MEDVL 2555
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Classes
MEDVL 2555
Course Description
Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025.
This course will introduce students to the study of sex and sexuality in the medieval and early modern Islamic World, ending at the dawn of the twentieth century; we will begin with the study of desire in pre-Islamic and early-Islamic poetry and end with the study of the impact of colonialism on the family, the home and morality across the Islamic world. Students will read (in English) from the Qur'an, the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, obscene and chaste poetry, erotological works, medical treatises, moral condemnations of sex, legal case studies, erotic stories and travel literature. Students will also engage with modern scholarship on the history of sex and sexuality in the Islamic world. Major topics of study will include: the composition of the family across time and space, the intersection between slavery and sexuality, homosexuality and homoerotic desire in the premodern world, marriage and adultery, questions of consent and sexual violence in law and storytelling, and the discrepancies between law, morality and social practice.
When Offered Spring.
Distribution Category (ALC-AS, SCD-AS) (CA-AG, D-AG, LA-AG)
Course Attribute (CU-ITL)
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 2555, NES 2555, RELST 2555
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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