Professor Ahmad is incredibly knowledgable. While the course was discussion based and thus not heavily structured like a typical lower div, it was incredibly engaging and I learned so much. You need to do the readings. There's no skating through his classes; if you aren't in it to really learn, don't take it. Participation is necessary.

Professor Ahmad is a brilliant guy. With that being said, he constantly digresses, and sometimes goes far beyond what his original topic was about. He knows so much history, theory, authors, etc. With no certain course outline besides what he assigns to read, the course objective of the class is very unclear.

Ahmad is very smart however he likes to pick on people in lecture and goes off topic (attendance sheet in lecture). Lectures are so unorganized and only thing that helps is the readings (dense) / section. Three essays that make up your grade that he assigns after lecture and it is due the next morning - giving very little time to do / get help.

Hands down the worst class I've take, not even Econ 140A and no one likes steigerwald, I literally took his class almost 2 years ago but I came here to be petty. His lectures were unorganized and he seems to get a kick from picking on students who aren't knowledgeable about islamic law. He gave us a midterm the day, no warning.

Ahmad Ahmad gave us a 3000 word essay with a 12 hour notice that made up our ENTIRE grade and told us that we all did a terrible job in his class. Not a single person has any idea what he taught us in the class because of his poor organizational skills. He is a smart smart man however he should not be a professor.

Took RGST125A. The class was graded with 50% participation plus two papers worth 25% each. There were a lot, and I mean A LOT of moments in this class where I didn't understand anything that was going on. With that being said, Ahmad is a nice guy, and while he goes off-topic more than he actually lectures, it was an interesting class.