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Explores the roles of Turks, Mongols and other primarily pastoral nomadic peoples as raiders, migrants, slave-soldiers, and empire-builders in the ancient and medieval history of Eurasia (Inner and …
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This research seminar traces the historical response of Middle Eastern societies and diasporas to Western scientific discourses of race and ethnicity from the 19th century to the present. We examine …
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Comics aren't new, and graphic novels aren't either, but feminists have built a rich array of stories about consciousness, resistance, and coming of age in this genre that warrant scholarly attention. …
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This course focuses on Iranian women’s writing as memoir and testimony. The time frame is the 19th-21st centuries. Poetry and the short story are highlighted as quintessential female forms of …
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The conception of the ahl al-bayt, the family of the Prophet Muhammad, plays a vital role in Islamic history, thought and piety. In the tashahhud portion of the ritual prayers, Muslims of all …
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The focus of the course this term is the work of the Iranian writer Simin Daneshvar (b. 1921). The work covered in this course is available in English translation. The literary works selected for the …
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