The History track provides students with historiographical training along with specialized knowledge in one area of Middle Eastern and North African history.
Required Courses
- MENAS core requirements (12 units)
- History Department’s Minor: 9 units of 600-level courses or 12 units of a mix of 500- and 600-level courses (9-12 units)
Elective Courses
- ARB 570: Trends in Modern and Contemporary Arabic Intellectual Thought
- HIST 543: Environmental History of Middle East
- HIST 545: Women in Islamic History
- HIST 572: History of Medieval India
- HIST 579: The Ottoman Empire to 1800
- MENA 517A: North African Societies: History, Culture and Politics
- MENA 522: Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa
- MENA 532: Iranian Culture and Society
- MENA 536: Love, Sex and Desire in the Islamicate Imaginary
- MENA 559A: Turkey: Culture, Power and History
- MENA 580: The Middle East in the Twentieth Century
- MENA 584: History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1800-Present
- MENA 585A: History of the Iranian Plateau, 600-1501
- MENA 585C: A History of Migrations in the Modern Middle East, North Africa, and the Mediterranean World
- MENA 585G: Modern Arabia and the Gulf
- MENA 585M: Medicine and Power in the Middle East
- MENA 585P: Palestinian Culture and Society, 1900-Present
- MENA 590: Women in Middle Eastern Society
- MENA 595E: Struggle and Survival: Modern Middle East and North Africa, c. 1850-Present
- MENA 596D: The Late Ottoman Empire
- MENA 596E: Marxism and the Middle East
- MENA 596G: Islamic Law and Society
- MENA 596H: Shi'ism
- MENA 596M: Middle East: Topics in History and Civilization
- MENA 596Q: Qur'anic Studies
- MENA 596S: Colonialism and the Critique of Modernity
- MENA 696Y: Nationalism and Islam
- PRS 575: Kingship in Medieval Islamic Iran
Coursework should be planned with the advisor and the Director of Graduate Studies.