Course Description
Discipline(s):
Cultures & Societies of the World
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Artistic, Interpretive, & Philosophical Inquiry
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Second Writing
Islam began strange and will return to strange as it began. So blessings to the strange ones! So goes a famous saying of the Prophet Muhammad, celebrating the virtue of truth over conformity. This course examines Islamic movements that have sought to push back against religious and political norms of their times. Along the way, we read debates about orthodoxy: what are the limits of the Muslim community and how are such limits contested?
