HIST 535: Problems in Global History

HIST 535-004: Revolutions in the Middle East from Medieval to Modern Times
(Spring 2023)

07:20 PM to 10:00 PM M

Peterson Hall 1106

Section Information for Spring 2023

Why and how do revolutions happen? Social scientists have been offering general theoretical and analytical frameworks of analysis for the “why” question. Historians, however, are more interested with the “how” side of the problem. This history course investigates major mass movements, uprisings, and revolutions in the Middle East from the rise of Islam to the Arab Uprisings of the past decade. As in other regions of the world, Middle Eastern history is replete with social activism. Yet, only a few had a marked effect on the trajectory of history and produced a new order. The course will focus on a select number of revolutions with a major impact, including those undertaken by Sufis, students, slaves, secret societies, militaries, political parties, and sectarian groups. For each case, principal actors and participants, ideologies, main events, reforms, symbolism, and artistic representations will be identified and analyzed with respect to the broader regional and global contexts. Across various Middle Eastern societies, cultural, material, and institutional roots of revolutionism will be examined. While mass movements will be studied case by case, the perennial question of whether Middle Eastern societies are inherently prone to revolutionary activity will be discussed throughout.  

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Investigates selected problems in global and comparative history, covering multiple countries or world regions. Notes: May be repeated for credit when topic is different. May be repeated within the term.
Specialized Designation: Topic Varies
Registration Restrictions:

Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate, Junior Plus, Non-Degree or Senior Plus.

Enrollment is limited to Graduate, Non-Degree or Undergraduate level students.

Students in a Non-Degree Undergraduate degree may not enroll.

Schedule Type: Lec/Sem #1, Lec/Sem #2, Lec/Sem #3, Lec/Sem #4, Lec/Sem #5, Lec/Sem #6, Lec/Sem #7, Lec/Sem #8, Lec/Sem #9, Lecture, Sem/Lec #10, Sem/Lec #11, Sem/Lec #12, Sem/Lec #13, Sem/Lec #14, Sem/Lec #15, Sem/Lec #16, Sem/Lec #17, Sem/Lec #18
Grading:
This course is graded on the Graduate Regular scale.

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