Status
O
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
403
Title (text only)
Migration in the Medieval Mediterranean, 450-1450
Term
2022A
Syllabus URL
Subject area
NELC
Section number only
403
Section ID
NELC282403
Course number integer
282
Meeting times
MW 12:00 PM-01:30 PM
Meeting location
COLL 318
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Joel Pattison
Description
This seminar offers an introduction to Muslim political thought. Chrnologically the course ranges from the medieval period to the present. Particular attention will be given in the later part of the coruse to the renaissance of Muslim potical thought in recent years and to the development of politicial Islam, including the work of such thinkers as Said Qutb and Hasan Turabi. We will also study the roots of this renaissance in classical philosophy of the medieval period (Al Farabi, Al Ghazali, Ibn Khaldun, Ibn Tufayl) and the liberal age.
Course number only
282
Cross listings
HIST232403
Use local description
No