Arabic Islamic Historiography

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This graduate seminar is a reading-intensive survey of the principal historical sources in Arabic for Middle Eastern social, intellectual, and political history from the 7th to 15th century and beyond. This survey of Arabic texts and their authors includes: discussion of historical and literary documents, methods of prosopography for Islamic thought and civilization, considerations regarding intellectual history, and assessment of historiographical topics of interest.