Course Number:

Credit Hours:

4

Course Title:

The Middle East and Modernity

Course Description:

Examines Middle Eastern history since the sixteenth century in the light of the current literature on the meanings and trajectories of modernity. Analyzes the processes of transformation in different spheres of social organization (state, family, and so on), the economic modernization paradigm, and cultural expressions of modernity through literature and architecture, as well as the Islamic discourse on modernity, and the ongoing debate on the relationship between “tradition” and “modernity.”