SemesterFall Semester, 2017
DepartmentMaster Program in Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies, First Year
Course NameHistory of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Culture
InstructorUZMAN MEHMET
Credit3.0
Course TypeRequired
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
Course Schedule
Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant
Requirement/Grading

Participation and class discussion 35%

Oral presentation 15%

Final term paper 50% (Term Paper due midnight on Jan 13th , 2018)


Textbook & Reference

Selected Bibliography:



Abu-Lughod, Lila, Do Muslim Women Need Saving, Cambridge, MA, Harvard



University Press, 2013.



Hitti, Philip. History of the Arabs, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.



Hourani, Albert. A History of the Arab Peoples, Cambridge, MA, Harvard



University Press, 2002.



Kennedy, Hugh. The Great Arab Conquest: How the Spread of Islam Changed the



World We Live, Da Capo Press, 2008.



Lapidus M. Ira. A History of Islamic Societies, Cambridge: Cambridge University



Press, 1988.



Lewis, Bernard. The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years, Scribner,



1997.



Lewis, Bernard. What Went Wrong?: The Clash between Islam and Modernity in



the Middle East, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.



Lumbard, Joseph E., ed. Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition.



Bloomington, Ind.: World Wisdom, 2004.



Nasr, Seyyed Hossein, Islam in the Modern World, Harper One, 2007



Versteegh, Kees. The Arabic Language, 2014.


Urls about Course
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