| Course Code |
Course Name |
Credit Hours |
Prerequests |
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10401111
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Principles of Research
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2 |
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| This training course is designed to arm students with the necessary skills to do research. The course introduces students to research steps, qualities, manuscript editing and art of writing. By end of the course, each student is expected to deliver a paper in his/her major. Instructor's evaluation of student's work will depend on extent of student's respect of scientific research criteria. |
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10401112
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Fiqh of Praying and Fasting
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3 |
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| This course introduces students to rules of purity, levels of water and impurities, ablution, bathing, rules of menstruation and impurity; rules of prayer times, manner, pillars, conditions; special prayers: traveler's prayer, Friday prayer, prayer of feasts, prayer for rain, prayer for funeral and prayer in times of fear; rules of fasting; definition, conditions, types, types of fast breaking, making up, atonement and rules of el-fiter feast alms. |
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10401113
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Fiqh of Zakat and Hajj
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3 |
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| This course dwells on rules of zakat (alms tax) and its conditions, its obligation, wealth liable to pay zakat, current issues in zakat, and amounts of zakat; rules of haj (pilgrimage), its conditions, rituals, obligation, pillars, duties; sacrificial animals (hadi) and slaughter. |
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10401114
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Fiqh of Marriage and Divorce
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3 |
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| This course examines the following topics: marriage contract, engagement, custodianship in marriage, marriage rights and duties, conditions, requirements, and elements of marriage contract: dowry, nafaqa (adequate support for the wife), and legal shelter. It also addresses divorce, khul' (divorce initiated by wife after paying compensation) and separation between the couple, impacts of divorce on custody, nafaqa and compensation. The course ends with a detailed analysis of the personal status law articles dwelling on these issues. |
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10401116
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Selling and Lease Contracts
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3 |
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| This course examines a number of topics: concept of nominate contracts, classifications of financial contracts, levels of contracts; necessity, suspension, corruption, validity and annulment; sale contract: pillars, impacts, subcontracts of sale contracts such as contract of manufacture, forward sales contract, contract of money exchange; lease contract: pillars, types and impacts. The course also holds a comparison between these contracts and the laws of contracts effective in Palestine especially related to landlords and tenants. |
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10401117
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Personal and Real Rights
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3 |
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| In this course, students will be introduced to the concept of personal right, sources of personal rights; contract: definition, types and levels, rules of proposals and acceptance; eligibility and vices of consent place of contract, reason for contract, effect of contract and its termination, unilateral contracts; place and its restrictions; common ownership rules, reasons for acquisition of ownership: holding of permissible things, security, inheritance, will, communication, contract, emotive right, possession, rights branching out of ownership right: right of disposal, right of use, usufructary right, living and mustaha (right to use and exploit land belonging to another person), waqf( endowment) and rights of easement (irtifaq). |
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10401130
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Islamic Ruling
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3 |
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| This courses introduces students to the science of the principles of fiqh, its subjects, and history, most important publication on it, shari’a ruling and its division; defining law (hokum taklifi) and its divisions; declaratory law (hokum wadi) and its divisions; al-hakim, al-mahkoom fi and al-mahkoom elayeh. |
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10401215
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Inheritance
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3 |
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| This course covers a member of topics: raison d’etre of inheritance, its conditions and prevention, inheritance by estimation, blood relationship inheritance, obligatory will, transitional inheritance effective in shari'a courts, possessors of obligatory shares, sustenance, restitution and disassociation and process of dividing inheritance. The course concludes with a detailed analysis of the personal status law articles dealing with these issues. |
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10401218
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Donation and Noarization Contracts
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3 |
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| This course examines various kinds of contract s:hibah(gift)wadi’a(deposit), ariyah(loan of tangible asset) wakala (bailment representation) kafalah (guarantee) hawalah (transfer) and rahn(collateral). The students will be introduced to , traditions, consequences resulting from them. The course ends with a look at quarantine bankruptcy and reconciliation regulations and rules. |
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10401231
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Legislation Sources
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3 |
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| This course addresses the following topics: evidence of the legal judgments (istihsan), deed of the Prophet's companions (sahabi) prohibition of all means of evil (sadd al-thara') presumption of continuity, (istishab), laws of the previous prophets (shar'a man qablana). |
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10401234
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Rules of Fiqh(Qawa'id Fiqhiyyah)
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3 |
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| Topics covered in this course include the following: introduction to fiqh principles/maxims, their topics, importance, origin, and development of sources; differences between fiqh principles and fundamental maxims; most important old and modern publications; fields agreed upon and school maxims. This is in addition to a detailed study coupled with examples and application of the five fiqh maxims and others in numerous fields. |
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10401319
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Fiqh of Companies
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3 |
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| This course covers the following topics: definition of company, pillars of public and private company contracts, types of companies, conditions for partners' shares, rules governing distribution of profits and losses, raison d’etre of liquidation and termination of companies and detailed analysis of most important types of fiqh of companies such as financial capital companies, business companies, partnership companies, and sharecropping companies. The course concludes with a detailed study of the most important types of modern commercial companies such as limited partnership companies’ shareholding companies, general partnership company and particular partnership (muhasa) company. |
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10401321
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Fiqh of Political System in Islam
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3 |
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| Topics covered in this course include the foundations of the political system in Islam, its features; refutation of secularism; concept of pledge of allegiance, concept of social contract, mutual commitments emerging from them; head of state and his duti |
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10401322
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Criminal Legislation
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3 |
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| This course addresses the following topics: Islamic criminal system, its foundations and characteristics, suspicions raised around the Islamic criminal system; discussion of these suspicions; rules for crimes on self, excluding self and embryo; penal la |
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10401420
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Principles Of Comparative Fiqh and It's Contemporary Applications
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3 |
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| This course addresses several topics: fiqh disagreement, its trends and reasons; method of interpretation in current fiqh issues, its foundations and characteristics; detailed analysis of contemporary fiqh medical issues such rules for medication, ruqya (incantation) quarantine; beginning and end of human life, abortion and its rules; brain death, mercy killing; cloning, rules of transplants and transfer of artificial insemination, and test tube babies; rules covering the presence of a third party during artificial insemination (womb, egg and semen hiring), miscarrying extra embryos, inseminated artificially, improvement of reproduction using genetic ways, rules governing determination of embryo sex, rules of infertilization, birth control, cosmetic surgery and its rules, rules of breaking hymen, rule of proving or disproving lineage using genetic tests; medical testing prior to marriage; menstruation and child birth period from a medical and shari'a perspective; rules of fast breaking things such as eye drops, intravenous dosage and gastroscope; shari'a rules pertinent to Aids (Aids patient's marriage, break up of Aids patient's marriage, abortion practice by women with Aids; medical mistakes and doctors' civil and criminal responsibility. |
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10401423
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Fiqh of Lawsuit & Evidence
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3 |
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| Topics covered in this course include introduction to judiciary science, its history and development of its institutions; shari'a court and formal justice; conditions for assumption of judiciary position; good attributes of judge; justice guarantees in judiciary, judge's time and spatial specialization, ways of providing evidence in Islam, rules pertinent to it; obliging the judges to stick to one school (maliki, hanafi, hanbali, shafi'i). The course ends with a general introduction to basics of lawsuits and Islamic law of evidence. |
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10401432
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Contextual Connotations
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3 |
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| This course addresses several topics: literal proofs, mabahith al-lafthiyah (literal semantics) divisions of words, textual implications and their divisions; rhetoric: definition, divisions, textual conflicts, preponderance, ways of resolving conflicts/contradictions and preponderance between texts. |
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10401433
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Discretion & Shari'a Intents
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3 |
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| This course addresses a number of topics: introduction to ijtihad (individual interpretation/ judgment), its importance, types, applications and purposes; introduction to purposes of shari'a, their importance, types, levels, manner of preserving them; contemporary fiqh applications on ijtihad according to shari'a purposes. |
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10401436
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Islamic Education Practicum
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2 |
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| This course trains students on how to prepare lesson plans, write down lesson notes and follow steps of lesson design. Every student will make observation of classes for junior and secondary school teachers, thus allowing him/her to link between theoretical knowledge he/she receives in class and practical teaching. This practical experience will allow him/her to learn about the school current state of affairs. Every student will also teach school classes and will be evaluated by a department instructor, school headmaster and Islamic education teacher. The course includes an array of theoretical and practical texts. Students will receive sixteen hours of theoretical instruction and 60 training hours. |
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10401438
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Graduation Project
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1 |
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| This practical course aims at training students to write a paper on one of the principles of religion. Each student is expected to deliver a well-researched paper to the instructor on a topic related to his/her major. The instructor will evaluate his/her paper according to a rubric for scientific research writing. Stages of writing will include choice of topic, topic of research, research outline and writing. |
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10406142
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Ulom Al_Qur'an
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3 |
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| This course covers the following topics: definition of the Holy Qur'an, comparison between the Holy Qur'an and Hadith (prophetic teachings), most important sciences pertinent to the Holy Qur'an: Allah's divine message conveyed to prophets (wahi), manner if its revelation, collection and documentation of the Qur'an, reasons for revelation, Meccan and Medinan suras, the seven readings, Qur'an inimitability interpretation and exegesis of the Holy Qur'an, classes of exegesis’s and their methods. |
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10406143
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Ulom Al_Hadith & Thentication
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3 |
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| Topics covered in this course include status and importance of sunna as well as its proof; definition of hadith science, its origin and terminology; most important publications on hadith sciences and narrations; sanad and matan of hadith (transference, quotation and attribution), hadith endurance and performance, ways of endurance, narration of hadith by paraphrasing; reliability and unreliability and their levels which governed people's narrations, news of repentant sinner from lasciviousness, hadith chain of narration; infamous hadith; true, good and weak hadiths (their divisions) and fabrication of hadiths. |
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10406144
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Qur'anic Recitation
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3 |
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| Topics covered in this course include virtue, levels, good manners of recitation, meaning of tajwid (elocution), its ruling, rules of isti'atha (seeking protection from Allah) al-basmalah (in the name of Allah) rules governing "silent noon" and tanween; rules governing silent meem istil'a phonemes, rules governing ra and qalqala; types of extension, places of articulation of sounds, phonemes and their properties, rules of assimilation; lam of Jalalah (Divine Glory); lam ash-shamsiyah and al-qamariyah, hamzat al-wasl and hamzat al-qat', hissing sounds; stops and their symbols in the Holy Qur'an script, meeting of two consonants. Students will be drilled step by step on these rules to master them. Practical training will take 70% of all course classes. |
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10406149
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Exegesis "Tafsir 1"
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3 |
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| This course is devoted to interpretation of In'am sura: analytical explanation, highlight of aspects of syntax and style and ijaz (inimitability in the verses). This is in addition to the sura's presentation style of the issue of aqida (creed) and the manner of debating infidels; wisdom from the Meccan Quran's focus on aqida rather than legislative details. |
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10406155
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Analytical Hadith 1
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3 |
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| This course is a study of 33 hadiths from Jami' al-Uloom wal Hikam (according to the analytical method). The course addresses hadiths dealing with niya (intention) iman (belief), bid'a (heresy) shubohat (doubt) nasiha (advice) brethren, tawba (repentance), soul incantation in body. |
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10406160
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The Islamic Creed I
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3 |
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| Topics covered in the course include the meaning of Islamic aqida (creed) its specific aspects and effects on the individual and society, Qur'an's way of building aqida, signs or indications of the existence of the creator; things that bar people from attention to belief in Allah; meaning of oneness, its types, requirements and detractors; brief explanation of other pillars of belief: belief in angles, heavenly books, messengers, day of judgment and fate and divine decree. |
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10406245
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Recitation 1
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1 |
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| This course deals with the following topics: 29th & 30th chapters of the Holy Qur'an in terms of recitation and memorization. This will be in addition to hands- on- training on elocution rules. |
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10406246
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Recitation 2
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1 |
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| This course builds on Recitation and Memorization I. It expects students to master recitation and memorization of Al-Baqara sura. To this end, students will be trained to master the elocution rules. |
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10406247
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Recitation 3
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1 |
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| This advanced course will focus on recitation and memorization of two chapters from the Holy Qur’an: 27 and 28. Students will be drilled on elocution rules. |
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10406258
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Principles of Hadith Drivaton
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3 |
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| This course covers several topics: ways of tracking hadiths, al-athar (narrations) from original sunna sources; ways of tracking hadith on the computer; the manner of hadith compilation and their arragngement, the manner of drawing a hadith family tree, steps, of judging on hadith in terms of sanad (chain of narration) and matn (actual wording of hadith) by making use of what students should have taken in Hadith Sciences course. Practical classes will take 70% of total number of course classes. |
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10406263
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Syntax Studies 1
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3 |
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| Topics covered in the course include parts of speech (noun, verb, alphabet, morpheme; the constructive and the classified (al-mabniand al-mu’arab), definite and indefinite articles; nouns in nominative state: subject and predicate; kana and its sisters, predicate of inna and its sisters; verbs and their types; their construction and inflection ('irab). The course ends with application of the above on Qur'anic texts, hadiths and other Arabic texts. |
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10406265
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Computer Use in Sharia Sciences
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1 |
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| This course aims at helping student acquire necessary computer skills and knowledge which enable him/her to access information about shari'a by using the computer, CDs, and internet. The course also aims at helping students get access to websites on shari'a sciences, ifta house (religions edicts) fiqh conclaves and research centers that have interest in Islamic financial institutions. In this course, students are expected to deliver a term paper on one topic of shari'a sciences, using solely a computer. |
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10406364
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Syntax Studies 2
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3 |
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| This course builds on Syntax I. Students will learn about mansoobat (accusatives): five types of objects; istithna (exception) al-hal(state), tamyeez (specification) majroorat (genitives), al-adad (number) and its metonymy; at-tawabi' (appositives): addition, substitution, emphasis, and sifa (adjective). The course ends with application of the above topics on Qur'anic texts, prophetic traditions (hadiths) and other Arabic texts. Students will also practice inflection of Al-Qahf sura and highlight the grammatical rules in it. |
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10406366
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Art of Oration
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2 |
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| This course covers a number of topics: importance of public speaking and its role in public awareness and guidance, the manner of preparing a successful speech, its qualities; basics of selection of a topic for a speech; qualities of a successful speaker, things that must be avoided in the speech and by the speaker. The course also addresses teaching topics: importance of giving a religious lesson; difference between lesson and speech; the ABCs of preparation of a successful lesson, the manner of planning a series of religious lessons. The students will be introduced to model religious speeches and lessons of famous speakers and preachers. To this end, You Tube and videos will be used. Students will also receive practical training on how to deliver public speeches. The practical part of the course will take 70% of the course times. |
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10411175
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Fiqh of Contemporary Financial Transaction
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3 |
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| This course is a study of comparative religions as a science, its origin, Muslim scholars' efforts in it, and state of this science in modern age. It is also a detailed study of Judaism and Christianity in terms of their history, origin of their creeds (t |
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10411179
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Introduction to Islamic Banks
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3 |
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| This course first surveys the origin and development of Islamic banks: their foundation, goals, characteristics, social and economic role, relationship with the central bank and conventional banks; sources of their financing, ways of investment and financing in them; ways of financing in Islamic banks: order to purchase murabaha (cost-plus financing) joint mudaraba(profit sharing) musharaka (joint venture) ijarah (lease, rent, wage) ending in ownership, as-salam al-muwazi (parallel forward delivery sale); istisna'a muwazi (back-to-back manufacturing) banking services they provide, criteria for distribution of dividends in them, management of Islamic banks, shari'a supervision of Islamic banks, and practical application of shari'a supervision. |
| Course Code |
Course Name |
Credit Hours |
Prerequests |
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10401135
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History of Islamic Legislation
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3 |
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| This course first introduces students to the meaning of fiqh and tashri' and their characteristics; origin and role of Islamic fiqh and its characteristics; originality of Islamic fiqh, fiqh disagreements and causes; origin of opinion and hadith schools and characteristics of each school. Then the course moves to well-known figures of fiqh: sahabis (companions) and tabi'in (followers), fiqh schools of thought; introduction to the followed fiqh schools: their followers, principles, characteristics, and publications of fiqh scholars. The course ends with textual fiqh study of selected topics from early fiqh scholars' books. The course also sheds light on contemporary conclaves and institutions, and introduces most important contemporary fiqh scholars. |
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10401224
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Fiqh of Legislative Verses and Hadiths
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3 |
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| Topics covered in this course are importance of studying fiqh issues based on legislative texts, presentation and demonstration on verses of commandments (ayat al-ahkam), and on hadiths of commandments and their methods. This is in addition to an analytic |
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10401226
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Human Rights, Environment In Islam and International Human Law
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3 |
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| This course highlights the following issues: attitude of Islamic shari'a towards human rights and environment rights. The course details human rights, such as right to live, move, and express oneself freely in Islam shari'a in comparison with international conventions and laws. The course also provides a realistic study of human rights and public freedom in Arab societies, rights of cross sections of the society (women and children); Islam's attitude towards the environments and law pertinent to its protection. The course ends with a look at the concept of international human rights law, human rights in wars and a comparison between Islam and international human law. |
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10401325
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International Relations In Islam
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3 |
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| Students in this course will be introduced to concept of international relations, concept of international law, and the most important fiqh publications on international relations in times of peace: People of the Book (dhimmis), safety, musta'man (one who is granted security in a Muslim land), international relations in times of war: jihad (holy war) prisoners of war, arbitration, ravages of war, treaties in Islam in terms of their types, conditions, ways of concluding them; stages of signing them, termination of treaties and their repeal; Islam and international human law. |
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10401328
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Wills and Waqf
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3 |
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| This course covers several topics: al-wasiyah (will), its meaning, its ruling, wisdom, pillars, conditions; its retraction and annulment; its acceptance and return; types of wills; waqf (endowment) its meaning, types, conditions, substitution; invalidity; waqf claims, ways of investing and developing waqf resources. |
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10401329
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Juristical Issues in Banning & Permitting
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3 |
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| This courses addresses the following topics: concept of ibaha (permissibility) and hather (prohibition), fiqh scholars' methodology in presenting ibaha and hather issues in fiqh books; study of several new fiqh issues pertinent to ibaha and hather such as saying prayers on board of plane, drugs, imported meat (canned, frozen and dried); faith (iman) and vows. |
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10401337
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Methods of Teaching Religion
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3 |
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| Topics covered in this course include the following: methods of teaching Islamic religion topics such as Holy Qur'an and its interpretation, prophetic teaching, aqida (creed), morals, fiqh, Islamic economy, financial transactions; concept of the school curriculum and factors affecting it; modern pedagogical theories, and methods of teaching primary, junior and secondary school students. |
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10401427
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Principles Of Legal Trials
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3 |
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| Topics covered in this course include definition of judiciary science, its types; differences between judiciary and ifta (religious edict), science of the principles of trials: its definition, nature, field, characteristics, importance, purposes, and principles of shari’a adaption. The course also addresses regulation of the judiciary system (courts and competency): levels of courts, their competencies, authorities, rulings; judges and their rulings, judges' assistants; court facilities; judicial rulings and ways of appealing them. In addition to this theoretical knowledge, the students will practice what they have learned through the study of real written models of shari'a trials pertinent to the aforementioned rulings. Students are expected to deliver well written reports on these models. Students will also make observation of at least two authentic trial sessions in courts and record the proceedings of these sessions. |
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10406248
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Qur'anic Story Telling
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3 |
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| This course covers several topics: meaning of story in language and usage, concept of Qur'anic story, its objectives and characteristics, most important contemporary suspicions raised around Qur'anic stories and responses to them. The course is also a det |
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10406254
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Fiqh of Siyra
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3 |
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| Topics addressed in this course include concept of sira (biography), its sources, importance, benefit, qualities, most important contemporary suspicions around the Qur'anic narrative and responses to them; study of the most important events in the life of |
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10406272
|
Islamic Psychology
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3 |
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| This course begins with a definition of what a psychological problem is, concept of psychology, its origin, Muslim scholars' contributions to it; importance of psychology for scholars and preachers, concept of Islamic psychology, its foundations, most important theories of psychology and Islam's attitude towards them; the psyche in the Holy Qur'an: its types, illnesses, treatment; most important contemporary psychological problems and their treatment from an Islamic perspective. The course will address problems such as depression, suppression, homosexuality, tendency towards violence, authoritarianism, schizophrenia. The course ends with a look at the most important psychological problems facing drug addicts and Islam's treatment of these problems. |
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10406273
|
Islamic Sociology
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3 |
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| This course introduces students to the concept of sociology as a social science, its origin, Muslim scholars' contributions to it, importance of sociology for a Muslim scholar and preacher. The course also highlights the concept of Islamic sociology, it goals, topics, fields and methods of research; most important contemporary theories in sociology and Islam's attitude towards them; bases of society building from an Islamic perspective, concept of civic society and its institutions. The course also introduces students to the concept of social peace and its foundations, the mosque, ruling authority and role of each in the Muslim society, social traditions in the Holy Qur'an and sunna; factors behind rise and fall of civilizations from an Islamic perspective. The course concludes with a study of the most serious social problems in modern societies and in Arab Muslim societies and how Islam addresses these problems which include crimes, drug addiction, marriage disputes, family breakdown, ethnic disputes, social violence, favoritism, bribery and political and financial corruption. |
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10406453
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The Inimitability of The Qur'an
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3 |
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| This course begins with a definition of miracle, inimitability (ijaz) and its importance, history of research in inimitability and its development, comparison between prophets' miracles, and types of inimitability in the Holy Qur'an: rhetorical, legislative, scientific, numerical, etc. |
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10411278
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Zakat Economics &Its Current Applications
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3 |
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| Topics covered in this course include a general fiqh introduction to zakat, its rules, conditions, amount of due, and its contemporary application: its accounting ,zakat of shares and bonds ,zakat of productive things, zakat of investment assets; zakat economies: position in the financial system, Islamic distribution system, zakat and tax; impact of zakat on investment, consumption ,savings, distribution, unemployment, inflation, development, and economic development. |
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10411286
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General Finance in Islam
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3 |
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| This course introduces students to the concept of public finance, financial system revenues, and expenditures, house of money (bayt al-mal) financing and investment budget of Islamic state, consumption, expenditures and investment in the Islamic state. |
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10411376
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Fiqh of Financial Markets
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3 |
|
| This course introduces students to the concept of stock exchanges, their importance, functions, types, instruments and ways of trading in them. It also addresses the shari’arules pertinent tothese exchanges, Islamic stock exchangesharesandtheircharacteris |
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10411377
|
Commercial and Cooperative Insurance
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3 |
|
| In this course ,students are introduced to the concept of insurance ,its types, insurance policy/contract ,its pillars and legal and fiqh characteristics; commercial insurance ruling, Islamic mutual insurance, its principles, characteristics,goals,procedures,accountability;mutualinsurancecompanies, their structure, and way of work. The course ends with an application of the mutual insurance company system. |
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10513316
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Design & Producing Teaching Aids
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3 |
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| This course begins with a description of the theoretical framework of audio visual educational aids in term of concept, importance characteristics, criteria for use, foundations of their design and production. The course then addresses the concept of the communication process and its elements. The course concludes with design and production of educational aids, by students, in their specialization in harmony with its theoretical framework. Students are expected to make use of modern technology in their design and production of these aids. |
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11011222
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation
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3 |
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