近东语言和文明哲学博士-古典近东

古典近东是博士学位专业，包括古老的伊朗，早期的伊斯兰哈里发，晚期的罗马和拜占庭近东以及邻近地区。它整合了一个重要的宗教，社会和政治变革时代的近东社会的语言学和历史研究。这项研究的基础是远古和中世纪近东语言（如阿拉伯语，希腊语，中波斯语和叙利亚语）中的大量手稿和其他语料库。“古典近东”这一名称故意宽泛，避免了研究近东的任何趋势。主要是在民族，种族或宗教方面。它着眼于我们时代的第一个千年，并将穆罕默德，古代和中世纪前后的时期联系在一起。古典近东不包括楔形文字文化的早期千年，法老埃及或从起源到现在的整个阿拉伯人
The Classical Near East is a PhD specialization that includes ancient Iran, the early Islamic caliphates, the late Roman and Byzantine Near East, and adjacent areas. It integrates the philological and historical study of Near Eastern societies in an age of momentous religious, social, and political change. The basis for this research is in the vast manuscript and other corpora in late ancient and medieval Near Eastern languages such as Arabic, Greek, Middle Persian, and Syriac.The departmental strength for the study of the Classical Near East is in the learned traditions of the Sasanian kingdom, their continuations, and their translations in Arabic, and the period of translations from Greek into Arabic, as well as the historical and cultural transition from the Persian Kingdom and east Roman Empire to the Islamic caliphate and Byzantium. Classical Near East students investigate religious, scientific, philosophical, literary and other traditions of the Classical Near East understood in their social and institutional contexts. They are encouraged to pursue their studies with faculty in NELC as well as Classics, Religious Studies, and History to bridge other areas of interest.