Course Schedule

RELI 419 – Contemporary Muslim Societies

This course presents an anthropological analysis of Islam as a key factor for understanding contemporary Muslim societies. The course addresses the significance of Islam in public and domestic life. Moving beyond approaches that locate Islam geographically, highlighting its particularities and links to local cultural contexts, this course offers a comparative approach to the examination of central cultural, social, and political practices of contemporary Muslim societies. The course examines the ways in which regional, cultural, and historical processes intersect with Islam as a religious, legal, cultural, economic, and political system and provide frameworks for understanding Islam as the globalizing phenomena that it is today.