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This course examines the historical context of the emergence of Islam, its origins in seventh-century Arabia, and the rapid Islamic imperial conquests of the Byzantine and Sassanian Near East and much of the Mediterranean world by the mid-eighth century. We will examine important themes in the formation of the classical Islamic religious, legal, and historiographical traditions down to the early tenth century. Since the majority of the population resisted conversion to Islam during this period, we will also examine how Jewish and Christian subjects of the new Islamic empire were able to retain their distinctive religious identities while at the same time accommodating themselves to interacting with the new Islamic imperial order in areas of politics, society, law, religion, etc.
3 credits of HIST.
9704915421 | andrea.duffy@colostate.edu
Dr. Duffy has been teaching at Colorado State University since Fall 2010, and she has served as Director of International Studies since Fall 2013. She teaches International Studies core curriculum courses as well as courses in European, Islamic, and World History, and Honors. She is a world environmental historian, and her current research examines the social impacts of environmental policy on Mediterranean pastoralists during the colonial era. She has lived abroad in France and Turkey and has studied several foreign languages, including French, German, Arabic, and Turkish.