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YALE UNIVERSITY
New Haven, Connecticut
Program
Council on Middle East Studies
Departments :
Anthropology
History
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Political Science
Religious Studies
Degrees Offered
BA
MA
Mphil
PhD
Middle East Languages
Akkadian (Beginning, Advanced)
Arabic (Classical, Elementary Modern Standard)
Aramaic
Egyptian (all periods, including Coptic)
Elementary Modern Hebrew
Persian (Elementary and Intermediate Modern, Ancient)
Sumerian (Beginning, Advanced)
Elementary Syriac
Ugaritic
Courses
Anthropology
Traditional Peoples of the Near East
Origins of Cities and States in Greater Mesopotamia
Civilizations and Collapse
Archaeologies of Empire
Environmental History of the Near East
Near Eastern Prehistory
Peoples and Cultures of Africa
Comparative Literature
Postcolonial Theory and Its Literature; Tales of the Orient in Medieval Spain
Economics
Economics of Developing Countries; International Economic Relations
English Language and Literature
Empire and Its Double
History
Religion and State in the Modern Middle East
Historiography of the Modern Middle East
Middle East and the West
International Political Studies
Iran Between Two Revolutions
Religion, Ethnicity and Gender in the Modern Middle East
Islamic Revival in the Modern Middle East
Religion and Society in the Modern Middle East
Shi'ism: History and Development
American Diplomatic History
The Great Powers and the Modern Middle East
Studies in Medieval Intellectual History: Responses to Islam, East and West
Jewish Life in Muslim and Christian Lands in the Middle Ages
Mediterranean Boundaries in the Medieval and Early Modern Period
Readings in Modern Middle Eastern History
The United States and the Arab World, 1800-Present
Readings in Early Modern Middle Eastern History
The Apocalypse in Modern Societies: Motifs and Millenarian Movements
Genocide: Sources and Evidence
Gunpowder Empires: Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal 1453-1797
Religion and Culture in the Byzantine Empire
Medieval Jews, Christians, and Muslims
European Imperial Experience in Africa, Asia and the Middle East
History of Art
Architecture, Form and Function in the Eastern Medieval World
Jerusalem: Site and Symbol
Introduction to Islamic Art
Introduction to Islamic Architecture
Western Islamic Art
Crusader Art
Orientalism and the Colonial Experience: Art History and the Near East
Heaven and Hell: The Afterlife in Art, East and West
Medieval Islamic Art Around the Mediterranean
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Arabic and Islamic Studies
Abbasid Historical Texts
Abbasid Poetry in Context
Arabic Historical Writing
Arabic Literature
Classical Arabic Grammar and Syntax
Elementary Persian
Intermediate Persian
Introduction to Arabic and Islamic Studies
Medieval Islamic Ethics
Modern Arabic Prose
Modern Standard Arabic
Spoken Standard Arabic
Abbasid Historical Texts
Autobiographies
Archaeology of the Ancient Near East
Comparative Third Millennium Urbanization
Practicum in the Analysis of Archaeological Data
Archaeological Method and Theory (the department has an ongoing excavation at Tell
Leilan,
Syria)
Assyriology
Beginning Sumerian
Advanced Sumerian
Sumerian Sacred Marriae Texts
Myths and Epics
Akkadian Seminar: Selected Texts
Dialectal Akkadian: Nuzi Dialect
Hymns and Prayers
Sumerian Archival Texts
Beginning Akkadian
Advanced Akkadian
The Assyrian Dialect
The Texts from Ebla
Coptic and Egyptology
Biblical Coptic: Elementary Course
Egyptian Monostic Literature in Coptic
Nag Hammadi Seminar: The Apochryphon of John
Ptolemaic and Roman Hieroglyphic Texts
Egyptian Rock Inscriptions
Egyptian Religious Texts: Ancient Netherworld Books
Temple Inscriptions: Medinet Habu
Egyptology
Introduction to Classical Hieroglyphic Egyptian
Egyptian Literary Texts of the Middle Kingdom
Egyptian Administrative Documents
Literary Texts in Late Egyptian
Problems in Egyptian Grammar
Introduction to Hieratic
Introduction to Demotic
General Level Courses
(No language prerequisite)
Origins of Western Civilization I, II: The Near East from Earliest Times to the Persian
Empire
The Near East from Alexander to Mohammed
Mesopotamia: Social and Economic History
Origins of Western Civilization: History of Mesopotamia
Origins of Cities in Greater Mesopotamia
The World's Oldest Literature: Sumerian Poetry and Prose in Translation
Ancient Egypt through the Time of Tutankhamun
History of Christianity in the Ancient World
Gnostic Religion and Literature
The Islamic Near East in the Classical Period
The History of the Islamic Near East in the Age of the Crusades
Greek into Arabic into Latin
Foundations of Western Culture
Modern Islamic Thought
Introduction to Arabic Literature
Introduction to Modern Hebrew Literature
Science in the Islamic World
Love, Desire and the Erotic in Classical Arabic Literature
Plato’s Laws in Arabic
Seminar in the Philosophy of Ibn Sina
Islamic Law: Concepts and Controversies
Muslim Conceptions of Power
Biblical History in its Near Eastern Setting
Beginnings: The Ancient Near Eastern Background of some Modern Western Institutions
Northwest Semitic
Comparative Semitics
Readings in Modern Hebrew Prose
Seminar in Ugaritic
Biblical Aramaic
Elementary Modern Hebrew
Elementary Syriac
Classical Syriac Historiography
Political Science
United Nations: Peacekeeping and International Security
The Politics of Resurgent Islam
Middle East Politics
Politics and Economies of the Modern Middle East
Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective
Comparative Perspective on Middle East Politics
Religious Studies
The Religion of Islam
Civilization of Medieval Islam
Gnostic Religion and Religion and Literature
Introduction to Gnostic Texts in Coptic
Islam Today
The Qur'an and its Interpretation
Seminar on Sufism
Seminar on the Quran
Seminar in Islamic Religious Thought
The Theology of al-Ghazali (1058-1711)
Iconography of Christian Art
Islam in South Asia
New Testament/Ancient Christianity Seminar
The Urdu Poetry of Mir Dard
Readings in Arabic and Persian Texts
History of Jewish Civilizations
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the History of Ancient Judaism
Identities of Assimilation: Diaspora Jews and the Pauline Christians
Introduction to the History of the Ancient World: Jesus to Augustine
History of the Christian Doctrine, 450-1650
Seminar on the Qur’an
Christian-Muslim Dialogue
Spanish and Portuguese
Framed Narratives of Medieval Europe
Yale Divinity School
New Testament Interpretation
Old Testament Interpretation
Greek Exegesls
Introduction to Ugaritic
Yale Law School
Islamic Law
Public Order of the World Community: a Contemporary International Law
International Law and Development
International Human Rights
International Commercial Arbitration
Conflict of laws
Faculty
Adel Allouche (history)
Ala Alyrres (Comparative literature and English)
Abbas Amanat (history of the Modern Middle East)
Harold Attridge (Judeo-Hellenic World)
Ivo Banac (history of the Balkans and Eastern Europe)
Gerhard Böwering (Islamic studies)
John J. Collins (Early Judaism)
Adele Yarbro Collins (New Testament)
John Darnell (Egyptology)
Ayala Dvoretzky (modern Hebrew)
Menachem Elimelech (water engineering)
Steve Fraade (ancient Judaism)
Benjamin Foster (Assyriology)
Bassam Frangieh (Arabic)
John Gaddis (cold war)
Maria Georgopoulou (history of art)
Sara Suleri Goodyear (Post-colonial English literatures)
Frank Griffel (Islamic Studies)
Beatrice Grvendler (Arabic Literature)
Dimitri Gutas (Arabic and Islamic studies)
William Hallo (Assyriology)
Frank Hole (anthropology)
Stanley Insler (linguistics)
Kaveh Khoshnood (epidemiology and public health)
Fereshteh Kowssar-Amanat (Persian)
Bentley Layton (Coptic, history of early Christianity)
Pauline Jones Luong (Central Asian politics)
Ivan Marcus (Medieval Jewish history)
Dale Martin (New Testament)
Maria Rosa Menocal (Arab Spain)
Ellen Lust Okar (Middle Eastern politics)
Ashgar Rasthegar (Medical School)
Michael Reisman (international law)
Robert Ritner (Egyptology)
Lamin Sanneh (African Islam)
William K. Simpson (Egyptology)
Gaddis Smith (American foreign policy)
Neta Stahl (modern Hebrew)
Harvey Weiss (archaeology)
Robert Wilson (Old Testament)
Chair/Directors
Jon Butler, History
Carlos Eire, Religious Studies
Andrew Hill, Anthropology
Dimitris Gutas, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Abbas Amanat, Council on Middle East Studies
Gustav Ronis, Yale Center for International and Area Studies
Scholarships/Graduate Support
University fellowships, teaching fellowships
Bildner Israel and Jewish Studies travel fellowship
Special Features
Council on Middle East Studies
The Council on Middle East Studies, at the Yale Center for International and Area
Studies, coordinates activities among the various departments of Yale University offering
courses related to the Middle East. The Council collaborates on joint projects with
other Councils and programs of YCIAS and with professional schools within the University
such as the School of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, Divinity, Law and Medical
Schools.
The Council also acts as the intermediary for disseminating information to the Yale community regarding the study of the Middle East, so as to establish an academic platform for undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate students, and the faculty. Through its various activities the Council aims to encourage academic debate on contemporary historical, political and cultural issues of relevance to the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia, and to promote interdisciplinary scholarship.
The Council's Chair is Professor Abbas Amanat. All inquiries to the Council should be directed to: Council on Middle East Studies, Yale University, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, P.O. Box 208206, New Haven, CT 06520-8206, www.yale.edu/ycias/cmes/, phone (203) 432-5596, fax: (203) 432-5963.
Yale Center for International and Area Studies, the umbrella organization for the Council on Middle East Studies and the International Security Studies Program, provides support for the interdisciplinary study of international topics. Sterling Memorial Library contains an extensive collection of Arabic and Persian printed books as well as manuscripts and archives. The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library has significant holdings on Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Coptic, Ethiopic, Hebrew and Syriac manuscripts. The Yale Babylonian Collection holds the largest collection of cuneiform documents and cylinder seals in the United States.
Inquiries
Council on Middle East Studies
PO Box 208206
203-432-6252
barbara.papacoda@yale.edu
Department of History
PO Box 208324
203-432-1361
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
PO Box 208236
203-432-2944
Maureen.Draicchio@quickmail.yale.edu
Department of Religious
Studies
PO Box 208287
203-432-0828
Yale University
New Haven CT 06520
www.yale.edu
Last Updated: Wednesday, December 08, 2004
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