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First Year:<\/span><\/p>\n

Ethics and General Philosophy:<\/span><\/p>\n

Presenting the ethical foundations of pure Islamic thought \u2013 Examples of ethical issues relevant to contemporary youth and contributing to solving their problems, compared to ethical schools in modern thought.<\/span><\/p>\n

Introducing general philosophy, its subjects, and its relationship to branches of human knowledge \u2013 Schools of Greek philosophy and their doctrines.<\/span><\/p>\n

Second Year:<\/span><\/p>\n

Theology, Logic, and Research Methods:<\/span><\/p>\n

Introducing Aristotelian logic and its transmission to the Islamic world \u2013 Muslim critique of Greek logic \u2013 Research methodologies of Muslim thinkers and studies in theology (Islamic doctrine from the Qur\u2019an and Sunnah and rational proof of its validity. The Islamic poem in forming the righteous individual and building the virtuous society).<\/span><\/p>\n

Third Year:<\/span><\/p>\n

Islamic Philosophy and Islamic Theology:<\/span><\/p>\n

The origins of Islamic philosophy, its most important schools, prominent figures, fields, and its impact on the European Renaissance.<\/span><\/p>\n

The emergence and development of theology among Muslims, the origins of Islamic sects (Salaf, Mutazila, Alashara, Maturidiyya, and Shia), and their most important ideas \u2013 examples of issues in theology.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fourth Section:<\/span><\/p>\n

Sufism and Modern Islamic Thought:<\/span><\/p>\n

Definition of Sufism, its history, emergence, and development; Islamic Sufism and its trends, prominent figures, Sufi orders, their origins, ideas, and calls for reform in the modern era.<\/span><\/p>\n

Modern Islamic thought, philosophy, reform leaders, their most important ideas, and trends in contemporary Islamic thought.<\/span><\/p>\n

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