The course examines the principal social, cultural, economic and political features of the Muslim world from the late sixth to the early sixteenth centuries. It focuses on the geo-strategic and cultural conditions that attended the rise of the new monotheistic faith of Islam; the formation and evolution of classical and medieval Muslim institutions; the local diversities within the unifying systems of Muslim beliefs, law, and administration; the material and intellectual exchanges and interactions between the Muslim world and non-Muslim communities and polities; and Muslim reactions to the Crusades and the Mongol invasions of the eleventh-thirteenth centuries.
This course meets the general education requirement in History for College students when taken in combination with a LATE introductory-level history course (HIST 002, 006, or 034).
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
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