2. Oriental Studies - Group of Required Modules

OR-3: Cultural and Economic Geography of the Near East and North Africa

OR-4: Religions and Institutions of the Near East

• 141047 VO Religious history of the Middle East prior to the advent of Islam
• 141172 VO Introduction to the History of Islam

OR-5: Ancient Near East

OR-6: History of the Arabs in the Near East and North Africa in Islamic Times

• 141005 VO Arabic Philosophy and Kalam
• 090036 VO Byzantine Studies (VO) - Geistesleben in Byzanz nach den arabischen Eroberungen (7. bis 8. Jahrhundert)

OR-7: History of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey

• 141013 VO History of Ideas and Culture of the Ottoman-Turkish Region (up to the present)