2010-2011 Catalog 
    
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HIST 260 - History of the Middle East

Lecture - Lab - Credit Hours: 3-0-3
IAI Code: S2918N
An introductory survey of the Middle East (Southwest Asia and North Africa) history, religions, peoples, and cultures from the pre-Islamic era to the present. The course focuses on the rise and spread of Islam, the great pre-modern empires and their collapse under European pressures, reformists’ attempts to meet the European challenge, the age of colonialism, rise of nationalism, and the move toward independent states in the 19th and 20th centuries, “Pan-Arabist” and “Islamicist” ideologies, the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, and the impact of Israeli and Palestinian nationalism.