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Winter 2026 | Monday 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

The Making of the Modern Middle East: Islamic History 1300-2000

HISB64H3 S: LEC01

Undergraduate

Department of Historical & Cultural Studies (History, Religion)
University of Toronto at Scarborough (UTS)
Room: KW Room Information available on ACORN
Marika Sardar

This course explores the political and cultural history of early modern and modern Muslim societies including the Mongols, Timurids, Mamluks, and the Gunpowder empires (Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals). It concludes with the transformations in the Middle East in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: European colonialism, modernization, and the rise of the nation-states. Pre-1800 course Medieval Area