Moral Complexity in Islam: Origins to the Present
COL 275
Spring 2024
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01
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| Crosslisting:
RELI 275 |
| Course Cluster and Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory Certificate |
Ethics seem straightforward, until you need to explain your choices. How do you judge actions of truth and deception, love and hate, wealth and poverty, pain and punishment, freedom and slavery? Over the long history of Islamic cultures, how did people describe a good, full life? Is there a unique Islamic ethos of action? Do Islamic thinkers tie values and decisions to divine revelation, or to reason? How do we determine the nature of good and evil? Can God do evil, and what would that even mean? In confronting these questions along with Islamic philosophers and thinkers we will find a surprising range and diversity, and some of history's most compelling answers. Diverse and creative, these answers from the Islamic past compel us to rethink some of our basic presuppositions. Blending theory with case studies from the Islamic past and present, we will approach some of the hard ethical questions that Muslims across the world have had to deal with historically and continue to address today. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA COL |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (COL)(CSCT)(MEST-MN)(RELI-MN)(RELI) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 90% or above |
| SECTION 01 |
| Instructor(s): Jarada,Hadel Times: ..T.R.. 01:20PM-02:40PM; Location: BOGH110; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 2 | JR major: 2 | | |
| Seats Available: 7 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 1 | JR non-major: 1 | SO: 5 | FR: 4 |
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