Description
This course examines the formation, urban patterns and socio-economic
structures of historical and contemporary North African cities using a multidisciplinary
approach. The course will draw upon a body of scholarship
from a number of fields including architectural history, anthropology,
archaeology, history, urban sociology, Islamic jurisprudence, and literature.
The course will 1) review the legal and theoretical foundations of urban
Islam 2) examine the architectural and urban legacies of Roman and early
Islamic civilizations in North Africa, and 3) provides an in-depth analysis of
city and urban life in medieval and colonial North Africa through the study
of urban form and socio-economic structures and institutions with a focus
on Morocco.