# Current Courses ## expand\_more ![Islamic Architecture](/sites/g/files/omnuum9891/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/agakhan/files/coursesheader.jpg?itok=W3iuKBNC) #### **Spring 2012 Course Offerings in Related Fields** Sort**Harvard Faculty of Arts & Sciences (FAS/GSAS)** **Harvard Courses of Instruction** \[[link](http://www.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/fasro/courses/)\] - **Anthropology 1948**. Historical Anthropology of Israel/Palestine - **Arabic 130b**. Upper-Level Classical Arabic II - **Arabic 131b**. Upper-Level Modern Arabic II - **Arabic 135**. Colloquial Egyptian Arabic - **Arabic 150r**. History of Classical Arabic Literature - **Arabic 160r**. Readings in Arabic Historians, Geographers, and Biographers - **Arabic 170**. Introduction to the Arab World II: Politics, Religion, and Culture from World War I to Present - **Arabic 240b**. Classical Arabic Philology: The Religious Disciplines - **Arabic 241br**. Advanced Modern Arabic Bridge: Language, Literature, and Culture II - **Arabic 246r**. Andalus, Sicily, and the Maghrib in Literary and Cultural Texts - **Arabic A**. Elementary Arabic (*full-year course*) - **Arabic Bb**. Intermediate Arabic II - **Culture and Belief 12**. For the Love of God and His Prophet: Religion, Literature, and the Arts in Muslim Cultures - **Culture and Belief 41**. Gender, Islam, and Nation in the Middle East and North Africa - **Freshman Seminar 48p**. Islam and Revolution: From Algerian Independence to the Arab Revolution - **Government 90da**. Democracy, Alienation, and Muslims in the West - **Government 90sa**. Political and Social Movements in the Modern Middle East - **History 1045**. Crusade and Jihad in the Medieval Mediterranean - **History 2884**. Topics in Ottoman Social and Cultural History - **History 78c**. Islam, Law, and the State: Historical and Global Comparisons - **History of Art and Architecture 120n**. [Art of the Timurids in Greater Iran and Central Asia](http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k83731) - **History of Art and Architecture 222m**. [Architecture in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: A Cross-Cultural Perspective](https://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k81023) - **Islamic Civilizations 105**. Culture and Society in Contemporary Iran - **Islamic Civilizations 183**. Reform and Revival in Modern Islam, 19th -20th centuries - **Islamic Civilizations 205br**. The Satanic Verses Problem in History II - **Islamic Civilizations 219**. Arabic Family Law from 1984-2005 - **Islamic Civilizations 233**. Islamic Modernism III: 1970-2011 - **Jewish Studies 65**. The Jews in Muslim and Christian Spain - **Jewish Studies 103**. Jewish Cultures in the Middle East - **Persian A**. Elementary Persian (*full-year course*) - **Persian Bb**. Intermediate Persian II - **Persian 131r**. Advanced Modern Persian - **Persian 132r**. Advanced Classical Persian - **Religion 1816**. Ismaili History and Thought - **Religion 1828**. Islam in the West - **Religion 1842**. Religion, Gender, Identity: Readings in Arab and Muslim Autobiography - **Religion 2800**. Sources and Methods for Research in Islamic Studies - **Social Studies 98md**. Struggles for Democracy in the Middle East and Beyond - **Turkish 120b**. Intermediate Modern Turkish II - **Turkish 121b**. Elementary Uzbek II - **Turkish 145**. Readings in Ottoman Language and Culture: Early Modern Travel Literature - **Turkish 150b**. Advanced Ottoman Turkish - **Turkish 160r**. History of Modern Turkey through Literature - **Urdu 101**. Introductory Urdu-Hindi (*full-year course*) - **Urdu 102**. Intermediate Urdu-Hindi (*full-year course*) - **Urdu 103b**. Advanced Urdu-Hindi - **Urdu 105r**. Topics in Urdu-Hindi Literature - **Uyghur B**. Elementary Uyghur **Harvard Divinity School (HDS)** **HDS course catalog** \[[link](http://www.hds.harvard.edu/academics/courses)\] - **HDS 2101**. Islam, Feminist Reformers and Gender Justice in Southeast Asia - **HDS 3340**. Knowledge on the Move: Cultures of Science and Religion in the Medieval World - **HDS 3360**. Islam in the West - **HDS 3362**. Reform and Revival in Modern Islam, 19th-20th Centuries - **HDS 3582**. Readings in Islam and the History of Islam in the U.S. and Europe - **HDS 3591**. Arabic Family Law from 1984-2005 - **HDS 3597**. The Satanic Verses Problem in History II - **HDS 3598**. Quranic Exegeses Through History: Themes, Questions, and Controversies - **HDS 3616**. Readings in 20th Century Arab Autobiographies: Muslim, Christian, Jewish - **HDS 3626**. Introduction to the Arab World II - **HDS 3627**. For the Love of God and His Prophet: Religion, Literature and the Arts in Muslim Cultures - **HDS 3949**. Islamophobia in Europe and in the US: The Challenge of Religious Pluralism - **HDS 3965**. Islamic Modernism III: 1970-2011 **Harvard Law School (HLS)** **HLS course catalog** \[[link](http://www.law.harvard.edu/academics/curriculum/catalog/)\] - **HLS 2429**. Islamic Law, Gender, and Human Rights - **HLS 2436**. The Regulation of Islamic Finance **Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD)** **GSD course bulletin** \[[link](http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/courses/index.cgi)\] - **ADV-09116-00**. Cultural Tourism in the Al-Turat World Heritage Site, Saudi - **DES-03409-00**. The Function of Style **Harvard Kennedy School** **Kennedy School of Government course catalog** \[[ link](http://www.hks.harvard.edu/degrees/teaching-courses/course-listing)\] - **IGA-110**. Modern Diplomacy: Peace and War in the 21st Century - **IGA-232**. Controlling Weapons Proliferation - **IGA-651**. Understanding the "Arab Spring" from the Ground Up: Contemporary Events in the Middle East - **SUP-170**. Faith in Action **Harvard Extension School** **Extension School course search** \[[link](http://www.extension.harvard.edu/courses/course-search)\] - **ARAB E-1**. Intensive Elementary Modern Standard Arabic - **ARAB E-2**. Intensive Elementary Modern Standard Arabic II - **GOVT E-1182**. Muslims in the West After 9/11: Between Islamophobia and Radicalization - **GOVT E-1962**. Islam in World Politics - **GOVT E-1977**. The Politics and International Relations of Iran - **RELI E-1555**. Introduction to Islamic Mysticism: The Sufi Tradition **Harvard Summer School (HSS)** A list of **HSS summer courses** will be available online soon. \[[ link](http://www.summer.harvard.edu/courses/;jsessionid=JIKKEOBDNJIB)\]