| CODE | THL1570 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Introduction to Judaism and Islam | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Faculty of Theology | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The main objective of this study-unit is to give a general background to the rise of Islam, its doctrines and practice, as well as the intellectual, cultural and spiritual movements to which it has given rise. Reading List: COOK, Michael. The Koran: A Very Short Introduction, OUP, Oxford 2000. HOURANI, Albert and RUTHVEN, Malise. A History of the Arab Peoples,(New ed.) Faber and Faber, London 2005. KHALIDI, Tarif. The Qur’an: A New Translation, Penguin Classics, 2009. RIPPIN, Andrew. Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices, (3rd ed.) Routledge, London 2005. |
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| RULES/CONDITIONS | In TAKING THIS UNIT YOU CANNOT TAKE THL1560 OR TAKE THL1561 | ||||||||||||
| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-requisite: General knowledge of Comparative Religion | ||||||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Joseph Ellul Marcello Ghirlando |
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