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B.S.Abdur Rahman University

School of Islamic Studies

Curriculum and Syllabus - M.A. Islamic Studies

Semester I

S.No. Course Code

Name of the Course L T P C

Core Courses

1 MIS0101 Arabic Language I 3 0 0 3

2 MIS0102 Tafseer - Commentary of Holy Quran (Theamatic) 3 0 0 3

3 MIS0103 Hadeeth - Teachings of the Prophet 3 0 0 3

4 MIS0104 Usoolul Fiqh- Principles of Jurisprudence 3 0 0 3

Allied Courses

5 MIS0105 Early Muslim Society & Biography of great companions 3 0 0 3

Semester II

S.No. Course Code

Name of the Course L T P C

Core Courses

1 MIS0201 Uloom al Hadeeth – Sciences of Hadeeth 3 0 0 3

2 MIS0202 Usool al Fiqh: Maslaha Mursalah – Welfare & Maqaasid al Sharee’ah - Objectives of Shareeah

3 0 0 3

3 MIS0203 Advanced Arabic Grammar 3 0 0 3

4 MIS0204 Evolution of Islamic Jurisprudence 3 0 0 3

Allied Courses

5 MIS0205 Islamic Economics 3 0 0 3

6 MIS0206 Orientelists and their contribution to Islam 3 0 0 3

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Semester III

S.No. Course Code

Name of the Course L T P C

Core Courses

1 MIS0301 Uloom al Quran – Quranic Sciences 3 0 0 3

2 MIS0302 Comparative Fiqh (Between different schools of thought)

3 0 0 3

3 MIS0303 Al Siyasah al Shar’yyah – Law of Administration in Shariah 3 0 0 3

Allied Courses

4 MIS0304 History of Muslim Civilization: Contribution to Science and Technology

3 0 0 3

5 MIS0305 Muslim Thinkers & Reform Movements 3 0 0 3

6 MIS0306 Da’wah & Movements of Da’wah 3 0 0 3

Semester IV

S.No. Course Code

Name of the Course L T P C

Core Courses

1 MIS0401 Ahkaamul Quran – Study of Shariah Rulings in Quran 3 0 0 3

2 MIS0402 Ijthihad and Methodology of Imams 3 0 0 3

3 MIS0403 Islamic Philosophy 3 0 0 3

Allied Courses

4 MIS0404 Project 6 0 0 6

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SYLLABUS

SEMESTER I

Core Courses

MIS0101 Arabic Language I

Unit 1: 9

Lesson !: Al Quran wa Kaif Jumia – Lesson 2: Adhwaa ala al Thareekh

Unit 2: 9

Lesson 3: Al Muslimoon fil Aalam – Lesson 4: Ibn Seena

Unit 3: 9

Lesson 5: Risalah Ila Waladi – Lesson 6: Fee Bait al Maqdis

Unit 4: 9

Lesson 7: Al Shaja’ah al Adabiyah – Lesson 8: Sihhatul Bee’ah fil Islam

Unit 5: 9

Lesson 9: Awqaat al Faraagh – Lesson 10: Al Usus al Ijthimaiyyah fil Islam

TOTAL: 45

TEXT BOOKS:

1. Al Arabiyah Lin Nashieen - Part :6 -

MIS0102 TAFSEER - COMMENTARY OF HOLY QURAN (THEAMATIC)

Unit 1: 9

Surah Yusuf,

Unit 2: 9

Surah Noor, Surah Furqan

Unit 3: 9

Surah Luqman, Surah Ahzaab

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Unit 4: 9

Surah Yaseen,

Unit 5: 9

Surah Al Waqiah

TOTAL: 45

TEXT BOOKS:

1. Nahva Tafseer Moudhoo’yi li suwaril Quran by Shaik Mohamed al Gazali

MIS0103 HADEETH – TEACHINGS OF THE PROPHET

Unit 1: 76: Book of Ar-Riqaq (To make the Heart Tender) 9

1. Health and leisure – 2. The example of this world in contrast with the hereafter - 3. Be in this world as if you were a stranger - 4. About hope and hoping too much - 5. If somebody reaches sixty year of age he has no right to ask allah for a new lease of life - 6. The deed which is done seeking allah’s countenance - 7. The warning regarding worldly pleasures amusements and competing against each other - 8. O mankind! Verily the promise of allah is true .so let not this present life deceive you - 9. the righteous people will depart - 10. The fitnah of wealth should be warded off.

Unit 2: 76: Book of Ar-Riqaq (To make the Heart Tender) 9

11. “wealth is green sweet”- 12. Whatever one spends from his money will be better for him - 13. The rich are in fact the poor - 14. It would not please me to have gold equal to this mountain of uhud - 15. True riches is self-contentment - 16. The superiority of being poor - 17. How the prophet(sal) and his companions used to live - 18. The adoption of the middle course, and the regularity of deeds - 19. Hope with fear - 20. Refraining from doing things allah has made illegal.

Unit 3: 76: Book of Ar-Riqaq (To make the Heart Tender) 9

21. And whosoever puts his trust in allah then he will suffice him - 22. What is disliked about qil and qal - 23. To protect one’s tongue - 24. Weeping out of fear of allah - 25. To be afraid of allah - 26. To give up sinful deeds - 27. If you knew that which I know ,you would laugh little and weep much - 28. The fire is surrounded by all kinds of desires and passions - 29. Paradise is nearer to any one of you than the shirak of his shoe ,and so is the fire - 30. To look at the one who is inferior and not the superior.

Unit 4: 76: Book of Ar-Riqaq (To make the Heart Tender) 9

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31. Whoever intended to do a good deed or bad deed - 32. What minor sins should be warded off - 33. The deeds done depend upon the last actions - 34. Seclusion is better for a believer than to have evil companions - 35. The disappearance ao al_amanah - 36. Showing off - 37. Whoever compelled himself to obey allah - 38. The humility or modesty or lowliness - 39. I have been sent and the hour as two these - 40. The rising of the sun from the west.

Unit 5: 76: Book of Ar-Riqaq (To make the Heart Tender) 9

41. Whoever loves to meet allah, allah loves to meet him - 42. The stupors of death - 43. The blowing of the trumpet, on the day o resurrection - 44. On the day of resurrection, allah will grasp the whole earth - 45. The gathering(on the day of resurrection) - 46. Who associate others in worship with allah - 47. Think they not that they will be resurrected on a great day - 48. alqisa on the day of resurrection - 49. Anybody whose account is questioned will surely be punished - 50. Seventy thousand will enter paradise without accounts - 51. The description of paradise and the fire - 52. As_sirath is a bridge across the hell - 53. Regarding al_haud. TOTAL: 45

TEXT BOOKS:

1. Sahih al Bukhari

MIS0104 USOOLUL FIQH-

PRINCIPLES OF ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE

Unit 1: 9

Sources of Islamic Jurisprudence:- Al Quran.

Unit 2: 9

Sources of Islamic Jurisprudence:- Al Sunnah.

Unit 3: 9

Sources of Islamic Jurisprudence:- Al Ijma’

Unit 4: 9

Sources of Islamic Jurisprudence:- The Qiyas

Unit 5: 9

Sources of Islamic Jurisprudence:- Al Istihsaan – Al Urf – Al Aadah TOTAL: 45

Books for Reference:

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1. Usool al Fiqh al Islami by Wahbah Zuhaili / Second Edition 1998 / Dar al Fikr al Muasir, Beirut,

Lebanon.

2. Ilm Usool al Fiqh by Abdul wahhab Khallaf /

3. The Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence by Abdur Rahim / 2nd edition 1994 / Kitab Bhavan, New Delhi.

Allied Courses

MIS0105 Early Muslim Society & Biography of great companions

Unit 1: 9

Introduction to the Muslim society in madinah -

Unit 2: 9

Abdullah bin Hudhafah al sahmi – Ummu Salamah ( Ayyim al Arab) –

Abu Ayyub al Ansari – Abu Ubaidah bin Jarrah – Salman al Farsi.

Unit 3: 9

Adhi bin Hathim Thayee – Abu Dhar al Ghifari – Abdullah bi Ummi Maktoom –

Suhaib al Roomi – Zaid bin haritha .

Unit 4: 9

Abdur Rahman bin Awf – Jafar bin Abi Thalib – Sa’d bin Abi Waqqas –

Hudhaifa bin al Yaman – Ramlah binth Abi Sufyan (Ummu Habeebah).

Unit 5: 9

Safiyyah binth Abdil Muthalib – Khabbab bin Arath – Abdullah bin Salam –

Thalha bin Ubaidhillah al Thaimi - Asmaa binth Abi Bakr.

TOTAL: 45

Books for Reference:

1. Fajr al Islam by Ahmed Ameen,

2. Suwar min Hayath al Sahabah by Dr. Abdur Rahman Ra’fath Basha, World assembly of muslim youth, Saudi Arabia.

3. Wafayaat al A’yaan by Ibn Khallikaan

SEMESTER II

L T P C

3 0 0 3

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Core Courses

MIS0201 ULOOM AL HADEETH-

SCIENCES OF HADEETH

Unit 1: 9

Introduction to Sunnah – Types of Hadeeth – Al Mutawatir – Al Mash-hoor – Al Aahad –

Al Maqbool – Al Mardood.

Unit 2: 9

Collection of Hadeeth during the period of Prophet and Pious Caliphs.

Unit 3: 9

Collection of authentic six books (Sihah Sittah) – Biography of Six scholars.

Unit 4: 9

The Most Authentic chain of narration : The four degrees (Darajaath)

Unit 5: 9

Al Jarh and Al Tha’deel: The science of criticizing and justification of Hadeeth narrators

TOTAL: 45

Books for Reference:

1. Uloom al Hadeeth by Ibn Salah / Dar al Fikr, Demascus.

2. Ma’rifah Uloom al Hadeeth by Hakim Abdullah Naisapuri / Dar Makabah Hilal, Beirut, Lebanon.

3. Nukhbah al Fikr by Hafiz Ibn Hajar al Asqalani/ Faisal Publications, Deoband, India.

4. Diraasaat fee Ilm al Tafseer wal Hadeeth al Nabawi al Shareef by Dr. Nisar Ahmed / 2008 / Darul

Quran, Vaniyambadi, S.India.

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MIS0202 USOOL AL FIQH: MASLAHA MURSALAH (WELFARE) & MAQAASID AL SHAREE’AH (OBJECTIVES OF SHAREEAH)

Unit 1: 9

Sources of Islamic Jurisprudence:- Al Maslahah al Mursalah.

Unit 2: 9

Al Maslahah al Mursalah: Conditions, Debates of Scholars, Modern application

Unit 3: 9

Sources of Islamic Jurisprudence:- Maqasid Tashree’: Introduction, Dharooriyat,

Hajiat. Tahseeniyat, Mukmilat.

Unit 4: 9

Orders of Maqasid, Qawaid Kulliyah, The fundamental five Qawaid,

Unit 5: 9

Introduction to Ijthihad, Qualification and conditions, Individual Ijthihad and collective

Ijthihad, Ijthihad on new issues, Ijthihad for preferring the opinions.

TOTAL: 45

Books for Reference:

1. Usool al Fiqh al Islami by Wahbah Zuhaili / Second Edition 1998 / Dar al Fikr al Muasir, Beirut,

Lebanon.

2. Majallah al Ahkaam al Adliyyah

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MIS0203 ADVANCED ARABIC GRAMMAR

Unit 1: 9

Khasaais al Abwaab

Unit 2: 9

Al I’raab al Mahalli

Unit 3: 9

Ahkaam al Adad wal Ma’dud

Unit 4: 9

Ahkaam al Na’t wal Man’ut .

Unit 5: 9

Ahkaam al Idhafah al Lafdhiyah wal Ma’nawiyah.

TOTAL: 45

Books for Reference:

1. Shuthur al Dhahab fee ma’rifah Kalam al Arab by Ibn Hisham/ Idharah Rasheediyah, Deoband, India.

2. An Nahwul Wadhih (Secondary) by Ali Jarim & Mustafa Ameen (Part:I,II) / Faisal Publications, Deoband,

India.

3. Hidayatun Nahv by Sirajuddin bin Usman al Awdhi & Nizamuddin Mohamed Dahlavi

L T P C

3 0 0 3

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Allied Courses

MIS0204 EVOLUTION OF ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE

Unit 1: 9

Introduction to the Legislation, Wahi revelation: Makkan Period, Madinan Period, Ijthihad of prophet and his companions during his life time.

Unit 2: 9

Compilation of Holy Quran, Methodology of companions, Ijthihad of Umar, Ibn Masood, Ibn Umar and Ijthihad of next generation.

Unit 3: 9

Development of four madh-habs: Maliki, Hanafi, Shafi, Hanbali

Unit 4: 9

Codification of Muslim personal Law in Turkey, Egypt and other Muslim nations,.

Unit 5: 9

Fatawa Muasarah (Modern Problems and Shariah Rulings), International Fiqh Academy.

TOTAL: 45

Books for Reference:

1. Tareekh Tashree’ al Islami by Manna’ al Qattan, Maktabah Wahbah, Cairo. 1989.

2. The Evolution of Fiqh by Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips, Tawheed Publications, Riyadh, 1988

3. Tareekh Tashree’ al Islami – Dessertation by Dr. P.S.Syed Masood Jamali, 2004.

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MIS0205 ISLAMIC ECONOMICS

Unit 1: 9

Introduction to Islamic Economics – Global importance of Islamic Finance and banking. Unit 2: Islamic Prohibitions in the financial transactions 9

(a) Riba : Definition & Classifications

(b) Gharar : Definition & Classifications

(c) Maisir – Qimar: Definition & Classifications

Unit 3: Islamic Financial Contracts I 9

Definition of Property – Classifications of Maal – Muqayadhah – Surf: Definition of Money, Legal position of Money.

Unit 4: Islamic Financial Contracts II 9

Salam Contract : Conditions & Modern applications

Isthisnah : Definition, Conditions & Modern applications

Muraabahah: Definition, Conditions & Modern applications

Unit 5: Islamic Financial Contracts III 9

Musharakah: Definition, Kinds of Sharikah, Modern forms of partnership.

Mudharabah: Definition, Conditions.

Ijarah: Definition, Kinds of Ijarah, Modern applications, ijarah in Islamic Banks

TOTAL: 45

Books for Reference:

1. Al Fiqh al Islami Wa Adhillathuhu by Wahbah Zuhaili

2. Islamic law of Contracts and Business Transactions by M. Thahir mansuri, Adam publishers, New Delhi – 2007.

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MIS0206 ORIENTALISTS AND THEIR

CONTRIBUTION TO ISLAM

Unit 1: 9

Introduction and Definition of Orientalism - History of Orientalism

Unit 2: 9

Objectives of Orientalism: Political, Commercial, Intellectual and Religious.

Unit 3: 9

Biographies of some renowned Orientalists.

Unit 4: 9

Contribution of Orientalists to Islamic Sciences and their criticism on Islamic Values.

Unit 5: 9

Books, Journals and Magazines of Orientalists – Impact of Orientalism on Islam – The Debates between Orientalists and Muslim Scholars.

TOTAL: 45

Books for Reference:

1. Al Isthishraq wal Musthashriqoon: Maa Lahum wama Alaihim by Dr. Mustafa al Sibayee – Darul Warraq, Riyadh.

2. Orientalism by Edward W. Said – Penguin Books, London- 2003

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SEMESTER III

Core Courses

MIS0301 ULOOM AL QURAN

(QURANIC SCIENCES)

Unit 1: 9

Introduction to Wahy (Revelation) - Makki Chapters and Madani Chapters – Compilation

and preservation of the Quran – Action taken during the period of Abu Bakr (Ral) and

Umar (Ral)

Unit 2: 9

Al Muhkam and Al Muthashabih – al Naasikh and al Mansookh – al Mujmal and al

Mubayyan.

Unit 3: 9

Introduction to Exegesis (Tafseer) - Types of Tafseer: Tafseer Ma’thur – Tafseer bil

Ra’y.

Unit 4: 9

Commentators: Ibn Abbas – Al Thabri – Ibn Katheer – Shaikh Mohamed Abduhu.

Unit 5: 9

Ahkaam Tajweed al Quran

TOTAL: 45

Books for Reference:

1. Al Itqaan fee Uloom al Quran by Imam Suyuthi/ Idarah Rasheediya, Deoband, India.

2. An approach to the Quranic Science by Justice Mufti Mohamed Taqi Usmani / Ed-2007/ Adam

Publishers, Delhi

3. Mabaahith fee Uloom al Quran by Manna’ al Qattan / Ed. 1995/ Maktabah Wahbah, Cairo, Egypt.

4. Al Fauzul Kabeer fee Usool al Tafseer by Imam Shah Waliullah Dehlavi/ Fourth Edition-2002/ Darus

Sunnah, Lucknow, India.

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MIS0302 COMPARATIVE FIQH

BETWEEN DIFFERENT SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT

Unit 1: 9

Unit 2: 9

Unit 3: 9

Unit 4: 9

Unit 5: 9

TOTAL: 45

TEXT BOOKS:

1.

MIS0303 AL SIYASAH AL SHAR’YAH-

LAW OF ADMINISTRATION IN SHARI’AH

Unit 1: 9

Introduction – Definition – Views of the early and modern scholars.

Unit 2: 9

Definition of Waliul Amr – Opinion of Waliul Amr – Areas where the opinions of Waliul Amr are applicable.

Unit 3: 9

Conditions of application of opinion Waliul Amr – Change of opinion due to change of situation – Taa’rudh al nusoos and Masalih.

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Unit 4: 9

Case study on Siyasah Shar’iyah during the period of Umar.

Unit 5: 9

Detail study on basic principles of Siyasah Shar’iyah TOTAL: 45

Books for Reference:

1. Al Siyasah al Shar’iyah fee dhow’ Nusoos al Shareeah wa Maqaasidiha by Dr. Yousuf Qaradawi – Maktabah Wahbah, Cairo – 1998.

2. Al Ahkaamus Sultaaniyah by Maavardhi

3. Al Turuq al Hukmiyahby Ibn Qayyim al Jawziyah

4. Al Amwaal by Abu Ubaidah al Qasim bin Salam.

Allied Courses

MIS0304 HISTORY OF MUSLIM CIVILIZATION &

CONTRIBUTION TO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Unit 1: 9

Unit 2: 9

Unit 3: 9

Unit 4: 9

Unit 5: 9

TOTAL: 45

TEXT BOOKS:

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MIS0305 MUSLIM THINKERS & REFORM MOVEMENTS

Unit 1: 9

Unit 2: 9

Unit 3: 9

Unit 4: 9

Unit 5: 9

TOTAL: 45

TEXT BOOKS:

1.

MIS0306 DA’WAH AND MOVEMENTS OF DA’WAH

Unit 1: 9

Unit 2: 9

Unit 3: 9

Unit 4: 9

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Unit 5: 9

TOTAL: 45

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SEMESTER IV

Core Courses

MIS0401 Ahkaamul Quran-

STUDY OF SHARIAH RULINGS IN QURAN

Unit 1: 9

Unit 2: 9

Unit 3: 9

Unit 4: 9

Unit 5: 9

TOTAL: 45

TEXT BOOKS:

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MIS0402 IJTHIHAD AND METHODOLOGY OF IMAMS

Unit 1: 9

Intoduction to the Ijthihad – Shurut al Ijthihad - Ahl al Hadeeth and Ahl al Ra’i.

Unit 2: 9

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Imam Abu Hanifah: Biography – Principles of Ijthihad – Brief introduction to Hanafi

Madhab – Spread of Hanafi Madhab.

Unit 3: 9

Imam Malik bin Anas: Biography – Principles of Ijthihad – Brief introduction to Maliki

Madhab – Spread of Maliki Madhab.

Unit 4: 9

Imam Shafi’i: Biography – Principles of Ijthihad – Brief introduction to Shafi’i Madhab –

Spread of Shafi’i Madhab.

Unit 5: 9

Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal: Biography – Principles of Ijthihad – Brief introduction to

Hanbali Madhab – Spread of Hanbali Madhab.

TOTAL: 45

Books for Reference:

1. Ilm Usool al Fiqh by Abdul wahhab Khallaf /

2. Tareeq Al Madhahib al Islamiya by Abu Zahrah / dar al Fikr al Arabi, Cairo, Egypt.

3. Tareekh al Tashree’ al Islami by Dr. P.S.Syed Masood, Bukhari Aalim Arabic College, Chennai.

MIS0403 ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY

Unit 1: 9

Unit 2: 9

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Unit 3: 9

Unit 4: 9

Unit 5: 9

TOTAL: 45

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Allied Courses

MIS0404 PROJECT

The students should carry out a research in a Topic which will be finalized by consultation with HOD and the reference books will be recommended by him.

The dissertation should be submitted within the prescribed time.

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