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 | Credit Hours | Prerequisites | Study Method |
| 1. University Requirements (39 Credit Hours) | ||||
| ENGU100 | English 1 | 3 | In Person | |
| ENGU101 | English 2 | 3 | ENGU100 | In Person |
| ARAU100 | Grammar and Morphology 1 | 3 | In Person | |
| SSTU100 | Emirati Society and National Identity | 3 | Online | |
| ISLU100 | Introduction to the Qur’an | 3 | In Person | |
| SOCU100 | Introduction to the Humanities | 3 | In Person | |
| ECOU100 | Principles of Economics | 3 | In Person | |
| INVU204 | Fundamentals of Innovation & Entrepreneurship | 3 | In Person | |
| SSTU100 | The Legacy of Sheikh Zayed and Peaceful Coexistence in the UAE | 3 | Online | |
| RSCU100 | Research Methods and Innovation | 3 | In Person | |
| NASU100 | Natural Sciences | 3 | In Person | |
| ICTU100 | Artificial Intelligence | 3 | In Person | |
| ISLU101 | Islamic Culture | 3 | Online | |
| 2. College Requirements (12 Credit Hours) | ||||
| ISL201 | Islamic Law of Acts of Worship 1 | 3 | In Person | |
| ISL203 | Recitation and Memorization of the Holy Qur’an 1 | 3 | ISLU100 | In Person |
| ISL401 | Islamic Theology | 3 | Online | |
| ISL205 | Studies in the Sciences of Hadith | 3 | In Person | |
| 3. College Electives (9 Credit Hours) | ||||
| ARA201 | Grammar and Morphology 2 | 3 | ARAU100 | In Person |
| SST203 | Principles of Statistics | 3 | In Person | |
| PHI128 | Islamic Philosophy | 3 | In Person | |
| SST307 | Tolerance in the Abrahamic Religions | 3 | In Person | |
| HUM418 | Intellectual Security | 3 | Online | |
| EDC225 | Theories of Learning and their Educational Applications | 3 | In Person | |
| 4. Program Requirements (60 Credit Hours) | ||||
| ISL204 | Islamic Law of Acts of Worship 2 | 3 | ISL201 | In Person |
| ISL206 | Recitation and Memorization of the Holy Qur’an 2 | 3 | ISL203 | In Person |
| ISL301 | Qur’anic Sciences and Exegesis: Ancient and Modern | 3 | ISL203 or ISL206 | In Person |
| ISL202 | Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence and the Objectives of Islamic Law | 3 | In Person | |
| ISL305 | Islamic Law of the Family and Contemporary Issues | 3 | Online | |
| ISL400 | Islamic Law of Financial Transactions | 3 | ECOU100 | In Person |
| ISL303 | Islamic Legal Maxims and Differences between Jurists | 3 | ISL202 | In Person |
| ISL403 | Semantics and Textual Analysis | 3 | ISL202 | In Person |
| ISL304 | Islamic Legal Research, Fatwas, and Renewing Religious Discourse | 3 | ISL303 | In Person |
| ISL405 | Islamic Law of Inheritance | 3 | In Person | |
| ISL407 | Contemporary Islamic Legal Issues | 3 | ISL304 | In Person |
| ISL306 | Objectives of Islamic Law and Human Rights | 3 | ISL202 | In Person |
| ISL308 | The History of Islamic Law and Legal Schools | 3 | In Person | |
| ISL300 | Methods of Qur’anic Exegesis: Ancient and Modern | 3 | ISL301 | In Person |
| ISL307 | The Methodology of Hadith Criticism | 3 | ISL205 | In Person |
| ISL409 | Prophetic Biography | 3 | In Person | |
| ISL309 | New Approaches to Islamic Theology | 3 | In Person | |
| ENG302 | Islamic Legal Texts in English | 3 | ENGU101 | In Person |
| ISL402 | Graduation Project | 3 | Must successfully complete no less than 96 study hours | In Person |
| ISL404 | Internship | 3 | Must successfully complete no less than 96 study hours | In Person |
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