Course Catalogue - Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

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Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

SCQF Level 07 (1 courses)

Code	Availability	Course Name	Period	Credits
IMES07001		Introductory Arabic Language	Not delivered this year	20

SCQF Level 08 (36 courses)

Code	Course Name	Period	Credits
IMES08030	Arabic 1A for Postgraduates	Not delivered this year	0
IMES08031	Arabic 1B for Postgraduates	Not delivered this year	0
IMES08026	Arabic 1a	Not delivered this year	20
IMES08027	Arabic 1b	Not delivered this year	20
IMES08006	Arabic 2	Not delivered this year	40
IMES08022	Arabic 2 (VS1)	Not delivered this year	20
IMES08039	Arabic 2 (VS2)	Not delivered this year	20
IMES08041	Arabic 2A for Postgraduates	Not delivered this year	0
IMES08042	Arabic 2B for Postgraduates	Not delivered this year	0
IMES08032	Introduction to Islam	Not delivered this year	40
IMES08023	Introduction to Islam A: The Foundational Sources	Not delivered this year	20
IMES08024	Introduction to Islam B: Religious Thought and Culture	Not delivered this year	20
IMES08018	Islamic History 1	Not delivered this year	40
IMES08016	Islamic History 1a	Not delivered this year	20
IMES08017	Islamic History 1b	Not delivered this year	20
IMES08033	Islamic History A: The Formation of the Islamic World	Not delivered this year	20
IMES08034	Islamic History B: From the Crusades to the 'Gunpowder Empires'	Not delivered this year	20
IMES08035	Islamic History: From the Origins of Islam to the Age of Suleyman the Magnificent	Not delivered this year	40
IMES08014	Modern Middle Eastern History 1	Not delivered this year	40
IMES08012	Modern Middle Eastern History 1a	Not delivered this year	20
IMES08013	Modern Middle Eastern History 1b	Not delivered this year	20
IMES08036	Modern Middle Eastern History A: Domestic Transformation and International Challenges	Not delivered this year	20
IMES08037	Modern Middle Eastern History B: Postwar Independence and Conflict	Not delivered this year	20
IMES08038	Modern Middle Eastern History: Emergence and Encounters	Not delivered this year	40
IMES08005	Persian 1	Not delivered this year	40
IMES08028	Persian 1A for Postgraduates	Not delivered this year	0
IMES08029	Persian 1B for Postgraduates	Not delivered this year	0
IMES08046	Persian 1a	Not delivered this year	20
IMES08047	Persian 1b	Not delivered this year	20
IMES08007	Persian 2	Not delivered this year	40
IMES08010	Turkish 1	Not delivered this year	40
IMES08040	Turkish 1A for Postgraduates	Not delivered this year	0
IMES08045	Turkish 1B for Postgraduates	Not delivered this year	0
IMES08011	Turkish 2	Not delivered this year	40
IMES08044	Turkish 2A for Postgraduates	Not delivered this year	0
IMES08043	Turkish 2B for Postgraduates	Not delivered this year	0

SCQF Level 09 (2 courses)

Code	Availability	Course Name	Period	Credits
IMES09001		Persian 2A for Postgraduates	Not delivered this year	0
IMES09002		Persian 2B for Postgraduates	Not delivered this year	0

SCQF Level 10 (68 courses)

Code	Course Name	Period	Credits
IMES10016	Approaches to the History of the Middle East	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10066	Arabic (Intermediate) at Honours Level	Not delivered this year	40
IMES10039	Arabic 3	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10040	Arabic 4	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10054	Arabic Coursework Essay	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10026	Arabic Dissertation	Not delivered this year	40
IMES10048	Arabic Language Acquisition Through Residence/Study	Not delivered this year	40
IMES10029	Arabic Language Acquisition Through Residence/Study (A)	Not delivered this year	60
IMES10055	Arabic Language Acquisition Through Residence/Study (Full Time)	Not delivered this year	80
IMES10056	Arabic Language Acquisition Through Residence/Study (Part Time)	Not delivered this year	40
IMES10024	Arabic Oral	Not delivered this year	0
IMES10069	Arabic for Beginners at Honours Level (a)	Not delivered this year	40
IMES10068	Arabic for Beginners at Honours Level (b)	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10060	Christian-Muslim Relations, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10035	Cinema and Society in the Middle East	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10004	Classical Arabic Literature	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10005	Classical Persian Literature	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10037	Culture and Society in the Modern Middle East	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10010	Dissertation, Honours	Not delivered this year	40
IMES10047	Early Arabic Historical Texts	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10013	Early Development of Islamic Law	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10046	Early Islamic Political Thought	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10075	Egyptian colloquial texts: Literature and the sounds of life	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10002	Elements of Islam	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10053	Fictions, feminisms, histories: 20th-century novels by women in the Middle East	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10052	Harems, homes and streets: Gender and space in Middle Eastern literatures	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10017	History of Islamic Medicine	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10034	History of Muslim-Christian Dialogue	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10027	IMES Dissertation (Part 1)	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10028	IMES Dissertation (Part 2)	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10057	IMES ERASMUS full year	Not delivered this year	120
IMES10058	IMES ERASMUS half year	Not delivered this year	60
IMES10059	IMES Long Essay	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10043	IMES or MEL Dissertation (Part 1)	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10044	IMES or MEL Dissertation (Part 2)	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10070	Intensive Persian	Not delivered this year	40
IMES10062	Iran From the Safavids to the Islamic Republic	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10007	Islam 3	Not delivered this year	40
IMES10008	Islam 4	Not delivered this year	40
IMES10074	Islam Through the Arts	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10077	Islam in Modern Societies	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10045	Jihad in Muslim Politics and Society	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10011	Language and Society in the Middle East and North Africa	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10038	Media Arabic	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10036	Medieval Islamic Philosophy and Theology	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10080	Method and Theory in the Study of Early Islam	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10071	Middle East Diasporas and Minorities	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10006	Middle Eastern Politics	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10001	Modern Arabic Literature	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10009	Modern Persian Literature	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10061	Modern Persian Literature and 'Modern' Iran	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10078	Muslims in Britain: Migration, Faith and Identity	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10033	Mystical Islam (Sufism)	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10076	Of Wine, Love and Loss: Reading Iran through Classical Persian Literature	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10065	Persian (Intermediate) at Honours Level	Not delivered this year	40
IMES10041	Persian 3	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10042	Persian 4	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10050	Persian Language Acquisition Through Residence/Study A	Not delivered this year	60
IMES10049	Persian Language Acquisition Through Residence/Study B	Not delivered this year	40
IMES10051	Persian Literature	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10025	Persian Oral	Not delivered this year	0
IMES10067	Persian for Beginners at Honours Level	Not delivered this year	40
IMES10032	Shi'ite Islam	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10072	The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Nations in Collision	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10073	The Colloquial Language and Literature of Egypt	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10079	The First Muslim Empire: The Islamic World before Sunnism and Shi'ism	Not delivered this year	20
IMES10063	Turkish (Intermediate) at Honours Level	Not delivered this year	40
IMES10064	Turkish for Beginners at Honours Level	Not delivered this year	40

SCQF Level 11 (46 courses)

Code	Course Name	Period	Credits
IMES11039	Advanced Arabic D	Not delivered this year	20
IMES11035	Advanced Arabic E	Not delivered this year	20
IMES11038	Advanced Issues in the Study of the Middle East	Not delivered this year	20
IMES11008	An Introduction to Twelver Shi'ism	Not delivered this year	20
IMES11027	Arab World Studies Masters Dissertation	Not delivered this year	60
IMES11032	Christian-Muslim Relations and the Relationship Between the World of Islam and the West	Not delivered this year	20
IMES11020	Cinemas of the Middle East	Not delivered this year	20
IMES11044	Critical Readings in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies	Not delivered this year	20
IMES11036	Diaspora Studies: Theories, Concepts and Methodologies	Not delivered this year	20
IMES11034	Diasporas of the Middle East	Not delivered this year	20
IMES11052	From Shahs to Ayatollahs: The History of Modern Iran	Not delivered this year	20
IMES11002	History of Muslim-Christian Dialogue (to 1800)	Not delivered this year	20
IMES11003	Ideology and Political Practice in the Modern Middle East	Not delivered this year	20
IMES11021	Intensive Arabic A	Not delivered this year	50
IMES11022	Intensive Arabic B	Not delivered this year	50
IMES11040	Intensive Arabic C	Not delivered this year	40
IMES11054	Islam and Muslims in Britain	Not delivered this year	20
IMES11049	Islam and Social Change in the 20th Century	Not delivered this year	20
IMES11004	Islam in the Modern World (From 1800)	Not delivered this year	20
IMES11012	Jihad: Theory and Practice	Not delivered this year	20
IMES11005	Language and Society in the Middle East	Not delivered this year	20
IMES11014	MSc Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Dissertation	Not delivered this year	60
IMES11033	MSc Middle Eastern Diasporas Dissertation	Not delivered this year	60
IMES11029	MSc by Research Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies II Dissertation (30k words)	Not delivered this year	140
IMES11019	MSc by Research in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Dissertation	Not delivered this year	60
IMES11047	MSc in Persian Civilisation Dissertation	Not delivered this year	60
IMES11028	Medieval Islamic Theology and Philosophy	Not delivered this year	20
IMES11051	Modern Iranian Society via Modern Iranian Literature	Not delivered this year	20
IMES11001	Muslim Diasporas, Transnationalism and the Politics of Difference	Not delivered this year	40
IMES11006	Muslim Transnational Communities	Not delivered this year	20
IMES11009	Mystical Islam	Not delivered this year	20
IMES11053	Mystics, Monarchs and Lovers: Reading Classical Persian Literature in Translation	Not delivered this year	20
IMES11042	Political Thought and Culture in the Formative Era of Islam	Not delivered this year	20
IMES11055	Problems, Methods and Theories in the Study of Early Islam	Not delivered this year	20
IMES11050	Reading Islam through the Arts	Not delivered this year	20
IMES11037	Research Methods and Problems in IMES	Not delivered this year	20
IMES11048	Ruling Iran: Great Kings, Shahs and Imams	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11033	Studies of Culture and Society in the Modern Middle East	Not delivered this year	20
IMES11043	The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Liberty, Land and People	Not delivered this year	20
IMES11045	The Colloquial Language and Literature of Egypt (Level 11)	Not delivered this year	20
IMES11011	The Contribution of al-Ghazali to Classical Islamic Thought	Not delivered this year	20
IMES11010	The Early Development of Islamic Law	Not delivered this year	20
IMES11030	The Harem and the Body: Space and Gender in Middle Eastern Literatures	Not delivered this year	20
IMES11046	The History and Culture of Iran: From Ancient Persia to Contemporary Iran	Not delivered this year	20
IMES11013	The History of Islamicate Medicine	Not delivered this year	20
IMES11041	The Umayyad Empire: the Islamic World in its Late Antique Context	Not delivered this year	20