10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation Lectures, videos, workshops, seminar presentations/discussions.
The Islamic Holy Book (the Qur’an) and the authoritative collections of the sayings (hadith) of the Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) are the two foundation texts of Islam. This unit aims to provide basic information about the authority of the Qur’an and hadith among Muslims. It also includes an account of the establishment of the canonical forms of these foundation texts, in order to show how and why Muslims revere them. It presents example-passages from each to show how they complement each other. It also introduces some of the approaches of contemporary scholarship of Islam on the Qur’an and hadith.
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