Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor

Description: Examines various approaches to the study of Islam. Includes textual, ritual-symbolical, historical, anthropological, sociological, and cultural studies. Also explores orientalism and occidentalism, textuality and orality, sacredness and profanity, orthodoxy and het- erodoxy, tradition and modernity, conversion, identity, and media. Utilizes primary works on Islamic scrip- tures, ritual, and societies.

Credit: May be taken Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) with consent of instructor and graduate advisor.