Fiqih & Legistlation
Student must complete 36 credit hours
Speciality Requirements Student must complete 27 credit hours
| Course Code | Course Name | Credit Hours | Prerequests |
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| 431524 | Arabic Syntax | 3 |
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| The course selects one topic from a classic source in Arabic Syntax and compares it with the treatment of the same topic by other syntacticians. The course encompasses the various approaches and schools on the specific syntactic phenomenon and other related phenomena. | |||
| 441511 | Fundamentals of Jurisprudence (Fiqh) - Semantics & Semiotics | 3 |
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| The course runs a comprehensive study of the following topics: 1. Horizontal significance (surface, text, interpreter, arbiter). 2. The vertical levels (hidden meanings, probable meanings, parallel meanings). 3. Textual significance (statement, sign, text, reference ability, discrepancies, the private and the public, the absolute and the contextual). | |||
| 441512 | Personal Statute - Inheritances | 3 |
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| The course covers one or more key issues related to civil relations such as divorce, separation, nursing, guardianship, (in) validity of wills, inheritance in cases of pregnancy and bisexuality. | |||
| 441513 | Comparative Jurisprudence (Fiqh) - Penalties | 3 |
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| The course covers the major concepts related to criminology in Islam like crimes, punishment, fornication, drinking alcohol, theft, murder, defamation, amnesty and public display of punishment. | |||
| 441515 | Comparative Jurisprudence (Fiqh) - Transactions | 3 |
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| The course will treat one or more topics in detail from among the following: sales, partnership, lease, reconciliation, irrigation and farming agreements. | |||
| 441516 | Comparative Jurisprudence (Fiqh) - Religious Observances | 3 |
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| The course treats the various types and contexts for salat, alms giving by individuals as well as by companies and investors, fasting in cases of illness, and the rulings and rituals of Haj. | |||
| 441554 | Intention of Islamic Law (Shari'a) | 3 |
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| The course gives an explanation of intentions of Islamic law and their sources and ranks. It gives emphasis to the role intentions play in the classification and ordering of laws and then moves to a discussion of its role in the prohibition/allowance of practices in today’s world like bank interest, traveller marriage, sperm banks, organ transfer and transplantation, and weapons of mass destruction. | |||
| 441558 | General Rules of Jurisprudence (Fiqh) | 3 |
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| The course presents a critical study of one or more issues including certainty and doubt, harm and hurt, custom and law and the annulment of cases of Ijtihad. The course relates discussion to contemporary cases like financial transactions, swine flew, and euthanasia. | |||
| 441598 | Comprehensive Exam | 0 |
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| A graduate student must pass a qualifying examination (See Academic Rules and Regulations for Graduate Students). | |||
| 442514 | Exegesis (Takhreej) and the Fundamentals of Scientific Research | 3 |
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| The course seeks to apply the principles of research on the Sunah sources, translations, and the history of hadith narration. The researcher selects a group of Hadiths classified by subject with the aim of applying principles of scientific research and ultimately making a ruling on the selected hadiths. | |||
Speciality Optional Requirements Student must complete 9 credit hours
| Course Code | Course Name | Credit Hours | Prerequests |
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| 441514 | Comparative Jurisprudence (Fiqh) - Jurisdiction | 3 |
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| The course runs a comprehensive and comparative analysis of topics related to legal theory like witnessing, judge competence, evidence, conviction, oaths, and legal documentation. | |||
| 441518 | International Relations in Islam | 3 |
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| This course begins with a general introduction to the concept of international Relations in Islam. It then moves on to focus on the state and its jurisdiction, the relations of the Islamic state with other states in times of war and peace, treaties and diplomacy, Jihad, invasion and occupation and Islamic and Western international state systems. | |||
| 441550 | Fundamentals of Islamic Jurisprudence (Fiqh) - Qias (Analogy), Speculation | 3 |
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| The course includes the following key concepts related to al-Ijtihad including meaning and legitimacy, evolution and crisis, terms and conditions, status and procedure, hierarchy and scholar ranks, annulment and termination. The course also provides an overview of the key concepts of analogy in Islam such as the case for analogy, pillars of analogy, conditions for rulings on origins (usul), types of analogy, applying analogy to prayers and punishments, worship by analogy and the preferences for the Malikis and Hanafis. | |||
| 441556 | Effect of Fundamentals of Methodolgy on Scholars Disputation | 3 |
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| The course starts by a general introduction of the main issues on disputation and the fundamental rulings. The course then moves to an in-depth study of one or more topics including causes of disputation, the fundamental principles on signification and their relation to scholar disputation, the fundamental principles on the (in)- comprehensiveness of sign reference and their effect on disputation, the rulings exclusive to the Quran and sunnah and their role in disputed evidence and validation. | |||
| 441559 | Contemporary Monetary Transactions | 3 |
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| The course studies contemporary business issues like insurance, bonds and shares, sales contracts and other business practices in Islamic banking. | |||
| 441560 | Theories of Jurisprudence (Fiqh) | 3 |
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| The course discusses the origins, aims, and benefits of Feqih theories. This includes the expounds scholars’ approaches to drafting and establishing Feqih theories and offers in-detail discussion of theorising on rights, properties, contracts, and contingencies and compares/contrasts these theories with their counterparts from civil law. | |||
| 441562 | The Ruling System and Administration in Islam | 3 |
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| The course presents concepts and practices related to governance and administration including Islamic public policy, jurisdiction, the selection of political leaders, the shourah council, the principles of public administration, audit and accountability and decision making within Islamic legal ruling. | |||