Hebrew University

Program
Institute of Asian and African Studies
Rothberg International School

Degrees Offered
BA
MA
PhD

Middle East Languages
Arabic (all levels, Classical, Modern, Spoken)
Turkish (all levels, Ottoman)
Persian (all levels including Avesta, Ancient Persian, Pahlavi, Middle Persian, Manichaean, Parthian, Sassanian, Sogdian, Classical, Modern, Modern Literary, Dialects, Tajik, Judeo-Persian, Judeo-Tajik)
Armenian (Classical, Modern Literary, Spoken)
Vedik and Classical Sanscrit
Urdu
Tamil

Courses (In English)
Undergraduage (for One year or One Semester Programs)
Foreign Policy of Israel
Ethnic Geography of Jerusalem
Regional Geography of the Middle East
The Victory of Surrender: Basic Concepts in Islam I
The Victory of Surrender: Basic Concepts in Islam II
Ideas and Politics in the Modern Arab World
Society and Politics in Lebanon
Belief and ritual in Early Islam
The Islamic world in the Middle Ages
The Role of International Law in the Middle East Peace Process
Economic Development in the Middle East
Media and Foreign Policy in the Middle East
The Middle East Rapproachment and Coexistence
Eschatological Thought in Islam and the Emergency of the Baha'h Faith
Islam and Other Civilizations

Courses
Undergraduate
Religion of Islam
Arabic Grammar
Arabic: Simple Classical Prose
Arabic: Bibliographical Guidance
Arabic: Simple Modern Prose
Arabic: Auxiliary Studies in Composition and Style
History of Classical Arabic Literature I, II, III
Spoken Arabic
Arabic Syntax
Qur'an with Tafsir
Arabic Classical Texts
Arabic Modern Texts
Translation to Arabic
Arabic Composition
Arabic Calligraphy and Manuscript Readings
Classical Arabic Poetry
Arabic Seminar
History of Modern Arabic Literature
Modern Arabic Poetry
Applied Arabic Language
Islamic Civilization
History of Muslim Countries (Medieval or Modern Period)
Iranian Studies (Muslim Iran)
Jewish Philosophy
Development of Religion of Islam
Political and Social Institutions in Islam
Islamic Art
Religious Texts (Qur'an, Tafsir Hadith, Creed and Theology, Law, Mysticism, Sects)
Geographical, Historical and Political Texts
Islam and Judaism
History of Philosophy and/or Sciences in Islam
Islam in Modern Period
Islam Outside the Middle East
History of Islamic Peoples in Middle Ages
History of Arabic Literature
Middle East in Early Middle Ages
Elementary Classical Arabic Prose
Advanced Classical Arabic Prose
Ottoman Empire and Its Institutions until the 18th Century
Guided Reading of Eastern Literature
Syria and Eretz Israel under Muslim Rule until Crusades
Medieval Arabic Historians and Geographers
Selected Topics in Medieval History of the Middle East
Middle East in Later Middle Ages
Introduction to Medieval Historical and Geographical Literature of Muslim Countries
Eretz Israel, Syria or Egypt under Ottoman Rule in 18th and 19th Centuries
Selected Problems in History of Islam in the Middle Ages
General Problem of Modern Middle East (Nationalism, Governments, or Social Problems)
Religious and Ethnic Minorities in Modern Middle East
History of Iran, Muslim Central Asia, Muslim India or North Africa
One of the Arab Countries, Turkey or Iran in the Modern Period
Ottoman Empire from Beginning of Westernization in 18th Century
Economics of the Middle East (for non-economists)
Great Powers and Middle East (The Eastern Question, Oil, etc)
Social and Ideological Development of Middle Eastern Nations
Islamic Historiography
Topics in History and Culture of Islam
Development of Government and Social Institutions in Muslim Countries
A General Problem of the Middle East in Modern Times (Nationalism, Minorities, Governments, etc)
Readings in Arabic Texts for History of the Muslim Countries under Ottoman Rule
Trends in Philosophical, Religious and Ideological Development of Muslim Countries
Introduction to Iranian Linguistics
Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics
Introduction to Indian Linguistics
History of Iran
Introduction to Iranian Religion
History of Iranian Literature
Introduction to Iranian Art
History of Armenian Literature
History of Armenian People
Classical Persian Prose
Classical Persian Poetry
Modern Persian Prose and/or Poetry
Tajik Literature
Texts from Persian Literature in India
Introduction to Islam
Studies in Shi'ism
Sufism
Ancient Iranian Religion
History of Iranian or Armenian Literature
Persian Literature in India
Geography of Iran
History of Iran in Ancient, Medieval or Modern Period
Introduction to History of Music in Iran
Selected Islamic Studies
Classical Armenian Grammar
Classical Armenian Texts
Monograph Courses in Study of Literature or Language
Armenian Paleography
Modern Armenian Texts
History of Armenia
Introduction to Culture of Armenian People
Armenian Literature
History of Byzantine Period
History of Armenian Art
History of Caucasia
History of the Eastern Church
History of the Ottoman Period

Graduate
Arabic Modern Theoretical Texts
Arabic Modern Prose
History of Modern Arabic Literature
History of Classical Arabic Literature or Historical Texts in Classical Arabic
History of Modern Arabic Literature
Problems in Arabic Language or Literature
Arabic Classical Texts (participation in a classical poetry exercise is required)
Modern Texts (participation in a modern poetry exercise is required)
Translation into Arabic
Written Arabic Composition and Summaries
Calligraphy and Manuscript Reading
Religion of Islam (General Survey)
History of Muslim Countries in the Middle Ages (including regional topics on North Africa, India, Africa)
History of Arabic Literature
History of Islamic Art
Exercise in Reading Translated Source Material on Islamic Culture
Seminar on Islam in Contact with One Other Civilization
Middle East until the Crusades
Historical Analysis of Medieval Arabic Texts: Egypt, Syria and Palestine, Iraq and Persia
Topics in General History of the Middle Ages
Two Studies of a Selected Problem Pertaining to Socio-Economic History of One Muslim Country in Middle Ages
Ethnic and Religious Minorities under Muslim Rule in Middle Ages
Persian Sources for Eastern Section of Muslim World
Andalusia and/or Maghrib in Middle Ages
Middle East between 13th and 18th Centuries (Source Analysis)
Arabic Epigraphy and/or Papyrology
Maghrib during Ottoman Period
Critical Reading and Analysis of Arabic, Persian, or Turkish Historical Sources for the Middle East
Social History of Middle East
Political History of Middle East
History of Middle Eastern Thought
Israel-Arab Relations
Topics in History of Medieval Islam
Middle East in Ottoman Period
Reading of Turkish Sources for History and Institutions of Ottoman Empire
Selected Chapters from Ottoman or Modern Turkish Literature (Advanced)
Introduction to Ottoman Diplomacy (Reading of Turkish Documents)
Reading of Arabic or Persian Sources for History of Middle East
Topics in History of Modern Turkey
Topics in History of Medieval Islam
Religion of Islam and its Development
Middle East during Early Middle Ages
Middle East during Later Middle Ages
Selected Topics in History of Middle East during Middle Ages
Readings in Judeo-Arabic Texts
Prophecy in Islamic Tradition
Study of Classical Arabic Rhetoric
Hispano-Arabic Poetry
Shi'ite Texts
Readings from al-Kitab by Sibawayhi
Revolutionary Trends in Modern Arabic Poetry
Studies in Modern Judeo-Arabic Texts and Recordings
Modern Egyptian Fiction
Islamic World in Medieval Times and its Bordering Countries
Persian Historiography of Middle Ages
Persian Sources for History of Islam in Medieval Times
Reading of Epigraphical and Papyrological Sources for History of Islam in Medieval Times
The Hajj, its Development and Laws
Research and Theories about History of Modern Egyptian Society
Social and Economic Problems in Ottoman Empire in the 16th and 17th Century
Arab Positions in Arab-Israeli Conflict
Arabic and Turkish Sources for History of Jerusalem under Ottoman Rule
Druze Family: Social and Legal Aspects
Artistic Interrelation between World of Islam and Other Civilizations
Islam and Politics
The Encounter of Islam with Central Asia: The First 1,000 Years
The Palestinians
The Economics of Peace-Making in the Middle East
Muslim Women Reflected: Readings on Gender in Middle Eastern History
Regional Security in the Middle East: A Comparative Perspective Iran and the Islamic Revolution

Summer Courses
Arabic (all levels, Classical, Modern, Spoken)
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Religious Civilizations and Political Impications
Jews and Arabs in Conflict: Encounter between Identities in Conflict
Strategic and Political Aspects of the Middle East Conflict
War, Peace, and International Terrorism in the Middle East
Politics, Religion, and Culture in Arabic and Persian Fiction
The Middle East: Past and Present

Faculty
Arabic Language and Literature
R. Amitai
A. Arazi (old Arabic poetry and poetics, the poetic of Epistles)
M. Bar-Asher (Shi'i exegesis of the Qur'an)
H. Ben-Shammai (Jewish and Islamic medieval philosophy, Judeo-Arabic Biblical exegesis, Karaism, Qur'an exegesis)
Y. Friedmann (classical Islam, Islam in India and Pakistan)
H. Gerber
J. Glass
I. Hasson (Islamic history, particulary the period of transition between Jahiliyya and Islam, Jerusalem in Islam)
S. Hopkins (Semitic languages, Arabic linguistics, Neo-Aramaic dialects)
E. Kohlberg (Shi'ite literature, religion and history, martyrdom and self-sacrifice in Islam)
M. Lecker (early Islamic literature, early Islamic history)
A. Levin (ancient Arabic grammar: terminology and theory, history of the Arabic language, modern Arabic dialects)
J. Macy
Z. Maghen
M. Medzini
B. Miller
M. Milson (modern Egyptian fiction, Najib Mahfuz as a novelist and a moralist)
S. Moreh (modern Arabic literature, the influence of classical Arabic literature on modern Arabic literature, history of Arabic theatre from the rise of Islam to the end of the nineteenth century, Jewish writers, poets and journalists in the Arab world, Jewish theatre in the Arab world, Arabic literature in Israel, bibliography of modern Arabic literature)
C. Naveh
M. Nisan
O. Othman
L. Polliack
R. Sabel
S. Sapir
S. Shahvar
M. Sharon
S. Sitton
S. Stroumsa (medieval Islamic philosophy and theology, Jewish thought in the Middle Ages, medieval anti-Christian Jewish polemics in Arabic, intellectual heresy in Islam)
A. Tovias
J. Weiner

Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
M. Abir (the Persian Gulf, Pan-Arabism and the United States Mid-Eastern policy, oil and social change in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia, government, society and internal and external policies)
R. Amitai-Preiss (history of the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt and Syria: military society, historiography, epigraphy, Palestine under the Mamluks
the Ilkhanid (Mongol) State in Iran: Mongol society and institutions, war with the Mamluks)
A. Cohen 16^th century Jerusalem, political parties in the West Bank pre-1967
A. Elad (early history of the Abbasid Caliphate, history of Palestine during the early Islamic period, particularly Jerusalem)
Y. Friedmann (Classical Islam, Islam in India and Pakistan)
H. Gerber (Ottoman empire, effect of the Ottoman Empire on the modern Middle East, political sociology of the modern Middle East)
M. Hoexter (social and economic history of Ottoman, Algeria and Palestine)
R. Israeli (Islam and politics, Islam in Asia, especially China)
F. Klein-Franke (Greek legacy of Islam, history of sciences and medicine in Islam)
E. Landau-Tasron (early Islamic history, pre-and early Islamic tribal society, Muslim historiography and hadith)
A. Layish (custom and Shari`a in Libyan tribal society in processes of sedentarization, the Muslim waqf in late Ottoman Palestine and in Israel)
N. Levtzion (history of Islam, history of Africa)
M. Ma'oz (political and social history of Syria and Palestine, religious and ethnic communities in the Middle East)
R. Milstein Islamic painting
Y. Porath (political, cultural and social history of the modern Middle East)
R. Roded (women in the Islamic biographic collections from Ibn Sa'd to who's who)
M. Rosen-Ayalon (Islamic art and archaeology)
M. Sharon (history of early Islam, especially the emergence of the Shi'a, Arabic epigraphy, the inscription in Sinai and the Holy Land)
F. Stewart Linguistics in the Middle East, Bedouin customary law

Chairs
S. Kaplan, Institute of Asian and African Studies
Y. Hasson, Department of Arabic Language and Literature
R. Amltai, Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

Scholarships/Graduate Support
Various scholarships are available. American students should contact:

Office of Academic Affairs
American Friends of the Hebrew University
11 East 69th Street
New York, NY 10021
212-472-2288
fax: 212-517-4548
hebrewu@compuserve.com

Other undergraduate students should contact:
undergrad@roth.hul.huji.ac.il
Other graduate students should contact:
graduate@roth.hul.huji.ac.il

Inquiries
In Israel:
Admission Office
Boyar Building, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905
Fax number: 972-2-582-7078
Phone: 972-2-588-2607
admissions@roth.hul.huji.ac.il

All American students should contact the New York office
http://overseas.huji.ac.il

In U.S.A.:
Office of Academic Affairs:
American Friends of the Hebrew University
11 East 69th Street
New York, NY 10021
212-472-2288
fax: 212-517-4548
hebrewu@compuserve.com

Undergraduate Programs
Amanda Stang

Graduate Programs:
Karen Katz

Office of Academic Affairs :
American Friends of the Hebrew University
11 East 69th Street
New York NY 10021
212-472-2288
fax 212-517-4548
hebrewu@compuserve.com

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 08, 2004