16 courses with the subject RELI, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
Effective Date 07/29/2011 This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Islam
Effective Date 01/01/2023 Jewish and Muslim communities share a complex history of interaction, spanning from seventh-century Arabia to the present day, and including instances of collaboration as well as moments of violence. Our course examines this dynamic relationship through documentary and literary sources. We focus on points of contact between Muslims and Jews in contexts ranging from battlefields to universities, from religious discourse to international politics.
Effective Date 03/01/2009 Studies the Irano-Semitic background, Arabia, Muhammad and the Qur’an, the Hadith, law and theology, duties and devotional practices, sectarian developments, and Sufism.
Effective Date 01/01/2016 Global Islam traces the development of political Islamic thought from Napoleons invasion of Egypt in 1798 to the Arab Spring in 2010 and its aftermath in the Middle East.
Effective Date 08/01/2017 Surveys Islamic history from the “age of the great empires” (Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal) to the colonial period and up to the present day, including Islam in America. Islamic life and thought will be examined from multiple angles – including popular piety and spirituality, philosophy and theology, law, gender, art, architecture, and literature – with particular attention paid to the rise of modern Islamic “fundamentalist” movements.
Effective Date 01/01/2026 This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Islam
Effective Date 01/01/2026 How have Christians and Muslims learned from and disagreed with each other? Focusing on the premodern Middle East, this course examines the encounters of Christians and Muslims in areas ranging from scripture to ethics and from law to mysticism. Students gain an understanding of fundamental aspects of Christian and Islamic thought, as well as the areas of conflict and resolution that shape Christian and Muslim life down to the present day.
Effective Date 08/01/2024 Systematic reading of the Qur’an in English, with an examination of the prophet’s life and work.
Effective Date 08/01/2011 This course will be a historical and topical survey of the development of Sufism from the classical Islamic period through the modern age, paying special attention to the interaction of ideas and the social and political contexts surrounding them.
Effective Date 01/01/2024 Islam began strange and will return to strange as it began. So blessings to the strange ones! So goes a famous saying of the Prophet Muhammad, celebrating the virtue of truth over conformity. This course examines Islamic movements that have sought to push back against religious and political norms of their times. Along the way, we read debates about orthodoxy: what are the limits of the Muslim community and how are such limits contested?
Effective Date 02/05/2018 Prophecy provides the theme for our comparative inquiry into two sacred scriptures (the Qur’an and the Hebrew Bible) alongside the rich traditions of Muslim and Jewish interpretive literature. We will consider narratives about specific prophets, medieval debates between and within Muslim and Jewish communities about the status and function of prophecy within their traditions, and modern theoretical approaches to prophecy
Effective Date 07/22/2021 This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Islam.
Effective Date 01/01/2023 From Islamic states to Muslim secularism, from progressivism to salafism, from Islamic feminism to social conversativism, this course examines a broad range of political thought and practice that emerges from the Islamic tradition. Exploring thinkers and real-world cases, historical and contemporary, students will get beneath the headlines, coming to a robust understanding of the place of Islam in modern politics across the globe.
Effective Date 08/01/2021 This course will survey the history of Islam and Muslim societies in Africa through their arts. Covering three periods (Precolonial, Colonial, and Post-colonial), and four geographic regions (North, East, West, and Southern Africa), the course will explore the various forms and functions of Islamic arts on the continent. Through these artistic works and traditions we will explore the politics, cultures, and worldviews of African Muslim societies.
Effective Date 11/28/2012 This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Islam
Effective Date 02/23/2015 This topical course provides upper level undergraduate students in Religious Studies an opportunity for advanced coursework in Islam
Source: University of Virginia-Main Campus's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
