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Spring 2013 Comparative Literature: Middle East G4227 section 001 ISLAMIC CONTEXT ARABIAN NIGHTS | |
| Call Number | 21349 |
| Day & Time Location |
W 2:10pm-4:00pm 207 KNOX HALL |
| Points | 3 |
| Approvals Required | None |
| Instructor | Muhsin Al-Musawi |
| Type | SEMINAR |
| Course Description | Prerequisites: No prior knowledge of Arabic language is required. This course questions the popular assumption that the tales of the Thousand and One Nights lack any Islamic content and that their fantastic or erotic dimensions are the only dynamic narrative components behind the vogue. This collection is read against a number of contemporaneous writings (in English translation), including al-Hamadan’s Manama, to discuss issues that relate to market inspectorships, economy, social order, marginal groups like the mad, the use of public space including the hammed, and the position on fate, destiny, time, afterlife, sex and love. The course takes its starting point from classical Arabic narratives, poetry and epistolary art and follows up the growth of this repository as it conveys, reveals, or debates Islamic tenets and jurists’ stand. The course aspires to provide students with a solid and wide range of information and knowledge on Islamic culture since the emergence of the Islamic center in Baghdad (b. 762). Students are expected to develop a critical method and insightful analysis in dealing with the text, its contemporaneous works from among the belletristic tradition and popular lore, its adaptations, and use and misuse in Arabic culture since the ninth century. |
| Web Site | CourseWorks |
| Department | Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies |
| Enrollment | 7 students as of 11:48PM Monday, June 17, 2013 |
| Subject | Comparative Literature: Middle East |
| Number | G4227 |
| Section | 001 |
| Division | Graduate School of Arts and Sciences |
| Open To | Columbia College, General Studies, School of Continuing Education, Graduate School of Arts and Science, Engineering and Applied Science: Graduate, School of the Arts, International and Public Affairs, Barnard |
| Campus | Morningside |
| Section key | 20131CLME4227G001 |
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