This course aims to provide students with the basic concepts of scientific research in general and research in Islamic studies in particular. It focuses on developing students' essential skills in scientific research and manuscript verification. The course covers research methodologies and ethics, methods of editing and verifying heritage texts, sources of Islamic sciences, and requires students to prepare a research paper in their field of specialization.

Teaching relies on active methods such as discussion, field visits, report discussion, and evaluation of previous studies.

This course is important because it relates to the Book of Allah. It provides essential information, concepts, and rulings that help develop students' scholarly competence in Quranic studies. Students study topics related to the revelation of the Quran, Makki and Madani chapters, the collection of the Quran through its different stages, the seven modes of recitation, Quranic readings and reciters, causes of revelation, related principles, Quranic parables, and translation of the Quran.

The course uses suitable teaching strategies, including lecture, dialogue, discussion, and brainstorming.

This course is indispensable for students of Islamic studies because it is one of the instrumental sciences. It gives students a general background on the nature of the principles and methodologies of Quran interpretation, introduces the different methodologies of exegetes, and focuses on general and preferential rules of interpretation.

Teaching uses dialogue and discussion, and students are assessed through reports, assignments, midterm examination, and final examination.

This course on textual indications according to scholars of Islamic legal theory is a core course in usul al-fiqh. It covers concepts, information, principles, rulings, and skills that help students understand texts, derive rulings from them, and apply them correctly to real cases without deviation or excess. It also teaches how to deal with apparently conflicting indications.

The course explains the concept of indication and its divisions according to the relation between wording and meaning, clarity and ambiguity, and the manner in which wording indicates meaning.

Comparative Fiqh is a core course in the Master of Islamic Studies program. It provides students with concepts, information, principles, rulings, and skills that enable them to understand comparative jurisprudence, its benefits, and methodology. The course trains students practically to research juristic issues in different fiqh sources and compare them.

It focuses on the nature of Islamic jurisprudence, its emergence, historical stages, codification, schools, the concept and benefits of comparative fiqh, its methodology and books, juristic schools and their methods of evidence and deduction, and applied examples of comparative fiqh issues in different fields.

This course aims to provide students with concepts and terminology of hadith sciences and to develop their ability to distinguish sound hadith from weak hadith. It introduces the sciences of hadith, the efforts of hadith scholars, and their innovative methodologies for preserving the Sunnah. The course enables students to distinguish accepted and rejected hadith and understand the terminology related to each category.

It focuses on the emergence and codification of hadith science, methods of receiving and transmitting hadith, hadith as narration and as critical study, and categories of sound, good, and weak hadith. Teaching includes dialogue, discussion, problem solving, brainstorming, and assignment discussion.

Islamic Belief is a core course for specialists in Islamic studies at the master's level. It covers concepts, information, principles, and skills that enable students to understand rulings related to belief in Allah, His oneness in lordship, worship, names, and attributes. The course aims to establish sound belief, introduce its original sources, explain the Quranic method of presenting and building belief, and clarify correct methods of evidence.

It focuses on the reality and pillars of faith, what belief in these pillars entails, responses to related doubts, the inclusion of action in faith, the position of Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jama'ah regarding major sinners, rules and limits of takfir, caution against haste in it, and the importance of unity and avoidance of division.

This course explains the historical and doctrinal emergence of sects that separated from the Muslim community. It also introduces the history of non-Islamic religions and highlights points and causes of deviation in comparison with Islam. It covers the concept of sects, causes of their emergence, writings about them, major Islamic sects, Sufi groups, Mu'tazilah, Shi'a schools, Batini groups, and an introduction to religions such as Judaism, Christianity, Sabianism, Magianism, and materialist views.

It also discusses Islam's view of the human being regardless of religion. Teaching uses dialogue, discussion, deductive methods, lecture, and presentation.

The thesis is an independent scholarly research project in which the student applies research methodology and specialized knowledge in Islamic studies to prepare an original academic study under supervision.

This course is an important contemporary course in usul-related studies. It provides researchers with concepts, information, principles, rulings, and skills needed to understand newly emerging issues, identify their reality, determine their effective legal causes, consider their consequences, balance interests and harms, and derive suitable Sharia rulings that achieve Islamic legal objectives.

It is a theoretical course that develops juristic competence for independent reasoning in contemporary issues. Teaching relies on lecture, dialogue, discussion, and brainstorming.

This course introduces students to the foundations of Islamic governance policy and the management of public affairs in light of the Quran and Sunnah. It enables students to understand the concept of Islamic legal policy, the need for it, and its contemporary relevance. The course helps students address current political issues in light of Islamic legal principles, away from extremism and rigidity.

It focuses on the concept, importance, sources, ruling, controls, fields, and foundations of Islamic legal policy, its relation to public interests, and applied examples. Teaching includes lectures, problem solving, report discussion, and deductive methods.

This course develops students' ability to critically evaluate hadith texts and chains of transmission using scientific methods in light of the efforts of scholars of hidden defects and the principles of narrator criticism and validation. It covers the concept and controls of jarh and ta'dil, scholars' efforts and methods in writing about narrator criticism, and practical training in determining the status of narrators as reliable or weak according to accepted hadith principles.

Teaching uses discussion, dialogue, brainstorming, and deductive methods.

This course introduces students to methods of locating hadith in the books of the Sunnah, the methodologies of source books and takhrij works, and the concepts, information, facts, and skills needed to understand the science of takhrij and the study of chains of transmission. It covers the history and stages of this science and the supporting sciences required for studying chains of narrators.

Teaching relies on dialogue, discussion, deductive methods, and problem solving.

This course is important for master's students in Islamic studies because it covers the concepts, information, views, and trends adopted by modern exegetes in interpreting the Book of Allah. It enables students to distinguish sound trends from unsound ones. The course focuses on the meaning of modern trends in Quran interpretation, their types, objectives, characteristics, emergence, methods of evidence, and examples from related writings.

Teaching uses dialogue, discussion, deductive methods, and brainstorming.

This course is important for Islamic Studies students because it develops students' knowledge of the rhetorical and semantic styles of the Holy Quran. It enables students to deal with Quranic text and recognize its rhetorical and expressive secrets. The course focuses on the concept and importance of Quranic expression, the style of Quranic address, forms of rhetorical and semantic expression, rhetorical secrets, and applied analytical examples.

Teaching uses dialogue, discussion, deductive methods, and problem solving.