HIST 3910 Islamic/Middle Eastern History and Civilization II

This is a continuation of Islamic/Middle Eastern History and Civilization I. The course covers a seven-century span, from the Mongol Conquest and destruction of Baghdad and the Classical Abassid Caliphate in 1258 to modern times in the Islamic Middle East. In addition to the political history of the Islamic World, the course surveys the institutional, administrative, religious, and intellectual changes that were intended to meet the successive challenges facing Muslim society, from the murder of the last Abassid Caliph by the Mongols to the rise of a resurgent Western Europe and Russia that ultimately, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, came to dominate the once powerful heartland of Islam, from Morocco to Central Asia.
Credits: 3.0