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HISTORY (L22)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)FL2018

L22 History 4010Capstone Seminar: Antisemitism and Islamophobia: A Comparative Perspective3.0 Units
Description:The capstone course for Jewish, Islamic, & Near Eastern Studies majors, Arabic majors, and Hebrew majors and an advanced seminar in History. Today's newpapers, magazines, and websites are filled with images and sweeping characterizations of Islam and its adherents. Many of these messages are embedded with symbolic associations designed to provoke concern and even fear in their readers and listeners. One reads and hears that Muslims cannot be--or refuse to be--integrated into European or American society; that Islam has no conception of democratic citizenship; that Islamic law produces anti-social behavior; indeed, that Islam poses a severe threat to Western security and values. To anyone who has studied the history of Jewish-Christian relations in the West since the Middle Ages, many of these charges will appear eerily familiar. Each of these claims, in one form or another, has been directed toward Jews and Judaism in the past, as recently as the 20th century though less so today. One wonders then, whether these are merely recycled tropes, to which identical meanings have been attached, or distinct responses to fundamentally different historical situations? To what extent should the Jewish historical experience influence how we assess and understand the contemporary encounter of Islam with the West? At the same time, Jewish communities and individuals have had their own history of relations with the Islamic world, at times distinct from those of the West, at times deeply entwined. This course, then, has two intersecting goals: The first is to survey Western, mainly Christian, conceptions of Jews and of Muslims--Judaism and Islam--since the Middle Ages, being alert to common patterns but also to important distinctions between the two phenomena. The second is to examine some key episodes in Jewish-Muslim encounters: e.g., medieval Iberia; the early-modern Ottoman empire; Zionism and Arab nationalisms; and the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict. One of our major challenges will be to examine how a body of images and symbolic associations can be deployed against different cultures and social groups, in distinct historical settings, and whether the differences in chronology and context render the two situations incomparable.
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Course Type:IdentSame As:L75 4001  L23 4002  L49 4001  L74 4001Frequency:None / History
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01M-W----1:00P-2:30PBusch / 202 KievalDec 19 2018 1:00PM - 3:00PM1590
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