This course explores competing conceptions of Iranian modernity within a comparative historical framework on “multiple modernities.” A major theme is the exploration of the temporality and historicity …
Anthropology of the Middle East
This course aims to familiarize students with the anthropological study of the contemporary Middle East. It introduces key questions and concepts for anthropological study: who speaks for the Middle …
The Islamic Revolution
This seminar explores the making of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Framed in a comparative historical perspective on revolutions, it interrogates the cultural and political peculiarities that made …
Geography of Secularism and Islam
Secularism is a key principle of Western modernity and an epistemic framework that shapes our understanding of the political legitimacy of bodies, spaces, nations, and borders in the contemporary …
Postsecular Political Thought: Religion, Radicalism, and the Limits of Liberalism
This seminar in theory examines the postsecular as a series of questions opened by the so-called return of religion to public debate, the rise of politicised religious movements, and the limits of …
Muslim Material Cultures
This course examines the role of things, practices, circulation, space, and embodiment have played a critical role in shaping material forms of religious culture to reveal the historically contingent …