REL 180 - FS: First-Year Seminar Credits: 3-4 When Offered: Each first-year seminar topic is approved by the Dean of The College and The Committee on Courses and Degrees. Applicability to FDRs and other requirements varies.
Prerequisite: First-year standingOffered Spring, 2010:
REL 180: FS: The Lives of the Prophet Muhammad (4). Prerequisite: First-year standing. First-year Seminar. This seminar explores the centrality of the Prophet Muhammad to Muslim lives, practices, and institutions as a model for pious behavior and the conveyor of God’s Revelations in the Qur’an. Readings include the Qur’an, early oral accounts of the Prophet’s life (the hadith), traditional biographies, and modern retellings of Muhammad’s story in scholarship, literature, and film. Discussion culminates in the current debates over the depiction of the Prophet in fiction and visual art. (HU, GE4d) Hatcher.
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