NOBLE QUR'AN SECTION
TAFSEER AND 'ULOOM AL-QUR'AN
SUNNAH AND 'ULOOMUL-HADEETH
'AQEEDAH: ISLAMIC CREED
SEERAH NABAWIYYAH
FIQH AND USOOL AL-FIQH
DA'WAH AND ISLAMIC CULTURE
ARABIC LANGUAGE
ENGLISH
PSYCHOLOGY
ENGLISH GRAMMAR
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
EDUCATION
 


‘AQEEDAH: ISLAMIC CREEDISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY (60 Hours)

I. OBJECTIVES
 
  1. Enabling the student to be exposed to the intellectual legacy of Muslim philosophers and to understand and comprehend it.
  2. Understanding efforts to blend philosophy and religion in order to pass judgment on it.
  3. Bringing to light the great intellectual effort made by some Muslim philosophers to refute foreign philosophical ideas in order to protect the essence of the Ummah.
II. CLASS CONTENT
First Year
A. Philosophy and its Schools: Eastern and Greek
B. Cross Influence of Islamic Thought and Greek Thought: Translation Movement
C. Islamic Philosophy in the East: al-Kindee, al-Faaraabee, Ibn Seenaa and al-Ghazzaalee; their lives and philosophical views
D. Islamic Philosophy in the West: Ibn Maajah, Ibn Tufail, Ibn Rushd and Ibn Khaldoon; their lives and philosophical views
E. Modern Islamic Philosophy: Jamaalud-Deen al-Afghaanee, Muhammad Iqbaal

III. TEXTBOOKS
A. Required Text:
  Muhammad Muslehuddin, Islam and Its Theology and Greek Philosophy
M. Saeed Sheikh, Studies In Muslim Philosophy
Khaja Khan, The Philosophy Of Islam
Muhammad Umar Ud Din, The Ethical Philosophy Of Al Ghazzali
Hafiz Ghulamsarwar, Philosophy Of The Quran
‘Alee Saamee an-Nashshaar, Nash’ah al-Fikr al-Falsafee fee al-Islaam


B. Supplementary Texts:
  ‘Abdul-Haleem Mahmoud, at-Tafkeer al-Falsafee fil-Islaam
‘Aadil Fakhree, Taareekh al-Falsafah al-Islaamee
Zakareeyaa Basheer Imaam, Lamasaat fee al-Falsafah al-Islaamiyyah
Ibn Rushd, Faslul-Maqaal
Ibn Khaldoon, al-Muqaddimah

 

 
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