![]() ![]() Islam and Politics-from the Prophet to the Present: An introduction to Islamic politics, that is, Islamic political thought and practice from the birth of Islam (c. Alatas (Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies) But how did these empires communicate with and control their Egyptian subjects? For their part, how did the Egyptians experience imperial rule and react to their overlords? What stayed the same and what changed with these regimes and why? Indeed, after so many centuries, what did it really mean to be "Egyptian"? Such questions presume we know how to understand this history, but what model should we use-colonialism, multiculturalism, assimilation, Hellenization, Romanization-and what’s at stake for us in the way we write it? Focusing on Egypt between the pharaohs and the caliphs, we study key figures, places, and events in the history of Greco-Roman Egypt, as well as the important social, political, and economic conditions and processes that helped to shape that history, and explore the dynamic relationship between individuals, society, and empire in the ancient world.įALL 2022 CORE-UA 502, Cultures & Contexts: Islamic Societies ![]() Ratzan (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World)įor more than a millennium after the reign of the last pharaohs, Egypt was controlled by a series of foreign powers: first the Persians, then the Greeks, and finally the Romans for nearly seven centuries until the arrival of the Arabs. FALL 2022 CORE-UA 500, Cultures & Contexts: Greco-Roman Egypt ![]()
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