The MLitt in Middle Eastern History is a taught postgraduate programme run by the School of History.
Highlights
- Students explore in depth a broad variety of historical topics including social, political, cultural and intellectual history of this crucially significant region of the world.
- Fields available to explore include: classical Islamic history (Umayyads and Abbasids); the Seljuks; the medieval Islamic east; mediaeval Anatolia; the Ayyubid and Mamluk Near East; Early Ottoman History; Mediaeval Armenia; Islamic intellectual history.
- The course introduces students to methodological and analytical approaches, including Orientalism.
Teaching format
The course comprises two semesters of taught components followed by submission of a 15,000-word final dissertation.
