GRADUATE SEMINAR - Islam in Medieval South Asia

Drawing on a broad cross-section of theoretical and methodological approaches this course will interrogate some of the key historiographical debates that have shaped our understanding of the place of Islam and Muslims in pre-1750 Indian history. This class expects participants to not only consider the ways in which knowledge gets constituted and its impacts (both within academia and beyond) but also the question of historical method itself. Themes to be considered (among others): conversion, iconoclasm, religious identity, state formation, kingship, literary cultures, visual cultures,  subalterns, gender, and decline.