Description
Following the question how the region has been studied, the objective of this course is for the students to obtain knowledge about the history of research on the Middle East and to become able to recognize research traditions and analytical strategies.Therefore, we will read and discuss material and short texts during the course which are organized into six themes. The themes relate to core fields of research on the Middle East such as Colonialism, Orientalism and its critique, Modernization theory and Democratization theory, understandings of tradition and modernity, Post-Structuralism and Post-Colonialism. They represent how research on the region has been carried out and theorized upon in the past century.