4.0 credits
30.0 h
2q
This biannual course is taught on years 2015-2016, 2017-2018, ....
Teacher(s)
Language
Français
Main themes
- The Tawhid (Divine unicity) as an originary vision of the world
- The ethics and foundations of religion: the moral values and their foundation
- Polemics on fundamentals - Fitra, God and the Quran
- The currents of Muslim thought within Sunni and Shiah: humanism, pluralism and globality
- Faith and interreligious debate in relation to the question of Muslim monotheism and the space it allows for freedom and human responsibility
Aims
At the end of this course, the student should be able to
- analyse the Islamic religious conception and the most important principles of Muslim thought;
- situate the debates Muslim thought has given rise to in history, as well as the schools of Kalam (the major tendencies in the constitution of that thought);
- grasp the (convergent and/or divergent) relationships between the principiological fundamentals and the mystical dimension of Islam.
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