Course Catalog - 2018-2019

     

HIST 382 - CULTURAL TRENDS MEDIEVAL ISLAM

Long Title: CULTURAL TRENDS IN MEDIEVAL ISLAM, 750-1400
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Undergraduate Professional
Visiting Undergraduate
Undergraduate
Must be enrolled in one of the following Class(es):
Senior
Junior
Description: Islamic cultural transformation in the context of caliphal Baghdad and the peripheral regions of India, Anatolia and Central Asia - before and after Mongol invasions. Close examinations of the rise of ghulam states and Turkic sultanates, ideologies of kingship, literature and arts, conversion and sufi mysticism.