Head of Department: DR. YOUSEF OMAR
Program Overview:
The Bachelor’s Program in Islamic Studies provides a comprehensive and in-depth study of the fields of Islamic knowledge, including several mandatory and optional requirements. The program focuses on enabling students to understand the objectives of Islamic law and apply them correctly in practice, while enhancing their ability to derive legal rulings and analyse texts. It also seeks to develop their skills in confronting contemporary intellectual and cultural challenges, contribute to sustainable development, and prepare students to effectively promote religious tolerance and intellectual security in their society. The program also includes an internship and a graduation project that enables students to apply theoretical knowledge in practical contexts, enhancing their readiness to work in religious and social fields.
Mohamed Bin Zayed University for Humanities
College of Islamic Studies
Bachelor of Social Studies in Tolerance and Peace
| Course Number | Course Name | Credit Hours | Prerequisites | Study Method | Course Number | Course Name | Credit Hours | Prerequisites | Study Method |
| Year One | |||||||||
| First Semester | Second Semester | ||||||||
| SSTU100 | The Legacy of Sheikh Zayed and Peaceful Coexistence in the UAE | 3 | ــــــــــــــ | Online | ENGU101 | English 2 | 3 | ENGU100 | In Person |
| ENGU100 | English 1 | 3 | ــــــــــــــ | In Person | ICTU100 | Islamic Culture | 3 | ــــــــــــــ | Online |
| ARAU100 | Granmar and Morphology 1 | 3 | ــــــــــــــ | In Person | RSCU100 | Research Methods and Innovation | 3 | ــــــــــــــ | In Person |
| SSTU100 | Emirati Society and National Identity | 3 | ــــــــــــــ | Online | NASU100 | Natural Sciences | 3 | ــــــــــــــ | In Person |
| SOCU100 | Introduction to the Humanities | 3 | ــــــــــــــ | In Person | ISLU100 | Introduction to the Qur’an | 3 | ــــــــــــــ | In Person |
| Year Two | |||||||||
| Third Semester | Fourth Semester | ||||||||
| INVU204 | Fundamentals of Innovation & Entrepreneurship | 3 | ــــــــــــــ | In Person | ECOUY100 | Principles of Economics | 3 | ــــــــــــــ | In Person |
| ISL201 | Islamic Law of Acts of Worship 1 | 3 | ــــــــــــــ | In Person | ISL204 | Islamic Law of the Acts of Worship 2 | 3 | ISL201 | In Person |
| ISL203 | Recitation and Memorization of the Holy Qur’an 1 | 3 | ISLU100 | In Person | ISL206 | Recitation and Memmorization of the Holy Qur’an 2 | 3 | ISL203 | In Person |
| ISL205 | Studies in the Sciences of Hadith | 3 | ــــــــــــــ | In Person | ISL202 | Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence and the Objectives of Islamic Law | 3 | ــــــــــــــ | In Person |
| ــــــــــــــ | Elective – from the Islamic Studies Program list | 3 | ــــــــــــــ | ــــــــــــــ | ــــــــــــــ | Elective – from the Islamic Studies Program list | 3 | ــــــــــــــ | ــــــــــــــ |
| Year Three | |||||||||
| Fifth Semester | Sixth Semester | ||||||||
| ICTU100 | Artificial Intelligence | 3 | ــــــــــــــ | In Person | ENG302 | Islamic Texts in English | 3 | ENGU101 | In Person |
| ISL301 | Qur’anic Scences and Exegesis: Ancient and Modern | 3 | ISL203 or ISL206 | In Person | ISL300 | Methods of Qur’anic Exegesis: Ancient and Modern | 3 | ــــــــــــــ | In Person |
| ISL305 | Islamic Law of the Family and Contemporary Issues | 3 | ــــــــــــــ | In Person | ISL304 | Islamic Legal Research, Fatwas, and Renewing Religious Discourse | 3 | ــــــــــــــ | In Person |
| ISL303 | Islamic Legal Maxims and Differences between Jurists | 3 | ــــــــــــــ | In Person | ISL306 | The Objectives of Islamic Law and Human Rights | 3 | ــــــــــــــ | In Person |
| ISL307 | The Methodology of Hadith Criticism | 3 | ــــــــــــــ | In Person | ISL308 | The History of Islamic Law and Legal Schools | 3 | ــــــــــــــ | In Person |
| ISL309 | New Approaches to Islamic Theology | 3 | ــــــــــــــ | ــــــــــــــ | ــــــــــــــ | Elective – from the Islamic Studies Program list | 3 | ــــــــــــــ | |
| Year Four | |||||||||
| Seventh Semester | Eighth Semester | ||||||||
| ISL403 | Semantics and Textual Analysis | 3 | ــــــــــــــ | In Person | ISL402 | Graduation Project | 3 | Must successfully complete no less than 96 study hours | In Person |
| ISL401 | Islamic Theology | 3 | ــــــــــــــ | Online | ISL404 | Internship | 3 | Must successfully complete no less than 96 study hours | In Person |
| ISL405 | Islamic Law of Inheritance | 3 | ــــــــــــــ | In Person | ــــــــــــــ | ــــــــــــــ | ــــــــــــــ | ــــــــــــــ | ــــــــــــــ |
| ISL407 | Contemporary Islamic Legal Issues | 3 | ــــــــــــــ | In Person | ــــــــــــــ | ــــــــــــــ | ــــــــــــــ | ــــــــــــــ | ــــــــــــــ |
| ISL400 | Islamic law of Financial Transactions | 3 | ــــــــــــــ | In Person | ــــــــــــــ | ــــــــــــــ | ــــــــــــــ | ــــــــــــــ | ــــــــــــــ |
| ISL409 | Prophetic Biography | 3 | ــــــــــــــ | In Person | ــــــــــــــ | ــــــــــــــ | ــــــــــــــ | ــــــــــــــ | ــــــــــــــ |
Mohamed Bin Zayed University for Humanities
College of Islamic Studies
Study Plan – Bachelor’s in Islamic Studies – 120 Credit Hours
| Course Number | Course Name | A/E | Credit Hours | Prerequisites |
| 1. University Requirements (39 Credit Hours) | ||||
| SSTU111 | Emirati Society and the Continued Legacy of Sheikh Zayed | A | 3 | – |
| ENGU111 | English | E | 3 | – |
| ARAU100 | Arabic Morphology and Syntax 1 | A | 3 | – |
| SOCU100 | Introduction to the Humanities | A | 3 | – |
| ISLU100 | Islamic Culture | A | 3 | – |
| INVU111 | AI and Entrepreneurship | E | 3 | – |
| ISLU105 | Introduction to Qur’anic Studies | A | 3 | – |
| RSCU100 | Research Methods and Innovation | A | 3 | – |
| ARAU206 | Reading and Communication Skills | A | 3 | – |
| HUMU219 | Islamic History and Civilization | A | 3 | – |
| PHIU100 | Principles of Philosophy | A | 3 | – |
| CSSU100 | Intellectual Security and National Identity | A | 3 | – |
| ARAU101 | Arabic Rhetoric and Communication | A | 3 | – |
| 2. College Requirements (15 Credit Hours) | ||||
| ISL201 | Jurisprudence of Worship 1 | A | 3 | ISL207 |
| ISL203 | Qur’anic Recitation and Memorization 1 | A | 3 | ISLU100 |
| ISL205 | Studies in Hadith Sciences | A | 3 | – |
| ISL207 | History of Islamic Law and Legal Schools | A | 3 | – |
| ISL209 | Islamic Theology | A | 3 | – |
| 3. College Electives (9 Credit Hours) | ||||
| ARA201 | Arabic Morphology and Syntax 2 | A | 3 | ARAU100 |
| CSS203 | Intellectual Security | A | 3 | CSSU100 |
| SST203 | Principles of Statistics | A | 3 | – |
| SST204 | History of Religion | A | 3 | – |
| EDC225 | Educational Theories and Applications | A | 3 | – |
| SST405 | Tolerance and Societal Cohesion | A | 3 | – |
| SST307 | Tolerance in the Abrahamic Faiths | A | 3 | – |
| 4. Program Requirements (57 Credit Hours) | ||||
| ISL200 | Textual Analysis and Meanings | A | 3 | ISL202 |
| ISL202 | Foundations of Islamic Jurisprudence: Evidence and Rulings | A | 3 | – |
| ISL206 | Qur’anic Recitation and Memorization 2 | A | 3 | ISL203 |
| ISL300 | Methods of Qur’anic Exegesis | A | 3 | ISL301 |
| ISL301 | Qur’anic Sciences | A | 3 | ISL206 or ISL203 |
| ENG302 | Islamic Legal Texts in English | E | 3 | ENGU100 |
| ISL305 | Islamic Family Law and Issues | A | 3 | – |
| ISL306 | Purposes of Islamic Law | A | 3 | ISL200 or ISL202 |
| ISL307 | Methodology of Hadith Criticism | A | 3 | ISL205 |
| ISL309 | New Approaches to Islamic Theology | A | 3 | ISL200 or ISL202 |
| ISL310 | Islamic Law of Worship 2 | A | 3 | ISL207 or ISL201 |
| ISL400 | Islamic Law of Financial Transactions | A | 3 | ISL201 |
| ISL405 | Islamic Law of Inheritance | A | 3 | ISL305 |
| ISL406 | Islamic Legal Maxims and Differences between Jurists | A | 3 | ISL200 or ISL202 |
| ISL407 | Contemporary Issues of Islamic Law | A | 3 | ISL406 |
| ISL411 | Islamic Legal Research and Renewing Religious Discourse | A | 3 | ISL406 |
| ISL409 | Prophetic Biography | A | 3 | – |
| ISL498 | Graduation Project | A | 3 | Must have successfully completed no less than 96 credit hours |
| ISL499 | Internship | A | 3 | Must have successfully completed no less than 96 credit hours |
Program Learning Outcomes
- Explain the foundations and objectives of Islamic law and how they can be achieved.
- Apply legal maxims when deriving new rules for contemporary issues.
- Discuss contemporary intellectual and cultural challenges through analysing Islamic legal texts.
- Clarify the role of Islamic law in promoting and spreading the values of religious tolerance and enhancing intellectual security in society.
- Prepare academic research according to Islamic legal methodologies, evaluating sources critically and objectively
- Apply Islamic rulings in practical daily situations and participate in an internship to enhance practical skills
- Implement technology in Islamic legal research, show innovation in developing new educational methods to disseminate Islamic legal knowledge