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RELS 26940 - Pop Culture in Medieval Islam

Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
(MENA)
POP CULTURE IN MEDIEVAL ISLAM Partying, music, crime, graffiti, memory-enhancing drugs, clothing in the medieval Islamic world (8th-16th centuries). Introduction to a social history approach to medieval Islam, and a basis for keener interest in Islamic literature, philosophy, history, art, and law. This course is reading intensive and is not an introduction to Islam. [R]