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ENG 137: Problems in Literature: Islam in English Literature from the Crusades to the War on Terror


[4 units]

Looks at concepts of holy war; Islam on the early English stage; 17thc. polemics surrounding the study of Islam and the Koran; Enlightenment obsessions with “Mahometanism;” women in Islam; Romantic imagination and the East; the Rushdie ‘affair’; and West-East relations after 9-11.

Prerequisite: WRI 010  or equivalent exam. Normal Letter Grade only.


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