Overview
Islamic Studies : The rhetoric of selfhood, including the linguistic forms of ideas of the self, with an emphasis on how language informs the ways in which the self was understood in the past in the wider cultures of rhetoric – courtly speechsituations, intimate circles of Sufi adepts, royal harems, trans-national print-communities, modern political parties – in which apparently abstract ideas of selfhood circulated. Is the self unique or transpersonal? Is it gendered and, if so, how? What are the articulations of individual and public memory?
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 739 when topic was ‘Autobiography in the Muslim World’.
