RS 464 — Islamic History and Civilization
BA BA Religious Studies · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
This course is designed to introduce students to the rise of the dynasties (Umayyads, the Abbasids and the Fatimids and the Ottomans) and the emergence of the Khilafa. The Mu’awiya and Ali conflict will be analyzed. In addition the expansion of Islam under the Umayyad and Abbasid dynasties will be studied and discover the extent to which Islam was influenced by the Greek, Jewish and Christian culture and religion. Other areas to be studied would include the development of Islamic religious thought, intellectual, scientific and cultural self identity of Islam.
- Credits
- 0
- Level
- Level 400
Other courses on this programme
- RS 451 — Comparative Study of Religions
- RS 452 — New Religious Movement
- RS 453 — Islam in Ghana
- RS 454 — Islamic Spirituality
- RS 455 — West African Church History
- RS 456 — Christianity and African Culture
- RS 457 — New Testament Greek II
- RS 458 — Greek III
- RS 459 — Hebrew III
- RS 460 — Science and Religion
- RS 461 — Topics in Islamic Studies
- RS 462 — Religions and Gender
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