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May 02, 2024
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RLST189K PO - Muslim (Auto)biographiesWhen Offered: Spring 2022
Instructor(s): A. Agah
Credit: 1
First and secondhand accounts of the lives of Muslims, from the famous to the unfamiliar, will provide a glimpse into what it means to be Muslim. The accounts take the form of poetry, personal essays, hagiographies, biographies, autobiographies, films, documentaries. These various expressive mediums will function as a way of exploring how Muslims shape what Islam looks like as a lived religion. These texts will also be read for how local, global, cultural, and other contexts impact the ways Islam and Muslim identity transform and are perceived. In addition to weekly class discussions, students will offer short reflective writings on the readings and produce a final biographical work on a Muslim figure of their choosing. Students will gain an understanding of Islam as a social phenomenon that is shaped by its practitioners within diverse social, political, and historical contexts.
Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
Area 3
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