Islamic Intellectual Culture credit:

3 Hours

Explores traditions of knowledge and culture that shaped Islamic civilization from the seventh to the fifteenth century. Through recent scholarship and translated primary texts, students examine poetry, philosophy, cosmology, mysticism, art, and medicine to understand how Muslims interpreted the world and pursued learning. The course investigates debates on revelation and reason, the soul, sacred art, and healing traditions while developing tools for studying Islamic intellectual culture within broader humanistic and comparative frameworks. Same as REL 280 .