Sep 07, 2024  
2019-2020 Caspersen School of Graduate Studies (Admitted Fall 2019/Spring 2020) 
    
2019-2020 Caspersen School of Graduate Studies (Admitted Fall 2019/Spring 2020) [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ARCR 822 - Muslims and the West

3 credits
This course is a comparative analysis that draws upon Muslim experiences in the United States, Britain, and France. While situating Muslim experiences in the broader discussions on racial and religious minorities, the course engages with a dominant framework that puts forward the view that the West and Islam are irreconcilable. The social, cultural, religious, and political inclusion of Muslim immigrants has been contentious and these countries have adopted similar as well as divergent approaches to deal with it. The language of the global war on terror in the post-9/11 period has brought many of the lingering questions regarding Muslim inclusion to the fore. This course is aimed not only at understanding some of the salient issues faced by Muslim communities, but also looks at the ways in which a particular set of discourses on Islam has come to define the Muslim immigrant experiences in the West. 



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