ISLA 612. Autobiography in the Muslim World.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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?
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 739 when topic was ‘Autobiography in the Muslim World’.