Graduate Studies

Islamic Studies: A study of the Qur'an's teachings, structures, style, and history in the light of classical and modern scholarship.

Offered by: Islamic Studies

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Islamic Studies: 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.

Offered by: Islamic Studies

• 3 hours

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Islamic Studies: How the basic elements of Islam have been understood in the course of later Islamic history up to the present day. The nature and development of Shi'ism, Sufi brotherhoods, major intellectual trends, Islam in a world of nation states, diaspora. The challenges of modernity and the contemporary world.

Offered by: Islamic Studies

• 3 hours

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Islamic Studies: 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.

Offered by: Islamic Studies

• Prerequisites: Isla 200
• Restrictions: Not open to students who have take ISLA 511D1/D2

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Islamic Studies: 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.

Offered by: Islamic Studies

• Prerequisite(s): Either ISLA 200 or ISLA 350 or permission of instructor.

• Terms
  • Winter 2024
• Instructors
  • Rula J Abisaab

Islamic Studies: 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.

Offered by: Islamic Studies

• Prerequisites; ISLA 200
• Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 511D1/D2.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Islamic Studies: Advanced level of the Arabic language study.

Offered by: Islamic Studies

• 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.

• Terms
  • Fall 2023
• Instructors
  • Shokry A Gohar

Islamic Studies: A survey of the development of the major intellectual traditions of Islamic civilization in medieval and modern times.

Offered by: Islamic Studies

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Islamic Studies: Advanced level of Persian language study.

Offered by: Islamic Studies

• 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.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Islamic Studies: 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.

Offered by: Islamic Studies

• Prerequisite(s): ISLA 352D1/D2 or permission of the instructor.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Islamic Studies: Selected topics in Islamic studies.

Offered by: 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.

• Terms
  • Fall 2023
• Instructors
  • Aslihan Gürbüzel

Islamic Studies: 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.

Offered by: Islamic Studies

• Prerequisite: ISLA 392 or permission of instructor.
• Note: Readings in English translation.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Islamic Studies: 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.

Offered by: Islamic Studies

• Fall

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Islamic Studies: 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.

Offered by: Islamic Studies

• Terms
  • Fall 2023
• Instructors
  • Robert Wisnovsky, Stephen Menn

Islamic Studies: 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).

Offered by: Islamic Studies

• Fall
• 2 hours
• Compulsory for M.A. students; recommended for Ph.D. students

• Terms
  • Fall 2023
• Instructors
  • Rula J Abisaab

Islamic Studies: 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.

Offered by: Islamic Studies

• Fall

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Islamic Studies: 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.

Offered by: Islamic Studies

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Islamic Studies: 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.

Offered by: Islamic Studies

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Islamic Studies: 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.

Offered by: Islamic Studies

• Terms
  • Fall 2023
• Instructors
  • Malek Abisaab

Islamic Studies: 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.

Offered by: Islamic Studies

• Terms
  • Winter 2024
• Instructors
  • Laila Parsons

Islamic Studies: 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.

Offered by: Islamic Studies

• Fall

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

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

Offered by: Islamic Studies

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Islamic Studies: Selected topics in Islamic studies.

Offered by: 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.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Islamic Studies: 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.

Offered by: Islamic Studies

• Fall

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Islamic Studies: 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.

Offered by: Islamic Studies

• Fall

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Islamic Studies: Six credits for accepted thesis proposal.

Offered by: Islamic Studies

• Fall and Winter

• Terms
  • Fall 2023
  • Winter 2024
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Islamic Studies: Six credits on submission of completed thesis.

Offered by: Islamic Studies

• Fall and Winter

• Terms
  • Fall 2023
  • Winter 2024
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Islamic Studies: Twelve credits for thesis passed by Internal and External examiners.

Offered by: Islamic Studies

• Fall and Winter

• Terms
  • Fall 2023
  • Winter 2024
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Islamic Studies: An examination that must be passed by all doctoral candidates in order to continue in the doctoral program.

Offered by: Islamic Studies

• Fall and/or Winter

• Terms
  • Fall 2023
  • Winter 2024
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Islamic Studies: 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.

Offered by: Islamic Studies

• Seminar 2 hours
• Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Arabic

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Islamic Studies: Special seminar in Islamic studies.

Offered by: Islamic Studies

• Fall and/or Winter

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Islamic Studies: Consideration of the development of philosophic thought among the Muslims. Classical Arabic or Persian writings will be used.

Offered by: Islamic Studies

• Seminar 2 hours

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Islamic Studies: Selected topics in Islamic thought.

Offered by: Islamic Studies

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year