Muslim Sects and Groups
About this course
This course will introduce students to various sects within the Muslim Ummah. The course will explore the historical development of division and sectarianism, the main theological fundamentals of such sects and examine how such creeds affected later movements and ideologies. An important focus of this class will be to examine the traditions pertaining to the division of Muslims into many sects, and to look at the qualities that distinguishes the Sunni Muslims. The course will also attempt to explain the non-Islamic ideologies that affected the formation of many sects within Muslims.
Prerequisites: Islamic Creed I, II and III. (2 credits)
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).
His research interests concern how traditional approaches to Islamic theology and law relate to contemporary Muslim society.
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