| 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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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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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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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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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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10406250
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Analytical Interpretation 2
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3 |
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| This course is devoted to the analytical interpretation of An-Noor sura, Medinan Qur’an’s presentation of legislative rulings such as adultery punishment, qathf al-muhsanat( accusations of zina against the chastity of pure women) details of ifq incident |
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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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10406256
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Analytical Hadith 2
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3 |
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| This course is a study of hadiths (from Nayel al-Awtar aw Subol as-Salam) according to the analytical method. These hadiths cover attire, ushrat an-nisa (social living of woman) food, hunting slaughtered (animals) drinks, funerals, jihad (holy war). |
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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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10406351
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Methods of Exegesis
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3 |
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| This course addresses the following topics: introduction to exegesis and interpretation and differences between them, conditions for exegete qualification; transmitted exegesis: definition, study of some of its models; a look of exegesis of deviant sects. |
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10406357
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Methods of Hadith Scholars
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3 |
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| This course is a study of the methods and ways of hadith narrators in their publication of hadith books. These books include Al-Jawami’; Al-Bukhari wa Muslim; Kutob As-Sunan Al-Arba’; Sunan Ad-Darami; Al-Baihaki; Ad-Dar Qattani; Kutob Al-Masaneed ( Musnad Ahmed); Kutob Al-Musanafat( Musanaf Abdelraziq; Ibn Abi Shayba); Kutob Al-Mustadraqat( Al-Hakim); Al-Mustakhrajat; and Kutob At-Tabakat(Tabakat Ibn Sa’ad). |
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10406361
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The Islamic Creed 2
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3 |
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| This course is a detailed study of the belief in the angels, the prophets, the messengers, the heavenly books, the Day of Judgment, signs of the hour, resurrection, torture in grave, torture in hell, and blessings of paradise. |
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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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10406452
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Objective Exegesis
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3 |
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| This course deals with the objective exegesis in terms of definition and difference from analytical exegesis; importance of objective exegesis with the emphasis on contemporary issues: freedom, women, methodology of research, knowledge, dialog; factors behind rise and fall of civilizations, shura (consultancy) and ethics during wars. |
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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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10406462
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Comparative Religions
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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 (tenets), sects, laws, religious rites, feasts, holy religious texts and their current state of affairs. The course presents also a textual study of topics in their scriptures in comparison with their counterparts in the Holy Qur'an. The course caps with a look at non-heavenly religions with the aim of the familiarizing students with them. |
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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 |
|
| 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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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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10401337
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Methods of Teaching Religion
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3 |
|
| 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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10401433
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Discretion & Shari'a Intents
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3 |
|
| 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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10406272
|
Islamic Psychology
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3 |
|
| 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
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Islamic Sociology
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3 |
|
| 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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10406274
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Rhetoric in The Holy Quran
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3 |
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| This course begins with the definition of rhetoric as a science inimitability of the Qur'anic rhetorical style; concept, importance, characteristics, most important writings on it, past and present, rhetoric of word in the Holy Qur'an, science of meaning, science of philology, and science of rhetorical figures. This will be accompanied with practical applications of each on the Holy Qur'an verses. The course caps with an artistic description in the Holy Qur'an. |
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10406359
|
Objective Hadith Studies
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3 |
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| This course begins with a definition of what a thematic hadith is and its difference from an analytical hadith; its importance in our present life. Then, the course moves to a detailed study of models of thematic hadiths with emphasis on contemporary issues such tidings on inevitable victory of Islam in hadith, methods of education in hadith, treatment of religious extremism and exaggeration in religious phenomenon in hadiths. The course ends with a study of sex education, medical issues and rights of people with special needs in hadiths. |
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10406367
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Prophet in Teaching & Behavior
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3 |
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| This course focuses on a selection of prophetic hadiths pertinent to Islamic manners and heart softening hadiths. It also focuses on hadiths of virtues which educate a Muslim on noble morals. |
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10406368
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Al_Sunnah & its Status in Legislation
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3 |
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| Topics covered in this course include definition of sunna, its rank in legislation, deniers of authenticity of sunna, in the past and at present; fabrication of hadith phenomenon and scholars' efforts to fiqht it; sunna between the shiites and al-khawarij (rebels), Sahabis' (comparnions) justice; sunna beween the mu'tazilah,( political or religious neutralists) and al-mutakalimoon (Muslim theologians), sunna and orientalists, shobha (doubt) against sunna and its refutation. The course ends with a look at controls for sunna understanding. |
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10406370
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Dawah Methods
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3 |
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| Topics covered in this course include call to Allah, its importance, methods of calling to Allah, preaching, qualities of a successful caller to Islam, necessary contemporary religious knowledge/information caller should enjoy; importance of the caller's understanding of the reality, its particulars, the society and its contemporary problems, importance of direct calling and its methods such as calling through setting good examples and treatment, calling through modern literature: fiction, poetry, thought, essay or article, calling through social and charitable events. The course also touches on how calling can make use of mass media and modern technology such as social media (facebook, twitter, e-mail, etc) electronic sites, TV satellite channels, and projectors. The course includes practical training for students in call to Islam and its methods. This practical part of the course takes 30% of the course. |
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10406371
|
Studies in Islamic History
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3 |
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| This course introduces students to the concept of history, science and philosophy of history, Qur'an's attitude towards history, most important historians in Islamic history, sources of Islamic history and their methods, orientlists' methods in their study of Islamic history, most important suspicions they have raised this history and discussion of their shubhat (doubts). The course ends with analytical descriptive study of the most important events in Islamic history since the guided caliphate through the downfall of the Ottoman caliphate and the beginnings of the modern age. |
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10406375
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Islamic Journalism
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3 |
|
| Topics covered in this course include definition of media, its importance, functions, influence and attributes; development of mass media in contemporary world, legislative controls on media in Islam, impact of media on society, traits of Islamic perception of media, objectives of media in Islam, role of Islamic media in society development, extent of freedom given to media in Islam, role of women in the media from an Islamic perspective. The course is also a study of effective mass media real models from an Islamic perspective. These include satellite channels, magazines, and newspapers. The course also addresses the prospective role of Islamic media between reality and ambition. The course concludes with a study of live models from contemporary Islamic media. |
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10406469
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Islamic Sects and Contemporary School of Thoughts
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3 |
|
| This course begins with an examination of the development of Islamic sects and reasons for their emergence. It then moves to the study of the most important Islamic sects, their origin and attitude towards them in the light of the Holy Qur'an and sunna. These sects to be highlighted include ahlu sunna (adherents/followers of the sunna and the community) al-mu'tazilah (neutralists) al-matardiyah, al-sha'irah, al- marji'ah, al-Khawarij (rebels) the Shiites, the sufiyyah (sufism). The course is also a study of some deviant contemporary sects such as al-Qadyaniyah, al-Ahmadiyah, and al-Nasiriyah. The course also addresses a number of contemporary schools of thought, ideologies and trends and their impacts and Islam's attitude towards them. These include communism secularism, liberalism, capitalism, nationalism, globalization, and Zionism. The course caps with a study of the most important contemporary Islamic trends, their origins and position towards them. These trends include reformers, revivals, Muslim Brotherhood, contemporary salafists, jihadist salafists, al-Qa'ida and Liberation Party. |
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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
|
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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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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