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Islamic Studies E-Tutorials
E-Tutorials are available at both the graduate and undergraduate level.
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Islamic Studies
- Incorporating Quran and Hadith in our daily lives
- Interfaith—Utilizing Faith to Overcome Conflict
- An Islamic Approach to Environmental Justice
- Muhammad – The Very Human Prophet
- UN Charter of Human Rights—Islam
- Women and Family Law in Islam
Contemporary Challenges of African American Muslims
Faculty: Dr. Muhammad Hatim (Profile)
Contemporary Challenges of African American Muslims This e-tutorial will cover the historical and philosophical Islamic development of African American Muslims. The student will explore the African American Muslim experience beginning from those Muslims who accompanied European explorers, early attempts by enslaved and post enslavement Africans and their descendants to reclaim the religion of Islam, and issues and challenges of contemporary African American Muslims.
Required reading:
Sherman A. Jackson, Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking Toward the
Third Resurrection, Oxford University Press, 2005.
Incorporating Quran and Hadith in our daily lives
Faculty: Dr.Ismail Elshikh (Profile)
This e-tutorial will explore the Islamic theory of providing a successful life through the civilized life of the Muslim. The student will learn that the quran and the sunnah of Prophet Muhammad are not only philosophical sayings, but the way of life, and a Muslim must translate these teachings into practice in his daily life.
Required reading:
Mohammad Yusuf Islahi , Etiquettes of Life in Islam, Markazi Maktaba Islami, Delhi, Translated byA’dab-e-Zinadagi.
Interfaith-Utilizing Faith to Overcome Conflict
Faculty: Dr. Syed Zia Tauhid (Profile)
This e-tutorial will cover the teachings of major religions and explore similarities among them that unite and can serve to prevent conflicts. Students will select between Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) and/or Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, and Confucianism. Much of the world conflicts are because of our differences. Many of these conflicts are between people of the same religion. This course will also explore how what binds us together (religion) trumps what separates us (ethnicity, culture, tradition).
Required reading:
Huston Smith, The World’s Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions. Harper, San Francisco,1991.
An Islamic Approach to Environmental Justice
Faculty: Dr. Muhammad Hatim (Profile)
This e-tutorial reviews concepts from the Holy Qur’an and ahadith with respect to protecting the earth as Allah’s representative (kalifa). It explores the relationships among environmental laws, land-use development needs and conflicts, and environmental heath/justice concerns.
Required reading:
- National Environmental Policy Act: (Federal Legislation)
- The Promise and Perils of Environmental Justice by Christopher H. Foreman, Jr.
Islamic Compassionate Care and Counseling:
An Islamic Response to Traditional Pastoral Counseling
Faculty: Dr. Muhammad Hatim (Profile)
This e-tutorial will explore the challenges of developing an Islamic approach to traditional “Pastoral Counseling.” The student will learn the specific challenges, differences, and obstacles that may be overcome for meeting the spiritual and emotional needs of the contemporary American Muslim community.
Required reading:
Ahmad Nezar Kobeisy, Counseling American Muslims: Understanding the Faith and Helping the People , Praeger Publishers, 2004
Muhammad – The Very Human Prophet
Faculty: Dr. Shaykh Ibrahim Abdul-Malik (Profile)
“He was one of the most remarkable human beings who ever lived.” “The more one reflects on the history of Muhammad, and of early Islam, the more one is amazed at the vastness of his achievement.” These are typical of the accolades that have been heaped on Muhammad, Prophet of Islam, even by non-Muslims, among whom have been his severest critics and detractors. So much more do the one billion plus Muslims throughout the globe revere the prophet, especially for his great spiritual insights, contributions and leadership. And yet, throughout his life he constantly reminded his Companions of his humanity: “I am a human being like you,” “I am pleased, I lose my temper,” “I [am likely] to forget like you. So if I forget, remind me.” This course examines some of the human qualities of Muhammad, with an eye to learning from them the lessons that will enrich our daily lives. Specifically, it explores the topics: Muhammad – Boy to Man; Muhammad – The Husband & Father; Muhammad – The Prophet of Mecca; Muhammad – The Statesman; Muhammad – The Teacher; Muhammad – The Messenger of Allah.
Required reading:
- Armstrong, Karen, Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet, 1992, New York, Harper Collins Publishers
- Lings, Martin, Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources, 1983, Rochester, VT, Inner Traditions International
- Watt, W. Montgomery, Muhammad: Prophet & Statesman, 1974, USA, Oxford University Press
UN Charter of Human Rights-Islam
Faculty: Dr. Syed Zia Tauhid (Profile)
This e-tutorial will cover Human Rights in accordance with the Geneva Conventions and Human Rights accorded by Islam. The objective of the course is to find similarities and differences in the declaration of Human Rights by both systems and use that to flourish human rights in the Muslim World and elsewhere.
Required reading:
Ann Elizabeth Mayer, Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and Politics. Westview Press, 2007.
United Nations on Religious, Ethnic, and Minorities:
the Quest for Collective Human Rights
Faculty: Dr. Muhammad Hatim (Profile)
This e-tutorial covers historical and contemporary United Nations interpretation as well as analyze deliberations focusing on the works of UN Special Rapporteurs (Sub-Commission on Human Rights) and related International Treaties and Conventions on religious, ethnic, and minority human rights. Particular focus is on the religion of Islam, and Africans in the diaspora.
Required reading:
Y. N. Kly (ed.), A Popular Guide to Minority Rights, Clarity Press, 1995.
Women and Family Law in Islam
Faculty: Dr. Marzia Hashem Dawlatzai (Profile)
Description: This course will examine family lives in Islamic societies and will cover such topics as lives of powerful and notable Muslim women, women’s position in Islamic law focusing on the basic laws and aspects of the purposes and conditions of marriage, marriage endowment and the dowry, legitimacy, rights of wives and obligations of husbands, economic rights, and divorce.
Required reading:
Course Textbooks:
The Muslim Family in Western Society: A Study in Islamic Law
by: Dr. Omar Shahin
The Figh of Marriage and Divorce in Islam
by Jamal Zarabozo.