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Graduate Studies

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1. Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS)

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Courses

ISLA 501. The Qur'an: Text and History.

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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 505. Islam: Origin and Early Development.

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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.
  • 3 hours

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ISLA 506. Revolutions: Arab Middle East and North Africa.

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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.
  • 3 hours
  • 3 hours

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ISLA 511. Medieval Islam, 10th-12th Century.

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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 515. The Medieval School in Islam.

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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.

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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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  • Winter 2019 (Section 001 = Modern Standard Arabic Schedule, Section 002 = Classical Arabic Schedule) 

ISLA 524. Advanced Arabic 1.

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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 531. Survey Development of Islamic Thought.

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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 545. Advanced Persian 1.

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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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Syllabus
  • Fall 2018 

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  • Winter 2019

ISLA 553. Advanced Urdu-Hindi 1.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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  • Fall 2018 Section 001 = Science and Religion in Islam

ISLA 585. Arab Women's Literature.

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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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ISLA 601. Anthropology and Iranian Studies.

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Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Advanced examination of research issues in the field of modern history and anthropology of Iran. Topics will include the social construction of knowledge, politics and society, cultural history and technology.
  • Fall

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ISLA 602. Islamic Philosophy and Theology.

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Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Advanced examination of research issues in the field of Islamic philosophy and theology. Topics will include dialectic, metaphysics, the commentary traditions and 19th century Kalâm.

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ISLA 603. Introductory: Research Materials - Islamic Studies.

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Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Exploration of research materials in Islamic Studies, including intellectual output of Islamic civilization, compositions, Arabic nomenclature, Arabic script and transliteration systems, published and unpublished materials (theses, manuscripts, books printed by lithography, facsimile editions, monographic, serial, e-publishing), websites, databases; major reference books (bibliographies, encyclopedias, handbooks, online/published catalogues, language/biographical dictionaries).
  • Fall
  • 2 hours
  • Compulsory for M.A. students; recommended for Ph.D. students

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ISLA 604. Arabic Manuscript Tradition.

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Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

This course will examine the way manuscript books were bound, transcribed, decorated, collated, corrected and glossed. It will deal with various scribal practices employed in the critical apparatus, including abbreviations, and will provide practical assistance on how to locate and choose a manuscript for text editing.
  • Fall

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ISLA 610. Persian Literature.

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Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Advanced examination of research issues in the field of Persian literature. Topics will include modern and medieval Persian poetry and prose; women in early Qajar Iran, c. 1795-1850.

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ISLA 611. Pre-Modern Islamic History.

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Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Advanced examination of research issues in the field of pre-modern Islamic history. Topics will include Shi'ite doctrine and law (fiqh), the Safivid Empire, and Shi'ites in Iran, Iraq and Lebanon.

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  • Winter 2019

ISLA 613. Women in Middle Eastern/Islamic Society.

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Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Advanced examination of research issues related to the experiences and histories of women in the Middle East and the Islamic world. Topics will include patriarchy, women and Islam, women and the state, nationalism and anti-colonialism struggles; labour, public space and theoretical issues.

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ISLA 615. Modern Middle Eastern History.

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Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Advanced examination of research issues in modern Middle East history. Topics will include the history of Arab nationalism; the history of European Imperialism in the Middle East; the Middle East and historiography.

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  • Fall 2018

ISLA 616. Modern Arabic Literature.

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Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Advanced examination of research issues in the field of Arabic literature. Topics will include women's literature, gender and nationalism in literature, language use in literature and the diasporic literatures of the Middle East.
  • Fall

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ISLA 641 Introductory Persian 
ISLA 642 Lower Intermediate Persian  
ISLA 643 Upper Intermediate Persian 
 
ISLA 652 Intermediate Urdu-Hindi
 

ISLA 670. Islamic Law.

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Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Advanced examination of research issues in the field of Islamic law. Topics will include modernity, gender, family law, and property.

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ISLA 681. Special Topics 2.

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Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Graduate Studies)
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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  • Winter 2019

ISLA 682. Advanced Islamic Politics in Africa

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Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Advanced examination of research issues in the field of Islamic politics in Africa. Topics will include: Political Islam; social movement perspectives; Islam, state-building and civil conflict; the political economy of Islamist extremism, and globalization; informal markets and the rise of the politics of Identity.

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ISLA 683. History of Science in Islam.

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Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Advanced examination of research issues in the historiography of Islamic science. These include: the appropriation and naturalization of ancient Greek science by Islamic scientists; the Arabic-Latin translation movement and the influence of Islamic science on medieval and Renaissance Europe; and the question of the post-medieval decline of Islamic science.
  • Fall

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ISLA 697. Thesis Research 1.

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Credits: 6
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Six credits for accepted thesis proposal.
  • Fall and Winter

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MA Thesis Course

ISLA 698. Thesis Research 2.

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Credits: 6
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Six credits on submission of completed thesis.
  • Fall and Winter

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MA Thesis Course

ISLA 699. Thesis Research 3.

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Credits: 12
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Twelve credits for thesis passed by Internal and External examiners.
  • Fall and Winter

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MA Thesis Course

ISLA 701. Comprehensive Examination.

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Credits: 0
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An examination that must be passed by all doctoral candidates in order to continue in the doctoral program.
  • Fall and/or Winter

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PhD Comps

ISLA 707. Qur'an Exegesis (Classical).

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Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A study of two or three suras of the Qur'an as interpreted by classical exegetes. The suras considered will vary from year to year.
  • Seminar 2 hours
  • Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Arabic

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ISLA 739. Special Seminar.

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Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Special seminar in Islamic studies.
  • Fall and/or Winter

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  • Fall 2018 Autobiography in the Muslim World Syllabus
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ISLA 777. Islamic Philosophy.

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Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Consideration of the development of philosophic thought among the Muslims. Classical Arabic or Persian writings will be used.
  • Seminar 2 hours
  • Seminar 2 hours

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ISLA 788. Special Topics in Islamic Thought.

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Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Selected topics in Islamic thought.

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  • Fall 2018 Philosophical Thought, Jurisprudence and Sufism during the Safavid Period

Internal awards

For a list of departmental prizes and awards, please see the Graduate Fellowships and Awards Calendar at this link:

https://www.mcgill.ca/internalawards/faculty-dept-awards/arts/islamic-st...

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