WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS
St. Louis, Missouri

Middle East Languages
Arabic (all levels)
Hindi (beginning and intermediate levels)
Modern Hebrew (all levels)
Persian (all levels)

Courses
Anthropology
Ancient Civilizations of the Old World
Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
Archaeology of the Near East
Greater Central Asia in Crisis
Religion, Ritual, and World View

Religion and Language
Tribes, States and Revolutions
Islam and Politics
Ethnicity, Religion, and Change in the Muslim World
Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literature (ANELL)
Guided Readings in Arabic I, II
Topics in Classical Arabic Literature and Culture
Topics in Modern Arabic Literature and Culture
Topics in Modern Hebrew Literature
Guided Readings in Hebrew
Israeli Women Writers
Israeli Culture and Society
Topics in Hebrew Literature
Imagery in Persian Lyric Poetry
Guided Readings in Persian

Comparative Literature
The Flowering of Islamic Literature, 500-1200
The Literatures of Islamic Empires, 1200-1800
Modern Near Eastern Literatures
Hindi
Beginning Hindi I & II
Intermediate Hindi I & II
Introduction to Indic Culture and Civilization

History
Islamic History, 622-1200
Islamic History, 1200-1800
The Middle East in Modern Times, 1800-Present
The Ottoman Empire
Nationalism and State Building in Modern Middle East
History of Jews in Islamic Lands
Literature of Islamic Courts
Islamic Historiography
Social History of the Middle East
Jewish and Near Eastern Studies (JNES)
Introduction to Islamic Civilizations
Israeli Culture and Society
Gender and Sexuality in Judaism
Topics in Hebrew Literature: Love and Death in the Novel
History of Jewish Philosophy
The Bible in the Jewish Tradition
Studies in Jewish Philosophical Classics
Honors Seminar in Jewish and Near Eastern Studies
Seminar in Jewish or Near Eastern History
Seminar in Jewish Philosophy
Seminar in Jewish Religion
Structures of Judaism
Study for Honors in Jewish and Near Eastern Studies
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Jewish Studies

Political Science
Politics of the Arab World
African Politics
Religious Studies
Jewish History in Antiquity
Intermediate Biblical Hebrew
Biblical Literature: Narrative, Prophecy, Poetry
Islamic Religion: An Introduction
Judaism and the Rise of Christianity and Islam
Contemporary Jewish Thought
Islam in Africa
Islamic Mysticism: The Struggle with "Self" in Islam
Approaches to the Qur’an
Islamic Movements of Reform, Revival, and Revolution
Introduction to Jewish Mysticism
Hasidism
Islamic Religious Traditions
Sufism: God's Friends in Islam
Topics in Judaism
Messianic Movements and Ideas in Jewish History
The Mystical Tradition in Judaism
The Zohar
Topics in Jewish and Near Eastern Studies
Topics in Islamic Thought
Women's Studies
Between Submission and Power: Women and the Family in Islam
Feminism in Turkish Literature: A Critique of Modernity/Modernization

Faculty
Mahmoud Abdalla (Arabic language)
Pamela Barmash (Biblical Hebrew language and literature)
Lois Beck (anthropology, Middle East)
Nancy Berg (Hebrew language and literature)
Henry Berger (history, American foreign policy in the Middle East)
John Bowen (anthropology, Southeast Asia)
Giore E. Etzion (modern Hebrew language)
Fariba Fayaz (Persian language)
David Hadas (Biblical English literature)
Naseem Hines (Hindi language
Gerald Izenberg (modern European Jewish intellectual history)
Ahmet Karamustafa (Islamic thought and Turkish literature)
Fatemeh Keshavarz (Persian language and literature)
Hillel Kieval (modern Jewish history)
Victor LeVine (political science)
Rami Pinsberg (modern Hebrew language)
Joseph Schraibman (Jewish history, culture and literature)
Jack Shapiro (Talmudic literature)
Nargis Virani (Arabic language and literature)
Patty Jo Watson (anthropology, ancient Middle East)

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