Bachelor of Sharia
- Objectives and Outcomes of the Bachelor of Sharia Programme
| Objectives | Outcomes | Five Domains of Learning Outcomes in the National Qualifications System |
| 1-Enabling the student to know the characteristics of Islamic legislation and the rules and forms of its work in deducing rulings and solving contemporary jurisprudential problems. | 1- Identifies the various jurisprudential rulings from their sources, with full command of their principles, schools and basic theories. | 1- Knowledge 2- Skill |
| 2- Discusses advanced and complex rulings of Islamic jurisprudence, using research methods based on novelty, creativity and problem-solving. | 2- Skills 3- Autonomy and responsibility | |
| 2- Giving the student knowledge of the characteristics of both the Qur'an and the Sunnah and their methodology in presenting rulings. | 3- Derives jurisprudential questions and issues in an innovative way through proofs relating to the field of comparative jurisprudence. | 3- Autonomy and responsibility 4- Role in context |
| 4- Analyses jurisprudential rulings critically in the context of their application to contemporary events and issues. | 2- Skill 3- Autonomy and responsibility | |
| 3- Developing the student's skill in analysing Sharia texts and comparing them with legal texts. | 5- Compares the principles of Islamic jurisprudence with the principles of law in their most important foundations and prevailing legislative bases. | 3- Autonomy and responsibility 4- Role in context |
| 4- Providing the student with methods for measuring contemporary emerging issues against the general rules of Sharia. | 6- Expresses his personal viewpoint through various practical jurisprudential applications. | 2- Skills 3- Autonomy and responsibility |
| 7- Exercises ijtihad in writing his jurisprudential and fundamentals research and formulating its outcomes with full independence and little guidance. | 4- Role in context 5- Self-development | |
| 5- Honing the student's skills sufficiently to prepare individual and collective systematic research papers. | 8- Works in a research team or research group, as supervisor or participant, to formulate collective research outcomes. | 3- Autonomy and responsibility 4- Role in context |
| 9- Develops his jurisprudential and fundamentals knowledge, skills and research independently, within self-learning and professional practice. | 4- Role in context 5- Self-development | |
| 6- Enabling the student to understand the spirit of the age and instilling in him the ethics of the profession. | 10- Adheres to the ethics of Islamic Sharia and to spreading a culture of piety in his professional practice after graduation. | 1- Knowledge 4- Role in context |
4- Graduation Requirements:
To obtain the Bachelor of Sharia, students must fulfil the following requirements:
1- Successfully passing all the credit hours and courses of the programme.
2- Achieving a cumulative grade point average of at least (2) out of (4) at the end of their studies.
3- Spending the minimum period of residence in the programme, estimated at (6) regular semesters, without exceeding the maximum period of residence in the programme, estimated at (14) semesters.
5- Components of the Bachelor of Sharia Programme:
| Department of Sharia | Compulsory | Elective | Total |
| General College requirements | 14 | 4 | 18 |
| Common College requirements | 18 | 12 | 30 |
| Departmental specialisation requirements | 63 | 15 | 78 |
| Total credit hours | 95 | 31 | 126 |
| These hours include the external practical training and the graduation research (final) |
* Components of the Concentrated Study Track (Concentrated) – Family Guidance and Arbitration
| Concentrated Study Track (Concentrated) – Family Guidance and Arbitration | Compulsory | Elective | Total |
| Requirements of the Concentrated study track (Concentrated) | - | 15 | 15 |
| Total credit hours | - | 15 | 15 |
* Components of the Concentrated Study Track (Concentrated) – Sharia Supervision Standards in Islamic Banks
| Concentrated Study Track (Concentrated) – Sharia Supervision Standards in Islamic Banks | Compulsory | Elective | Total |
| Requirements of the Concentrated study track (Concentrated) | - | 15 | 15 |
| Total credit hours | - | 15 | 15 |
- List of Courses:
A – Compulsory General College Requirements
| Course No. | Course Name | Prerequisite | Credit Hours | Offering: Level | Offering: Semester |
| 1110102 | Arabic Language (1) | - | 3 | First | First |
| 1110204 | English Communication Skills | - | 2 | First | First |
| 1110903 | Introduction to Economics | - | 2 | First | First |
| 1210105 | Emirati Studies | - | 3 | Second | First |
| 1220102 | Arabic Language (2) | Arabic Language (1) | 2 | Second | Second |
| 1220207 | Innovation and Creativity Skills | - | 2 | Second | Second |
| Total credit hours | 14 |
B – Elective General College Requirements (college students select 4 credit hours from 18)
| Course No. | Course Name | Prerequisite | Credit Hours | Offering: Level | Offering: Semester |
| 1110309 | Sociology | - | 2 | First | First |
| 1210308 | Fundamentals of Modern Mathematics | - | 2 | First | First |
| 1120403 | Information Technology | - | 2-2 : 2 | First | Second |
| 1120309 | General Psychology | - | 2 | First | Second |
| 1120508 | Principles of Nutrition Science | - | 2 | First | Second |
| 1210508 | Human Rights in Islam and International Covenants | - | 2 | Second | First |
| 1220511 | Principles of Sustainable Development | - | 2 | Second | First |
| 1210602 | Principles of Public Administration | - | 2 | Second | Second |
| 1220410 | Principles of Artificial Intelligence | Information Technology | 2 | Second | Second |
| Total credit hours | 4 |
C – Compulsory Common College Requirements
| Course No. | Course Name | Prerequisite | Credit Hours | Offering: Level | Offering: Semester |
| 3110306 | Introduction to Islamic Legislation | - | 3 | First | First |
| 4110107 | Introduction to the Science of Law | - | 3 | First | First |
| 3110708 | Recitation and Memorisation Rules (1) | - | 1-1: 1 | First | First |
| 1210605 | Research Methods | After studying (30) credit hours | 2.1: 2 | Second | First |
| 3220907 | Islamic Creed (1) | - | 3 | Second | Second |
| 3310103 | Comparative Personal Status Jurisprudence | Introduction to Legislation | 3 | Third | First |
| 3320104 | Comparative Jurisprudence of Inheritance and Wills | Introduction to Legislation | 3 | Third | Second |
| Total credit hours | 18 |
D – Elective Common College Requirements (students choose either Maliki jurisprudence courses or Shafi'i jurisprudence courses; they may not combine or mix the two)
| Course No. | Course Name | Prerequisite | Credit Hours | Offering: Level | Offering: Semester |
| 3110104 | Maliki Jurisprudence of Worship (1) | Introduction to Legislation | 3 | First | First |
| 3110105 | Shafi'i Jurisprudence of Worship (1) | Introduction to Legislation | First | First | |
| 3120104 | Maliki Jurisprudence of Worship (2) | Maliki Worship 1 | 3 | First | Second |
| 3120105 | Shafi'i Jurisprudence of Worship (2) | Shafi'i Worship 1 | First | Second | |
| 3210105 | Maliki Jurisprudence of Transactions (1) | Maliki Worship 2 | 3 | Second | First |
| 3210106 | Shafi'i Jurisprudence of Transactions (1) | Shafi'i Worship 2 | Second | First | |
| 3220105 | Maliki Jurisprudence of Transactions (2) | Maliki Transactions 1 | 3 | Second | Second |
| 3220106 | Shafi'i Jurisprudence of Transactions (2) | Shafi'i Transactions 1 | Second | Second | |
| Total credit hours | 12 |
E – Compulsory Specialisation Requirements
| Course No. | Course Name | Prerequisite | Credit Hours | Offering: Level | Offering: Semester |
| 3120807 | Qur'anic Sciences | - | 3 | First | Second |
| 3120608 | Introduction to the Prophetic Sunnah | - | 3 | First | Second |
| 3120406 | Usul al-Fiqh (1) | Introduction to Legislation | 3 | First | Second |
| 3210814 | Grounding Sharia Rulings in the Qur'an and the Sunnah 1 | Introduction to the Sunnah | 3 | Second | First |
| 3210407 | Usul al-Fiqh (2) | Usul al-Fiqh 1 | 3 | Second | First |
| 3210708 | Recitation and Memorisation Rules (2) | Recitation Rules 1 | 1-1: 1 | Second | First |
| 3220612 | Analytical Hadith | Introduction to the Sunnah | 3 | Second | Second |
| 3220208 | Contemporary Medical Jurisprudential Research | Introduction to Legislation | 3 | Second | Second |
| 3310904 | Islamic Creed (2) | Islamic Creed 1 | 3 | Third | First |
| 3310505 | Legal Maxims (Qawa'id Fiqhiyyah) | Usul al-Fiqh 2 | 3 | Third | First |
| 3310606 | Jurisprudence of the Prophetic Biography (Sirah) | - | 3 | Third | First |
| 3310608 | Principles of Hadith Takhrij | Introduction to the Sunnah | 2-2 : 3 | Third | First |
| 3320705 | Recitation and Memorisation Rules (3) | Recitation Rules 2 | 1-1: 1 | Third | Second |
| 3320810 | Analytical Tafsir | - | 3 | Third | Second |
| 3310615 | Grounding Sharia Rulings in the Qur'an and the Sunnah 2 | Introduction to the Sunnah | 3 | Third | Second |
| 3321106 | Studies in Sharia in English | English Language Skills | 2 | Third | Second |
| 3410210 | Contemporary Financial Transactions | Maliki Transactions 2; Shafi'i Transactions 2 | 3 | Fourth | First |
| 3410402 | Usul al-Fiqh (3) | Usul al-Fiqh 2 | 3 | Fourth | First |
| 3410203 | Jurisprudence of the Judiciary and Methods of Proof | Personal Status | 2-2 : 3 | Fourth | First |
| 3410211 | External Practical Training | Completion of 90 credit hours | 3 | Fourth | First |
| 3420201 | Comparative Criminal Jurisprudence | Introduction to Legislation | 3 | Fourth | Second |
| 3420510 | Ijtihad, Fatwa and the Objectives of Sharia | Legal Maxims; Usul al-Fiqh 3 | 3 | Fourth | Second |
| 3421204 | Graduation Research Project | Research Methods; after (90) credit hours | 2 | Fourth | Second |
| Total credit hours | 63 |
F – Elective Specialisation Requirements (students of the department select five courses from this group, totalling 15 credit hours)
| Course No. | Course Name | Prerequisite | Credit Hours | Offering: Level | Offering: Semester |
| 4120707 | Constitutional Law and Political Systems | - | 3 | First | Second |
| 4220608 | Administrative Law | Introduction to Law | 3 | Second | Second |
| 3310810 | AAOIFI Sharia Standards (1) | Maliki Transactions 2; Shafi'i Transactions 2 | 3 | Third | First |
| 3310711 | Family Arbitration and Guidance in the United Arab Emirates | - | 3 | Third | First |
| 3320208 | Comparative Jurisprudential Issues | Introduction to Legislation | 3 | Third | First |
| 3320911 | Islamic Sects | Islamic Creed 1 | 3 | Third | Second |
| 3321012 | Methods of Da'wah and Oratory | - | 3 | Third | Second |
| 3320711 | AAOIFI Sharia Standards (2) | Sharia Standards 1 | 3 | Third | Second |
| 3410213 | Jurisprudence of International Relations | Introduction to Legislation | 3 | Fourth | First |
| 3410814 | Thematic Tafsir | - | 3 | Fourth | First |
| 3410615 | Studies in Hadith Sciences | Introduction to the Sunnah | 3 | Fourth | First |
| 3420914 | Contemporary Marriage and Divorce Issues: A Comparative Study | Personal Status | 3 | Fourth | Second |
| Total credit hours | 15 |
| Total credit hours for the Bachelor of Sharia programme | 126 |
G – Requirements of the Concentrated Study Track (Concentrated) – Family Guidance and Arbitration (15 credit hours)
| Course No. | Course Name | Prerequisite | Credit Hours | Offering: Level | Offering: Semester |
| Level | Semester | ||||
| 3220810 | Family Psychology | - | 3 | Second | Second |
| 3310711 | Family Arbitration and Guidance in the UAE | - | 3 | Third | First |
| 3311012 | Introduction to Family Education and Reform | Family Psychology | 3 | Third | First |
| 3410613 | Separation in Marriage and Its Effects in Jurisprudence and the UAE Personal Status Law | Personal Status | 3 | Fourth | First |
| 3420914 | Contemporary Marriage and Divorce Issues: A Comparative Study | Personal Status | 3 | Fourth | Second |
| Total credit hours | 15 |
H – Requirements of the Concentrated Study Track (Concentrated) – Sharia Supervision Standards in Islamic Banks (15 credit hours)
| Course No. | Course Name | Prerequisite | Credit Hours | Offering: Level | Offering: Semester |
| 3310810 | AAOIFI Sharia Standards (1) | Maliki Transactions 2; Shafi'i Transactions 2 | 3 | Third | First |
| 3320711 | AAOIFI Sharia Standards (2) | Sharia Standards 1 | 3 | Third | Second |
| 3411014 | AAOIFI Accounting Standards | Sharia Standards 2 | 3 | Fourth | First |
| 3420612 | Sharia Supervision in Islamic Banks | Sharia Standards 2 | 3 | Fourth | Second |
| 3420913 | Islamic Financial Institutions and the Islamic Central Bank | - | 3 | Fourth | Second |
| Total credit hours | 15 |
13- Course Descriptions:
Compulsory Specialisation Courses:
| Course Name | Introduction to Islamic Legislation |
| Course No. | 3110306 |
| Course Description | This course introduces Sharia and jurisprudence (fiqh), their respective characteristics, the need for legislation, the relationship of Sharia to earlier religious laws and to law, and the history of Islamic jurisprudence from the time of the Messenger of God (peace be upon him) to the present day. It highlights the efforts made to serve it and the challenges it faces. It introduces the jurisprudential schools, their methods and terminology, and the sources of Islamic legislation on which there is consensus and on which there is disagreement, with a brief overview of the general legal maxims. |
| Course Name | Introduction to the Science of Law |
| Course No. | 4110107 |
| Course Description | This course covers two main parts. Theory of Law: the general theory of law, including its definition, the characteristics of the legal rule, its classifications, its relationship with other social rules, the branches of law, its formal and interpretive sources, the application of law and the scope of its application in terms of place and time, the interpretation of law, and practical solutions to overcome the problem of conflict of laws. Theory of Right: the general theory of the right, including its definition, its relationship to law, the types and classifications of rights, their sources, the elements of a right in terms of its subjects (natural and juristic persons), its object, the manner of its exercise, the means of protecting and proving it, and the ways in which it is extinguished. |
| Course Name | Recitation and Memorisation Rules (1) |
| Course No. | 3110708 |
| Course Description | The student memorises the thirtieth part of the Qur'an (Juz' 'Amma) and masters the rules of recitation in theory, covering: an introductory account of the recitation (qira'ah) the student follows and its transmitter; the types of solecism (lahn) and their rules; the sakinah nun and tanwin; the sakinah mim; the doubled nun and mim; the rules of elongation (madd); qalqalah; the topic of emphatic (tafkhim) and light (tarqiq) pronunciation and its degrees; and pausing (waqf) and its types. The student applies these rules to audible recitations. |
| Course Name | Recitation and Memorisation Rules (2) |
| Course No. | 3210708 |
| Course Description | The student memorises the twenty-ninth part of the Qur'an (Juz' Tabarak) and masters the rules of recitation in theory, covering the articulation points (makharij) of the letters and their attributes (sifat). |
| Course Name | Recitation and Memorisation Rules (3) |
| Course No. | 3320705 |
| Course Description | The student memorises the twenty-eighth part of the Qur'an (Juz' Al-Mujadilah) and masters the rules of recitation in theory, covering the articulation points of the letters and their attributes. |
| Course Name | Qur'anic Sciences |
| Course No. | 3120807 |
| Course Description | This course contains the following topics: the study of the sciences relating to the Qur'an in terms of its collection, documentation and revelation; establishing its authority and its inimitability (i'jaz), and refuting its detractors; and the study of the most important schools of Qur'anic exegesis (tafsir), its sources and its methods. The content is detailed as follows: an introductory study of the origin of this science and its most important sources, past and present; the meaning of the Qur'an linguistically and in Sharia terms, its names, its inimitability, its translation, and the difference between it and the sacred (qudsi) and prophetic hadith; revelation (wahy), its meaning linguistically and in Sharia terms, its evidence and its states; the descent of the Qur'an, what was revealed first and last, the Meccan and Medinan revelations, the occasions of revelation (asbab al-nuzul), its revelation in seven modes (ahruf), and its revelation in the recognised readings, and the refutation of doubts raised by orientalists and commentators; the collection of the Qur'an, its meaning in the three periods of the Prophet, Abu Bakr al-Siddiq and Uthman; the Uthmanic script; the arrangement of verses and surahs, with discussion of the doubts raised; the decisive (muhkam) and the allegorical (mutashabih) verses; the general and the specific in the Qur'an; abrogation (naskh) in the Qur'an linguistically and technically, its types, the permissible and impermissible forms, and the refutation of doubts; the meaning of exegesis, its sources, its methods, its types and examples of each type; and jurisprudential exegesis according to the schools of law. |
| Course Name | Introduction to the Prophetic Sunnah |
| Course No. | 3120608 |
| Course Description | This course contains the following topics: the Sunnah and its standing in Islamic legislation, its authority, and the refutation of doubts raised about it; the Sunnah and the science of chains of transmission (isnad), establishing that the isnad is a science; a study of the history of the emergence of the sciences of hadith and its most important authors; an explanation of the status, judgement and categories of hadith in the following forms: the sound (sahih) and the sound by corroboration; the good (hasan) and the good by corroboration; the weak hadith; the supported (musnad), the elevated (marfu'), the halted (mawquf), the severed (maqta'), the disconnected (mursal), the interrupted (munqati'), the mu'dal, the mu'an'an and the mu'annan; tadlis (concealment of defects in a chain); shudhudh (irregularity); munkar; i'tibar, mutaba'at and shawahid; the additions of trustworthy narrators; the defective (mu'allal); the confused (mudtarib); the interpolated (mudraj); the inverted (maqlub); the fabricated hadith; the principles of judging a narrator in terms of the principles of criticism and endorsement (jarh wa ta'dil), and the description of those whose narrations are accepted and those that are rejected; the ways of receiving and transmitting hadith; the etiquette of the hadith scholar and of the seeker of hadith; high and low chains of transmission; the famous, rare and strange hadith; the musalsal; the abrogating and abrogated; the altered; the differing hadith; additions to continuous chains; and the hidden disconnected hadith. |
| Course Name | Maliki Jurisprudence of Worship (1) |
| Course No. | 3110104 |
| Course Description | This course covers the following topics: the chapter on purification (taharah) with all its sections, including pure and impure substances, the removal of impurity, answering the call of nature, the obligatory elements and nullifiers of ablution (wudu'), wiping over leather socks, ritual bathing (ghusl), dry ablution (tayammum), wiping over a splint, menstruation and postpartum bleeding; and the chapter on prayer (salah) with all its sections, including the times of prayer, the call to prayer (adhan), the conditions, pillars and recommended acts of prayer, making up missed prayers, prostration of forgetfulness, supererogatory prayers, prostration of recitation, congregational prayer, appointing a substitute imam, shortening prayer and the traveller's prayer, Friday prayer, the prayer of fear, the two festival prayers, the eclipse prayers, and funeral rites. |
| Course Name | Maliki Jurisprudence of Worship (2) |
| Course No. | 3120104 |
| Course Description | This course covers the following topics: the chapter on zakat, including the types of wealth on which zakat is due, the thresholds (nisab), the zakat of partners, how zakat is paid, its beneficiaries, the zakat on debts, investing zakat funds, and the role of zakat in supporting small enterprises; the chapter on fasting, including its establishment, the ruling on astronomical calculation, the conditions for the obligation of fasting, its pillars, etiquette and disliked acts, making up Ramadan, voluntary and disliked or prohibited fasting, the ruling on fasting in lands where days are long, and seclusion (i'tikaf) and its rules; and the chapter on pilgrimage (hajj), including its ruling and obligation, the distinction between the obligatory (fard) and the required (wajib) and its consequences in the pilgrimage according to the Malikis, the ruling on proxy pilgrimage in their view, the pillars of pilgrimage and the conditions of each pillar, its recommended and desirable acts, the types of ihram and the best of them, the temporal and spatial boundaries (mawaqit), a visual or video presentation of the spatial boundaries, the types of circumambulation (tawaf), the rules of running between Safa and Marwa (sa'y), standing at Arafat, how to exit the state of pilgrimage, pilgrimage supplications, what invalidates or spoils the pilgrimage, the sacrifices due in pilgrimage, the manifestations of ease in the Prophet's pilgrimage, the ruling on visiting the Prophet's tomb, the ruling on one who is prevented from completing the pilgrimage, and the rules of the lesser pilgrimage ('umrah). |
| Course Name | Shafi'i Jurisprudence of Worship (1) |
| Course No. | 3110105 |
| Course Description | This course covers the following topics: the book of purification with all its chapters and sections, including pure and impure substances, the removal of impurity, answering the call of nature, the obligatory elements and nullifiers of ablution, wiping over leather socks, ritual bathing, dry ablution, wiping over a splint, menstruation and postpartum bleeding; and the book of prayer with all its chapters and sections, including the call to prayer, the conditions of prayer, its pillars and recommended acts, making up missed prayers, prostration of forgetfulness, supererogatory prayers, prostration of recitation, congregational prayer, appointing a substitute imam, shortening prayer and the traveller's prayer, Friday prayer, the prayer of fear, the two festival prayers, the eclipse prayers, and funeral rites. |
| Course Name | Shafi'i Jurisprudence of Worship (2) |
| Course No. | 3120105 |
| Course Description | This course covers the following topics: the book of zakat with all its chapters, including its legal rulings, evidence and wisdom; the ruling on one who withholds zakat; who is obliged to pay zakat; the wealth on which zakat is due; the thresholds and their conditions and what zakat is due on them; the zakat of partners; how zakat is paid; the beneficiaries of zakat; and zakat on debt; the book of fasting with all its chapters, including its legal rulings, evidence and secrets; its definition and legislation; the establishment of the month of Ramadan; the conditions for the obligation of fasting and for its validity; the pillars of fasting; the etiquette and disliked acts of fasting; making up Ramadan, the ransom (fidyah) and the expiation (kaffarah); voluntary fasting, disliked fasting and prohibited fasting; and seclusion (i'tikaf); and the book of hajj and 'umrah with all its chapters, including its legal rulings, evidence and secrets; their definition and legitimacy; their ruling and evidence; the wisdom and benefits of hajj and 'umrah; who is obliged to perform them; who may validly perform them; ihram; the rites of hajj and 'umrah; the sunan of hajj; how to exit the state of pilgrimage; the supplications of hajj; what spoils the pilgrimage; the Prophet's pilgrimage; and visiting the Prophet's mosque and his noble tomb. |
| Course Name | Usul al-Fiqh (1) |
| Course No. | 3120406 |
| Course Description | This course contains the following topics: an introduction to the science of Usul al-Fiqh, its objectives, its fruits, its comparison with the sciences of jurisprudence, the legal maxims, the objectives of Sharia, and the science of fundamental rules; a statement of the Sharia ruling and its definitions; the divisions of the Sharia ruling; the rulings and questions relating to the Sharia ruling; the elements of the Sharia ruling and the questions relating to them; questions and issues of legal obligation in Islamic legislation; the legislator (hakim) and the rules relating to him; the thing enjoined (mahkum fihi) and the rules relating to it; the person subject to obligation (mahkum 'alayh) and the rules relating to him; and capacity (ahliyyah), its types and its incidental conditions. |
| Course Name | Usul al-Fiqh (2) |
| Course No. | 3210407 |
| Course Description | This course contains the following topics: an introduction to the sources of Islamic legislation on which there is consensus and on which there is disagreement; knowledge of the Book (the Qur'an), its authority and the rulings it contains; the Sunnah, its authority, its divisions and the rulings it contains; solitary reports (khabar al-ahad) and the disagreement over acting on them; consensus (ijma'), its authority, its types and its basis, and whether consensus has in fact been established; analogy (qiyas), its authority, the evidence of its proponents and of its opponents, and the response to them; the effective cause ('illah), its definition and conditions, and the methods of identifying it; juristic preference (istihsan), its authority, and the response to those who do not accept it; public interest (maslahah mursalah), its definition and authority; custom ('urf), its types and its authority, and the change of rulings with the change of custom; blocking the means (sadd al-dhara'i') to acts that lead to harm; presumption of continuity (istishab), its definition, its authority, the evidence for its authority, and the rules built upon it; the statement of a Companion and the point of disagreement concerning it; the practice of the people of Medina and the opinion of Imam Malik on it; the law of those before us and the disagreement over acting on it. |
| Course Name | Usul al-Fiqh (3) |
| Course No. | 3410402 |
| Course Description | The student learns about the topics of the indications of words (dalalat al-alfaz), including derivation (ishtiqaq), synonymy (taradduf), lexical homonymy (ishtirak lafzi), the divisions of speech into its two branches of literal (haqiqah) and figurative (majaz) meaning, the indication of the explicit (mantuq) and the implicit (mafhum), and the forms of command and prohibition with the questions relating to them. He then learns about the general (‘amm) and its terms and indication, the specific (khass) and its indication and its forms between specification (takhsis) and abrogation, the conflict of the general and the specific, the exception (istithna') and its rules and conditions, the absolute (mutlaq) and the qualified (muqayyad), then the ambiguous (mujmal) and its divisions and causes, and finally abrogation (naskh) with an account of its types and forms, and the points of difference over its occurrence. |
| Course Name | Maliki Jurisprudence of Transactions (1) |
| Course No. | 3210105 |
| Course Description | This course studies the rules of contracts and financial transactions in the Maliki school in a manner that unites tradition with contemporary practice, building the student's knowledge base in the jurisprudence of financial transactions in Islam. Through the course the student understands the wisdom of Islamic legislation in financial transactions, by studying sale and its pillars; usury (riba) and its types; forbidden sales; the chapters on advance sale (salam), hire (ijarah) and loan (qard); and a number of security contracts such as pledge (rahn), guarantee (daman), surety (kafalah) and assignment (hawalah), together with matters relating to sale such as interdiction (hajr) and insolvency (taflis) and others. |
| Course Name | Maliki Jurisprudence of Transactions (2) |
| Course No. | 3220105 |
| Course Description | This course studies the rules of contracts and financial transactions in the light of the jurisprudential schools in a manner that unites tradition with contemporary practice, building the student's knowledge base in the jurisprudence of transactions. Through the course the student understands the philosophy of Islamic legislation in financial transactions, by studying partnership contracts such as company (sharikah) and profit-sharing (qiradh); some chapters of rights and obligations such as insolvency, settlement (sulh) and acknowledgement (iqrar); and gratuitous contracts such as gift (hibah), loan for use (ariyah), charity (sadaqah) and the waiting period ('iddah). |
| Course Name | Shafi'i Jurisprudence of Transactions (1) |
| Course No. | 3210106 |
| Course Description | This course covers the contracts of the Shafi'i jurists relating to exchange (mu'awadat), namely: sale and its pillars, conditions and related rules; permissible sales; forbidden sales prohibited for their unlawfulness and those prohibited for their reprehensibility; the sale of assets and fruits; usury (riba); currency exchange (sarf); options in sale; advance sale (salam); loan; hire (ijarah) and the related contemporary issues. |
| Course Name | Shafi'i Jurisprudence of Transactions (2) |
| Course No. | 3220106 |
| Course Description | This course deals with the chapters of transactions relating to gratuitous contracts, namely gift (hibah), loan for use (ariyah), lost property (luqatah), the foundling (laqit), reclamation of dead land (ihya' al-mawat), the chapters on settlement (sulh), deposit (wadi'ah) and endowment (waqf), as well as partnership contracts such as company (sharikah), agency (wakalah), profit-sharing (qiradh), irrigation partnership (musaqah), sharecropping (muzara'ah) and the mukhabarah, with the legal rulings they contain, the related rulings such as coercion, usurpation and acknowledgement, and the application of these transactions to contemporary reality, showing how closely Sharia transactions are linked to ethical values. |
| Course Name | Grounding Sharia Rulings in the Qur'an and the Sunnah 1 |
| Course No. | 3210814 |
| Course Description | This course contains the following topics: an introduction to the ways in which Sharia texts from the Qur'an and the Sunnah are used to establish legal rulings, and how the jurist grounds the jurisprudential meaning of a text so that it may be applied to new events and emergencies, with an explanation of the methods of doing so through: the rulings of the permissible category of foods, drinks, slaughter and its types and rulings; hunting, slaughtered animals, the sacrificial animal, the 'aqiqah, and the rulings concerning a newborn; the chapter on jihad, its rulings and types; and the chapter on oaths and vows and the texts on them in the Qur'an and the Sunnah. |
| Course Name | Grounding Sharia Rulings in the Qur'an and the Sunnah 2 |
| Course No. | 3310615 |
| Course Description | This course complements Grounding Sharia Rulings in the Qur'an and the Sunnah 1, covering the jurisprudential topics from the texts of the Qur'an and the Sunnah that were not covered by the other jurisprudence courses. It includes the following topics, explained and derived from the jurist's inferences from Qur'anic verses and prophetic hadith: the Surah al-Fatihah and the rulings relating to it; the rulings on sorcery; the rulings on marrying polytheist women; the rulings on the guardianship of believers and disbelievers; the rulings on forbidden women; the rulings on the guardianship (qiwamah) of men and marital discord; the rulings on brigandage (hirabah); the rulings on wine and intoxicants; the rulings on adornment and dress for women and men; the rulings on the bequest to parents; the rulings on sending blessings upon the Prophet (peace be upon him); the rulings on the prohibition of images; the rulings on legal stratagems (hiyal); the ruling on killing a captive; and the rules of etiquette in gatherings. |
| Course Name | Analytical Tafsir |
| Course No. | 3320810 |
| Course Description | This course contains the following topics: the definition of analytical tafsir, its origin, its importance and its method; applied models from Surat Al 'Imran, considering in each section of the surah the recitations transmitted, the occasions of revelation, the linguistic analysis of words and letters (meanings, implications, grammar and morphology), the aspects of parsing and their relation to exegesis, the rhetorical analysis (eloquence, meanings and embellishment), the disclosure of the connections between verses (munasabat), a presentation of the opinions of scholars, and the mention of the guidance and instruction indicated by the verses in various fields. |
| Course Name | Analytical Hadith |
| Course No. | 3220612 |
| Course Description | This course contains the following topics: an introduction to analytical hadith, its importance, the most important works in it, and its difference from thematic (maudu'i) hadith; the hadith of legal rulings; and the study of more than twenty hadiths from the Six Books, the Muwatta' of Imam Malik (may God be pleased with him), and others. The study covers the linguistic and rhetorical aspects and the science of hadith transmission, together with the doctrinal, jurisprudential, ethical and other rulings that may be derived from the hadiths, to help in understanding the hadith in addressing contemporary developments, with a focus on explaining the method of deduction and the ways of reconciling and preferring between meanings and the opinions of the imams. |
| Course Name | Contemporary Medical Jurisprudential Research |
| Course No. | 3220208 |
| Course Description | This course contains the following topics: an introduction to newly arising jurisprudential issues in modern medicine, their Sharia rulings and the jurisprudential opinions relating to them, in pursuit of the lasting purpose of Islam and its enduring Sharia, which is suited to every time and place; and the student's understanding of the principles of jurisprudential reasoning on contemporary medical questions and of how to judge them within the framework of the principles and general rules of Sharia. Within this context the following issues may be studied: cloning, test-tube babies, organ donation, abortion, birth control, genetic fingerprinting, surrogacy, cosmetic surgery, milk banks, means of delaying menstruation and its effect on worship, gene therapy and its ruling, medical fertilisation, and contemporary medical breaking-of-the-fast. |
| Course Name | Jurisprudence of the Prophetic Biography (Sirah) |
| Course No. | 3310606 |
| Course Description | This course contains the following topics: an introduction to the biography (sirah), its characteristics and its sources; the study of the events of the biography and its stages, to learn the life of the Prophet (peace be upon him) from birth to death; an analytical study of the most important events and positions in his call and his dealings with Muslims and non-Muslims in times of peace and war, drawing lessons, lessons and jurisprudential rulings from them; a study of the Prophet's family life and his dealings with his household, drawing conduct and rulings from them; an account of the status of the Prophet's household (peace be upon him); an account of the role of the Companions in supporting the call and in receiving and spreading the sciences of religion; and the refutation of doubts and calumnies raised about the Prophetic biography. |
| Course Name | Islamic Creed (1) |
| Course No. | 3220907 |
| Course Description | This course addresses the introductory matters of the science of creed (‘aqidah), including: its names, its legitimacy, the ruling on learning it, its founder; the definition of creed and of the science of creed and the difference between them; the reasons for the expansion of the topics of the science of creed and the requirements of renewing it; then the topics of faith (iman), the conditions of legal obligation relating to it, the ruling on rational argument concerning it, the disagreement of the scholars over its definition, its reality, its increase and decrease. It then presents the first section (the divine attributes, ilahiyyat), reviewing the traditional and modern proofs of the existence of the Truth, the foundations of knowledge of Him based on knowledge of His names and attributes, the divisions of attributes and the disagreement of the theological schools over them, and the views of the scholars on that; and it concludes with the topics of divine decree and destiny (qadar) and the vision of God. |
| Course Name | Islamic Creed (2) |
| Course No. | 3310904 |
| Course Description | This course presents the three remaining sections of creed after the divine attributes: prophethood (nubuwwat), including the differences between prophethood and messengership and the conditions of each, the characteristics of miracles, the manifestations of inimitability in the Holy Qur'an, the wonders of saints (karamah) and the ranks of creation; then the cosmic realities, the nature of the human soul, the question of the spirit and the intellect, the reality of death and the world of the barzakh, the angels in their categories, and the jinn in their natures and realities; and it concludes with the unseen (ghayb), including the portents of the Hour, the reality of resurrection, gathering, intercession, reckoning, paradise and hell, and the forgiveness of sins. It explains the relationship between these matters, connects them to the questions of faith, and shows their effects on human life. |
| Course Name | Comparative Personal Status Jurisprudence |
| Course No. | 3310103 |
| Course Description | This course contains the following topics: the importance of the family and the preliminaries of marriage, including betrothal (khitbah), its rulings, conditions and effects; marriage (nikah), its pillars and conditions, and the women who are forbidden; the effects that follow from it in terms of rights and rulings; the guardian (wali) in marriage and his rulings; equivalence (kafa'ah) in marriage; the rulings on disputes between spouses, polygamy and equal treatment among wives and what relates to them; the role of reform and family guidance in bringing spouses together and limiting the phenomenon of divorce; the separation of spouses, including divorce, its definition, its pillars and conditions, its types and the ruling on each type, the rulings on revocation (raj'ah), the witnessing of divorce, the consolation payment (mut'ah) due upon it, khul' and judicial separation, separation by the ruling of Sharia, the waiting period ('iddah) and its rulings, and the rights of children; with a comparison of all of this to the UAE Personal Status Law. |
| Course Name | Comparative Jurisprudence of Inheritance and Wills |
| Course No. | 3320104 |
| Course Description | This course covers two parts. Part one: inheritance (mawarith), including the nature of the science of inheritance, its principles, its importance and its terminology; the pillars of inheritance, its conditions, its causes and its impediments; the estate (tarikah) and the rights attached to it; the knowledge of the sharers (ashab al-furud), their conditions and their shares; the inheritance of agnatic heirs (‘asabah), its rules, and the types and divisions of agnates; exclusion (hajb), the increase of shares (‘awl), the return (radd), and inheritance by estimation, such as the inheritance of the unborn child (haml) and the missing person (mafqud), the inheritance of an illegitimate child and by li'an, the inheritance of the distant kindred (dhawu al-arham), the mutual release of heirs (takharuj), and successive deaths (munasakhat). Part two: wills (wasaya), including the definition of the bequest, its legitimacy, the wisdom of its legislation, the types of bequests, its pillars, and the obligatory bequest, with an explanation of the rulings of the UAE Personal Status Law No. 28 of 2005, which regulates inheritance and bequests. |
| Course Name | Legal Maxims (Qawa'id Fiqhiyyah) |
| Course No. | 3310505 |
| Course Description | This course contains the following topics: an introduction to the science of legal maxims, the meaning of a legal maxim, the difference between a legal maxim and a principle of jurisprudence, the origin of legal maxims, their importance and their development, and the difference between a legal maxim and a jurisprudential theory; then the statement of the legal maxims and their applications: First, the five universal maxims and the applications that branch from them, together with the exceptions to these maxims and the subsidiary maxims that have been derived from them; second, the universal maxims other than the great ones, with their proofs, branches and exceptions, such as the maxim that when the lawful and the unlawful are mixed, the unlawful prevails, that the discretion of the ruler over the subjects is tied to public interest, and that the prescribed penalties (hudud) are waived by doubt; third, the maxims specific to particular chapters, their meanings, branches and exceptions, such as that whatever is cut from a living animal is like its carrion, that every carrion is impure except fish and locusts, and that prayer on a roadside is disliked except in open country; fourth, the maxims on which there is disagreement, with their meanings, branches and the basis of the disagreement, such as whether disobedience (ma'siyah) precludes the concession (rukhsah), whether the consideration in contracts is for their wording or their meanings, and whether the default in things is permissibility or prohibition. |
| Course Name | Ijtihad, Fatwa and the Objectives of Sharia |
| Course No. | 3420510 |
| Course Description | This course contains the following topics: the definition of ijtihad, its legitimacy, its importance, its ruling, and its conditions; the ijtihad of the Prophet (peace be upon him); the ijtihad of the Companions during the lifetime of the Prophet; the method of the Companions in ijtihad after the death of the Prophet; the method of the Successors in ijtihad; the pillars of ijtihad, its sources, the conditions of the mujtahid, the ranks of mujtahids, the rulings on ijtihad in terms of its effect and the Lawgiver's description of it, the partitioning of ijtihad, and the overturning of ijtihad. It covers the definition of fatwa, the controls and etiquette of fatwa, the mufti and his conditions and etiquette, the change of fatwa with changes of time, place and circumstances, collective ijtihad, the jurisprudential councils and their role in strengthening ijtihad, and the study of model fatwas from fatwa institutions. It also defines the objectives of Islamic Sharia, the connection of the objectives to the textual evidence, the rationale of the Sharia rulings, the benefits of the objectives of Sharia, the types of objectives, the application of the objectives of Sharia to contemporary legal rulings, the rules of ijtihad in light of the objectives, the jurisprudence of reality (fiqh al-waqi'), the jurisprudence of priorities (fiqh al-awlawiyat), and the jurisprudence of balancing (fiqh al-muwazanat). |
| Course Name | Jurisprudence of the Judiciary and Methods of Proof |
| Course No. | 3410203 |
| Course Description | This course introduces the judicial arrangements in Islamic jurisprudence and UAE law, the concept of the judiciary, the conditions of the judge and the judge's assistants, the definition of a claim (da'wa), its conditions, elements and types, the procedures for hearing a claim in jurisprudence and in law, the methods of proof (testimony, oath, admission, writing, expertise, circumstantial evidence), the judicial ruling, its conditions and types, challenges to a ruling, and the enforcement of rulings, all in Islamic jurisprudence and the laws of the State of the UAE. |
| Course Name | Comparative Criminal Jurisprudence |
| Course No. | 3420201 |
| Course Description | This course presents a general study of crime and punishment and of the philosophy on which Islamic criminal legislation is based; the types of crimes, namely the crimes of fixed penalties (hudud), rebellion (baghy) and brigandage (hirabah) and their contemporary applications, fornication (zina), theft, false accusation (qadhf), wine, apostasy; the elements of each crime, the means of proving it, its penalty, how it is carried out and what extinguishes it; retaliation (qisas) for homicide and for lesser injuries, its elements, conditions, means of proof and what extinguishes it; the rulings on blood money (diyah), its types, blood money for a life and for limbs; discretionary offences (ta'zir), the controls of discretionary punishment and its rulings; and objections to penalties in Islam with responses to them. All of this is a comparative study between Islamic jurisprudence and the laws in force in the State of the UAE. |
| Course Name | Principles of Hadith Takhrij |
| Course No. | 3310608 |
| Course Description | This course contains the following topics: the study of the principles of hadith takhrij, the methods followed in classifying hadith books, the methods of takhrij and what each method is used for, the issues of using computers in takhrij, and the sources and references of takhrij. The course then provides an introduction to the principles of studying chains of transmission and to the works on criticism and endorsement (jarh wa ta'dil), and to methods of researching the condition of narrators, and of those on whom there is consensus and those on whom there is disagreement. It then examines the steps for judging a hadith and the ways of benefiting from the judgements of earlier and later hadith scholars, with practical applications. |
| Course Name | Contemporary Financial Transactions |
| Course No. | 3410210 |
| Course Description | This course introduces newly arising jurisprudential questions in the field of financial transactions, presenting contemporary jurisprudence of financial transactions, its characteristics and the principles of reasoning on its questions. Through it the following topics may be addressed: Islamic banks and their characteristics and operations; traditional and Islamic banking services such as cash remittance, documentary credit, letters of guarantee, bank deposits, investment of funds in Islamic banks, cash financing through bank tawarruq, in-kind financing through murabahah to the purchase orderer, ijarah muntahia bittamleek (lease ending in ownership), the stock market and the shares and bonds traded on it, insurance, its definition and types (commercial insurance, cooperative and social insurance), credit cards and their types, and traditional and contemporary money and its rulings. |
| Course Name | Studies in Sharia in English |
| Course No. | 3321106 |
| Course Description | This course introduces the student to the core concepts that inform contemporary reform trends in Islamic thought. Core concepts such as the Muslim worldview of Tawhid and its implications for contemporary Islamic thought and practice at the individual and societal levels will be presented and explained. Ideas such as the Ummah, its historical role and current state will be discussed. Other concepts such as Islah, Tajdid, Ijtihad and Shura will be presented and explained historically and within the contemporary context. The course also introduces students to Islamic principles and perspectives regarding issues of social justice, freedom, ethics, good governance, equality, protection of life, property and the environment, and how they inform contemporary debates on reform of Islamic thought. |
| Course Name | External Practical Training |
| Course No. | 3410211 |
| Course Description | This course provides the student with practical training in dealing with family guidance and arbitration cases of all types, their themes and sessions. It also develops the student's skills in pleading, drafting statements of claim, memoranda and minutes, and appeals of all kinds. It trains the student in how to conduct litigation through simulated trials that reflect actual practice, and includes training in the departments of Islamic affairs and religious guidance, the bodies for legal opinions (fatwa), and the departments of Sharia supervision in Islamic banks. |
| Course Name | Graduation Research Project |
| Course No. | 3421204 |
| Course Description | This course is designed to prepare the student to enter postgraduate studies with distinction. The student's right to graduate and to receive the Bachelor of Sharia degree is not guaranteed unless he completes the graduation research in the final semester and obtains the acceptance of the discussion committee. A faculty member supervises the student, helps him choose his research topic, guides him through the steps of research and organises the supervision work in preparation for its completion and subsequent discussion in accordance with the established procedures. |
Elective Specialisation Courses:
| Course Name | Thematic Tafsir |
| Course No. | 3410814 |
| Course Description | This course contains the following topics: the definition and origin of thematic tafsir, its importance, the conditions of thematic tafsir, the methods of thematic tafsir, the relationship of thematic tafsir to other kinds of tafsir, the most important books of thematic tafsir, the types of thematic tafsir (the Qur'anic term, the thematic unity of a surah, and the Qur'anic theme), the methodology of work in each of these types, and applied models of each type of thematic tafsir. |
| Course Name | Jurisprudence of International Relations |
| Course No. | 3410213 |
| Course Description | This course addresses a matter of great importance: the relationship of the Muslim with others. It then moves on to an understanding of international relations and international law in Islam, in terms of their concept and the foundations on which they rest, and the principles for organising relations between states in time of peace, namely whether the original relationship with non-Muslims is peace or war. It compares and contrasts the rules and rulings of Islamic jurisprudence in the field of international relations with contemporary international legislation. It covers the rulings on jihad in Islamic jurisprudence, the definitions of the Abode of Islam and the Abode of War, treaties and reconciliation, the ruling on international agreements and treaties in Islamic jurisprudence, the principles for organising international relations in time of war, the legitimacy and motives of war in Islam, when and how war is declared and its rules, and how war ends and its effect on persons and property. It also refutes the doubts relied upon by proponents of extremist currents: the claim of the jahiliyyah of society, sovereignty (hakimiyyah) and its relation to takfir, the leadership (imarah) in the thought of groups, and the claim that Islam spread by the sword. It explains the concepts of tolerance, coexistence and citizenship. |
| Course Name | Islamic Sects |
| Course No. | 3320911 |
| Course Description | This course defines the concept of Islamic sects and explains the causes and factors of their emergence, the effect of Islamic sects on creed and on society, and the circumstances of origin and the principles of the following sects: the Kharijites; the Murji'ah; the Qadariyyah; the Jabriyyah; the currents of negation (ta'til), including the Jahmiyyah and the Mu'tazilah; the currents of anthropomorphism (tajsim); the Muqatilah, the Salimiyyah and the Karramiyyah; the Twelver Shia; the Zaydi Shia; the Isma'ili Shia; and the most important esoteric movements, distinguishing them from the Islamic sects. |
| Course Name | Methods of Da'wah and Oratory |
| Course No. | 3321012 |
| Course Description | This course contains the following topics: the definition of da'wah, its aims and its legitimacy; the first caller, Muhammad (peace be upon him), and the revelation sent down to him; examples from his biography with his Companions and his opponents; the qualities of the caller; the methods of da'wah; the relationship of da'wah to the method of gradualism in legislation and its observance in addressing those invited; understanding psychological states and their relation to the principles of da'wah; taking account of the condition of those addressed and understanding their cultures and languages; the worldly and otherworldly fruit of calling to God; and the culture of the caller. It then defines oratory (khitabah), explains its types and the characteristics of each type, the parts and style of the sermon, the use of citation in the sermon, the qualities of the orator, and the sources of the sermon and their relation to the various kinds of knowledge. |
| Course Name | Studies in Hadith Sciences |
| Course No. | 3410615 |
| Course Description | This course contains the following topics: the definition of the Prophetic Sunnah, its authority, the need for it and its standing in Islamic legislation; the writing down of the Sunnah in the time of the Prophet and in the ages after him, and the difference between writing (kitabah) and compilation (tadwin); the Sunnah in the era of the Rightly Guided Caliphs and in the era of the Successors; the doubts raised about the Sunnah from the age of the Companions onwards; the position of the orientalists on the Prophetic Sunnah in the modern era; the Sunnah and the Prophetic miracle; and contemporary doubts about the Sunnah and the method of refuting them. |
| Course Name | Comparative Jurisprudential Issues |
| Course No. | 3320208 |
| Course Description | Through selected disputed issues in worship, personal status and transactions, this course covers comparative jurisprudence, the causes of the differences among jurists and their fruits, linking the disagreement of earlier scholars to disputed contemporary issues, and showing the points of agreement and difference and the preferred opinion (tarjih). Through the course the disagreement of jurists and the comparison of their views may be shown on the following issues. First, worship: the disagreement over the ruling on purification from impurity, the places where it applies and its removal with contemporary purifiers; the property on which zakat is due and the zakat on shares and bonds; the time at which fasting becomes obligatory and the sighting of the crescent with modern instruments and satellites, and the unification of horizons (tawhid al-matali'); and the condition of capacity (istita'ah) for pilgrimage and the condition of obtaining a permit. Second, personal status: the disagreement over the rulings on looking at the woman being betrothed; the conclusion of marriage by writing; the effects of withdrawing from betrothal; marriage combined with an intention to divorce; musyar marriage (marriage in which the wife waives some rights); and marriage concluded online. Third, transactions: rights and their types; the value of usufructs; intellectual property rights; absolute sale and the absolute sale of goods; the disputed conditions of advance sale (salam); the sale of 'inah; guarantees of payment in instalment sales; and monopoly and price-fixing and their contemporary forms. |
Family Guidance and Arbitration Concentrated Track – Elective Courses:
| Course Name | Family Psychology |
| Course No. | 3220810 |
| Course Description | This course identifies the components of the family, the types of families, the functions of the family in Islam, the status of the family and the foundations of its building, the criteria for choosing a spouse, the aims of family psychology, its origin and its theories, the factors that lead to harmony and those that lead to discord, methods of treatment, and the causes of family problems and ways of treating them. |
| Course Name | Introduction to Family Education and Reform |
| Course No. | 3344012 |
| Course Description | This course aims to introduce students to the principles of education and the foundations on which the family rests as the basic building block of society. It covers the basic concepts of family education and the importance of family reform in confronting contemporary social problems. It focuses on the role of Islamic values in strengthening family bonds and the ways of achieving balance among the members of the family. It also reviews modern educational theories and the most important practical applications of family reform, highlighting the skills of solving family problems and sound guidance for building a cohesive and stable family. |
| Course Name | Family Arbitration and Guidance and Its Reality in the UAE |
| Course No. | 3310711 |
| Course Description | This course introduces the student to the concept, legitimacy, importance and objectives of family guidance; the origin and reality of family guidance; and the relationship of family guidance to reform. It also covers family guidance committees in terms of their concept and their legal characterisation in the UAE system; applied models of family guidance; the ruling on holding family guidance sessions remotely using modern technology; the ruling on a woman undertaking family guidance; and the proposed remedies for making family guidance successful in practice. |
| Course Name | Separation in Marriage and Its Effects in Jurisprudence and the UAE Personal Status Law |
| Course No. | 3410613 |
| Course Description | A study of the concept of separation in marriage and its types: separation at the husband's will (talaq) and its rulings; judicial separation and separation by the ruling of Sharia; separation by the ruling of a judge and its rulings; khul' and its rulings; ila' (oath of abstention) and its rulings; zihar and its rulings; li'an and its related rulings; the waiting period and its rulings; the rights of children, descent (nasab), breastfeeding (radha'), custody (hadanah), and maintenance and its rulings. All of this is compared with the UAE Personal Status Law. |
| Course Name | Contemporary Marriage and Divorce Issues: A Comparative Study |
| Course No. | 3420914 |
| Course Description | This course covers contemporary marriage and divorce issues and the related terms; the importance of marriage given the number of its conditions; the newly emerging forms of marriage, including marriage of convenience, marriage with an intention to divorce, customary marriage and musyar marriage; the effect of modern technology on questions of marriage and divorce, including digital communication between betrothed persons, setting a minimum marriage age, medical examination before marriage, compensation for harm caused by withdrawal from betrothal, conducting marriage by modern means of communication, virtual seclusion, equivalence between spouses and its connection with changing customs among people, women's work, fixing the dower (mahr), the treatment of an ill wife between jurisprudence and law, divorce and its contemporary expressions in light of Islamic jurisprudence, the divorce of one under sorcery, divorce by modern means of communication, sham divorce, documenting divorce and witnessing it, the role of circumstantial evidence in proving defects in marriage, the role of circumstantial evidence in proving the closure of the hymen, the effect of genetic fingerprinting in establishing and denying descent, the custody right of a woman with a contagious disease; all of this compared with the Personal Status Law, with a statement of the resolutions of the jurisprudential councils. |
Sharia Supervision Standards in Islamic Banks Concentrated Track – Elective Courses:
| Course Name | Sharia Supervision Standards in Islamic Banks |
| Course No. | 3420612 |
| Course Description | This course introduces the student to the concept of supervision and its types; the central bank as a sovereign supervisory institution; supervision of conventional banks, its current methods and tools; the particularity of Islamic banks and the need to develop new tools and means; Sharia supervision of Islamic banks, its concept, objectives and controls; the instruments and methods of Sharia supervision; and the criteria for judging the effectiveness of Sharia supervision in Islamic banks. |
| Course Name | Islamic Financial Institutions and the Islamic Central Bank |
| Course No. | 3420913 |
| Course Description | This course introduces the student to the concept of Islamic financial institutions in terms of their objectives, institutions and means, whether at the level of governments or private institutions, or through multinational companies, especially those working in banking. It also covers the importance of establishing an Islamic central bank that follows up the work of Islamic banks and coordinates with the other official central banks and specialised supervisory bodies, the Securities and Commodities Authority, and the Administrative Control Authority; the mechanisms of the central bank for planning and following up the management of financial accounts in Islamic banks and the nature of their holdings and uses; the representative role of Islamic banks towards central banks; and the development and unification of the standards applied by Islamic banks in current, savings and investment accounts. |
| Course Name | AAOIFI Sharia Standards (1) |
| Course No. | 3310810 |
| Course Description | This course covers the Accounting and Auditing Organisation for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI), its Sharia standards, the Higher Sharia Authority, and the Sharia and practical problems that affect the mechanism of work; the role of the standards issued by AAOIFI in meeting the requirements of integration between the financial system and the Islamic banking industry, with a study of a selection of standards on money, debts, financing, benefits, partnerships and profit-sharing (mudarabah). |
| Course Name | AAOIFI Sharia Standards (2) |
| Course No. | 3320711 |
| Course Description | This course continues the study of the Sharia standards relating to: agency contracts and investment agency; sales of goods on organised markets and repurchase; options of trust, deferment and safety; documentation and guarantees, pledge and its contemporary applications; waqf and zakat; commercial papers; excessive uncertainty (gharar) that invalidates transactions; financial dealings on the internet; and reinsurance. |
| Course Name | AAOIFI Accounting Standards |
| Course No. | 3411014 |
| Course Description | This course studies: the importance of accounting standards in Islamic financial institutions; the general framework of accounting standards; the basic concepts of Islamic accounting; presentation and disclosure requirements in financial statements; accounting for murabahah to the purchase orderer; the accounting treatment of ijarah contracts; accounting for partners' rights and profits; accounting for salam contracts; accounting for istisna' contracts; the concept of zakat and its accounting treatment; the treatment of sukuk in terms of their issuance and trading; revenues and expenses; the accounting treatment of Islamic investments; and auditing in Islamic financial institutions. |