2. Upper Intermediate Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 443D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 443D1 and ISLA 443D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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ISLA 545. Advanced Persian 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced level of Persian language study.
- Note: Language of instruction is Persian.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ISLA 443D1/D2, or ISLA 543, or ISLA 544, or ISLA 643D1/D2, or placement test, or permission of instructor.
- Note: Language of instruction is Persian.
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ISLA 546. Advanced Persian 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced level of Persian language study.
- Note: Language of instruction is Persian.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 545 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Note: Language of instruction is Persian.
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Turkish
ISLA 232D1. Introductory Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to speaking and comprehension of basic sentences, commands, statements in the present and future tenses. Introduction to simple daily conversations.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ISLA532 D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA232D1 and ISLA 232D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 232D1 and ISLA 232D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
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ISLA 232D2. Introductory Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 232D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 232D1 and ISLA 232D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
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ISLA 333D1. Lower Intermediate Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Listening comprehension, reading, and writing of more complex grammatical structures, including the subjunctive, future, and past tenses.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 232D1/D2 or ISLA 532D1/D2 or permission of the Institute.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 533D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA333D1 and ISLA 333D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 333D1 and ISLA 333D2 are successfully completed inconsecutive terms.
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ISLA 333D2. Lower Intermediate Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 333D1, ISLA 232D1/D2 or ISLA 532D1/D2 or permission of the Institute.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 333D1 and ISLA 333D2 are successfully completed inconsecutive terms.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 533D1/D2.
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ISLA 434D1. Higher Intermediate Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Contemporary cultural texts in Turkish, including literature and media. Reading materials supported by audio visual media featuring modern spoken Turkish.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 333D1/D2 or ISLA 533D1/D2 or permission of the instructor.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 534D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA 434D1 and ISLA 434D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 434D1 and ISLA 434D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
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ISLA 434D2. Higher Intermediate Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 434D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 434D1 and ISLA 434D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
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ISLA 535D1. Advanced Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Language acquisition - advanced Turkish.
- Students must register for both ISLA 535D1 and ISLA 535D2
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 535D1 and ISLA 535D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Prerequisites: ISLA 434D1/D2 or ISLA 534D1/D2 or ISLA 634D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
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ISLA 535D2. Advanced Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 535D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 535D1 and ISLA 535D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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ISLA 560. Ottoman Turkish
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Ottoman Turkish language, including the Ottoman script, grammar, vocabulary, and calligraphy styles.
- Prerequisites: ISLA 333D1/D2 or ISLA 633D1/D2 or permission of the instructor.
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Urdu
ISLA 251D1. Introductory Urdu-Hindi.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to Urdu-Hindi language including pronunciation and reading and writing of either Urduor Hindi script, speaking and comprehension of basic sentences, commands, statements in the present tense.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA551D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA251D1 and ISLA 251D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 251D1 and ISLA 251D2are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
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ISLA 251D2. Introductory Urdu-Hindi.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 251D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 251D1 and ISLA 251D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
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ISLA 352D1. Intermediate Urdu-Hindi.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Speech, comprehension, and reading and writing of more complex grammatical structures, including the subjunctive, future, and past tenses.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 251D1/D2 or ISLA 551D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 552D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA352D1 and ISLA 352D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 352D1 and ISLA 352D2 are successfully completed inconsecutive terms.
- Students are expected to have knowledge of basic Urdu-Hindi grammar and vocabulary.
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ISLA 352D2. Intermediate Urdu-Hindi.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 352D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 352D1 and ISLA 352D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
- Students are expected to have knowledge of basic Urdu-Hindi grammar and vocabulary.
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ISLA 553. Advanced Urdu-Hindi 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Builds upon Intermediate Urdu-Hindi to introduce students to advanced grammatical constructions through reading of longer texts in the Urdu or
Hindi script, conversation, and video/audio cultural materials.
- Prerequisites: ISLA 352D1/D2 or ISLA 552D1/D2 or ISLA 652D1/D2 or equivalent or permission of the instructor.
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ISLA 554. Advanced Urdu-Hindi
2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced study of grammatical constructions through reading long texts in the Urdu or Hindi script, conversation, and video/audio cultural materials.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 553 or permission of the instructor.
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ISLA 555. Urdu Poetry.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Interpretation of Urdu poetry for students with intermediate to advanced-level knowledge of Urdu-Hindi language. Includes advanced grammar topics, cultural and historical background, and interpretation and analysis.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 352D1/D2 or permission of the instructor.
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Non-Language Courses (31-33 credits)
ISLA 200-Level
3 credits from:
ISLA 200. Islamic Civilization.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to, and survey of, the religious, literary, artistic, legal, philosophical and scientific traditions that constituted Islamic civilization from the 7th Century until the mid-19th Century.
- Fall
- Note: All readings are in English.
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ISLA 210. Muslim Societies.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to the different, often disparate, ways in which Muslims live and think in the modern world (19th-21st centuries). Muslim social contexts across the globe and cyberspace.
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ISLA 300-Level
12 credits from:
ISLA 300. Special Topics 7.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Subject matter will vary year to year, according to the instructor. Topic will be made available in Minerva.
- Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
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ISLA 305. Topics in Islamic History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Subject matter will vary year to year, according to the instructor. Topic will be made available in Minerva.
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ISLA 310. Women in Islam.
Credits: 0-3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The socio-legal status, conditions, and experiences of various groups of women in Middle Eastern societies. These features are explored within the framework of Islamic feminism and Western feminist discourses, and the tensions and conflicts between them. The dynamics of seclusion, veiling, and polygamy are explored in connection to Medieval Arab ruling elites as a background to some of the discussions and debates over the status of women in modern postcolonial Arab society. Socio-economic divisions, state policies, patriarchy, and colonialism are investigated as key factors in understanding the modern historical transformation of gendered relations and women's roles.
- Prerequisites::Either ISLA 200 or ISLA 210.
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ISLA 315. Ottoman State and Society to 1839.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The emergence and development of the Ottoman Empire from its beginnings around 1300 until the Tanzimat Edict of Reform in 1839. A trajectory of Ottoman history from a small principality to a centralized empire, then to a decentralized governmental structure. In addition to chronological developments, questions of imperialideology and the management of ethnically and religiously diverse communities across a vast territory. Exploration of the place of the Ottomans in the early modern world, and their ideological and diplomatic rivalry with other major empires.
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ISLA 325. Introduction to Shi'i Islam.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Developments in doctrines, legal school, rituals and political thought of Twelver Shi'ite Muslims during early and late medieval periods (centuries VII-XIII). The emergence of the earliest Shi'ite communities in Arabia, Yemen, Iraq and Iran stressing the relationship of the Shi'ite Imams and their religious scholars to the Sunnite Caliphates.
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ISLA 330. Islamic Mysticism: Sufism.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The varieties of "mystical" thought in Islam, primarily as seen in Sufism, its historical development and its place in Islamic culture. Analytical study of major authors, their writings and their central problems.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 200 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 350. From Tribe to Dynasty.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The political and intellectual developments shaping Arab and Persian societies from the rise of Islam in the 7th century until the early mid 8th century, including the major social changes, political revolts, religious schisms, and the consolidation of lasting cultural institutions.
- Restriction: Not open to U0 or U1 students.
- Fall
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ISLA 355. Modern History of the Middle East.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Assessment of the historical transformation of the modern Middle East concentrating on its internal socio-economic changes, as well as the colonial experience and encounters with the West since the early 19th century. Examination of the historical conditions that led to the rise of nationalism, the nation-state, the Arab-Israeli conflict.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 360. Islam and Politics in Africa
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Assessment of the relationship between Islam and politics in the contemporary Africa through various analytic themes, including political economy, social movement and gendered analysis.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or AFRI 200.
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ISLA 365. Middle East Since the 1970's.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Changes that have occurred in the Middle East since the 1970's, viewed through the lens of themes such as migration, consumerism, war, communications, and ideology.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 370. The Qur鈥檃n: History and Interpretation.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
It examines the history of the codification of the text, its form, and modes of interpretation in both the modern and pre-modern periods. Presentation of different schools of Qur鈥檃nic exegesis, including traditional hermeneutical approaches, and modern approaches such as feminist interpretations of the Qur鈥櫮乶.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 200 or permission of instructor
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ISLA 380. Islamic Philosophy and Theology.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A survey of the most important philosophers and theologians in Islamic intellectual history, with a focus on the theories they articulated and the movements they engendered. The impact of European thought on 19th and 20th century Islamic intellectual history is also examined.
- Note: Reading and discussion in English.
- Note: Reading and discussion in English.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 200 or permission of instructor.
- Note: Reading and discussion in English.
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ISLA 383. Central Questions in Islamic Law.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An integrative view of Islamic law in the past and present, including landmarks in Islamic legal history (e.g., sources of law; early formation; intellectual make-up; the workings of court; legal change; legal effects of colonialism; modernity and legal reform) and a structured definition of what it was/is.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ISLA 200 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 385. Poetics and Politics in Arabic Literature.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Major issues in classical and modern Arabic literature; how poetics and politics interact in classical and modern, popular folktales and high literature, novels and poetry. The politics of translation from Arabic into English.
- Note: Reading and discussion in English.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
- Note: Reading and discussion in English.
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ISLA 388. Persian Literature.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Examination of literature produced in the Persian-speaking world from the mid 10th to the late 20th century C.E. A broad selection of texts (prose and poetry) will be studied in translation.
- Fall
- Prerequisite: ISLA 200 or permission of instructor.
- Note: Readings in English.
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ISLA 392. Arabic Literature as World Literature.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Consideration of Arabic literature as part of world literature, including exploration of tensions between reading Arabic literature as local, discrete and self-contained and as part of larger global phenomena.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 395. Melancholic Migrants
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The histories, cultures, and racial politics of South Asians and Muslims of North America and the United Kingdom from the 16th century to the present. Focusing on South Asians (regardless of religious identity), Black Muslims, Latine Muslims, Arabs and Berbers, Turks and other post-/Ottoman peoples, Iranians, and white Muslims, with special attention to the Montreal context.
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ISLA 499. World Islamic and Middle East Studies Internship.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Internship with an approved host institution or organization.
- Restriction(s): Open to U2 and U3 students with a minimum CGPA of 2.7, and permission of the departmental Internship Adviser. This course will not normally fulfill program requirements for seminar or 400-level courses. A letter from a supervisor at the institution must attest to successful completion of the student's tenure (minimum 150 hours). Students attain credit by writing a research project based on and inspired by their internship experience. This research paper is written after the Internship is completed.
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*As per course restriction, ISLA 499 does not fulfil ISLA 400-/500-level requirements.
ISLA 400-/500-Level
9 credits from:
ISLA 410. History: Middle-East 1798-1918.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A study of the Middle East from Napoleon's invasion of Egypt to the end of WWI. Emphasis will be on the emergence of nationalisms in the context of European imperialism; political, social, and economic transformation; religion and ideology; and changing patterns of alliances.
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ISLA 411. History: Middle-East 1918-1945.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The impact of WWI on Middle Eastern society and politics; the British and French mandates; the growth of nationalisms, revolutions and the formation of national states; WW II and the clash of political interests within the region.
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ISLA 415. Modern Iran: Anthropological Approach.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The modern history, social, and cultural anthropology of contemporary Iran.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 420. Indo-Islamic Civilization: Medieval.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The rise of Islam in South Asia in the 8th Century and its subsequent expansion; evolution of Indo-Islamic civilization and its apogee during Mughal rule up to 1707. Themes include state and religion; ruling institutions; political theory, Sufism and the process of conversion, as well as the formation of a composite culture.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ISLA 200 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 421. Islamic Culture - Indian Subcontinent.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Survey of Islamic culture (faith systems, literature, music, art) on the Indian subcontinent from the early modern period to the present, with a focus on conflict and relations between Muslims and non-Muslims, and between majority and minority Muslim groups.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 420 or permission of instructor.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 200 or ISLA 210 or permission of the instructor.
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ISLA 430. Islamdom: Baghdad to Cordoba .
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The course examines the major socio-political developments in Iraq, Persia, Syria, Egypt, North Africa and Spain from the 9th to the 13th Century. Emphasis is laid on the Umayyad Caliphate centered in Cordoba, and the 'Abbasid Caliphate centered in Baghdad, and the rise of important local dynasties leading up to the Mongol invasion. The course underscores the formation of Islamic cultures in distinct geographical settings and the transformation of religious life under new socio-economic conditions. It also explores shifting notions of civil society and orthodoxy.
- Prerequisite(s): Either ISLA 200 or ISLA 350 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 488. Tales of Wonder-Islamic World.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Reading of literary masterpieces of Islamic world focused on three collections of marvelous tales in Arabic, Persian and Urdu: The Arabian Nights, the Shahnameh, and the Adventures of Amir Hamza. May include film screenings, visual art, viewing of rare materials.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 200, ISLA 210, or permission of instructor.
- Taught in translation.
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ISLA 489. Special Topics 6.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Selected topics in Islamic and Middle East studies. Subject matter will vary year to year, according to the instructor. Topic will be made available in Minerva.
- Fall and/or Winter
- Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
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ISLA 501. The Qur'an: Text and History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A study of the Qur'an's teachings, structures, style, and history in the light of classical and modern scholarship.
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ISLA 502. Art in the Age of Empires.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course offers a wide-ranging survey of visual culture under the three Muslim superpowers of the early modern period: the Mediterranean-based Ottomans, the Safavids of Iran, and the Mughals of India. The course will examine the nature of these states and their distinctive and vibrant artistic idiom on a comparative basis. Topics include the formation of imperial ideology and its visual articulation; palaces and court culture; artistic organization, authorship, and agency; patronage, gender, piety, as well as cross-cultural interaction.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 320 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 505. Islam: Origin and Early Development.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The Qur'an, Hadith, the Shari'a and their major themes. The early development of law, theology and Sufism. The development and formation of an Islamic "orthodoxy", the development and nature of competing interpretations of Islam during the Classical Period. Topics: God, revelation, prophecy, the community and the individual and the meaning of history.
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ISLA 506. Revolutions: Arab Middle East and North Africa.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The post-Ottoman Arab world; major socio-political transformations and revolutions in the 20th century Middle Eastern and North African Arab countries; the historical contexts that shaped them and their implications. Interdisciplinarity (anthropology, psychology, sociology, psychiatry, law), effects of revolutionson individuals and societies; the cause of these revolutions; the impact of the modernization/reforms, colonialism and the rise of nationalist movements on them; the diverse compositions and aims of these revolutions; types of social groups and political organizationsand societies that were drawn to these revolutions and why; and the role colonial and postcolonial powers played in them.
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ISLA 511. Medieval Islam, 10th-12th Century.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Socio-political, religious and intellectual developments in Muslim societies following the weakening of the Arab-Sunni Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad during the tenth century. Emphasis will be placed on the historical formation and features of the Seljuq and Buyid dynasties as well as the Fatimid Caliphate in Egypt.
- Prerequisites: Isla 200
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have take ISLA 511D1/D2
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ISLA 512. Art of the Ottoman Empire.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course examines artistic production of the large and long-lived empire of the Ottomans. Focusing on key monuments of art and architecture, discussion will revolve around issues relating to imperial identity, patronage, court-culture, and cross-cultural exchange.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 320 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 515. The Medieval School in Islam.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Schooling in medieval Islamic society particularly in Iraq, Greater Syria, Persia, and Egypt. Sheds light on the structure of learning, aims of education, the life of students including women, and their relationship to their teachers. Illuminates forms of academic evaluation, and looks closely at the "scholarly license" as an accrediting tool delineating its function and scope. Through a set of representative studies on the medieval school, it brings attention to the heated debates surrounding the academic rigor of this form of learning, and the place of scientific learning in it, as well as the historical connection between it and the early European college.
- Prerequisite(s): Either ISLA 200 or ISLA 350 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 516. Medieval Islam, 13th-15th Century.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The historical circumstances surrounding the Crusades against Muslims in Greater Syria and Egypt. The socio-economic, political, and cultural transformation of Muslim society following the destruction of the Abbasid Caliphate, and the rise of the Ikl-Khanid Mongols in Iran and Iraq, as well as the Mamluks in Syria and Egypt. Emphasis will be placed on the integration of new Persian, Turkish, and Indian populations into Islamic imperial culture.
- Prerequisites; ISLA 200
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 511D1/D2.
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ISLA 531. Survey Development of Islamic Thought.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A survey of the development of the major intellectual traditions of Islamic civilization in medieval and modern times.
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ISLA 555. Urdu Poetry.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Interpretation of Urdu poetry for students with intermediate to advanced-level knowledge of Urdu-Hindi language. Includes advanced grammar topics, cultural and historical background, and interpretation and analysis.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 352D1/D2 or permission of the instructor.
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ISLA 581. Special Topics 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Selected topics in Islamic studies.
- Fall and/or Winter
- Note: Subject matter will vary year to year, according to the instructor. Topic will be announced at the beginning of the term.
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ISLA 582. Special Topics 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Selected topics in Islamic Studies.
- Subject matter will vary from term to term, according to the instructor. Topic will be announced at the beginning of the term.
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ISLA 585. Arab Women's Literature.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Explorations of writings by Arab women. Issues include: translation/reception, gender and genre, categories of knowledge about Arab women, feminist and post-colonial theories/methodologies.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 392 or permission of instructor.
- Note: Readings in English translation.
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Non-ISLA Courses听 (0-12 credits)
ANTH 209. Anthropology of Religion.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Nature and function of religion in culture. Systems of belief; the interpretation of ritual. Religion and symbolism. The relation of religion to social organization. Religious change and social movements.
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ANTH 318. Globalization and Religion.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The interactions between religion and the economic, social and cultural transformations of globalization: relations between globalization and contemporary religious practice, meaning, and influence at personal and collective levels.
- Winter
- Prerequisites: U2 standing or above and ANTH 209, or ANTH 204, or ANTH 355 or ANTH 352 or RELG 207
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ANTH 327. Anthropology of South Asia.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to anthropological research in India and greater South Asia. Topics include politics, caste, class, religion, gender and sexuality, development and globalization.
- Fall
- Prerequisite: ANTH 202, or ANTH 205, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 209, or permission of instructor
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ANTH 340. Middle Eastern Society and Culture.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Exploration of daily life, culture and society in the Middle East, through examination of ethnographic accounts.
- Fall
- Prerequisites: U2 or U3 standing; and ANTH 202, or ANTH 204, or ANTH 205, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 209, or ANTH 212, or ANTH 227, or permission of instructor
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HIST 209. Introduction to South Asian History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Charts the making of South Asian civilization, 2500 BCE- 1707 CE, through a selection of key themes and major trends. Focus on the transformation of local kinship ties into regional kingdoms and empires, the evolution of religion and the legacy of the expansion of Islam and consequent rise of Turkish, Afghan and Mughal empires in this area.
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HIST 240. Modern History of Islamic Movements.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Islamic revival in the Middle East which led to the rise of different versions of Islamic traditions and beliefs. Emphasis on the nature and character of leading nationalist and Islamic movements and their ideologues since the late 19th century.
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Course information not available.
HIST 340. History of Modern Egypt.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Explores the history of Egypt from the 18th Century to today. Topics include: Ottoman Egypt, the impact of French and British Colonialism, Nasserism, Camp David and economic liberalization, and the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.
- Prerequisite(s): HIST 201, HIST 240 or ISLA 210 recommended.
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HIST 341. Themes in South Asian History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Exploration of a theme in the history of South Asia.
- Prerequisite: HIST 209 recommended.
- Themes may vary from year to year.
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HIST 435. Topics in South Asian History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
In-depth discussion and research on a topic in the history of South Asia.
- Prerequisite(s): HIST 310 or HIST 341 or permission of instructor.
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HIST 446. Topics in Middle East History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Examination of a selected topic in the history of the modern Middle East from the late 19th century to the present.
- Prerequisite(s): Any class on the history of the Middle East or permission of the instructor
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JWST 220D1. Introductory Hebrew.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Language acquisition - introductory Hebrew.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Students must register for both JWST 220D1 and JWST 220D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 220D1 and JWST 220D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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JWST 220D2. Introductory Hebrew.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Prerequisite: JWST 220D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 220D1 and JWST 220D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- JWST 220D1 and JWST 220D2 together are equivalent to JWST 220
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JWST 245. Jewish Life in the Islamic World.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Until the early modern period, most of the world鈥檚 Jews spoke Arabic and called the Islamic world home. This course explores the Jewish experience among Muslims from the seventh century until the present. Through close readings of primary sources and historical scholarship, students will learn how Jews under Islam shaped modern Judaism, how engagement with Arabic in Islamic Spain
led to the revival of Hebrew, and how the Jewish-Muslim relationship fared in the twentieth century. The course also probes themes of history and memory in light of the departure of Jews from the Islamic world in the 1950s and 1960s.
- For detailed course content go to .
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JWST 261. History of Jewish Philosophy and Thought.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to Jewish philosophy and thought from the Hellenistic period (Philo) to the beginning of the modern era (Spinoza) focusing on topics such as prophecy and philosophy, God and the world; the Law as a canon of ethical rules and as a political constitution. Survey of the treatment of such issues by Jewish thinkers from Philo to Maimonides.
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JWST 312. Modern Jewish History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Exploration of major transformations to Jewish society and identity in the modern period. Topics include nationalism, emancipation, acculturation, modernity,
relations with non-Jews, popular culture, and literature.
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JWST 320D1. Intermediate Hebrew.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course is designed to integrate students at various levels into one group with the aim of improving their basic language skills and preparing them for advanced Hebrew.
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- Students must register for both JWST 320D1 and JWST 320D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 320D1 and JWST 320D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- JWST 320D1 and JWST 320D2 together are equivalent to JWST 320
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JWST 320D2. Intermediate Hebrew.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Prerequisite: JWST 320D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 320D1 and JWST 320D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- JWST 320D1 and JWST 320D2 together are equivalent to JWST 320
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JWST 323. The Israeli Novel.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
In-depth examination of selected Israeli novels written during the past fifty years of national formation and consolidation. Authors may include Agnon, Yehoshua, Oz, Shabtai, Shalev and others.
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JWST 334. Jews and Muslims: A Modern History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course examines the modern history of Jewish-Muslim relations beyond just conflict. We will look at the experience of Jews and Muslims -- as individuals and communities -- who charted new cultural territory while navigating colonialism, nationalism, war, and decolonization, through close readings of a wide variety of primary sources (including letters, memoirs, fiction, music, film, and photography) and historical scholarship.
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JWST 338. Jewish Philosophy and Thought 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Focuses on either a period, a current of thought or the work of a thinker in the history of Jewish thought from the Middle Ages to Modern Times, paying particular attention to the relationship of Jewish thinkers to intellectual trends in their respective cultural contexts. themes and concerns of Jewish theology and on Jewish responses to contemporary trends in European thought.
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- Winter
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JWST 340D1. Advanced Hebrew.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Language acquisition - advanced Hebrew.
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- Prerequisite: JWST 200 or JWST 320 or permission of the Hebrew Language Coordinator
- Students must register for both JWST 340D1 and JWST 340D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 340D1 and JWST 340D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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JWST 340D2. Advanced Hebrew.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Prerequisite: JWST 340D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 340D1 and JWST 340D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- JWST 340D1 and JWST 340D2 are together equivalent to JWST 340
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JWST 348. Modern Jewish Studies.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Topics in Jewish Studies. Semesters will be devoted to specific issues and periods of the Jewish Experience since 1500 and the literature produced by Jews during this period.
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JWST 366. History of Zionism.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of the development of the Zionist idea, the most influential expression of modern Jewish nationalism, which led to the creation of the Jewish state. The transformation of elements of traditional Jewish messianism into a modern political ideology. Hibbat Zion, Political Zionism, Cultural and Synthetic Zionism will be discussed.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Recommended: JWST 365
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JWST 367. Hebrew through Israeli Cinema.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An opportunity to analyze Israeli cinema from different periods, spanning 1948 to the present. While participating primarily in Hebrew with some assignments in English, students in this course will be invited to engage actively with the social, political, psychological and aesthetic dimensions of these films.
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- Fall
- Prerequisite: JWST 340 or permission of instructor
- This course is conducted at an advanced level of Hebrew. Please contact the instructor to assess your language proficiency.
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JWST 368. A Taste of Hebrew Literature.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to short literary forms in Hebrew from the mid-20th Century to the present. Short stories and poems will be discussed in terms of their literary qualities, as well as in relation to their cultural, social, political and historical contexts with the ultimate aim of fostering an improved ability to read, write and speak in Hebrew.
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- Winter
- Prerequisite: JWST 340 or permission of instructor
- This class is conducted at an advanced level of Hebrew. Please contact the instructor to assess your language proficiency.
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JWST 369. History of the Hebrew Language.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An exploration of the evolution of the Hebrew language from Biblical texts to contemporary Israeli slang, including Rabbinical commentary, Medieval hymns, poetry by Jewish authors of the Islamic world, Haskalah literature in the modern Jewish Enlightenment, and contemporary texts to showcase the revival of a spoken Hebrew after 2000 years in exile. Linguistic patterns, literary structures and vocabulary.
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- Fall
- Prerequisite: JWST 340 or permission of instructor
- This course is conducted at an advanced level of Hebrew. Please contact the instructor to assess your language proficiency.
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JWST 370. Israeli Popular Culture.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Israel's multifaceted contemporary culture including music, theatre and the visual arts, as well as stand-up comedy, dance, film and TV series, and contemporary Israeli society.
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- Winter
- Prerequisite: JWST 340 or permission of instructor
- This course is conducted at an advanced level of Hebrew. Please contact the instructor to assess your language proficiency.
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PHIL 356. Early Medieval Philosophy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of selected works in the Christian, Islamic and Jewish traditions. Topics in moral and political philosophy, logic and metaphysics, philosophical psychology and epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophical theology may be discussed.
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POLI 340. Comparative Politics of the Middle East.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of the societies, political forces and regimes of selected countries of the Eastern Arab world (Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia).
- Note: The area in the field of Comparative Politics is Developing Areas
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Comparative Politics or a course on the region or written permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
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POLI 341. Foreign Policy: The Middle East.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of the changing regional security environment and the evolving foreign policies and relationships of Arab states in three areas - relations with non-Arab regional powers (Israel, Iran), inter-Arab relations, Great Power relations. The course will focus particularly on Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
- Note: The field is International Politics
- Prerequisite: A 200- or 300- level course in International Relations or Middle East politics or permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is International Politics.
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POLI 347. Arab-Israel Conflict, Crisis, Peace.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Concepts - protracted conflict, crisis, war, peace; system, subsystem; Conflict-levels of analysis; historical context; images and issues; attitudes, policies, role of major powers; Crises-Wars - configuration of power; crisis models; decision-making in 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982 crisis-wars; conflict- crisis management; Peace-Making - pre-1977; Egypt-Israel peace treaty; Madrid, Oslo, Israel-Jordan peace; prospects for conflict resolution.
- Note: The field is International Politics
- Prerequisite: POLI 243 or POLI 244.
- Note: The field is International Politics.
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RELG 204. Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to the beliefs, practices, and religious institutions of these three world religions.
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RELG 307. Bible, Quran and Interpretations.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Jewish, Christian and Muslim scriptures as responses to earlier sacred texts and in the light of post-scriptural interpretations. The debates, polemics, interpretative strategies, and intellectual and spiritual sharing produced by these three religions in accepting, explaining, amplifying, modifying, and selectively rejecting their and other sacred scriptures.
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RELG 309. World Religions and Cultures They Create..
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The constitution and mutual entanglements of selected religions and cultures originating and thriving in varied regional contexts. Focus on highlighting the symbolic (visual, aural) expressivity of religions via ritual, myth, and rational speculation and its impact on high and popular cultures.
- Prerequisite: RELG 204, RELG 207, RELG 252, or RELG 253 recommended
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken RELG 208.
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RELG 440. Global Islam.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Western scholarship has oscillated between orientalizing Islam and co-opting it into the Western (Abrahamic) fold of religious traditions. The course will challenge both perspectives by exploring Islam鈥檚 dynamic unfolding across a variety of civilizational regions and during subsequent epochs. Its patterns of premodern globalization are nowadays retrieved, sometimes by fitting Islamic cultures into neoliberal patterns of globalization, more often by sidelining or overlaying the Westphalian system of sovereign nation-states. The course will show how Islamic traditions have, both in history and in the present, developed unique intellectual tools and practical resources to interface both with 鈥榬adical鈥� (Abrahamic) and 鈥榙ialogic鈥� (non-Abrahamic) religious traditions: from the West (also via labor-based migration), through Central and South Asia, to East and Southeast Asia.
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RELG 573. Religions in Global Society.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This seminar is devoted to the study of a plurality of often intersecting religious traditions in a globalizing world, based on interdisciplinary scholarship drawing from history, sociology, anthropology and archaeology. It starts from locating religious phenomena within intersecting social, cultural and political fabrics around the world. It articulates the relation between a multi-faith appreciation of the role of religions in a variety of societies and the emergence of diverse patterns of secularity in them. It facilitates a rich understanding of a complex past to shed light on the new challenges of globalization, including the opening of horizons of postsecular understandings and arrangements.
- Prerequisite(s): RELG 208 or RELG 331 or permission of instructor
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Joint Honours Component World Islamic & Middle East Studies (36 Credits)
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Students wishing to study at the Honours level in two disciplines can combine Joint Honours program components in any two Arts disciplines.
Joint Honours students should consult an adviser in each department to discuss their course selection and their interdisciplinary research project (if applicable).
Joint Honours students must maintain a program GPA of 3.30 in their World Islamic & Middle East Studies courses and, according to Faculty regulations, a minimum CGPA of 3.00 in general. For First-Class Honours, the CGPA at graduation must be 3.50 or better.
During Winter 2020, the S/U option applied to all courses. For Fall 2020 and Winter 2021 terms, you could have used the S/U option for a total of 6 credits over the two terms that were taken to satisfy a program requirement.
Required Course (3 Credits)
ISLA 495. World Islamic and Middle East Studies Research Seminar.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Research seminar on topics in world Islamic and Middle East studies.
- Restriction(s): Open to final year WI&MES Joint Honours and Honours students and to others by permission of the Program Coordinator.
- Not open to students who have taken MEST 495.
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Complementary Courses (33 Credits)
33 credits of complementary courses selected from the World Islamic and Middle East Studies course lists as follows:
12-15 credits (2 levels) in one language: Arabic, Persian, Turkish, or Urdu.听One level is 6 credits. In the case of Arabic, the first two levels involve 15 credits. The extra 3 credits may count toward the 3-6 credits at any level category of the complementary courses鈥� requirement.
NOTE: Hebrew courses (JWST 220D1/D2, 320D1/D2, 340D1/D2), listed under Non-ISLA Courses, are considered non-language courses.
18-21 credits (18 if the 3 extra Introductory Arabic credits are used), distributed as follows:
3 credits of 200-level non-language ISLA courses;
9 credits of 300-level non-language ISLA courses;
3 credits of 400-/500-level non-language ISLA courses;
3-6 credits at any level, including more language courses, but no more than 6 credits in non-language courses overall at the 200-level. Students may fulfill these credits by taking complementary courses from the list of the Non-ISLA Courses below.
Languages (Two levels, 12 credits)
Arabic
ISLA 221D1. Introductory Arabic.
Credits: 4.5
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to Modern Standard Arabic, including pronunciation and reading and writing of the Arabic script; and speaking and comprehension of basic sentences, commands, statements in the present tense.
- Prerequisites: Permission of the Institute required.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ISLA521D1/D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 221D1 and ISLA 221D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Students must register for both ISLA221D1 and ISLA 221D2.
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ISLA 221D2. Introductory Arabic.
Credits: 4.5
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 221D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 221D1 and ISLA 221D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Students must register for both ISLA221D1 and ISLA 221D2.
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ISLA 322. Lower Intermediate Arabic.
Credits: 6
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Speech, comprehension, reading and writing of more complex grammatical structures, including the conditional sentence, case endings, and verbs and verbal constructions.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 221D1/D2 or ISLA 521D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the Institute.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 522 or ISLA 522D1/D2.
- Students are expected to have knowledge of basic Arabic grammar and vocabulary.
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ISLA 322D1. Lower Intermediate Arabic.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Speech, comprehension, reading and writing of more complex grammatical structures, including the conditional sentence, case endings, and verbs and verbal constructions.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 221D1/D2 or ISLA 521D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the Institute.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 522 or ISLA 522D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA322D1 and ISLA 322D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 322D1 and ISLA 322D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- ISLA 322D1 and ISLA 322D2 together are equivalent to ISLA 322
- Students are expected to have knowledge of basic Arabic grammar and vocabulary.
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ISLA 322D2. Lower Intermediate Arabic.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite:ISLA 322D1, ISLA 221D1/D2 or ISLA 521D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the Institute.
- Students must register for both ISLA322D1 and ISLA 322D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 322D1 and ISLA 322D2are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- ISLA 322D1 and ISLA 322D2 together are equivalent to ISLA 322
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 522 or ISLA 522D1/D2.
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ISLA 423D1. Higher Intermediate Arabic.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to advanced grammatical constructions and vocabulary through readings of longer texts in Arabic, as well as conversation, and exposure to video/audio cultural materials. Continued exposition of Arabic grammar, including active and passive participles, conjunction of irregular verbs, and active and passive voices.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 322D1/D2 or ISLA 322 or ISLA 522D1/D2 or ISLA 522 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 523D1/D2.
- Fall and Winter
- Students must register for both ISLA 423D1 and ISLA 423D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 423D1 and ISLA 423D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
- Students are expected to have knowledge of intermediate-level Arabic grammar and vocabulary.
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ISLA 423D2. Higher Intermediate Arabic.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 423D1
- Fall and Winter
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 423D1 and ISLA 423D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
- Students are expected to have knowledge of intermediate-level Arabic grammar and vocabulary.
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ISLA 524. Advanced Arabic 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced level of the Arabic language study.
- Note: Language of instruction is Arabic.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 423D1/D2 or ISLA 523D1/D2 or ISLA 623D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the instructor
- Note: Language of instruction is Arabic.
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ISLA 525. Advanced Arabic 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced level of the Arabic language study.
- Note: Language of instruction is Arabic.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 524 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Note: Language of instruction is Arabic.
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ISLA 526. Colloquial Arabic.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Dialectical vocabulary and grammar structures.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA322D1/D2 or equivalent, placement test, or permission of the instructor.
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Persian
ISLA 241D1. Introductory Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to the Persian language, beginning with pronouncing, reading and writing the Persian script, and moving to vocabulary and grammatical structures needed to communicate in simple dialogues, read simple texts, and write simple paragraphs.
- Prerequisite: Placement test or permission of the instructor
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 541 D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA 241D1 and ISLA 241D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 241D1 and ISLA 241D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
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ISLA 241D2. Introductory Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 241D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 241D1 and ISLA 241D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
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ISLA 342D1. Lower Intermediate Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Speech, comprehension, and reading and writing of more complex grammatical structures, embedded within a variety of short authentic Persian texts.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 241D1/D2 or ISLA 541D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 542D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA 342D1 and ISLA 342D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 342D1 and ISLA 342D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Students are expected to have knowledge of basic Persian grammar and vocabulary.
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ISLA 342D2. Lower Intermediate Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 342D1 and ISLA 241D1/D2 or ISLA 541D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 342D1 and ISLA 342D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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ISLA 443D1. Upper Intermediate Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to authentic texts about Persian culture, history, geography, politics, arts, and other topics relevant to Iran, as well as canonical poems of various modern and classical poets, and selected Persian proverbs and their meanings and connotations.
- Fall
- Prerequisite: ISLA 342D1/D2 or ISLA 542D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 543 and ISLA 544.
- Note: Language of instruction is Persian.
- Students must register for both ISLA 443D1 and ISLA 443D2
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 443D1 and ISLA 443D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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ISLA 443D2. Upper Intermediate Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 443D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 443D1 and ISLA 443D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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ISLA 545. Advanced Persian 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced level of Persian language study.
- Note: Language of instruction is Persian.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ISLA 443D1/D2, or ISLA 543, or ISLA 544, or ISLA 643D1/D2, or placement test, or permission of instructor.
- Note: Language of instruction is Persian.
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ISLA 546. Advanced Persian 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced level of Persian language study.
- Note: Language of instruction is Persian.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 545 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Note: Language of instruction is Persian.
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Turkish
ISLA 232D1. Introductory Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to speaking and comprehension of basic sentences, commands, statements in the present and future tenses. Introduction to simple daily conversations.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ISLA532 D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA232D1 and ISLA 232D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 232D1 and ISLA 232D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
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ISLA 232D2. Introductory Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 232D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 232D1 and ISLA 232D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
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ISLA 333D1. Lower Intermediate Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Listening comprehension, reading, and writing of more complex grammatical structures, including the subjunctive, future, and past tenses.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 232D1/D2 or ISLA 532D1/D2 or permission of the Institute.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 533D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA333D1 and ISLA 333D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 333D1 and ISLA 333D2 are successfully completed inconsecutive terms.
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ISLA 333D2. Lower Intermediate Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 333D1, ISLA 232D1/D2 or ISLA 532D1/D2 or permission of the Institute.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 333D1 and ISLA 333D2 are successfully completed inconsecutive terms.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 533D1/D2.
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ISLA 434D1. Higher Intermediate Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Contemporary cultural texts in Turkish, including literature and media. Reading materials supported by audio visual media featuring modern spoken Turkish.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 333D1/D2 or ISLA 533D1/D2 or permission of the instructor.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 534D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA 434D1 and ISLA 434D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 434D1 and ISLA 434D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
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ISLA 434D2. Higher Intermediate Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 434D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 434D1 and ISLA 434D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
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ISLA 535D1. Advanced Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Language acquisition - advanced Turkish.
- Students must register for both ISLA 535D1 and ISLA 535D2
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 535D1 and ISLA 535D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Prerequisites: ISLA 434D1/D2 or ISLA 534D1/D2 or ISLA 634D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
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ISLA 535D2. Advanced Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 535D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 535D1 and ISLA 535D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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ISLA 560. Ottoman Turkish
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Ottoman Turkish language, including the Ottoman script, grammar, vocabulary, and calligraphy styles.
- Prerequisites: ISLA 333D1/D2 or ISLA 633D1/D2 or permission of the instructor.
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Urdu
ISLA 251D1. Introductory Urdu-Hindi.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to Urdu-Hindi language including pronunciation and reading and writing of either Urduor Hindi script, speaking and comprehension of basic sentences, commands, statements in the present tense.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA551D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA251D1 and ISLA 251D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 251D1 and ISLA 251D2are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
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ISLA 251D2. Introductory Urdu-Hindi.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 251D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 251D1 and ISLA 251D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
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ISLA 352D1. Intermediate Urdu-Hindi.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Speech, comprehension, and reading and writing of more complex grammatical structures, including the subjunctive, future, and past tenses.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 251D1/D2 or ISLA 551D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 552D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA352D1 and ISLA 352D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 352D1 and ISLA 352D2 are successfully completed inconsecutive terms.
- Students are expected to have knowledge of basic Urdu-Hindi grammar and vocabulary.
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ISLA 352D2. Intermediate Urdu-Hindi.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 352D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 352D1 and ISLA 352D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
- Students are expected to have knowledge of basic Urdu-Hindi grammar and vocabulary.
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ISLA 553. Advanced Urdu-Hindi 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Builds upon Intermediate Urdu-Hindi to introduce students to advanced grammatical constructions through reading of longer texts in the Urdu or
Hindi script, conversation, and video/audio cultural materials.
- Prerequisites: ISLA 352D1/D2 or ISLA 552D1/D2 or ISLA 652D1/D2 or equivalent or permission of the instructor.
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ISLA 554. Advanced Urdu-Hindi
2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced study of grammatical constructions through reading long texts in the Urdu or Hindi script, conversation, and video/audio cultural materials.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 553 or permission of the instructor.
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ISLA 555. Urdu Poetry.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Interpretation of Urdu poetry for students with intermediate to advanced-level knowledge of Urdu-Hindi language. Includes advanced grammar topics, cultural and historical background, and interpretation and analysis.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 352D1/D2 or permission of the instructor.
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Non-language Courses (18-21 credits)
ISLA 200-Level
3 credits from:
ISLA 200. Islamic Civilization.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to, and survey of, the religious, literary, artistic, legal, philosophical and scientific traditions that constituted Islamic civilization from the 7th Century until the mid-19th Century.
- Fall
- Note: All readings are in English.
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ISLA 210. Muslim Societies.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to the different, often disparate, ways in which Muslims live and think in the modern world (19th-21st centuries). Muslim social contexts across the globe and cyberspace.
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ISLA 300-Level
9 credits from:
ISLA 300. Special Topics 7.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Subject matter will vary year to year, according to the instructor. Topic will be made available in Minerva.
- Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
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ISLA 305. Topics in Islamic History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Subject matter will vary year to year, according to the instructor. Topic will be made available in Minerva.
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ISLA 310. Women in Islam.
Credits: 0-3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The socio-legal status, conditions, and experiences of various groups of women in Middle Eastern societies. These features are explored within the framework of Islamic feminism and Western feminist discourses, and the tensions and conflicts between them. The dynamics of seclusion, veiling, and polygamy are explored in connection to Medieval Arab ruling elites as a background to some of the discussions and debates over the status of women in modern postcolonial Arab society. Socio-economic divisions, state policies, patriarchy, and colonialism are investigated as key factors in understanding the modern historical transformation of gendered relations and women's roles.
- Prerequisites::Either ISLA 200 or ISLA 210.
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ISLA 315. Ottoman State and Society to 1839.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The emergence and development of the Ottoman Empire from its beginnings around 1300 until the Tanzimat Edict of Reform in 1839. A trajectory of Ottoman history from a small principality to a centralized empire, then to a decentralized governmental structure. In addition to chronological developments, questions of imperialideology and the management of ethnically and religiously diverse communities across a vast territory. Exploration of the place of the Ottomans in the early modern world, and their ideological and diplomatic rivalry with other major empires.
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ISLA 325. Introduction to Shi'i Islam.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Developments in doctrines, legal school, rituals and political thought of Twelver Shi'ite Muslims during early and late medieval periods (centuries VII-XIII). The emergence of the earliest Shi'ite communities in Arabia, Yemen, Iraq and Iran stressing the relationship of the Shi'ite Imams and their religious scholars to the Sunnite Caliphates.
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ISLA 330. Islamic Mysticism: Sufism.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The varieties of "mystical" thought in Islam, primarily as seen in Sufism, its historical development and its place in Islamic culture. Analytical study of major authors, their writings and their central problems.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 200 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 350. From Tribe to Dynasty.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The political and intellectual developments shaping Arab and Persian societies from the rise of Islam in the 7th century until the early mid 8th century, including the major social changes, political revolts, religious schisms, and the consolidation of lasting cultural institutions.
- Restriction: Not open to U0 or U1 students.
- Fall
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ISLA 355. Modern History of the Middle East.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Assessment of the historical transformation of the modern Middle East concentrating on its internal socio-economic changes, as well as the colonial experience and encounters with the West since the early 19th century. Examination of the historical conditions that led to the rise of nationalism, the nation-state, the Arab-Israeli conflict.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 360. Islam and Politics in Africa
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Assessment of the relationship between Islam and politics in the contemporary Africa through various analytic themes, including political economy, social movement and gendered analysis.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or AFRI 200.
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ISLA 365. Middle East Since the 1970's.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Changes that have occurred in the Middle East since the 1970's, viewed through the lens of themes such as migration, consumerism, war, communications, and ideology.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 370. The Qur鈥檃n: History and Interpretation.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
It examines the history of the codification of the text, its form, and modes of interpretation in both the modern and pre-modern periods. Presentation of different schools of Qur鈥檃nic exegesis, including traditional hermeneutical approaches, and modern approaches such as feminist interpretations of the Qur鈥櫮乶.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 200 or permission of instructor
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ISLA 380. Islamic Philosophy and Theology.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A survey of the most important philosophers and theologians in Islamic intellectual history, with a focus on the theories they articulated and the movements they engendered. The impact of European thought on 19th and 20th century Islamic intellectual history is also examined.
- Note: Reading and discussion in English.
- Note: Reading and discussion in English.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 200 or permission of instructor.
- Note: Reading and discussion in English.
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ISLA 383. Central Questions in Islamic Law.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An integrative view of Islamic law in the past and present, including landmarks in Islamic legal history (e.g., sources of law; early formation; intellectual make-up; the workings of court; legal change; legal effects of colonialism; modernity and legal reform) and a structured definition of what it was/is.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ISLA 200 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 385. Poetics and Politics in Arabic Literature.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Major issues in classical and modern Arabic literature; how poetics and politics interact in classical and modern, popular folktales and high literature, novels and poetry. The politics of translation from Arabic into English.
- Note: Reading and discussion in English.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
- Note: Reading and discussion in English.
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ISLA 388. Persian Literature.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Examination of literature produced in the Persian-speaking world from the mid 10th to the late 20th century C.E. A broad selection of texts (prose and poetry) will be studied in translation.
- Fall
- Prerequisite: ISLA 200 or permission of instructor.
- Note: Readings in English.
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ISLA 392. Arabic Literature as World Literature.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Consideration of Arabic literature as part of world literature, including exploration of tensions between reading Arabic literature as local, discrete and self-contained and as part of larger global phenomena.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 395. Melancholic Migrants
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The histories, cultures, and racial politics of South Asians and Muslims of North America and the United Kingdom from the 16th century to the present. Focusing on South Asians (regardless of religious identity), Black Muslims, Latine Muslims, Arabs and Berbers, Turks and other post-/Ottoman peoples, Iranians, and white Muslims, with special attention to the Montreal context.
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ISLA 499. World Islamic and Middle East Studies Internship.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Internship with an approved host institution or organization.
- Restriction(s): Open to U2 and U3 students with a minimum CGPA of 2.7, and permission of the departmental Internship Adviser. This course will not normally fulfill program requirements for seminar or 400-level courses. A letter from a supervisor at the institution must attest to successful completion of the student's tenure (minimum 150 hours). Students attain credit by writing a research project based on and inspired by their internship experience. This research paper is written after the Internship is completed.
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*听As per course restriction, ISLA 499 does not fulfil ISLA 400-/500-level requirements.
ISLA 400-/500-Level
3 credits from:
ISLA 410. History: Middle-East 1798-1918.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A study of the Middle East from Napoleon's invasion of Egypt to the end of WWI. Emphasis will be on the emergence of nationalisms in the context of European imperialism; political, social, and economic transformation; religion and ideology; and changing patterns of alliances.
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ISLA 411. History: Middle-East 1918-1945.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The impact of WWI on Middle Eastern society and politics; the British and French mandates; the growth of nationalisms, revolutions and the formation of national states; WW II and the clash of political interests within the region.
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ISLA 415. Modern Iran: Anthropological Approach.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The modern history, social, and cultural anthropology of contemporary Iran.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 420. Indo-Islamic Civilization: Medieval.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The rise of Islam in South Asia in the 8th Century and its subsequent expansion; evolution of Indo-Islamic civilization and its apogee during Mughal rule up to 1707. Themes include state and religion; ruling institutions; political theory, Sufism and the process of conversion, as well as the formation of a composite culture.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ISLA 200 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 421. Islamic Culture - Indian Subcontinent.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Survey of Islamic culture (faith systems, literature, music, art) on the Indian subcontinent from the early modern period to the present, with a focus on conflict and relations between Muslims and non-Muslims, and between majority and minority Muslim groups.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 420 or permission of instructor.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 200 or ISLA 210 or permission of the instructor.
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ISLA 430. Islamdom: Baghdad to Cordoba .
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The course examines the major socio-political developments in Iraq, Persia, Syria, Egypt, North Africa and Spain from the 9th to the 13th Century. Emphasis is laid on the Umayyad Caliphate centered in Cordoba, and the 'Abbasid Caliphate centered in Baghdad, and the rise of important local dynasties leading up to the Mongol invasion. The course underscores the formation of Islamic cultures in distinct geographical settings and the transformation of religious life under new socio-economic conditions. It also explores shifting notions of civil society and orthodoxy.
- Prerequisite(s): Either ISLA 200 or ISLA 350 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 488. Tales of Wonder-Islamic World.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Reading of literary masterpieces of Islamic world focused on three collections of marvelous tales in Arabic, Persian and Urdu: The Arabian Nights, the Shahnameh, and the Adventures of Amir Hamza. May include film screenings, visual art, viewing of rare materials.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 200, ISLA 210, or permission of instructor.
- Taught in translation.
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ISLA 489. Special Topics 6.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Selected topics in Islamic and Middle East studies. Subject matter will vary year to year, according to the instructor. Topic will be made available in Minerva.
- Fall and/or Winter
- Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
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ISLA 501. The Qur'an: Text and History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A study of the Qur'an's teachings, structures, style, and history in the light of classical and modern scholarship.
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ISLA 502. Art in the Age of Empires.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course offers a wide-ranging survey of visual culture under the three Muslim superpowers of the early modern period: the Mediterranean-based Ottomans, the Safavids of Iran, and the Mughals of India. The course will examine the nature of these states and their distinctive and vibrant artistic idiom on a comparative basis. Topics include the formation of imperial ideology and its visual articulation; palaces and court culture; artistic organization, authorship, and agency; patronage, gender, piety, as well as cross-cultural interaction.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 320 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 505. Islam: Origin and Early Development.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The Qur'an, Hadith, the Shari'a and their major themes. The early development of law, theology and Sufism. The development and formation of an Islamic "orthodoxy", the development and nature of competing interpretations of Islam during the Classical Period. Topics: God, revelation, prophecy, the community and the individual and the meaning of history.
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ISLA 506. Revolutions: Arab Middle East and North Africa.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The post-Ottoman Arab world; major socio-political transformations and revolutions in the 20th century Middle Eastern and North African Arab countries; the historical contexts that shaped them and their implications. Interdisciplinarity (anthropology, psychology, sociology, psychiatry, law), effects of revolutionson individuals and societies; the cause of these revolutions; the impact of the modernization/reforms, colonialism and the rise of nationalist movements on them; the diverse compositions and aims of these revolutions; types of social groups and political organizationsand societies that were drawn to these revolutions and why; and the role colonial and postcolonial powers played in them.
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ISLA 511. Medieval Islam, 10th-12th Century.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Socio-political, religious and intellectual developments in Muslim societies following the weakening of the Arab-Sunni Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad during the tenth century. Emphasis will be placed on the historical formation and features of the Seljuq and Buyid dynasties as well as the Fatimid Caliphate in Egypt.
- Prerequisites: Isla 200
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have take ISLA 511D1/D2
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ISLA 512. Art of the Ottoman Empire.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course examines artistic production of the large and long-lived empire of the Ottomans. Focusing on key monuments of art and architecture, discussion will revolve around issues relating to imperial identity, patronage, court-culture, and cross-cultural exchange.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 320 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 515. The Medieval School in Islam.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Schooling in medieval Islamic society particularly in Iraq, Greater Syria, Persia, and Egypt. Sheds light on the structure of learning, aims of education, the life of students including women, and their relationship to their teachers. Illuminates forms of academic evaluation, and looks closely at the "scholarly license" as an accrediting tool delineating its function and scope. Through a set of representative studies on the medieval school, it brings attention to the heated debates surrounding the academic rigor of this form of learning, and the place of scientific learning in it, as well as the historical connection between it and the early European college.
- Prerequisite(s): Either ISLA 200 or ISLA 350 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 516. Medieval Islam, 13th-15th Century.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The historical circumstances surrounding the Crusades against Muslims in Greater Syria and Egypt. The socio-economic, political, and cultural transformation of Muslim society following the destruction of the Abbasid Caliphate, and the rise of the Ikl-Khanid Mongols in Iran and Iraq, as well as the Mamluks in Syria and Egypt. Emphasis will be placed on the integration of new Persian, Turkish, and Indian populations into Islamic imperial culture.
- Prerequisites; ISLA 200
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 511D1/D2.
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ISLA 531. Survey Development of Islamic Thought.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A survey of the development of the major intellectual traditions of Islamic civilization in medieval and modern times.
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ISLA 555. Urdu Poetry.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Interpretation of Urdu poetry for students with intermediate to advanced-level knowledge of Urdu-Hindi language. Includes advanced grammar topics, cultural and historical background, and interpretation and analysis.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 352D1/D2 or permission of the instructor.
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ISLA 581. Special Topics 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Selected topics in Islamic studies.
- Fall and/or Winter
- Note: Subject matter will vary year to year, according to the instructor. Topic will be announced at the beginning of the term.
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ISLA 582. Special Topics 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Selected topics in Islamic Studies.
- Subject matter will vary from term to term, according to the instructor. Topic will be announced at the beginning of the term.
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ISLA 585. Arab Women's Literature.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Explorations of writings by Arab women. Issues include: translation/reception, gender and genre, categories of knowledge about Arab women, feminist and post-colonial theories/methodologies.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 392 or permission of instructor.
- Note: Readings in English translation.
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Non-ISLA Courses听 (0-6 credits)
ANTH 209. Anthropology of Religion.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Nature and function of religion in culture. Systems of belief; the interpretation of ritual. Religion and symbolism. The relation of religion to social organization. Religious change and social movements.
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ANTH 318. Globalization and Religion.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The interactions between religion and the economic, social and cultural transformations of globalization: relations between globalization and contemporary religious practice, meaning, and influence at personal and collective levels.
- Winter
- Prerequisites: U2 standing or above and ANTH 209, or ANTH 204, or ANTH 355 or ANTH 352 or RELG 207
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ANTH 327. Anthropology of South Asia.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to anthropological research in India and greater South Asia. Topics include politics, caste, class, religion, gender and sexuality, development and globalization.
- Fall
- Prerequisite: ANTH 202, or ANTH 205, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 209, or permission of instructor
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ANTH 340. Middle Eastern Society and Culture.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Exploration of daily life, culture and society in the Middle East, through examination of ethnographic accounts.
- Fall
- Prerequisites: U2 or U3 standing; and ANTH 202, or ANTH 204, or ANTH 205, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 209, or ANTH 212, or ANTH 227, or permission of instructor
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HIST 209. Introduction to South Asian History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Charts the making of South Asian civilization, 2500 BCE- 1707 CE, through a selection of key themes and major trends. Focus on the transformation of local kinship ties into regional kingdoms and empires, the evolution of religion and the legacy of the expansion of Islam and consequent rise of Turkish, Afghan and Mughal empires in this area.
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HIST 240. Modern History of Islamic Movements.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Islamic revival in the Middle East which led to the rise of different versions of Islamic traditions and beliefs. Emphasis on the nature and character of leading nationalist and Islamic movements and their ideologues since the late 19th century.
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Course information not available.
HIST 340. History of Modern Egypt.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Explores the history of Egypt from the 18th Century to today. Topics include: Ottoman Egypt, the impact of French and British Colonialism, Nasserism, Camp David and economic liberalization, and the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.
- Prerequisite(s): HIST 201, HIST 240 or ISLA 210 recommended.
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HIST 341. Themes in South Asian History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Exploration of a theme in the history of South Asia.
- Prerequisite: HIST 209 recommended.
- Themes may vary from year to year.
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HIST 435. Topics in South Asian History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
In-depth discussion and research on a topic in the history of South Asia.
- Prerequisite(s): HIST 310 or HIST 341 or permission of instructor.
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HIST 446. Topics in Middle East History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Examination of a selected topic in the history of the modern Middle East from the late 19th century to the present.
- Prerequisite(s): Any class on the history of the Middle East or permission of the instructor
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JWST 220D1. Introductory Hebrew.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Language acquisition - introductory Hebrew.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Students must register for both JWST 220D1 and JWST 220D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 220D1 and JWST 220D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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JWST 220D2. Introductory Hebrew.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Prerequisite: JWST 220D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 220D1 and JWST 220D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- JWST 220D1 and JWST 220D2 together are equivalent to JWST 220
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JWST 245. Jewish Life in the Islamic World.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Until the early modern period, most of the world鈥檚 Jews spoke Arabic and called the Islamic world home. This course explores the Jewish experience among Muslims from the seventh century until the present. Through close readings of primary sources and historical scholarship, students will learn how Jews under Islam shaped modern Judaism, how engagement with Arabic in Islamic Spain
led to the revival of Hebrew, and how the Jewish-Muslim relationship fared in the twentieth century. The course also probes themes of history and memory in light of the departure of Jews from the Islamic world in the 1950s and 1960s.
- For detailed course content go to .
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JWST 261. History of Jewish Philosophy and Thought.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to Jewish philosophy and thought from the Hellenistic period (Philo) to the beginning of the modern era (Spinoza) focusing on topics such as prophecy and philosophy, God and the world; the Law as a canon of ethical rules and as a political constitution. Survey of the treatment of such issues by Jewish thinkers from Philo to Maimonides.
- For detailed course content go to .
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JWST 312. Modern Jewish History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Exploration of major transformations to Jewish society and identity in the modern period. Topics include nationalism, emancipation, acculturation, modernity,
relations with non-Jews, popular culture, and literature.
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JWST 320D1. Intermediate Hebrew.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course is designed to integrate students at various levels into one group with the aim of improving their basic language skills and preparing them for advanced Hebrew.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Students must register for both JWST 320D1 and JWST 320D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 320D1 and JWST 320D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- JWST 320D1 and JWST 320D2 together are equivalent to JWST 320
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JWST 320D2. Intermediate Hebrew.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
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- Prerequisite: JWST 320D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 320D1 and JWST 320D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- JWST 320D1 and JWST 320D2 together are equivalent to JWST 320
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JWST 323. The Israeli Novel.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
In-depth examination of selected Israeli novels written during the past fifty years of national formation and consolidation. Authors may include Agnon, Yehoshua, Oz, Shabtai, Shalev and others.
- For detailed course content go to .
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JWST 334. Jews and Muslims: A Modern History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course examines the modern history of Jewish-Muslim relations beyond just conflict. We will look at the experience of Jews and Muslims -- as individuals and communities -- who charted new cultural territory while navigating colonialism, nationalism, war, and decolonization, through close readings of a wide variety of primary sources (including letters, memoirs, fiction, music, film, and photography) and historical scholarship.
- For detailed course content go to .
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JWST 338. Jewish Philosophy and Thought 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Focuses on either a period, a current of thought or the work of a thinker in the history of Jewish thought from the Middle Ages to Modern Times, paying particular attention to the relationship of Jewish thinkers to intellectual trends in their respective cultural contexts. themes and concerns of Jewish theology and on Jewish responses to contemporary trends in European thought.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Winter
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JWST 340D1. Advanced Hebrew.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Language acquisition - advanced Hebrew.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Prerequisite: JWST 200 or JWST 320 or permission of the Hebrew Language Coordinator
- Students must register for both JWST 340D1 and JWST 340D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 340D1 and JWST 340D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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JWST 340D2. Advanced Hebrew.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Prerequisite: JWST 340D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 340D1 and JWST 340D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- JWST 340D1 and JWST 340D2 are together equivalent to JWST 340
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JWST 348. Modern Jewish Studies.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Topics in Jewish Studies. Semesters will be devoted to specific issues and periods of the Jewish Experience since 1500 and the literature produced by Jews during this period.
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JWST 366. History of Zionism.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of the development of the Zionist idea, the most influential expression of modern Jewish nationalism, which led to the creation of the Jewish state. The transformation of elements of traditional Jewish messianism into a modern political ideology. Hibbat Zion, Political Zionism, Cultural and Synthetic Zionism will be discussed.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Recommended: JWST 365
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JWST 367. Hebrew through Israeli Cinema.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An opportunity to analyze Israeli cinema from different periods, spanning 1948 to the present. While participating primarily in Hebrew with some assignments in English, students in this course will be invited to engage actively with the social, political, psychological and aesthetic dimensions of these films.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Fall
- Prerequisite: JWST 340 or permission of instructor
- This course is conducted at an advanced level of Hebrew. Please contact the instructor to assess your language proficiency.
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JWST 368. A Taste of Hebrew Literature.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to short literary forms in Hebrew from the mid-20th Century to the present. Short stories and poems will be discussed in terms of their literary qualities, as well as in relation to their cultural, social, political and historical contexts with the ultimate aim of fostering an improved ability to read, write and speak in Hebrew.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Winter
- Prerequisite: JWST 340 or permission of instructor
- This class is conducted at an advanced level of Hebrew. Please contact the instructor to assess your language proficiency.
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JWST 369. History of the Hebrew Language.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An exploration of the evolution of the Hebrew language from Biblical texts to contemporary Israeli slang, including Rabbinical commentary, Medieval hymns, poetry by Jewish authors of the Islamic world, Haskalah literature in the modern Jewish Enlightenment, and contemporary texts to showcase the revival of a spoken Hebrew after 2000 years in exile. Linguistic patterns, literary structures and vocabulary.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Fall
- Prerequisite: JWST 340 or permission of instructor
- This course is conducted at an advanced level of Hebrew. Please contact the instructor to assess your language proficiency.
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JWST 370. Israeli Popular Culture.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Israel's multifaceted contemporary culture including music, theatre and the visual arts, as well as stand-up comedy, dance, film and TV series, and contemporary Israeli society.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Winter
- Prerequisite: JWST 340 or permission of instructor
- This course is conducted at an advanced level of Hebrew. Please contact the instructor to assess your language proficiency.
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PHIL 356. Early Medieval Philosophy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of selected works in the Christian, Islamic and Jewish traditions. Topics in moral and political philosophy, logic and metaphysics, philosophical psychology and epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophical theology may be discussed.
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POLI 340. Comparative Politics of the Middle East.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of the societies, political forces and regimes of selected countries of the Eastern Arab world (Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia).
- Note: The area in the field of Comparative Politics is Developing Areas
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Comparative Politics or a course on the region or written permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
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POLI 341. Foreign Policy: The Middle East.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of the changing regional security environment and the evolving foreign policies and relationships of Arab states in three areas - relations with non-Arab regional powers (Israel, Iran), inter-Arab relations, Great Power relations. The course will focus particularly on Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
- Note: The field is International Politics
- Prerequisite: A 200- or 300- level course in International Relations or Middle East politics or permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is International Politics.
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POLI 347. Arab-Israel Conflict, Crisis, Peace.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Concepts - protracted conflict, crisis, war, peace; system, subsystem; Conflict-levels of analysis; historical context; images and issues; attitudes, policies, role of major powers; Crises-Wars - configuration of power; crisis models; decision-making in 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982 crisis-wars; conflict- crisis management; Peace-Making - pre-1977; Egypt-Israel peace treaty; Madrid, Oslo, Israel-Jordan peace; prospects for conflict resolution.
- Note: The field is International Politics
- Prerequisite: POLI 243 or POLI 244.
- Note: The field is International Politics.
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RELG 204. Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to the beliefs, practices, and religious institutions of these three world religions.
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RELG 307. Bible, Quran and Interpretations.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Jewish, Christian and Muslim scriptures as responses to earlier sacred texts and in the light of post-scriptural interpretations. The debates, polemics, interpretative strategies, and intellectual and spiritual sharing produced by these three religions in accepting, explaining, amplifying, modifying, and selectively rejecting their and other sacred scriptures.
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RELG 309. World Religions and Cultures They Create..
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The constitution and mutual entanglements of selected religions and cultures originating and thriving in varied regional contexts. Focus on highlighting the symbolic (visual, aural) expressivity of religions via ritual, myth, and rational speculation and its impact on high and popular cultures.
- Prerequisite: RELG 204, RELG 207, RELG 252, or RELG 253 recommended
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken RELG 208.
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RELG 440. Global Islam.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Western scholarship has oscillated between orientalizing Islam and co-opting it into the Western (Abrahamic) fold of religious traditions. The course will challenge both perspectives by exploring Islam鈥檚 dynamic unfolding across a variety of civilizational regions and during subsequent epochs. Its patterns of premodern globalization are nowadays retrieved, sometimes by fitting Islamic cultures into neoliberal patterns of globalization, more often by sidelining or overlaying the Westphalian system of sovereign nation-states. The course will show how Islamic traditions have, both in history and in the present, developed unique intellectual tools and practical resources to interface both with 鈥榬adical鈥� (Abrahamic) and 鈥榙ialogic鈥� (non-Abrahamic) religious traditions: from the West (also via labor-based migration), through Central and South Asia, to East and Southeast Asia.
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RELG 573. Religions in Global Society.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This seminar is devoted to the study of a plurality of often intersecting religious traditions in a globalizing world, based on interdisciplinary scholarship drawing from history, sociology, anthropology and archaeology. It starts from locating religious phenomena within intersecting social, cultural and political fabrics around the world. It articulates the relation between a multi-faith appreciation of the role of religions in a variety of societies and the emergence of diverse patterns of secularity in them. It facilitates a rich understanding of a complex past to shed light on the new challenges of globalization, including the opening of horizons of postsecular understandings and arrangements.
- Prerequisite(s): RELG 208 or RELG 331 or permission of instructor
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Minor Concentration World Islamic & Middle East Studies (18 Credits)
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During Winter 2020, the S/U option applied to all courses. For Fall 2020 and Winter 2021 terms, you could have used the S/U option for a total of 6 credits over the two terms that were taken to satisfy a program requirement.
Complementary Courses (18 Credits)
18 credits of complementary courses selected from the World Islamic and Middle East Studies course lists as follows:
3 credits at the 200-level in non-language ISLA courses;
6 credits at the 300-level and Higher in non-language ISLA courses;
9 credits at any level. If non-language courses are selected, no more than 6 credits in non-language courses overall at the 200-level are allowed. Students may fulfill these credits by taking complementary courses from the list of the Non-ISLA Courses below.
NOTE: Hebrew courses (JWST 220D1/D2, 320D1/D2, 340D1/D2), listed under Non-ISLA Courses, are considered non-language courses.
Non-Language Courses (9-18 credits)
ISLA 200-Level
3 credits from:
ISLA 200. Islamic Civilization.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to, and survey of, the religious, literary, artistic, legal, philosophical and scientific traditions that constituted Islamic civilization from the 7th Century until the mid-19th Century.
- Fall
- Note: All readings are in English.
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ISLA 210. Muslim Societies.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to the different, often disparate, ways in which Muslims live and think in the modern world (19th-21st centuries). Muslim social contexts across the globe and cyberspace.
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ISLA 300-Level and Higher
6 credits from:
ISLA 300. Special Topics 7.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Subject matter will vary year to year, according to the instructor. Topic will be made available in Minerva.
- Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
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ISLA 305. Topics in Islamic History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Subject matter will vary year to year, according to the instructor. Topic will be made available in Minerva.
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ISLA 310. Women in Islam.
Credits: 0-3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The socio-legal status, conditions, and experiences of various groups of women in Middle Eastern societies. These features are explored within the framework of Islamic feminism and Western feminist discourses, and the tensions and conflicts between them. The dynamics of seclusion, veiling, and polygamy are explored in connection to Medieval Arab ruling elites as a background to some of the discussions and debates over the status of women in modern postcolonial Arab society. Socio-economic divisions, state policies, patriarchy, and colonialism are investigated as key factors in understanding the modern historical transformation of gendered relations and women's roles.
- Prerequisites::Either ISLA 200 or ISLA 210.
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ISLA 315. Ottoman State and Society to 1839.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The emergence and development of the Ottoman Empire from its beginnings around 1300 until the Tanzimat Edict of Reform in 1839. A trajectory of Ottoman history from a small principality to a centralized empire, then to a decentralized governmental structure. In addition to chronological developments, questions of imperialideology and the management of ethnically and religiously diverse communities across a vast territory. Exploration of the place of the Ottomans in the early modern world, and their ideological and diplomatic rivalry with other major empires.
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ISLA 325. Introduction to Shi'i Islam.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Developments in doctrines, legal school, rituals and political thought of Twelver Shi'ite Muslims during early and late medieval periods (centuries VII-XIII). The emergence of the earliest Shi'ite communities in Arabia, Yemen, Iraq and Iran stressing the relationship of the Shi'ite Imams and their religious scholars to the Sunnite Caliphates.
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ISLA 330. Islamic Mysticism: Sufism.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The varieties of "mystical" thought in Islam, primarily as seen in Sufism, its historical development and its place in Islamic culture. Analytical study of major authors, their writings and their central problems.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 200 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 350. From Tribe to Dynasty.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The political and intellectual developments shaping Arab and Persian societies from the rise of Islam in the 7th century until the early mid 8th century, including the major social changes, political revolts, religious schisms, and the consolidation of lasting cultural institutions.
- Restriction: Not open to U0 or U1 students.
- Fall
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ISLA 355. Modern History of the Middle East.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Assessment of the historical transformation of the modern Middle East concentrating on its internal socio-economic changes, as well as the colonial experience and encounters with the West since the early 19th century. Examination of the historical conditions that led to the rise of nationalism, the nation-state, the Arab-Israeli conflict.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 360. Islam and Politics in Africa
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Assessment of the relationship between Islam and politics in the contemporary Africa through various analytic themes, including political economy, social movement and gendered analysis.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or AFRI 200.
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ISLA 365. Middle East Since the 1970's.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Changes that have occurred in the Middle East since the 1970's, viewed through the lens of themes such as migration, consumerism, war, communications, and ideology.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 370. The Qur鈥檃n: History and Interpretation.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
It examines the history of the codification of the text, its form, and modes of interpretation in both the modern and pre-modern periods. Presentation of different schools of Qur鈥檃nic exegesis, including traditional hermeneutical approaches, and modern approaches such as feminist interpretations of the Qur鈥櫮乶.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 200 or permission of instructor
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ISLA 380. Islamic Philosophy and Theology.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A survey of the most important philosophers and theologians in Islamic intellectual history, with a focus on the theories they articulated and the movements they engendered. The impact of European thought on 19th and 20th century Islamic intellectual history is also examined.
- Note: Reading and discussion in English.
- Note: Reading and discussion in English.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 200 or permission of instructor.
- Note: Reading and discussion in English.
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ISLA 383. Central Questions in Islamic Law.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An integrative view of Islamic law in the past and present, including landmarks in Islamic legal history (e.g., sources of law; early formation; intellectual make-up; the workings of court; legal change; legal effects of colonialism; modernity and legal reform) and a structured definition of what it was/is.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ISLA 200 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 385. Poetics and Politics in Arabic Literature.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Major issues in classical and modern Arabic literature; how poetics and politics interact in classical and modern, popular folktales and high literature, novels and poetry. The politics of translation from Arabic into English.
- Note: Reading and discussion in English.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
- Note: Reading and discussion in English.
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ISLA 388. Persian Literature.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Examination of literature produced in the Persian-speaking world from the mid 10th to the late 20th century C.E. A broad selection of texts (prose and poetry) will be studied in translation.
- Fall
- Prerequisite: ISLA 200 or permission of instructor.
- Note: Readings in English.
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ISLA 392. Arabic Literature as World Literature.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Consideration of Arabic literature as part of world literature, including exploration of tensions between reading Arabic literature as local, discrete and self-contained and as part of larger global phenomena.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 395. Melancholic Migrants
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The histories, cultures, and racial politics of South Asians and Muslims of North America and the United Kingdom from the 16th century to the present. Focusing on South Asians (regardless of religious identity), Black Muslims, Latine Muslims, Arabs and Berbers, Turks and other post-/Ottoman peoples, Iranians, and white Muslims, with special attention to the Montreal context.
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ISLA 410. History: Middle-East 1798-1918.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A study of the Middle East from Napoleon's invasion of Egypt to the end of WWI. Emphasis will be on the emergence of nationalisms in the context of European imperialism; political, social, and economic transformation; religion and ideology; and changing patterns of alliances.
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ISLA 411. History: Middle-East 1918-1945.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The impact of WWI on Middle Eastern society and politics; the British and French mandates; the growth of nationalisms, revolutions and the formation of national states; WW II and the clash of political interests within the region.
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ISLA 415. Modern Iran: Anthropological Approach.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The modern history, social, and cultural anthropology of contemporary Iran.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 420. Indo-Islamic Civilization: Medieval.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The rise of Islam in South Asia in the 8th Century and its subsequent expansion; evolution of Indo-Islamic civilization and its apogee during Mughal rule up to 1707. Themes include state and religion; ruling institutions; political theory, Sufism and the process of conversion, as well as the formation of a composite culture.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ISLA 200 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 421. Islamic Culture - Indian Subcontinent.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Survey of Islamic culture (faith systems, literature, music, art) on the Indian subcontinent from the early modern period to the present, with a focus on conflict and relations between Muslims and non-Muslims, and between majority and minority Muslim groups.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 420 or permission of instructor.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 200 or ISLA 210 or permission of the instructor.
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ISLA 430. Islamdom: Baghdad to Cordoba .
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The course examines the major socio-political developments in Iraq, Persia, Syria, Egypt, North Africa and Spain from the 9th to the 13th Century. Emphasis is laid on the Umayyad Caliphate centered in Cordoba, and the 'Abbasid Caliphate centered in Baghdad, and the rise of important local dynasties leading up to the Mongol invasion. The course underscores the formation of Islamic cultures in distinct geographical settings and the transformation of religious life under new socio-economic conditions. It also explores shifting notions of civil society and orthodoxy.
- Prerequisite(s): Either ISLA 200 or ISLA 350 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 488. Tales of Wonder-Islamic World.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Reading of literary masterpieces of Islamic world focused on three collections of marvelous tales in Arabic, Persian and Urdu: The Arabian Nights, the Shahnameh, and the Adventures of Amir Hamza. May include film screenings, visual art, viewing of rare materials.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 200, ISLA 210, or permission of instructor.
- Taught in translation.
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ISLA 489. Special Topics 6.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Selected topics in Islamic and Middle East studies. Subject matter will vary year to year, according to the instructor. Topic will be made available in Minerva.
- Fall and/or Winter
- Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
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ISLA 499. World Islamic and Middle East Studies Internship.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Internship with an approved host institution or organization.
- Restriction(s): Open to U2 and U3 students with a minimum CGPA of 2.7, and permission of the departmental Internship Adviser. This course will not normally fulfill program requirements for seminar or 400-level courses. A letter from a supervisor at the institution must attest to successful completion of the student's tenure (minimum 150 hours). Students attain credit by writing a research project based on and inspired by their internship experience. This research paper is written after the Internship is completed.
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ISLA 501. The Qur'an: Text and History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A study of the Qur'an's teachings, structures, style, and history in the light of classical and modern scholarship.
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ISLA 502. Art in the Age of Empires.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course offers a wide-ranging survey of visual culture under the three Muslim superpowers of the early modern period: the Mediterranean-based Ottomans, the Safavids of Iran, and the Mughals of India. The course will examine the nature of these states and their distinctive and vibrant artistic idiom on a comparative basis. Topics include the formation of imperial ideology and its visual articulation; palaces and court culture; artistic organization, authorship, and agency; patronage, gender, piety, as well as cross-cultural interaction.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 320 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 505. Islam: Origin and Early Development.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The Qur'an, Hadith, the Shari'a and their major themes. The early development of law, theology and Sufism. The development and formation of an Islamic "orthodoxy", the development and nature of competing interpretations of Islam during the Classical Period. Topics: God, revelation, prophecy, the community and the individual and the meaning of history.
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ISLA 506. Revolutions: Arab Middle East and North Africa.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The post-Ottoman Arab world; major socio-political transformations and revolutions in the 20th century Middle Eastern and North African Arab countries; the historical contexts that shaped them and their implications. Interdisciplinarity (anthropology, psychology, sociology, psychiatry, law), effects of revolutionson individuals and societies; the cause of these revolutions; the impact of the modernization/reforms, colonialism and the rise of nationalist movements on them; the diverse compositions and aims of these revolutions; types of social groups and political organizationsand societies that were drawn to these revolutions and why; and the role colonial and postcolonial powers played in them.
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ISLA 511. Medieval Islam, 10th-12th Century.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Socio-political, religious and intellectual developments in Muslim societies following the weakening of the Arab-Sunni Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad during the tenth century. Emphasis will be placed on the historical formation and features of the Seljuq and Buyid dynasties as well as the Fatimid Caliphate in Egypt.
- Prerequisites: Isla 200
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have take ISLA 511D1/D2
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ISLA 512. Art of the Ottoman Empire.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course examines artistic production of the large and long-lived empire of the Ottomans. Focusing on key monuments of art and architecture, discussion will revolve around issues relating to imperial identity, patronage, court-culture, and cross-cultural exchange.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 320 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 515. The Medieval School in Islam.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Schooling in medieval Islamic society particularly in Iraq, Greater Syria, Persia, and Egypt. Sheds light on the structure of learning, aims of education, the life of students including women, and their relationship to their teachers. Illuminates forms of academic evaluation, and looks closely at the "scholarly license" as an accrediting tool delineating its function and scope. Through a set of representative studies on the medieval school, it brings attention to the heated debates surrounding the academic rigor of this form of learning, and the place of scientific learning in it, as well as the historical connection between it and the early European college.
- Prerequisite(s): Either ISLA 200 or ISLA 350 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 516. Medieval Islam, 13th-15th Century.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The historical circumstances surrounding the Crusades against Muslims in Greater Syria and Egypt. The socio-economic, political, and cultural transformation of Muslim society following the destruction of the Abbasid Caliphate, and the rise of the Ikl-Khanid Mongols in Iran and Iraq, as well as the Mamluks in Syria and Egypt. Emphasis will be placed on the integration of new Persian, Turkish, and Indian populations into Islamic imperial culture.
- Prerequisites; ISLA 200
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 511D1/D2.
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ISLA 531. Survey Development of Islamic Thought.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A survey of the development of the major intellectual traditions of Islamic civilization in medieval and modern times.
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ISLA 555. Urdu Poetry.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Interpretation of Urdu poetry for students with intermediate to advanced-level knowledge of Urdu-Hindi language. Includes advanced grammar topics, cultural and historical background, and interpretation and analysis.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 352D1/D2 or permission of the instructor.
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ISLA 581. Special Topics 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Selected topics in Islamic studies.
- Fall and/or Winter
- Note: Subject matter will vary year to year, according to the instructor. Topic will be announced at the beginning of the term.
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ISLA 582. Special Topics 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Selected topics in Islamic Studies.
- Subject matter will vary from term to term, according to the instructor. Topic will be announced at the beginning of the term.
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ISLA 585. Arab Women's Literature.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Explorations of writings by Arab women. Issues include: translation/reception, gender and genre, categories of knowledge about Arab women, feminist and post-colonial theories/methodologies.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 392 or permission of instructor.
- Note: Readings in English translation.
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*As per course restriction, ISLA 499 is not a 400-level seminar.
Non-ISLA Courses (0-9 credits)
ANTH 209. Anthropology of Religion.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Nature and function of religion in culture. Systems of belief; the interpretation of ritual. Religion and symbolism. The relation of religion to social organization. Religious change and social movements.
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ANTH 318. Globalization and Religion.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The interactions between religion and the economic, social and cultural transformations of globalization: relations between globalization and contemporary religious practice, meaning, and influence at personal and collective levels.
- Winter
- Prerequisites: U2 standing or above and ANTH 209, or ANTH 204, or ANTH 355 or ANTH 352 or RELG 207
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ANTH 327. Anthropology of South Asia.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to anthropological research in India and greater South Asia. Topics include politics, caste, class, religion, gender and sexuality, development and globalization.
- Fall
- Prerequisite: ANTH 202, or ANTH 205, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 209, or permission of instructor
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ANTH 340. Middle Eastern Society and Culture.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Exploration of daily life, culture and society in the Middle East, through examination of ethnographic accounts.
- Fall
- Prerequisites: U2 or U3 standing; and ANTH 202, or ANTH 204, or ANTH 205, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 209, or ANTH 212, or ANTH 227, or permission of instructor
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HIST 209. Introduction to South Asian History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Charts the making of South Asian civilization, 2500 BCE- 1707 CE, through a selection of key themes and major trends. Focus on the transformation of local kinship ties into regional kingdoms and empires, the evolution of religion and the legacy of the expansion of Islam and consequent rise of Turkish, Afghan and Mughal empires in this area.
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HIST 240. Modern History of Islamic Movements.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Islamic revival in the Middle East which led to the rise of different versions of Islamic traditions and beliefs. Emphasis on the nature and character of leading nationalist and Islamic movements and their ideologues since the late 19th century.
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HIST 340. History of Modern Egypt.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Explores the history of Egypt from the 18th Century to today. Topics include: Ottoman Egypt, the impact of French and British Colonialism, Nasserism, Camp David and economic liberalization, and the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.
- Prerequisite(s): HIST 201, HIST 240 or ISLA 210 recommended.
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HIST 341. Themes in South Asian History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Exploration of a theme in the history of South Asia.
- Prerequisite: HIST 209 recommended.
- Themes may vary from year to year.
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HIST 435. Topics in South Asian History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
In-depth discussion and research on a topic in the history of South Asia.
- Prerequisite(s): HIST 310 or HIST 341 or permission of instructor.
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HIST 446. Topics in Middle East History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Examination of a selected topic in the history of the modern Middle East from the late 19th century to the present.
- Prerequisite(s): Any class on the history of the Middle East or permission of the instructor
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JWST 220D1. Introductory Hebrew.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Language acquisition - introductory Hebrew.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Students must register for both JWST 220D1 and JWST 220D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 220D1 and JWST 220D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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JWST 220D2. Introductory Hebrew.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Prerequisite: JWST 220D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 220D1 and JWST 220D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- JWST 220D1 and JWST 220D2 together are equivalent to JWST 220
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JWST 245. Jewish Life in the Islamic World.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Until the early modern period, most of the world鈥檚 Jews spoke Arabic and called the Islamic world home. This course explores the Jewish experience among Muslims from the seventh century until the present. Through close readings of primary sources and historical scholarship, students will learn how Jews under Islam shaped modern Judaism, how engagement with Arabic in Islamic Spain
led to the revival of Hebrew, and how the Jewish-Muslim relationship fared in the twentieth century. The course also probes themes of history and memory in light of the departure of Jews from the Islamic world in the 1950s and 1960s.
- For detailed course content go to .
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JWST 261. History of Jewish Philosophy and Thought.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to Jewish philosophy and thought from the Hellenistic period (Philo) to the beginning of the modern era (Spinoza) focusing on topics such as prophecy and philosophy, God and the world; the Law as a canon of ethical rules and as a political constitution. Survey of the treatment of such issues by Jewish thinkers from Philo to Maimonides.
- For detailed course content go to .
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JWST 312. Modern Jewish History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Exploration of major transformations to Jewish society and identity in the modern period. Topics include nationalism, emancipation, acculturation, modernity,
relations with non-Jews, popular culture, and literature.
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JWST 320D1. Intermediate Hebrew.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course is designed to integrate students at various levels into one group with the aim of improving their basic language skills and preparing them for advanced Hebrew.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Students must register for both JWST 320D1 and JWST 320D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 320D1 and JWST 320D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- JWST 320D1 and JWST 320D2 together are equivalent to JWST 320
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JWST 320D2. Intermediate Hebrew.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Prerequisite: JWST 320D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 320D1 and JWST 320D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- JWST 320D1 and JWST 320D2 together are equivalent to JWST 320
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JWST 323. The Israeli Novel.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
In-depth examination of selected Israeli novels written during the past fifty years of national formation and consolidation. Authors may include Agnon, Yehoshua, Oz, Shabtai, Shalev and others.
- For detailed course content go to .
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JWST 334. Jews and Muslims: A Modern History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course examines the modern history of Jewish-Muslim relations beyond just conflict. We will look at the experience of Jews and Muslims -- as individuals and communities -- who charted new cultural territory while navigating colonialism, nationalism, war, and decolonization, through close readings of a wide variety of primary sources (including letters, memoirs, fiction, music, film, and photography) and historical scholarship.
- For detailed course content go to .
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JWST 338. Jewish Philosophy and Thought 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Focuses on either a period, a current of thought or the work of a thinker in the history of Jewish thought from the Middle Ages to Modern Times, paying particular attention to the relationship of Jewish thinkers to intellectual trends in their respective cultural contexts. themes and concerns of Jewish theology and on Jewish responses to contemporary trends in European thought.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Winter
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JWST 340D1. Advanced Hebrew.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Language acquisition - advanced Hebrew.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Prerequisite: JWST 200 or JWST 320 or permission of the Hebrew Language Coordinator
- Students must register for both JWST 340D1 and JWST 340D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 340D1 and JWST 340D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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JWST 340D2. Advanced Hebrew.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Prerequisite: JWST 340D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 340D1 and JWST 340D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- JWST 340D1 and JWST 340D2 are together equivalent to JWST 340
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JWST 348. Modern Jewish Studies.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Topics in Jewish Studies. Semesters will be devoted to specific issues and periods of the Jewish Experience since 1500 and the literature produced by Jews during this period.
- For detailed course content go to .
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JWST 366. History of Zionism.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of the development of the Zionist idea, the most influential expression of modern Jewish nationalism, which led to the creation of the Jewish state. The transformation of elements of traditional Jewish messianism into a modern political ideology. Hibbat Zion, Political Zionism, Cultural and Synthetic Zionism will be discussed.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Recommended: JWST 365
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JWST 367. Hebrew through Israeli Cinema.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An opportunity to analyze Israeli cinema from different periods, spanning 1948 to the present. While participating primarily in Hebrew with some assignments in English, students in this course will be invited to engage actively with the social, political, psychological and aesthetic dimensions of these films.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Fall
- Prerequisite: JWST 340 or permission of instructor
- This course is conducted at an advanced level of Hebrew. Please contact the instructor to assess your language proficiency.
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JWST 368. A Taste of Hebrew Literature.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to short literary forms in Hebrew from the mid-20th Century to the present. Short stories and poems will be discussed in terms of their literary qualities, as well as in relation to their cultural, social, political and historical contexts with the ultimate aim of fostering an improved ability to read, write and speak in Hebrew.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Winter
- Prerequisite: JWST 340 or permission of instructor
- This class is conducted at an advanced level of Hebrew. Please contact the instructor to assess your language proficiency.
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JWST 369. History of the Hebrew Language.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An exploration of the evolution of the Hebrew language from Biblical texts to contemporary Israeli slang, including Rabbinical commentary, Medieval hymns, poetry by Jewish authors of the Islamic world, Haskalah literature in the modern Jewish Enlightenment, and contemporary texts to showcase the revival of a spoken Hebrew after 2000 years in exile. Linguistic patterns, literary structures and vocabulary.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Fall
- Prerequisite: JWST 340 or permission of instructor
- This course is conducted at an advanced level of Hebrew. Please contact the instructor to assess your language proficiency.
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JWST 370. Israeli Popular Culture.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Israel's multifaceted contemporary culture including music, theatre and the visual arts, as well as stand-up comedy, dance, film and TV series, and contemporary Israeli society.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Winter
- Prerequisite: JWST 340 or permission of instructor
- This course is conducted at an advanced level of Hebrew. Please contact the instructor to assess your language proficiency.
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PHIL 356. Early Medieval Philosophy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of selected works in the Christian, Islamic and Jewish traditions. Topics in moral and political philosophy, logic and metaphysics, philosophical psychology and epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophical theology may be discussed.
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POLI 340. Comparative Politics of the Middle East.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of the societies, political forces and regimes of selected countries of the Eastern Arab world (Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia).
- Note: The area in the field of Comparative Politics is Developing Areas
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Comparative Politics or a course on the region or written permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
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POLI 341. Foreign Policy: The Middle East.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of the changing regional security environment and the evolving foreign policies and relationships of Arab states in three areas - relations with non-Arab regional powers (Israel, Iran), inter-Arab relations, Great Power relations. The course will focus particularly on Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
- Note: The field is International Politics
- Prerequisite: A 200- or 300- level course in International Relations or Middle East politics or permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is International Politics.
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POLI 347. Arab-Israel Conflict, Crisis, Peace.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Concepts - protracted conflict, crisis, war, peace; system, subsystem; Conflict-levels of analysis; historical context; images and issues; attitudes, policies, role of major powers; Crises-Wars - configuration of power; crisis models; decision-making in 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982 crisis-wars; conflict- crisis management; Peace-Making - pre-1977; Egypt-Israel peace treaty; Madrid, Oslo, Israel-Jordan peace; prospects for conflict resolution.
- Note: The field is International Politics
- Prerequisite: POLI 243 or POLI 244.
- Note: The field is International Politics.
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RELG 204. Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to the beliefs, practices, and religious institutions of these three world religions.
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RELG 307. Bible, Quran and Interpretations.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Jewish, Christian and Muslim scriptures as responses to earlier sacred texts and in the light of post-scriptural interpretations. The debates, polemics, interpretative strategies, and intellectual and spiritual sharing produced by these three religions in accepting, explaining, amplifying, modifying, and selectively rejecting their and other sacred scriptures.
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RELG 309. World Religions and Cultures They Create..
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The constitution and mutual entanglements of selected religions and cultures originating and thriving in varied regional contexts. Focus on highlighting the symbolic (visual, aural) expressivity of religions via ritual, myth, and rational speculation and its impact on high and popular cultures.
- Prerequisite: RELG 204, RELG 207, RELG 252, or RELG 253 recommended
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken RELG 208.
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RELG 440. Global Islam.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Western scholarship has oscillated between orientalizing Islam and co-opting it into the Western (Abrahamic) fold of religious traditions. The course will challenge both perspectives by exploring Islam鈥檚 dynamic unfolding across a variety of civilizational regions and during subsequent epochs. Its patterns of premodern globalization are nowadays retrieved, sometimes by fitting Islamic cultures into neoliberal patterns of globalization, more often by sidelining or overlaying the Westphalian system of sovereign nation-states. The course will show how Islamic traditions have, both in history and in the present, developed unique intellectual tools and practical resources to interface both with 鈥榬adical鈥� (Abrahamic) and 鈥榙ialogic鈥� (non-Abrahamic) religious traditions: from the West (also via labor-based migration), through Central and South Asia, to East and Southeast Asia.
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RELG 573. Religions in Global Society.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This seminar is devoted to the study of a plurality of often intersecting religious traditions in a globalizing world, based on interdisciplinary scholarship drawing from history, sociology, anthropology and archaeology. It starts from locating religious phenomena within intersecting social, cultural and political fabrics around the world. It articulates the relation between a multi-faith appreciation of the role of religions in a variety of societies and the emergence of diverse patterns of secularity in them. It facilitates a rich understanding of a complex past to shed light on the new challenges of globalization, including the opening of horizons of postsecular understandings and arrangements.
- Prerequisite(s): RELG 208 or RELG 331 or permission of instructor
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ISLA Language Courses (0-9 credits in one or more language(s))
Arabic
ISLA 221D1. Introductory Arabic.
Credits: 4.5
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to Modern Standard Arabic, including pronunciation and reading and writing of the Arabic script; and speaking and comprehension of basic sentences, commands, statements in the present tense.
- Prerequisites: Permission of the Institute required.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ISLA521D1/D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 221D1 and ISLA 221D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Students must register for both ISLA221D1 and ISLA 221D2.
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ISLA 221D2. Introductory Arabic.
Credits: 4.5
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 221D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 221D1 and ISLA 221D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Students must register for both ISLA221D1 and ISLA 221D2.
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ISLA 322D1. Lower Intermediate Arabic.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Speech, comprehension, reading and writing of more complex grammatical structures, including the conditional sentence, case endings, and verbs and verbal constructions.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 221D1/D2 or ISLA 521D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the Institute.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 522 or ISLA 522D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA322D1 and ISLA 322D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 322D1 and ISLA 322D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- ISLA 322D1 and ISLA 322D2 together are equivalent to ISLA 322
- Students are expected to have knowledge of basic Arabic grammar and vocabulary.
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ISLA 322D2. Lower Intermediate Arabic.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite:ISLA 322D1, ISLA 221D1/D2 or ISLA 521D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the Institute.
- Students must register for both ISLA322D1 and ISLA 322D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 322D1 and ISLA 322D2are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- ISLA 322D1 and ISLA 322D2 together are equivalent to ISLA 322
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 522 or ISLA 522D1/D2.
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ISLA 322. Lower Intermediate Arabic.
Credits: 6
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Speech, comprehension, reading and writing of more complex grammatical structures, including the conditional sentence, case endings, and verbs and verbal constructions.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 221D1/D2 or ISLA 521D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the Institute.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 522 or ISLA 522D1/D2.
- Students are expected to have knowledge of basic Arabic grammar and vocabulary.
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ISLA 423D1. Higher Intermediate Arabic.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to advanced grammatical constructions and vocabulary through readings of longer texts in Arabic, as well as conversation, and exposure to video/audio cultural materials. Continued exposition of Arabic grammar, including active and passive participles, conjunction of irregular verbs, and active and passive voices.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 322D1/D2 or ISLA 322 or ISLA 522D1/D2 or ISLA 522 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 523D1/D2.
- Fall and Winter
- Students must register for both ISLA 423D1 and ISLA 423D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 423D1 and ISLA 423D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
- Students are expected to have knowledge of intermediate-level Arabic grammar and vocabulary.
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ISLA 423D2. Higher Intermediate Arabic.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 423D1
- Fall and Winter
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 423D1 and ISLA 423D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
- Students are expected to have knowledge of intermediate-level Arabic grammar and vocabulary.
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ISLA 524. Advanced Arabic 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced level of the Arabic language study.
- Note: Language of instruction is Arabic.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 423D1/D2 or ISLA 523D1/D2 or ISLA 623D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the instructor
- Note: Language of instruction is Arabic.
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ISLA 525. Advanced Arabic 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced level of the Arabic language study.
- Note: Language of instruction is Arabic.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 524 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Note: Language of instruction is Arabic.
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ISLA 526. Colloquial Arabic.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Dialectical vocabulary and grammar structures.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA322D1/D2 or equivalent, placement test, or permission of the instructor.
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Persian
ISLA 241D1. Introductory Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to the Persian language, beginning with pronouncing, reading and writing the Persian script, and moving to vocabulary and grammatical structures needed to communicate in simple dialogues, read simple texts, and write simple paragraphs.
- Prerequisite: Placement test or permission of the instructor
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 541 D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA 241D1 and ISLA 241D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 241D1 and ISLA 241D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
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ISLA 241D2. Introductory Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 241D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 241D1 and ISLA 241D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
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ISLA 342D1. Lower Intermediate Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Speech, comprehension, and reading and writing of more complex grammatical structures, embedded within a variety of short authentic Persian texts.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 241D1/D2 or ISLA 541D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 542D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA 342D1 and ISLA 342D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 342D1 and ISLA 342D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Students are expected to have knowledge of basic Persian grammar and vocabulary.
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ISLA 342D2. Lower Intermediate Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 342D1 and ISLA 241D1/D2 or ISLA 541D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 342D1 and ISLA 342D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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ISLA 443D1. Upper Intermediate Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to authentic texts about Persian culture, history, geography, politics, arts, and other topics relevant to Iran, as well as canonical poems of various modern and classical poets, and selected Persian proverbs and their meanings and connotations.
- Fall
- Prerequisite: ISLA 342D1/D2 or ISLA 542D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 543 and ISLA 544.
- Note: Language of instruction is Persian.
- Students must register for both ISLA 443D1 and ISLA 443D2
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 443D1 and ISLA 443D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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ISLA 443D2. Upper Intermediate Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 443D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 443D1 and ISLA 443D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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ISLA 545. Advanced Persian 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced level of Persian language study.
- Note: Language of instruction is Persian.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ISLA 443D1/D2, or ISLA 543, or ISLA 544, or ISLA 643D1/D2, or placement test, or permission of instructor.
- Note: Language of instruction is Persian.
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ISLA 546. Advanced Persian 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced level of Persian language study.
- Note: Language of instruction is Persian.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 545 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Note: Language of instruction is Persian.
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Turkish
ISLA 232D1. Introductory Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to speaking and comprehension of basic sentences, commands, statements in the present and future tenses. Introduction to simple daily conversations.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ISLA532 D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA232D1 and ISLA 232D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 232D1 and ISLA 232D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 232D2. Introductory Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 232D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 232D1 and ISLA 232D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 333D1. Lower Intermediate Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Listening comprehension, reading, and writing of more complex grammatical structures, including the subjunctive, future, and past tenses.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 232D1/D2 or ISLA 532D1/D2 or permission of the Institute.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 533D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA333D1 and ISLA 333D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 333D1 and ISLA 333D2 are successfully completed inconsecutive terms.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 333D2. Lower Intermediate Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 333D1, ISLA 232D1/D2 or ISLA 532D1/D2 or permission of the Institute.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 333D1 and ISLA 333D2 are successfully completed inconsecutive terms.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 533D1/D2.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 434D1. Higher Intermediate Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Contemporary cultural texts in Turkish, including literature and media. Reading materials supported by audio visual media featuring modern spoken Turkish.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 333D1/D2 or ISLA 533D1/D2 or permission of the instructor.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 534D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA 434D1 and ISLA 434D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 434D1 and ISLA 434D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 434D2. Higher Intermediate Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 434D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 434D1 and ISLA 434D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 535D1. Advanced Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Language acquisition - advanced Turkish.
- Students must register for both ISLA 535D1 and ISLA 535D2
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 535D1 and ISLA 535D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Prerequisites: ISLA 434D1/D2 or ISLA 534D1/D2 or ISLA 634D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 535D2. Advanced Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 535D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 535D1 and ISLA 535D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 560. Ottoman Turkish
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Ottoman Turkish language, including the Ottoman script, grammar, vocabulary, and calligraphy styles.
- Prerequisites: ISLA 333D1/D2 or ISLA 633D1/D2 or permission of the instructor.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
Urdu
ISLA 251D1. Introductory Urdu-Hindi.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to Urdu-Hindi language including pronunciation and reading and writing of either Urduor Hindi script, speaking and comprehension of basic sentences, commands, statements in the present tense.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA551D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA251D1 and ISLA 251D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 251D1 and ISLA 251D2are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 251D2. Introductory Urdu-Hindi.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 251D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 251D1 and ISLA 251D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 352D1. Intermediate Urdu-Hindi.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Speech, comprehension, and reading and writing of more complex grammatical structures, including the subjunctive, future, and past tenses.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 251D1/D2 or ISLA 551D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 552D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA352D1 and ISLA 352D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 352D1 and ISLA 352D2 are successfully completed inconsecutive terms.
- Students are expected to have knowledge of basic Urdu-Hindi grammar and vocabulary.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 352D2. Intermediate Urdu-Hindi.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 352D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 352D1 and ISLA 352D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
- Students are expected to have knowledge of basic Urdu-Hindi grammar and vocabulary.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 553. Advanced Urdu-Hindi 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Builds upon Intermediate Urdu-Hindi to introduce students to advanced grammatical constructions through reading of longer texts in the Urdu or
Hindi script, conversation, and video/audio cultural materials.
- Prerequisites: ISLA 352D1/D2 or ISLA 552D1/D2 or ISLA 652D1/D2 or equivalent or permission of the instructor.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 554. Advanced Urdu-Hindi
2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced study of grammatical constructions through reading long texts in the Urdu or Hindi script, conversation, and video/audio cultural materials.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 553 or permission of the instructor.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 555. Urdu Poetry.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Interpretation of Urdu poetry for students with intermediate to advanced-level knowledge of Urdu-Hindi language. Includes advanced grammar topics, cultural and historical background, and interpretation and analysis.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 352D1/D2 or permission of the instructor.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
Minor Languages
During Winter 2020, the S/U option applied to all courses. For Fall 2020 and Winter 2021 terms, you could have used the S/U option for a total of 6 credits over the two terms that were taken to satisfy a program requirement.
The Islamic Studies Institute offers Language Minors in Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Urdu that offer听students comprehensive training in listening, speaking, reading and writing in one of these languages.
This program may be expanded to the Major Concentration in World Islamic and Middle East Studies.
Minor Concentration Arabic Language (18 Credits)
Complementary Courses
18 credits of Arabic language (3 levels) from the list below. Note that one level is considered to be 6 credits. In the case of Introductory Arabic (9 credits), the extra 3 credits will be counted as electives.
ISLA 221D1. Introductory Arabic.
Credits: 4.5
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to Modern Standard Arabic, including pronunciation and reading and writing of the Arabic script; and speaking and comprehension of basic sentences, commands, statements in the present tense.
- Prerequisites: Permission of the Institute required.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ISLA521D1/D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 221D1 and ISLA 221D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Students must register for both ISLA221D1 and ISLA 221D2.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 221D2. Introductory Arabic.
Credits: 4.5
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 221D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 221D1 and ISLA 221D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Students must register for both ISLA221D1 and ISLA 221D2.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 322. Lower Intermediate Arabic.
Credits: 6
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Speech, comprehension, reading and writing of more complex grammatical structures, including the conditional sentence, case endings, and verbs and verbal constructions.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 221D1/D2 or ISLA 521D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the Institute.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 522 or ISLA 522D1/D2.
- Students are expected to have knowledge of basic Arabic grammar and vocabulary.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 322D1. Lower Intermediate Arabic.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Speech, comprehension, reading and writing of more complex grammatical structures, including the conditional sentence, case endings, and verbs and verbal constructions.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 221D1/D2 or ISLA 521D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the Institute.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 522 or ISLA 522D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA322D1 and ISLA 322D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 322D1 and ISLA 322D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- ISLA 322D1 and ISLA 322D2 together are equivalent to ISLA 322
- Students are expected to have knowledge of basic Arabic grammar and vocabulary.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 322D2. Lower Intermediate Arabic.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite:ISLA 322D1, ISLA 221D1/D2 or ISLA 521D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the Institute.
- Students must register for both ISLA322D1 and ISLA 322D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 322D1 and ISLA 322D2are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- ISLA 322D1 and ISLA 322D2 together are equivalent to ISLA 322
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 522 or ISLA 522D1/D2.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 423D1. Higher Intermediate Arabic.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to advanced grammatical constructions and vocabulary through readings of longer texts in Arabic, as well as conversation, and exposure to video/audio cultural materials. Continued exposition of Arabic grammar, including active and passive participles, conjunction of irregular verbs, and active and passive voices.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 322D1/D2 or ISLA 322 or ISLA 522D1/D2 or ISLA 522 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 523D1/D2.
- Fall and Winter
- Students must register for both ISLA 423D1 and ISLA 423D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 423D1 and ISLA 423D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
- Students are expected to have knowledge of intermediate-level Arabic grammar and vocabulary.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 423D2. Higher Intermediate Arabic.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 423D1
- Fall and Winter
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 423D1 and ISLA 423D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
- Students are expected to have knowledge of intermediate-level Arabic grammar and vocabulary.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 524. Advanced Arabic 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced level of the Arabic language study.
- Note: Language of instruction is Arabic.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 423D1/D2 or ISLA 523D1/D2 or ISLA 623D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the instructor
- Note: Language of instruction is Arabic.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 525. Advanced Arabic 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced level of the Arabic language study.
- Note: Language of instruction is Arabic.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 524 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Note: Language of instruction is Arabic.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 526. Colloquial Arabic.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Dialectical vocabulary and grammar structures.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA322D1/D2 or equivalent, placement test, or permission of the instructor.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
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Minor Concentration Persian Language (18 Credits)
Complementary Courses
18 credits of Persian language (3 levels) from the list below. Note that one level is considered to be 6 credits.
ISLA 241D1. Introductory Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to the Persian language, beginning with pronouncing, reading and writing the Persian script, and moving to vocabulary and grammatical structures needed to communicate in simple dialogues, read simple texts, and write simple paragraphs.
- Prerequisite: Placement test or permission of the instructor
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 541 D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA 241D1 and ISLA 241D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 241D1 and ISLA 241D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 241D2. Introductory Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 241D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 241D1 and ISLA 241D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 342D1. Lower Intermediate Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Speech, comprehension, and reading and writing of more complex grammatical structures, embedded within a variety of short authentic Persian texts.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 241D1/D2 or ISLA 541D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 542D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA 342D1 and ISLA 342D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 342D1 and ISLA 342D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Students are expected to have knowledge of basic Persian grammar and vocabulary.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 342D2. Lower Intermediate Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 342D1 and ISLA 241D1/D2 or ISLA 541D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 342D1 and ISLA 342D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 443D1. Upper Intermediate Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to authentic texts about Persian culture, history, geography, politics, arts, and other topics relevant to Iran, as well as canonical poems of various modern and classical poets, and selected Persian proverbs and their meanings and connotations.
- Fall
- Prerequisite: ISLA 342D1/D2 or ISLA 542D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 543 and ISLA 544.
- Note: Language of instruction is Persian.
- Students must register for both ISLA 443D1 and ISLA 443D2
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 443D1 and ISLA 443D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 443D2. Upper Intermediate Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 443D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 443D1 and ISLA 443D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 545. Advanced Persian 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced level of Persian language study.
- Note: Language of instruction is Persian.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ISLA 443D1/D2, or ISLA 543, or ISLA 544, or ISLA 643D1/D2, or placement test, or permission of instructor.
- Note: Language of instruction is Persian.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 546. Advanced Persian 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced level of Persian language study.
- Note: Language of instruction is Persian.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 545 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Note: Language of instruction is Persian.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
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Minor Concentration Turkish Language (18 Credits)
Complementary Courses
18 credits of Turkish language (3 levels) from the list below.
ISLA 232D1. Introductory Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to speaking and comprehension of basic sentences, commands, statements in the present and future tenses. Introduction to simple daily conversations.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ISLA532 D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA232D1 and ISLA 232D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 232D1 and ISLA 232D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 232D2. Introductory Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 232D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 232D1 and ISLA 232D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 333D1. Lower Intermediate Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Listening comprehension, reading, and writing of more complex grammatical structures, including the subjunctive, future, and past tenses.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 232D1/D2 or ISLA 532D1/D2 or permission of the Institute.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 533D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA333D1 and ISLA 333D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 333D1 and ISLA 333D2 are successfully completed inconsecutive terms.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 333D2. Lower Intermediate Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 333D1, ISLA 232D1/D2 or ISLA 532D1/D2 or permission of the Institute.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 333D1 and ISLA 333D2 are successfully completed inconsecutive terms.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 533D1/D2.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 434D1. Higher Intermediate Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Contemporary cultural texts in Turkish, including literature and media. Reading materials supported by audio visual media featuring modern spoken Turkish.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 333D1/D2 or ISLA 533D1/D2 or permission of the instructor.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 534D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA 434D1 and ISLA 434D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 434D1 and ISLA 434D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 434D2. Higher Intermediate Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 434D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 434D1 and ISLA 434D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 535D1. Advanced Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Language acquisition - advanced Turkish.
- Students must register for both ISLA 535D1 and ISLA 535D2
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 535D1 and ISLA 535D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Prerequisites: ISLA 434D1/D2 or ISLA 534D1/D2 or ISLA 634D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 535D2. Advanced Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 535D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 535D1 and ISLA 535D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 560. Ottoman Turkish
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Ottoman Turkish language, including the Ottoman script, grammar, vocabulary, and calligraphy styles.
- Prerequisites: ISLA 333D1/D2 or ISLA 633D1/D2 or permission of the instructor.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
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Minor Concentration Urdu Language (18 Credits)
Complementary Courses
18 credits of Urdu language (3 levels) from the list below.
ISLA 251D1. Introductory Urdu-Hindi.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to Urdu-Hindi language including pronunciation and reading and writing of either Urduor Hindi script, speaking and comprehension of basic sentences, commands, statements in the present tense.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA551D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA251D1 and ISLA 251D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 251D1 and ISLA 251D2are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 251D2. Introductory Urdu-Hindi.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 251D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 251D1 and ISLA 251D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 352D1. Intermediate Urdu-Hindi.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Speech, comprehension, and reading and writing of more complex grammatical structures, including the subjunctive, future, and past tenses.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 251D1/D2 or ISLA 551D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 552D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA352D1 and ISLA 352D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 352D1 and ISLA 352D2 are successfully completed inconsecutive terms.
- Students are expected to have knowledge of basic Urdu-Hindi grammar and vocabulary.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
ISLA 352D2. Intermediate Urdu-Hindi.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 352D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 352D1 and ISLA 352D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
- Students are expected to have knowledge of basic Urdu-Hindi grammar and vocabulary.
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ISLA 553. Advanced Urdu-Hindi 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Builds upon Intermediate Urdu-Hindi to introduce students to advanced grammatical constructions through reading of longer texts in the Urdu or
Hindi script, conversation, and video/audio cultural materials.
- Prerequisites: ISLA 352D1/D2 or ISLA 552D1/D2 or ISLA 652D1/D2 or equivalent or permission of the instructor.
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ISLA 554. Advanced Urdu-Hindi
2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced study of grammatical constructions through reading long texts in the Urdu or Hindi script, conversation, and video/audio cultural materials.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 553 or permission of the instructor.
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Courses
ISLA 199. FYS: Narrations of the Middle East.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to competing narratives about crucial moments in the history and culture of the Middle East. Reading and discussion of texts drawn from a variety of perspectives and genres, including historical accounts, poetry, fiction, memoir and others.
- Fall
- Restriction(s): Only open to newly-admitted students in U0 or U1, who may take only one FYS.
- Note: Enrollment limit 25. Students who register for more than one FYS will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them.
- Note: Language of instruction is English.
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ISLA 200. Islamic Civilization.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to, and survey of, the religious, literary, artistic, legal, philosophical and scientific traditions that constituted Islamic civilization from the 7th Century until the mid-19th Century.
- Fall
- Note: All readings are in English.
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ISLA 200 Winter 2022
ISLA 200 Fall 2019
ISLA 210. Muslim Societies.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to the different, often disparate, ways in which Muslims live and think in the modern world (19th-21st centuries). Muslim social contexts across the globe and cyberspace.
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ISLA 210
ISLA 221D1. Introductory Arabic.
Credits: 4.5
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to Modern Standard Arabic, including pronunciation and reading and writing of the Arabic script; and speaking and comprehension of basic sentences, commands, statements in the present tense.
- Prerequisites: Permission of the Institute required.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ISLA521D1/D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 221D1 and ISLA 221D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Students must register for both ISLA221D1 and ISLA 221D2.
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ISLA 221D2. Introductory Arabic.
Credits: 4.5
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 221D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 221D1 and ISLA 221D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Students must register for both ISLA221D1 and ISLA 221D2.
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ISLA 232D1. Introductory Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to speaking and comprehension of basic sentences, commands, statements in the present and future tenses. Introduction to simple daily conversations.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ISLA532 D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA232D1 and ISLA 232D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 232D1 and ISLA 232D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
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ISLA 232D2. Introductory Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 232D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 232D1 and ISLA 232D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
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Fall 2019 Winter 2020
ISLA 241D1. Introductory Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to the Persian language, beginning with pronouncing, reading and writing the Persian script, and moving to vocabulary and grammatical structures needed to communicate in simple dialogues, read simple texts, and write simple paragraphs.
- Prerequisite: Placement test or permission of the instructor
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 541 D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA 241D1 and ISLA 241D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 241D1 and ISLA 241D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
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ISLA 241D2. Introductory Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 241D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 241D1 and ISLA 241D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
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ISLA 241 D2 - Winter 2022
ISLA 242听- Fall 2021
Persian Language Courses Brochure
ISLA 251D1. Introductory Urdu-Hindi.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to Urdu-Hindi language including pronunciation and reading and writing of either Urduor Hindi script, speaking and comprehension of basic sentences, commands, statements in the present tense.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA551D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA251D1 and ISLA 251D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 251D1 and ISLA 251D2are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
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ISLA 251D2. Introductory Urdu-Hindi.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 251D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 251D1 and ISLA 251D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
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ISLA 251D Introductory Urdu-Hindi
ISLA 300. Special Topics 7.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Subject matter will vary year to year, according to the instructor. Topic will be made available in Minerva.
- Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
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ISLA 300 - Fall 2021听
ISLA 305. Topics in Islamic History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Subject matter will vary year to year, according to the instructor. Topic will be made available in Minerva.
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ISLA 305听
ISLA 310. Women in Islam.
Credits: 0-3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The socio-legal status, conditions, and experiences of various groups of women in Middle Eastern societies. These features are explored within the framework of Islamic feminism and Western feminist discourses, and the tensions and conflicts between them. The dynamics of seclusion, veiling, and polygamy are explored in connection to Medieval Arab ruling elites as a background to some of the discussions and debates over the status of women in modern postcolonial Arab society. Socio-economic divisions, state policies, patriarchy, and colonialism are investigated as key factors in understanding the modern historical transformation of gendered relations and women's roles.
- Prerequisites::Either ISLA 200 or ISLA 210.
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ISLA 310 Winter 2020
ISLA 315. Ottoman State and Society to 1839.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The emergence and development of the Ottoman Empire from its beginnings around 1300 until the Tanzimat Edict of Reform in 1839. A trajectory of Ottoman history from a small principality to a centralized empire, then to a decentralized governmental structure. In addition to chronological developments, questions of imperialideology and the management of ethnically and religiously diverse communities across a vast territory. Exploration of the place of the Ottomans in the early modern world, and their ideological and diplomatic rivalry with other major empires.
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ISLA 322. Lower Intermediate Arabic.
Credits: 6
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Speech, comprehension, reading and writing of more complex grammatical structures, including the conditional sentence, case endings, and verbs and verbal constructions.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 221D1/D2 or ISLA 521D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the Institute.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 522 or ISLA 522D1/D2.
- Students are expected to have knowledge of basic Arabic grammar and vocabulary.
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ISLA 322D1. Lower Intermediate Arabic.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Speech, comprehension, reading and writing of more complex grammatical structures, including the conditional sentence, case endings, and verbs and verbal constructions.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 221D1/D2 or ISLA 521D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the Institute.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 522 or ISLA 522D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA322D1 and ISLA 322D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 322D1 and ISLA 322D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- ISLA 322D1 and ISLA 322D2 together are equivalent to ISLA 322
- Students are expected to have knowledge of basic Arabic grammar and vocabulary.
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ISLA 322D2. Lower Intermediate Arabic.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite:ISLA 322D1, ISLA 221D1/D2 or ISLA 521D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the Institute.
- Students must register for both ISLA322D1 and ISLA 322D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 322D1 and ISLA 322D2are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- ISLA 322D1 and ISLA 322D2 together are equivalent to ISLA 322
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 522 or ISLA 522D1/D2.
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ISLA 325. Introduction to Shi'i Islam.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Developments in doctrines, legal school, rituals and political thought of Twelver Shi'ite Muslims during early and late medieval periods (centuries VII-XIII). The emergence of the earliest Shi'ite communities in Arabia, Yemen, Iraq and Iran stressing the relationship of the Shi'ite Imams and their religious scholars to the Sunnite Caliphates.
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ISLA 330. Islamic Mysticism: Sufism.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The varieties of "mystical" thought in Islam, primarily as seen in Sufism, its historical development and its place in Islamic culture. Analytical study of major authors, their writings and their central problems.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 200 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 330 - Fall 2021
ISLA 333D1. Lower Intermediate Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Listening comprehension, reading, and writing of more complex grammatical structures, including the subjunctive, future, and past tenses.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 232D1/D2 or ISLA 532D1/D2 or permission of the Institute.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 533D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA333D1 and ISLA 333D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 333D1 and ISLA 333D2 are successfully completed inconsecutive terms.
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ISLA 333D2. Lower Intermediate Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 333D1, ISLA 232D1/D2 or ISLA 532D1/D2 or permission of the Institute.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 333D1 and ISLA 333D2 are successfully completed inconsecutive terms.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 533D1/D2.
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Fall 2019 Winter 2020
Course information not available.
ISLA 342D1. Lower Intermediate Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Speech, comprehension, and reading and writing of more complex grammatical structures, embedded within a variety of short authentic Persian texts.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 241D1/D2 or ISLA 541D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 542D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA 342D1 and ISLA 342D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 342D1 and ISLA 342D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Students are expected to have knowledge of basic Persian grammar and vocabulary.
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ISLA 342D1 Fall 2021
ISLA 342D2. Lower Intermediate Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 342D1 and ISLA 241D1/D2 or ISLA 541D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 342D1 and ISLA 342D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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ISLA 342D1 Winter 2022 Syllabus
Persian Language Courses Brochure
Course information not available.
ISLA 350. From Tribe to Dynasty.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The political and intellectual developments shaping Arab and Persian societies from the rise of Islam in the 7th century until the early mid 8th century, including the major social changes, political revolts, religious schisms, and the consolidation of lasting cultural institutions.
- Restriction: Not open to U0 or U1 students.
- Fall
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ISLA 352D1. Intermediate Urdu-Hindi.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Speech, comprehension, and reading and writing of more complex grammatical structures, including the subjunctive, future, and past tenses.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 251D1/D2 or ISLA 551D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 552D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA352D1 and ISLA 352D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 352D1 and ISLA 352D2 are successfully completed inconsecutive terms.
- Students are expected to have knowledge of basic Urdu-Hindi grammar and vocabulary.
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ISLA 352D2. Intermediate Urdu-Hindi.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 352D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 352D1 and ISLA 352D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
- Students are expected to have knowledge of basic Urdu-Hindi grammar and vocabulary.
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ISLA 352 - Fall 2021
ISLA 355. Modern History of the Middle East.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Assessment of the historical transformation of the modern Middle East concentrating on its internal socio-economic changes, as well as the colonial experience and encounters with the West since the early 19th century. Examination of the historical conditions that led to the rise of nationalism, the nation-state, the Arab-Israeli conflict.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 360. Islam and Politics in Africa
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Assessment of the relationship between Islam and politics in the contemporary Africa through various analytic themes, including political economy, social movement and gendered analysis.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or AFRI 200.
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ISLA 365. Middle East Since the 1970's.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Changes that have occurred in the Middle East since the 1970's, viewed through the lens of themes such as migration, consumerism, war, communications, and ideology.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 370. The Qur鈥檃n: History and Interpretation.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
It examines the history of the codification of the text, its form, and modes of interpretation in both the modern and pre-modern periods. Presentation of different schools of Qur鈥檃nic exegesis, including traditional hermeneutical approaches, and modern approaches such as feminist interpretations of the Qur鈥櫮乶.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 200 or permission of instructor
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ISLA 370 - Winter 2024
ISLA 380. Islamic Philosophy and Theology.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A survey of the most important philosophers and theologians in Islamic intellectual history, with a focus on the theories they articulated and the movements they engendered. The impact of European thought on 19th and 20th century Islamic intellectual history is also examined.
- Note: Reading and discussion in English.
- Note: Reading and discussion in English.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 200 or permission of instructor.
- Note: Reading and discussion in English.
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ISLA 380 - Fall 2019
ISLA 383. Central Questions in Islamic Law.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An integrative view of Islamic law in the past and present, including landmarks in Islamic legal history (e.g., sources of law; early formation; intellectual make-up; the workings of court; legal change; legal effects of colonialism; modernity and legal reform) and a structured definition of what it was/is.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ISLA 200 or permission of instructor.
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Winter 2024 ISLA 383 Syllabus
ISLA 385. Poetics and Politics in Arabic Literature.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Major issues in classical and modern Arabic literature; how poetics and politics interact in classical and modern, popular folktales and high literature, novels and poetry. The politics of translation from Arabic into English.
- Note: Reading and discussion in English.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
- Note: Reading and discussion in English.
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ISLA 388. Persian Literature.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Examination of literature produced in the Persian-speaking world from the mid 10th to the late 20th century C.E. A broad selection of texts (prose and poetry) will be studied in translation.
- Fall
- Prerequisite: ISLA 200 or permission of instructor.
- Note: Readings in English.
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ISLA 388 Winter 2022
ISLA 392. Arabic Literature as World Literature.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Consideration of Arabic literature as part of world literature, including exploration of tensions between reading Arabic literature as local, discrete and self-contained and as part of larger global phenomena.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 410. History: Middle-East 1798-1918.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A study of the Middle East from Napoleon's invasion of Egypt to the end of WWI. Emphasis will be on the emergence of nationalisms in the context of European imperialism; political, social, and economic transformation; religion and ideology; and changing patterns of alliances.
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ISLA 411. History: Middle-East 1918-1945.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The impact of WWI on Middle Eastern society and politics; the British and French mandates; the growth of nationalisms, revolutions and the formation of national states; WW II and the clash of political interests within the region.
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ISLA 415. Modern Iran: Anthropological Approach.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The modern history, social, and cultural anthropology of contemporary Iran.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 420. Indo-Islamic Civilization: Medieval.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The rise of Islam in South Asia in the 8th Century and its subsequent expansion; evolution of Indo-Islamic civilization and its apogee during Mughal rule up to 1707. Themes include state and religion; ruling institutions; political theory, Sufism and the process of conversion, as well as the formation of a composite culture.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ISLA 200 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 420 Fall 2019
ISLA 421. Islamic Culture - Indian Subcontinent.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Survey of Islamic culture (faith systems, literature, music, art) on the Indian subcontinent from the early modern period to the present, with a focus on conflict and relations between Muslims and non-Muslims, and between majority and minority Muslim groups.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 420 or permission of instructor.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 200 or ISLA 210 or permission of the instructor.
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Fall 2022 ISLA 421 Islam in India
ISLA 423D1. Higher Intermediate Arabic.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to advanced grammatical constructions and vocabulary through readings of longer texts in Arabic, as well as conversation, and exposure to video/audio cultural materials. Continued exposition of Arabic grammar, including active and passive participles, conjunction of irregular verbs, and active and passive voices.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 322D1/D2 or ISLA 322 or ISLA 522D1/D2 or ISLA 522 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 523D1/D2.
- Fall and Winter
- Students must register for both ISLA 423D1 and ISLA 423D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 423D1 and ISLA 423D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
- Students are expected to have knowledge of intermediate-level Arabic grammar and vocabulary.
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ISLA 423D2. Higher Intermediate Arabic.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 423D1
- Fall and Winter
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 423D1 and ISLA 423D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
- Students are expected to have knowledge of intermediate-level Arabic grammar and vocabulary.
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Classical Arabic Syllabus Fall 2019 Winter 2020
ISLA 430. Islamdom: Baghdad to Cordoba .
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The course examines the major socio-political developments in Iraq, Persia, Syria, Egypt, North Africa and Spain from the 9th to the 13th Century. Emphasis is laid on the Umayyad Caliphate centered in Cordoba, and the 'Abbasid Caliphate centered in Baghdad, and the rise of important local dynasties leading up to the Mongol invasion. The course underscores the formation of Islamic cultures in distinct geographical settings and the transformation of religious life under new socio-economic conditions. It also explores shifting notions of civil society and orthodoxy.
- Prerequisite(s): Either ISLA 200 or ISLA 350 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 434D1. Higher Intermediate Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Contemporary cultural texts in Turkish, including literature and media. Reading materials supported by audio visual media featuring modern spoken Turkish.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 333D1/D2 or ISLA 533D1/D2 or permission of the instructor.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 534D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA 434D1 and ISLA 434D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 434D1 and ISLA 434D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
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ISLA 434D2. Higher Intermediate Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 434D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 434D1 and ISLA 434D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
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ISLA 443D1. Upper Intermediate Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to authentic texts about Persian culture, history, geography, politics, arts, and other topics relevant to Iran, as well as canonical poems of various modern and classical poets, and selected Persian proverbs and their meanings and connotations.
- Fall
- Prerequisite: ISLA 342D1/D2 or ISLA 542D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 543 and ISLA 544.
- Note: Language of instruction is Persian.
- Students must register for both ISLA 443D1 and ISLA 443D2
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 443D1 and ISLA 443D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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ISLA 443D1 Fall 2021
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ISLA 443D2. Upper Intermediate Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 443D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 443D1 and ISLA 443D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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ISLA 443D2 Winter 2022 Syllabus
ISLA 488. Tales of Wonder-Islamic World.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Reading of literary masterpieces of Islamic world focused on three collections of marvelous tales in Arabic, Persian and Urdu: The Arabian Nights, the Shahnameh, and the Adventures of Amir Hamza. May include film screenings, visual art, viewing of rare materials.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 200, ISLA 210, or permission of instructor.
- Taught in translation.
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ISLA 489. Special Topics 6.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Selected topics in Islamic and Middle East studies. Subject matter will vary year to year, according to the instructor. Topic will be made available in Minerva.
- Fall and/or Winter
- Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
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ISLA 495. World Islamic and Middle East Studies Research Seminar.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Research seminar on topics in world Islamic and Middle East studies.
- Restriction(s): Open to final year WI&MES Joint Honours and Honours students and to others by permission of the Program Coordinator.
- Not open to students who have taken MEST 495.
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ISLA 499. World Islamic and Middle East Studies Internship.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Internship with an approved host institution or organization.
- Restriction(s): Open to U2 and U3 students with a minimum CGPA of 2.7, and permission of the departmental Internship Adviser. This course will not normally fulfill program requirements for seminar or 400-level courses. A letter from a supervisor at the institution must attest to successful completion of the student's tenure (minimum 150 hours). Students attain credit by writing a research project based on and inspired by their internship experience. This research paper is written after the Internship is completed.
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ISLA 501. The Qur'an: Text and History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A study of the Qur'an's teachings, structures, style, and history in the light of classical and modern scholarship.
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ISLA 502. Art in the Age of Empires.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course offers a wide-ranging survey of visual culture under the three Muslim superpowers of the early modern period: the Mediterranean-based Ottomans, the Safavids of Iran, and the Mughals of India. The course will examine the nature of these states and their distinctive and vibrant artistic idiom on a comparative basis. Topics include the formation of imperial ideology and its visual articulation; palaces and court culture; artistic organization, authorship, and agency; patronage, gender, piety, as well as cross-cultural interaction.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 320 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 505. Islam: Origin and Early Development.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The Qur'an, Hadith, the Shari'a and their major themes. The early development of law, theology and Sufism. The development and formation of an Islamic "orthodoxy", the development and nature of competing interpretations of Islam during the Classical Period. Topics: God, revelation, prophecy, the community and the individual and the meaning of history.
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ISLA 506. Revolutions: Arab Middle East and North Africa.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The post-Ottoman Arab world; major socio-political transformations and revolutions in the 20th century Middle Eastern and North African Arab countries; the historical contexts that shaped them and their implications. Interdisciplinarity (anthropology, psychology, sociology, psychiatry, law), effects of revolutionson individuals and societies; the cause of these revolutions; the impact of the modernization/reforms, colonialism and the rise of nationalist movements on them; the diverse compositions and aims of these revolutions; types of social groups and political organizationsand societies that were drawn to these revolutions and why; and the role colonial and postcolonial powers played in them.
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ISLA 511. Medieval Islam, 10th-12th Century.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Socio-political, religious and intellectual developments in Muslim societies following the weakening of the Arab-Sunni Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad during the tenth century. Emphasis will be placed on the historical formation and features of the Seljuq and Buyid dynasties as well as the Fatimid Caliphate in Egypt.
- Prerequisites: Isla 200
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have take ISLA 511D1/D2
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ISLA 512. Art of the Ottoman Empire.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course examines artistic production of the large and long-lived empire of the Ottomans. Focusing on key monuments of art and architecture, discussion will revolve around issues relating to imperial identity, patronage, court-culture, and cross-cultural exchange.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 320 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 515. The Medieval School in Islam.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Schooling in medieval Islamic society particularly in Iraq, Greater Syria, Persia, and Egypt. Sheds light on the structure of learning, aims of education, the life of students including women, and their relationship to their teachers. Illuminates forms of academic evaluation, and looks closely at the "scholarly license" as an accrediting tool delineating its function and scope. Through a set of representative studies on the medieval school, it brings attention to the heated debates surrounding the academic rigor of this form of learning, and the place of scientific learning in it, as well as the historical connection between it and the early European college.
- Prerequisite(s): Either ISLA 200 or ISLA 350 or permission of instructor.
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ISLA 516. Medieval Islam, 13th-15th Century.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The historical circumstances surrounding the Crusades against Muslims in Greater Syria and Egypt. The socio-economic, political, and cultural transformation of Muslim society following the destruction of the Abbasid Caliphate, and the rise of the Ikl-Khanid Mongols in Iran and Iraq, as well as the Mamluks in Syria and Egypt. Emphasis will be placed on the integration of new Persian, Turkish, and Indian populations into Islamic imperial culture.
- Prerequisites; ISLA 200
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 511D1/D2.
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ISLA 524. Advanced Arabic 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced level of the Arabic language study.
- Note: Language of instruction is Arabic.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 423D1/D2 or ISLA 523D1/D2 or ISLA 623D1/D2 or placement test or permission of the instructor
- Note: Language of instruction is Arabic.
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ISLA 525. Advanced Arabic 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced level of the Arabic language study.
- Note: Language of instruction is Arabic.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 524 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Note: Language of instruction is Arabic.
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ISLA 526. Colloquial Arabic.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Dialectical vocabulary and grammar structures.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA322D1/D2 or equivalent, placement test, or permission of the instructor.
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ISLA 531. Survey Development of Islamic Thought.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A survey of the development of the major intellectual traditions of Islamic civilization in medieval and modern times.
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ISLA 544
Persian Language Courses Brochure
ISLA 545. Advanced Persian 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced level of Persian language study.
- Note: Language of instruction is Persian.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ISLA 443D1/D2, or ISLA 543, or ISLA 544, or ISLA 643D1/D2, or placement test, or permission of instructor.
- Note: Language of instruction is Persian.
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ISLA 546. Advanced Persian 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced level of Persian language study.
- Note: Language of instruction is Persian.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 545 or placement test or permission of the instructor.
- Note: Language of instruction is Persian.
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Persian Language Courses Brochure
ISLA 553. Advanced Urdu-Hindi 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Builds upon Intermediate Urdu-Hindi to introduce students to advanced grammatical constructions through reading of longer texts in the Urdu or
Hindi script, conversation, and video/audio cultural materials.
- Prerequisites: ISLA 352D1/D2 or ISLA 552D1/D2 or ISLA 652D1/D2 or equivalent or permission of the instructor.
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ISLA 554. Advanced Urdu-Hindi
2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced study of grammatical constructions through reading long texts in the Urdu or Hindi script, conversation, and video/audio cultural materials.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 553 or permission of the instructor.
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ISLA 554 - Winter 2020
ISLA 555. Urdu Poetry.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Interpretation of Urdu poetry for students with intermediate to advanced-level knowledge of Urdu-Hindi language. Includes advanced grammar topics, cultural and historical background, and interpretation and analysis.
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 352D1/D2 or permission of the instructor.
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ISLA 581. Special Topics 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Selected topics in Islamic studies.
- Fall and/or Winter
- Note: Subject matter will vary year to year, according to the instructor. Topic will be announced at the beginning of the term.
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ISLA 581 Fall 2019
ISLA 582. Special Topics 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Selected topics in Islamic Studies.
- Subject matter will vary from term to term, according to the instructor. Topic will be announced at the beginning of the term.
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ISLA 585. Arab Women's Literature.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Explorations of writings by Arab women. Issues include: translation/reception, gender and genre, categories of knowledge about Arab women, feminist and post-colonial theories/methodologies.
- Prerequisite: ISLA 392 or permission of instructor.
- Note: Readings in English translation.
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