NES 2587 - [Great Books of Islamic Culture]

(GHB) (CA-AS)

Spring. 3 credits.

Next offered 2014-2015.

S. Toorawa.

Islamicate culture has produced numerous works that would make it onto almost anyone’s list of great books. In this introductory/survey course, students read a selection of those books and study the literary and intellectual cultures that produced them in an attempt to deepen and nuance their understanding of Islamic civilization.