PO - Political Science
This course is a broad overview of historical and contemporary cultural context, bridging diverse domains from religion and politics to architecture, music and popular culture. This course aims equally at bringing history and culture to bear upon contemporary global issues that frequently involve the Muslim and Arab World such as universal human rights, peace and conflict, cross cultural communication, and cultural critique. We will examine a myriad of artistic representations from throughout the Islamic World from across the ages in order tt ascertain a deeper interpretation of Islamic Civilizations.