Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: ISLAM AND THE WEST

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar explores issues of contact and exploration between Western and Islamic worlds, from the Crusades to the modern era. Investigations will explore how identities are formed and reshaped through interaction with other cultures and how traditions "invented" by relationships between civilization and despotism, freedom and tyranny, religious tolerance and holy war.