Foundations of Islamic Knowledge and Scholarship
About This Course
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Dr. Jasser Auda
President of Maqasid Institute Global
COURSE OVERVIEW
This course by Dr. Jasser Auda offers an introduction to the topic of Islamic knowledge and scholarship. How can the Qur’an be a source of knowledge for all professions, disciplines and activities? What is the scope of Islamic scholarship beyond jurisprudence? Who is an Islamic scholar and what are his/her qualifications? What should be the outcomes of research from the Islamic point of view? These are the main questions that this course is attempting to answer.
It is a course on the methodology of Islamic Studies, which focuses on the revelational basis, definitions, scope, and classification of knowledge, from the Islamic point of view.
The course will discuss the relationship between knowledge and purification of one’s heart, the logic of purposeful connectivity in the Qur’an and what we can learn from it for our daily lives? How to build an Islamic framework that allows an authentic perception of reality, and how to build new disciplinary and phenomena studies from the Islamic perspective.