Middle Eastern Studies

2026-2027

131 courses

NEHC 10101Introduction to the Middle East
NEHC 11040Encountering the Qur'an: Scripture, History, and Reception
NEHC 12006Jewish Civilization III - Jewish Spaces and Places, Imagined and Real
NEHC 16107Moving Objects, Dispersed Cultures: Case Studies from China and the Middle East
NEHC 17203Jewish History 1860 to the Present
NEHC 20004Ancient Near Eastern Thought and Literature I: Mesopotamian Literature
NEHC 20005Ancient Near Eastern Thought & Literature II: Anatolian Lit
NEHC 20006Ancient Near Eastern Thought & Literature III: Ancient Egyptian Literature
NEHC 20011Ancient Empires I: The Hittite Empire
NEHC 20012Ancient Empires II: The Ottoman Empire
NEHC 20013Ancient Empires III :The Egyptian Empire of the New Kingdom
NEHC 20014Ancient Empires IV: the Achaemenid Empire
NEHC 20015Ancient Empires V: The Umayyad
NEHC 20016Ancient Empires VI: The Assyrian Empire
NEHC 20018Ancient Empires VIII: Arabia and the Arabs - on the edge of empire (3000 BCE to the 7th century CE)
NEHC 20022Documentary Cultures in Early Islamicate Societies
NEHC 20028Sounding Israel/Palestine
NEHC 20034From the Harem to Helem: Gender and Sexuality in the Modern Middle East
NEHC 20036Travel and Exploration in the Global Middle Ages
NEHC 20038Arabic and Society in the Modern Levant
NEHC 20039Praise, Power, and Patronage in the Middle East
NEHC 20040Eat, Pray, Tax: How the Middle East Shaped the World
NEHC 20043The Formative Period in Shi'ite Islam: Readings in the Primary Sources
NEHC 20050Introduction to Hadith Literature
NEHC 20070Imperial Ways of Knowing: Mughals and Ottomans
NEHC 20090Introduction to Classical Arabic Literature (In Translation)
NEHC 20110Media Islam
NEHC 20114Love, Sex, Desire in Middle Eastern Literatures
NEHC 20116Modern Middle East: Three Centuries of Syrian History
NEHC 20121Ancient Israel in the Bible and in Archaeology
NEHC 20122Eastern Christianity: The First Thousand Years
NEHC 20130Textual Amulets in the Ancient Mediterranean
NEHC 20150Mormons and Armenians in the modern Middle East: Conversion, Persecution, and Immigration
NEHC 20160Central Asia Past and Present/From Alexander the Great to Al Qaeda
NEHC 20200Ancient Egyptian History
NEHC 20201Islamicate Civilization I: 600-950
NEHC 20202Islamicate Civilization II: 950-1750
NEHC 20203Islamicate Civilization III: Empire & Everyday Life in the Modern Middle East
NEHC 20204Islamic Intellectual History
NEHC 20210Greek and Near Eastern Creation Stories
NEHC 20228History of Jews in the Middle East
NEHC 20231Hebrew: Modernity and Nationalism
NEHC 20271Islamic Education in West Africa
NEHC 20290Media and Social Change in the Middle East
NEHC 20300Readings in Islamic Law
NEHC 20340The Eastern Question, 1806-1914
NEHC 20350Bordering the Middle East: Imperial State-building and its Legacies
NEHC 20410Research Methods and the Academic Study of Islam
NEHC 20430Hadith Literature: Authenticity, Authority, Reception
NEHC 20471Readings in Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed
NEHC 20504Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
NEHC 20511The Beginnings of Islam
NEHC 20568Balkan Folklore
NEHC 20573The Burden of History: The Nation and Its Lost Paradise
NEHC 20601Islamic Thought and Literature I
NEHC 20602Islamic Thought and Literature II
NEHC 20603Islamic Thought & Lit III - Education, Students and Protests in the modern MENA
NEHC 20607Islamic Thought and Literature III: Environmental History of the Modern Middle East
NEHC 20630Introduction to Islamic Philosophy
NEHC 20645History of the Fatimid Caliphate
NEHC 20692Armenian History through Art and Culture
NEHC 20718Lost Languages and Decipherment
NEHC 20721Iran: An Ancient Empire
NEHC 20765Introduction to the Musical Folklore of Central Asia
NEHC 20802Empires and Peoples: Ethnicity in Late Antiquity
NEHC 20808Biography of the Prophet Muhammad
NEHC 20838Further Topics in Late Ottoman History-1
NEHC 20866Commerce and State in the Ottoman Empire
NEHC 20893Sem: WWI in the Ottoman Empire-1
NEHC 20911Prophets in Jewish and Islamic Traditions
NEHC 21002Greece and the Balkans in the Age of Nationalism
NEHC 21355Diaspora, Language, Identity: North African Literature and Film
NEHC 21780Poetry of the Hebrew Bible
NEHC 22010Jewish Civilization I: Ancient Beginnings to Medieval Period
NEHC 22011Jewish Civilization II: Early Modern Period to 21st Century
NEHC 22020Interrogating Gender, Power, and Agency: How Women Change the World beyond the West?
NEHC 22110American Islam
NEHC 22115Iconoclasm
NEHC 22308Phoenician Religion (In Their Own Words And Those of Their Neighbors)
NEHC 22502Persian Literary Translation Through the Translation of Hafez