Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: OTTOMANS, SAFAVIDS, AND MUGHALS: ISLAMIC EMPIRES OF THE EARLY MODERN WORLD

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This class explores the cultural, religious, economic and political values and institutions of the premodern empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals. Sharing a common Central Asian Turco-Mongol Muslim inheritance, each developed distinctive methods for rule over diverse subject populations, while retaining their common aesthetic, political and social values.