Department of Sharia

Department of Sharia

The Department of Sharia is considered one of the oldest and widest

It was established with the establishment of the college and was called (Islamic Studies Department until 1990, then there was a change in its name, so it became called (Sharia Department). The department graduates annually no less than two hundred students of morning and evening studies, and qualifies  Some of them  for  Master’s and Doctoral study annually in the same college and according to the average and scientific competition, with an average of thirty students for the two stages.

The department looks forward to a contemporary Islamic discourse that believes in jurisprudential pluralism, which reconciles between authenticity and modernity, through a reconciliation  between  Islamic Sharia (which is a fixed divine situation) and  requirements of reality  (Changeable , and Renewable) to prevent  from being described as a stagnation and delay.

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Message and  vision

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The Department of Sharia, through its professors and curricula, that : Intellectual and jurisprudential differences are a difference of diversity and not a difference of contradiction, and that the plurality of opinions stems from the intellectual freedom as that was confirmed by the Holy Qur’an in the Almighty’s saying (There is no compulsion in religion) Surat Al-Baqarah verse 265. The difference is a Quranic fact and a divine Sunnah, within the legal guidelines, which reconcile between sound reasoning and explicit transmission, and establishing the slogan of the power of culture, not the culture of power.

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The department seeks to provide an integrated education in comparative Islamic jurisprudence and its origins, as well as to develop students’ intellectual and research skills to meet the requirements of the labor market.  The department is concerned  with the  scientific research  and society service  and encouraging the understanding  and communication among the cultures.