Undergraduate and Graduate Courses 2008-2009

Archaeology
ARCHLGY 112. Archaeology of Early Islam (622 to 900 AD) -- Spr (Northedge, A)

Art History
ARTH 105. Introduction to Medieval Art -- Wtr  (Pentcheva, B)  ARTH 409. Iconoclasm, Iconophobia, Aniconism in Byzantium, Islam, and the Latin West -- Spr (Pentcheva, B)

Anthropology
ANTHRO 143A. Coming of Age: Youth, Power, and Public Culture in the Middle East -- Aut (Monroe, K)
ANTHRO 147. Folklore, Mythology, and Islam in Central Asia -- Spr (Kunanbaeva, A)
ANTHRO 98E/298E. Excavation at Catalhoyuk, Turkey -- Spr (Hodder, I)

Comparative Literature
COMPLIT 127A. Short stories from the Arab World -- Aut (Ellis, M-T)
COMPLIT 223. Courtly Love in Classical Persian Poetry -- Aut (Davis, R)
COMPLIT 248. Afghanistan: Literature and History -- Aut (Shamel, S)
COMPLIT 121/RELIGST 121. God, Lovesickness, Wine: Islamic Poetry -- Win (Bashir, S)
COMPLIT 246A. Literature and Film of Modern Iran -- Spr (Shamel, S)

History
HIST 49S. Slavery, Race, and Society in Islamic Africa and the Middle East from the 7th to 20th Centuries -- Aut (Hill, M )
HIST 85S. Jews, Christians and Muslims in a Mediterranean Port City: Salonica, 1821-1945 -- Aut (Naar, D )
HIST 182. Medieval Islamic History, 600-1500 -- Aut (Yilmaz, H)
HIST 217/317A. Poverty and Charity in Medieval Christianity, Judaism, and Islam -- Aut (Miller, K )
HIST 224B/324B. Modern Afghanistan -- Aut
(Crews, R )
HIST 282/382. The United States and the Middle East since 1945 -- Aut (Beinin, J)
HIST 282A/382A. State and Society in Modern Turkey -- Aut (Yilmaz, H)
HIST 282B/387B. International Law and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict -- Aut (Holzman-Gazit, Y)

HIST 217B/317B. Land of Three Religions: Medieval Spain -- Wtr (Miller, K)
HIST 218A/318A. Muslim Minorities in History -- Wtr (Miller, K) HIST 281B/381B. Modern Egypt -- Wtr (Beinin, J)
HIST 287G/387G. Europeans, Jews and Muslims in Colonial French Algeria, 1830-1962. -- Spr (Ural, S)
HIST 282B/382B. Islamic Thought and Culture in the Premodern Middle East, 800-1800 -- Wtr (Yilmaz, H)
HIST 16S. Vikings, Crusaders, Kings: The Normans and the Expansion of Latin Christendom -- Spr (Miner, J)
HIST 145B. Africa in the 20th Century -- Spr (Petrocelli, R)
HIST 181B. The Middle East in the 20th Century -- Spr (Beinin, J)
HIST 281A. Twentieth-Century Iraq: A Political and Social History -- Spr (Kadhim, A)
HIST 282C/382C. Environmental History of the Middle East -- Spr (Mikhail, A)
HIST 324F. The Caucasus and the Muslim World -- Spr (Crews, R)

International Relations
INTNLREL 150. The Arab-Palestinian Minority in Israeli Society -- Aut (Holzman-Gazit, Y)
INTNLREL 166. Russia and Islam (Dunlop, J )
INTNLREL 206. Palestinian Nationalism, Past and Present -- Spr (Teitelbaum, J)
INTNLREL 207. Tribe, State, and Society in the Modern Middle East -- Spr (Teitelbaum, J)

Political Science
POLISCI 149R/INTERNLREL 175. The Political Sociology of the Arab State: An Introduction to Middle East Politics -- Wtr (Lacroix, S )
POLISCI 245U. Making Sense of Islamic Movements --Wtr (Lacroix, S )

Religious Studies
RELIGST 124. Sufi Islam -- Aut (Bashir, S )
IHUM 68A,B. Performing Religion. Examples to be drawn from Hinduism and Islam (Winter=A), and Judaism and Buddhism (Spring=B) -- Wtr, Spr (Hess, L, Sadeghi, S, Fonrobert, C, Bielefeldt, C)
RELIGST 121. God, Lovesickness, Wine: Islamic Poetry -- (Same as COMPLIT 121A Wtr (Bashir, S )
RELIGST 201/301. Classical Islamic Law -- Wtr (Sadeghi, B )
RELIGST 2N. Theories of Ethics in Classical Islamic Thought -- Stanford Introductory Seminar -- Spr (Sadeghi, B)
RELIGST 101. Islamic Theology, 700-1300 C.E. -- Spr (Sadeghi, B)
RELIGST 220. Modern Muslim Thought: Philosophy, Politics, Society -- Spr (Nanji, A)
RELIGST 224/324. Classical Islamic Texts -- Prerequisite: reading knowledge of Arabic -- (Sadeghi, B)

Spanish & Portuguese
SPANLIT/PORTLIT 157. Intro to Medieval/Early Modern Iberian Literatures -- Aut (Barletta, V)
SPANLIT/PORTLIT 323. Renaissance/Early Modern Seminar -- Spr (Barletta, V)

Language Courses (selected--see http://registrar.stanford.edu/bulletin/60189.htm and other resources)
AMELANG 20A,B,C. Intensive Beginning Arabic -- Sum (Aweiss, S)
AMELANG 120A,B,C. Beginning Arabic, One-year sequence -- (Obeid, K)
AMELANG 121A,B,C. Intermediate Arabic, One-year sequence -- (Salti, R)
AMELANG 122A,B,C. Advanced Arabic, One-year sequence -- (Aweiss, S)
AMELANG 213A,B,C. Beginning Arabic: From Basic Script to Islamic Text, One-year sequence -- (Aweiss, S)
AMELANG 144A,B,C. Beginning Persian, One-year sequence -- (Fahimi, S)
AMELANG 176. Introduction to Ladino: Language, Literature, and Culture. Prerequisite: two quarters of Spanish -- Aut (Staff)
AMELANG 184A,B,C. Beginning Turkish, One-year sequence -- (Ozisik, N)
AMELANG 185A,B,C. Intermediate Turkish, One-year sequence -- (Ozisik, N)
SPECIAL LANGUAGES 192A,B,C. Beginning Kazakh, One-year sequence -- (Kunanbaeva, A)
SPECIAL LANGUAGES 193A,B,C. Intermediate Kazakh, One-year sequence -- (Kunanbaeva, A)
SPECIAL LANGUAGES 238A,B,C. Beginning Uzbek, One-year sequence -- (Kunanbaeva, A)

Other Courses
CASA 148/248. Nomads of Eurasia: Culture in Transition
-- Wtr (Kunanbaeva, A)REES 320. State and Nation Building in Central Asia -- Wtr (Lapidus, G)
REES 35. Self-Determination in Central Asian Cinema of the 1960s and 1990s -- Spr (Kunanbaeva, A)