Spring 2023 Comparative Literature: Middle East GU4241 section 001

SUFISM: PRIMARY TEXTS/CONTEXTS

SUFISM: PRIMARY TEXTS/CON

Call Number 13078
Day & Time
Location
T 2:10pm-4:00pm
208 Knox Hall
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Muhsin Al-Musawi
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description This course studies Sufism as it has emerged, developed, and assumed its presence in Sufi autobiographies and religious and literary writings. The Sufi Path is traced in these writings that include poems like ibn al-Farid’s Poem of the Way. Sufi States and Stations are analyzed to understand this Path that reaches its culmination in an ecstatic sense of Oneness. Sufism is also a social and political phenomenon that unsettles formal theologies and involves Sufis in controversies that often end with their imprisonment and death.
Web Site Vergil
Department Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Enrollment 23 students (30 max) as of 1:06PM Friday, April 26, 2024
Subject Comparative Literature: Middle East
Number GU4241
Section 001
Division Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Campus Morningside
Section key 20231CLME4241G001