Principiology and spirituality: the ethics and religious thought of Islam

lsrel2251  2017-2018  Louvain-la-Neuve

Principiology and spirituality: the ethics and religious thought of Islam
4 credits
30.0 h
Q2

This biannual learning unit is being organized in 2017-2018
Teacher(s)
Belhaj Abdessamad;
Language
French
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 learning unit, the student is able to :

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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.
 

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Faculty or entity
CISR


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Master [120] in Sciences of Religions

Master [120] in Ancient Languages and Literatures: Oriental Studies