2017-2018 Academic Catalog 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
2017-2018 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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HST 397 - Women in the Middle East

1 course unit
This course surveys the history of women in the Middle East from the advent of Islam in the seventh century to the present.  We will investigate the role of women in Islam as a religion and examine the range of women’s experience in different periods and places in the Islamic Middle East.  Topics may include the role of women in pre-Islamic Arabia, family law in Islam, the status of women in Islamic societies, Muslim women, and the effects of secularism, nationalism, socialism, and fundamentalism in the modern period.
Meets general academic requirement DE and HU.



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