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1
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July 2nd
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Introduction
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2
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July 3rd
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The Islamic World to 750
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Berkey, pp. 60-90, 102-109
skim 91-101
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How to do a Petcha Kucha Presentation
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3
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July 5th
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An overview of the diversity of people and ideas in Muslim lands
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Berkey, pp. 113-123, 130-40, 152-158.
skim 159-175
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4
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July 6th
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The Break-up of the Abbasid Empire: Primary Source
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Ali Bahrani Pour, A STUDY OF AN UNKNOWN
PRIMARY DOCUMENT ON THE FALL OF ABBASID BAGHDAD TO THE MONGOLS (WRITTEN BY THE DEFEATED SIDE)
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4
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July 97h
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A Worldview from the Crusades to the Mongols
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Cole and Ortega, The Thinking Past, pp. 359-394
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Discuss Research Paper
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5
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July 1010h,
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Ibn Khaldun’s Ideas about the Rise and Fall of Dynasties
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Ibn Khaldun, The Muqqadimah, 263-297.
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Short Writing Assignment Due, How does Ibn Khaldun explain the rise and fall of dynastic realms?
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6
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July 11th,
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New Powers in the Islamic World
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Jonathan Berkey, The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society pp. 177--213
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7
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July 12th,
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The Mamlukes: How can we understand what has been referred to as a slave dynasty?
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A. Levanoni, ‘The Mamluks in Egypt and Syria: the Turkish Mamluk sultanate (648-784/1250-1382) and the Circassian Mamluk sultanate (784-923/1382-1517)’, in M. Fierro (ed), New Cambridge History of Islam, Cambridge, 2010, vol. 2, 237-273
skim conclusion
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Paper topic due: One page write-up
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8
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July 16th
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What did Mamluk Kinship Mean?
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Koby Yosef “Usages of kinship terminology during the Mamluk Sultanate and the notion of the "Mamluk family" in Developing Perspectives in Mamluk History, Essays in Honor of Amalia Levanoni, pp. 12-40
skim 41-75
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What does Yosef mean by the term kinship, and how does he it apply to the Mamluks?
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9
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July 17th,
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Gender Relations and the Mamluks
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Yosseff Rapaport,"Women and Gender in Mamluk Society: An Overview," Mamluk Studies Review, vol. 11, no. 2, 2007, pp. 1-26
skim pp. 26-47
http://mamluk.uchicago.edu/MSR_XI-2_2007-Rapoport.pdf
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10
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July 18th
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Ibn Battutah: A Traveler’s view of the Mamluks
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Ibn Battutah, The Travels of Ibn Battutah, ed. Tim Mackintosh-Smith, pp. 3-41
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What does the travel diary of Ibn Battutah tell us about the social history of medieval Islam?
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11
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July 19th
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Islamic Art in the Middle Period (Student Visit to the Museum)
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Marshall Hodgson, The Venture of Islam Vol II, pp. 501-531
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How does the artwork that you at the Museo di Arte Orientale saw align with Hodgson’s ideas about Islamic art?
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12
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July 23rd
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The Rise of the Ottomans
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Caroline Finkel, Osman’s Dream, chapter 1, pp. 1-21
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Research Paper due.
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13
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July 24th,
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Empire Building: The Conquest of Constantinople and Arab Lands: Putting the growth of the empire within a comparative context.
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Kate Fleet, The Cambridge History of Turkey, volume 2, chap. 2, “The Ottomans 1451-1601: A Political History Introduction, pp. 19-43.
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14
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July 25th
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Istanbul: The Imperial Capital and its Population (Student Presentation comparison with Rome as an imperial capital)
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Ebru Boyar, A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul (Cambridge 2010), Chap. 2
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15
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July 26th
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An Ottoman Traveler, A Description of the Empire.
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Evliya Çelebi, An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels of Evliya Celebi
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As a historical account how do you think that Çelebi’s writings help us gain insight into Ottoman society and/or politics?
Study sheet for final exam handed out
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17
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July 30th
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Ottoman decline: What do we mean by it?
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M. Fatih ᷀Çalişir, Decline of a Myth: Perspectives on the Ottoman Decline, The History School, January-April 2011, Number IX, pp. 37-60.
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How does Çalişir think that we should address the question of Ottoman decline?
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18
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July 31st
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The French Invasion of Egypt to the Break-up of the Empire and the Growing Influence of the European Power.
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M. Sukru Hanioglu, A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire, pp. 20-68, ebook.
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19
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Aug 1st
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Living in the Late Ottoman Empire
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Ulrike Freitag, “Cosmopolitanism and Conviviality,” Some Conceptual Considerations Concerning the Late Ottoman Empire, European Journal of Cultural Studies, pp.
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20
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Aug 2nd
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Final Exam
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