Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (Εnglish traсk)

The two-year program of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (M.A.) is designed for students who wish to gain in-depth knowledge of the history, religions, and cultures of the Islamic world and its languages. Students interested in classical and post-classical Islamic intellectual history and the history and civilizations of the Middle East will find this program to be especially appealing. Modern debates in the Islamic world, as well as current cultural and political trends, feature heavily and are analyzed within a broader historical and intellectual framework.

The languages and cultural traditions of the Islamic world, both past and present, constitute the core of the degree program. It therefore offers a wide range of possibilities for the study of the region's cultural and literary traditions in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Ottoman Turkish. The degree program allows students to combine a solid philological and theoretical foundation. Courses are designed to equip students with advanced scientific and methodological tools and strengthen their ability to approach and analyze various textual traditions that are drawn from a broad spectrum of genres, ranging from medieval manuscript traditions to today's written and social media.