Master of Family Jurisprudence
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This is a specialized graduate academic program that combines Family Jurisprudence with Family Studies. It stems from the identity of the Imam Malik College of Sharia and Law and its mission of combining firm grounding in the Sharia sources with awareness of the legal and societal context. The program addresses family rulings, their Sharia objectives (maqasid), and the overarching jurisprudential theories that govern them, together with related family theories and dynamics and the psychological and social dimensions that influence them. It engages with contemporary family issues and their transformations, with family legislation and policies in the United Arab Emirates and their comparison with Sharia rulings and objectives, and with methodologies for studying and analyzing family problems within the bounds of the specialization and its Sharia, legal and professional controls. It allows in-depth study of a number of fields related to the specialization through elective courses. The program culminates in a scholarly thesis of nine credit hours that addresses a priority family issue using a rigorous scientific methodology.