Programs
The Graduate Program in Religion
Department of Asian and African Languages and Literature
Program in African and African-American Studies
Judaic Studies Program
Departments of Religion, History, Cultural Anthropology, Philosophy
School of Public Policy Studies, Law, and Business

Degrees Offered
BA:
- African and African-American Studies
– Arabic
- Asian and African Languages and Literatures
- Comparative Area Studies
- Religion (Islam, Judaism)
- History
- Cultural Anthropology
- Art and Art History
- Women’s Studies
Certificate in Judaic Studies;
PhD:
- Religion (Islamic Studies and History of Religions; Hebrew Bible and Semitics; History of Judaism; Religion, Culture, and Critical Theory)
- History
- Cultural Anthropology

Middle East Languages
Arabic (4 years)
Coptic
Modern Hebrew (3 years)
Biblical Hebrew
Persian (2 years, on demand)
Syriac
Comparative Semitic
Middle Egyptian

Courses
African and African-American Studies
Undergraduate
Islam in West Africa
Islam in the African-American Experience
History of Africa: From Antiquity to Early Modern Times
History of Africa: From Early Modern Times to Independence

Art and Art History
Undergraduate
Late Antique Christian Art
Art and Philosophy from West Africa to the Black Americas
Byzantine and Ottoman Art and Architecture in the City of Constantinople/Istanbul
Graduate
Topics in Early Christian and Byzantine Art

Asian and African Languages and Literature
Undergraduate
War, Gender, and Postcoloniality
Introduction to Israeli Culture
Modern Arabic Literature in Translation
Women and Creativity
Women in Arab Literature
North African Culture (Duke in Morocco)
North African Literature in Translation
The Politics of Women’s Liberation in the Arab World
Modern Hebrew Literature in English Translation
Women in Islam: Fact and Fiction
Women in the Middle East
Qur`anic Studies

Cultural Anthropology
Undergraduate
Muslim World: Transformations and Continutities

History
History of Jews in the Middle Ages
The Crusades to the Holy Land
The Modern Middle East
India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh: 1750 to the Present
Graduate
History of Modern India and Pakistan, 1857 to the Present
Modern Jewish Politics
Mughal India
Alexander and the Hellenistic World
Late Antiquity

Philosophy
Undergraduate
Medieval Philosophy

Public Policy Studies
Undergraduate
The Palestine Problem and United States Public Policy
Graduate
United States Policy in the Middle East

Religion
Undergraduate
Islam
Judaism
The Old Testament/Hebrew Bible
Selected Studies in the Bible: Pentateuch
Selected Studies in the Bible: Prophets
Selected Studies in the Bible: Writings
Islam in East and Southeast Asia
Religion in the West
Women in the Biblical Tradition: Image and Role
Muslim Minorities in Society: From Asia to America
History and Religions of North Africa (Duke in Morocco)
The Foundations of Post-Biblical Judaism
Jewish Mysticism
Jewish Religious Thought
Contemporary Jewish Thought
An Introduction to Judaism in the Greco-Roman World
Introduction to Islamic Civilization
Mysticism
Islamic Mysticism: Arabic (Western) Traditions
Islamic Mysticism: Perso-Indian (Eastern) Traditions
Archaeology and Art of the Biblical World
Graduate
Islam in India
Sainthood in Comparative Perspective
Early Christian Asceticism
Heresy: Theology and Ethics
Archaeology of Palestine in Biblical Times
Archeology of Palestine in Hellenistic-Roman Times
Justice, Law, and Commerce in Islam
Islam and Modernism
The Religion and History of Islam
Judaism in the Greco-Roman World
Islam and its World (Cairo, City of Islam)
History and Culture of Islamic Cairo (Cairo, City of Islam)

Faculty
African and African-American Studies
Chouki El Hamel (West Africa, Islam)

Art and Art History
Annabel Wharton (Late Antiquity and Byzantium)

Asian and African Languages and Literature
Miriam Cooke (Arabic, Modern Arabic Literature, Women’s Studies)
Stephen Shechi  (Arabic, Lebanese  Culture and Literature)
Eric Zakim (Modern Hebrew, Israeli Culture and Literature)

Cultural Anthropology
Katherine Ewing (Anthropology of Islam, South Asia, Sufism)

History
Janet Ewald (Sudan, East Africa, Yemen)
John Richards (South Asia, Mughal India)
Joseph Shatzmiller (Judaic Studies, History of Medicine, Economic History)

Philosophy
Edward Mahoney (European and Islamic Scholastic Philosophy)

Public Policy Studies
Bruce Kuniholm (Turkey, Modern Middle East)

Religion
Kalman Bland (Jewish and Islamic Philosophy, Jewish Mysticism)
Elizabeth Clark (Late Ancient Studies, Early Christianity)
Bruce Lawrence (Islamic Studies, South Asia, Perso-Indian Sufism, Comparative Islamic Studies, Modern Islam)
Eric Meyers (Judaic Studies, Near Eastern and Biblical Archeology)
Carol Meyers (Judaic Studies, Biblical Archeology, Women’s Studies)
Ebrahim Moosa (Islamic Studies, Muslim Law in Africa.  Medieval Jurisprudence, Contemporary Islam)
Melvin Peters (Coptic and Middle Egyptian)
Orval Wintermute (Semitics)

School of Law
Donald Horowitz (Comparative Law)

Fuqua School of Business
Helmi Baligh (Islamic Finance, Cultural Studies in Business)

Fellowship and Graduate Support
Graduate students working in Middle East related fields are eligible for departmental fellowships as well as university-wide fellowships, such as the J.B. Duke Fellowship, International Fellowship, and Duke Minority Fellowship. The Graduate Program in Religion has a policy of guaranteeing four years of tuition grants and stipends for graduate students accepted into the program with financial aid. For the past three years, graduate students in Religion, Cultural Anthropology, and Law have received funding from the NDEA Title VI Foreign Language Area Studies program for advanced work in Arabic. These fellowships are granted on a competitive basis by the Center for International Studies.

Additional Information
There is also a program in Judaic Studies. For information, write Kalman Bland at the Center for Judaic Studies.