The Comparative Muslim Society Program builds bridges across disciplines and borders for better understanding of Muslim cultures and societies. Our faculty and students specialize in history, politics, gender studies, anthropology, art history, and more.

This expansive scope brings depth and connection to the comparative study of Muslim societies, as evidenced by work in Global Cornell’s Migrations initiative and other programs on campus. It seeks to encourage comparison internally within the world of Islam and externally between the Muslim and non-Muslim worlds.

Since 2001, we have promoted the comparative study of Muslim societies between and across the boundaries of traditional area studies programs. We focus on these studies within two categories:

• Muslim majority communities, found in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia
• Muslim minority communities, found in the United States, Europe, China, and elsewhere

Explore some of our past seminars to see who has helped enhance the conversation.

• Islamic Connections Between India and China During the Song and Yuan Periods
• Humanism in Ruins: Entangled Legacies of the Greek-Turkish Population Exchange
• Fears and Conflict over Islamic Human Rights
• Ruins: Entangled Legacies of the Greek-Turkish Population Exchange
• The Ottoman Quest for Economic Modernization
• Islamic Experiments in Global Finance
• Music and Militias in Post-Gaddafi Libya

More information on: Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies