Comparative Muslim Societies Program (CMS)

The Comparative Muslim Societies Program (CMS) was formed in Spring of 2001 to promote the comparative study of Muslims and Muslim Societies between and across the boundaries of traditional area studies programs. The Program serves as a forum for faculty and students on campus who are engaged in the study of various aspects of Muslim culture, society, and history categorized in two ways. One group studied is Muslim majority communities found in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia. The other Muslim communities are those to be found in the United States, Europe, China and elsewhere in the rest of the world where Muslims are a minority. The Comparative Muslim Societies Program seeks to encourage comparison internally within the world of Islam and externally between the Muslim and non-Muslim world. We have a number of seminars and other events every term, as well as a fellowship competition at both the undergraduate and graduate levels for students going off into the world to do research.

Program Administration

Eric Tagliacozzo (History), Director

Executive Committee

Iftikhar Dadi (History of Art), South Asia
Shelley Feldman (Development Sociology + FGSS), South Asia
David Patel (Government), Middle East
David Powers (Near Eastern Studies), North Africa and Middle East
Eric Tagliacozzo (History), Southeast Asia
Shawkat Toorawa (Near Eastern Studies), Indian Ocean and Near East

Affiliated Faculty

Allen Carlson (Government), China
Salah Hassan (History of Art), Africa 
Gail Holst-Warhaft (European Studies), Europe and the Mediterranean
M.A. Garces (Romance Studies), Iberia
Fouad Makki (Development Sociology), Africa
Mostafa Minawi (History), Ottoman World