RS 364 — Shari’a
BA BA Religious Studies · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Also known as Islamic Law, this course intends to take students through the sources and development of shari’a. It will also introduce students to the nature and scope of Islamic law, Islamic legal categories and conceptions and the development of the various schools of law in Islam. Such details as the personal status, family law (marriage, divorce and inheritance, etc), law of contract, criminal law, commercial law as well as politics and the state. The course will also take students through the challenges of the law in its implementation by some African states.
- Credits
- 0
- Level
- Level 300
Other courses on this programme
- RS 351 — Issues in African Traditional Religion
- RS 352 — Critical Thinking
- RS 353 — Qur’anic Studies
- RS 354 — Islam in West Africa
- RS 355 — Old Testament Introduction
- RS 358 — Theology and Ethics of the Old Testament
- RS 359 — Hebrew I
- RS 360 — Islamic Ethics
- RS 361 — Christian Ethics
- RS 362 — Theology and Ethics of the New Testament
- RS 363 — Medicine, Healing and Spirituality
- RS 365 — Qur’anic Arabic I
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