历史哲学博士-中东

马里兰大学的中东地区为该地区的历史提供了指导，从古代西伯利亚晚期（四十七世纪）一直到北半球从北部的伊比利亚伊斯兰教一直延伸到北非和地中海东部盆地，再到东部的伊朗。今天。永久教职人员包括Antoine Borrut（晚期和伊斯兰早期），Ahmet T. Karamustafa（中世纪和早期现代），Madeline Zilfi（早期现代）和Peter Wien（现代中东），他们在伊斯兰早期历史上具有特殊的研究实力，历史学和文化记忆，中世纪和早期现代伊斯兰虔诚的社会和思想史，城市背景下的社会和宗教运动，法律和法
The Department of History offers programs leading to the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy. In conjunction with the College of Information Studies, the Department of History also offers a dual-degree Master of Arts in History and Library Science. In conjunction with the School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation the Department of History also offers a dual-degree Master of Arts in History and Historic Preservation. Major fields of concentration for the MA and PhD programs are: Ancient Mediterranean, Medieval, Early Modern Europe, Modern Europe, Global Interaction and Exchange, International, Jewish, Latin America, Middle East, Russia & Eurasia, Technology, Science, & Environment, the United States, and Women & Gender. MA-only fields are: Africa and Military. The graduate program, which includes over fifty regular faculty members and approximately 150 degree-seeking students, excels in the following subfields: African-American, US, and Middle East. Other areas of established strength are Western and Central Europe, Russia and Eurasia, Ancient Mediterranean, Latin American, and Women & Gender. More recently, the following fields have emerged as centers of growing faculty strength and are attracting increasing numbers of students and faculty: Atlantic history, the African diaspora, and Global Interaction and Exchange.<br><br>The Middle Eastern field at University of Maryland offers instruction in the history of the region stretching from Islamic Iberia in the west through North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean basin to Iran in the east from the period of late antiquity (fourth-seventh centuries) to the present day. The faculty consists of Antoine Borrut (late antique and early Islamic), Ahmet T. Karamustafa (medieval and early modern), Madeline Zilfi (early modern), and Peter Wien (modern Middle East), with special research strengths in early Islamic history, historiography, and cultural memory, social and intellectual history of medieval and early modern Islamic piety, social and religious movements in urban contexts, law and legal practice, slavery and freedom, women's experience, and the role of nationalism and religion in the cultural and political transformation of modern Arab societies. In line with the focus of the Department of History on trans-regional and global themes and questions, the Middle East faculty offers expertise in exchanges between various regions of Europe, the Mediterranean, Iran and South Asia.