1/26 Mon: Geography of the Muslim World
1/28 Wed: Arabia on the Eve of Islam
1/30 Fri: Nomads, Settlers and Empires
Readings:
• Kennedy, The Prophet… Chapter 1
• Hourani, A. 1991. A History of the Arab Peoples. Chapter 6 “The countryside.”
• Caton, Steven. 1990. “Anthropological Theories of Tribe and State Formation in the Middle East: Ideology and the Semiotics of Power. In Khoury and Kostiner eds. Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East.
• Sells. M. Desert Tracings. Excerpts of pre-islamic poetry
You can also have a look at another of these odes at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/640hangedpoems.html
Class 3_Geography and the Territory of the Muslim World.pdf