Contemporary Islamic Thought
About the course
This course will examine the major Islamic movements and contributors to Muslim thought in modern times. It will focus mainly on their position towards approaching the Islamic heritage, religious reform, change in Muslim-majority nations, systems of governance, relationship with others, international relations, and the type of world they aspired to live in. The main objective of this course is for students to prudently navigate controversial ideologies and currents in contemporary Muslim thought and have some parameters by which they can measure them. (3 credit hours)
About the Instructor(s)
Dr. David Solomon Jalajel is teaching Research Methodology and Logic at Mishkah University.
Jalajel is also a researcher at the Prince Sultan Research Institute in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Formerly, he taught Islamic Theology and Legal Theory at the Dar al-Uloom in Cape Town, South Africa.
Jalajel holds a PhD in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the University of the Western Cape, where he also earned his MA.
He graduated from the Dar al-Uloom in Cape Town, South Africa where he continued to earn the Higher Specialisation in Islamic Law and the Higher Specialisation in Arabic Language. He has published three books: Women and Leadership in Islamic Law: A Critical Analysis of Classical Legal Texts (Routledge), Expressing I’rab: The Presentation of Arabic Grammatical Analysis (UWC) and Islam and Biological Evolution: Exploring Classical Sources and Methodologies (UWC).
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