| Program Detail |
: This course is an introduction to the Islamic tradition, with a focus on Islamic Law and Religious Ethics. The course includes the Islamic ideas of obligation, justice, equality, and personal morality, including an examination of the foundations of these ideas in scriptural and legal traditions. Major course topics include the message of the Qur?an; the life and experience of the Prophet Muhammad; the beliefs, rituals, doctrines and institutions that have constituted the Islamic tradition from its inception until the present. The course examines the issue of the Islamic religious tradition, viewed as a cultural construct involving different manifestations throughout the Muslim world; development of various schools of law and theology; conceptions of Transcendent Reality and of the human condition, as well as the means of inter-relating with the spiritual realm; an examination of the structure of religious life, including social/individual experience. |
