MINOR IN ISLAMIC AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES

Requirements
The minor consists of five courses, which must be taken in at least two different departments. At least one course must be from Religious Studies, and at least one course must be at an advanced level (400 and above).

A. Two core courses are required for the minor:

1. Either of the following two courses:
   
   

   HIST 138	Muslim Societies to 1500
   RELI 180	Introduction to Islamic Civilization (Covers material from the 7th century to 1500)

   
   
2. One of the following three courses:

RELI 181	Modern Islamic Civilization (Picks up where RELI 180 ends and continues to the present time)
HIST 139	Muslim Societies since 1500 (A continuation of HIST 138 to the present)
HIST 276	Modern Middle East

B. There are two subject categories in the minor: (1) Islamic Studies and (2) Middle Eastern Studies. Three of the five required courses in the minor (including the core courses) must be selected from one of those subject categories; the other two courses must come from the other category. Courses in each subject category are listed below.

C. A single language course at the 5th semester level or higher in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, or Turkish can count as a course toward the Minor. Up to two courses in Islamic and Middle East studies at Duke University may count toward the minor, on approval by the Director of the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations.

Subject Categories

Islamic Studies courses:

ART 154	Introduction to Art and Architecture of Islamic Lands (8th-16th c. CE)
ART 450	City as Monument
ART 458	Islamic Palaces, Gardens and Court Culture
ART 561	Art and Society in Medieval Islamic Spain and North Africa
ASIA 451	Orientalist Fantasies and Discourses on the Other
ASIA 452	Muslim Women in France and the U.S.
GEOG 448	Transnational Geographies of Muslim Societies
HIST 135	History and Culture of Hindus and Muslims: South Asia to 1750
HIST 136	History of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh: South Asia since 1750
HIST 138	Muslim Societies to 1500
HIST 139	Muslim Societies since 1500
RELI 064	First-Year Seminar: Reintroducing Islam
RELI 180	Introduction to Islamic Civilization
RELI 181	Modern Islamic Civilization
RELI 218	Christianity and Islam in the Middle Ages
RELI 480	Modern Muslim Literatures
RELI 481	Religion, Fundamentalism, and Nationalism
RELI 581	Sufism
RELI 582	Islam and Islamic Art in South Asia
RELI 584	Qur'an as Literature
RELI 681	Readings in Islamicate Literatures
SOCI 419	Sociology of the Islamic World

Middle Eastern Studies courses:

ARAB 150	Introduction to Arab Culture
ARAB 151	Survey of Arabic Literature
ARAB 350	Women and Leadership in the Arab World
ARAB 433	Medieval Arabic Literature in Translation
ARAB 434	Modern Arabic Literature in Translation
ARAB 452	Imagining Palestine
ARAB 453	Film, Nation, and Identity in the Arab World
ASIA 050	Real World Arabic
ASIA 051	First-Year Seminar: Cultural Encounters: The Arabs and the West
ASIA 455	Arabs in America
GEOG 059	First-Year Seminar: Space, Identity, and Power in the Middle East
GEOG 447	Gender, Space, and Place in the Middle East
HIST 275	History of Iraq
HIST 276	Modern Middle East
HIST 277	The Conflict over Israel/Palestine
HIST 536	Revolution in the Modern Middle East
HIST 537	Women in the Middle East
HIST 538	The Middle East and the West
RELI 343	Religion in Modern Israel
RELI 583	Religion and Culture in Iran, 1500-Present
RELI 585	Religion and Culture of Turkey