B-KUL-A03C0A Christianity and Islam

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General information

Academic year: 2011-2012 Study points: 4 Language: English Difficulty: Basic Duration: 26.0 hours  Periodicity: Taught this academic year in the second semester POC: POC Theology and Religious Studies

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Taught by

El Kaisy-Friemuth Geb. El Maha

Aims

Islam is one of the great monotheistic religions. This course aims to study the complex relationship between Islam and Christianity, in the period of foundation; in the middle ages; in modern times. The understanding of how the model of interpretation given by Muhammed of his own action is issued from the biblical tradition of prophetism, and how he proposed new rules of moral conduct linked to a strictly monotheistic concept of God, will help us in the specific interreligious dialogue between Islam and Christianity.
This course discusses various polemical texts from the middle ages and the impact on the image of Islam later on.
This course aims also to understand the relation between Islam and modernity.

Previous knowledge

The students are supposed to have followed
an "Introduction to Islam".

Content

The first part is an Introduction: a general presentation and definition of Islam in its different meanings, creed, praxis as well as the existential meaning of "Islam" in his mystical and ethical aspect.
The second part is a more extensive description of Christianity, Jesus and Mary in the Qur'an and the Islamic Tradition.
The third part is a presentation of different themes in early polemics in Arabic language between Muslims and Christians and the continuity of the themes in Western polemical Traditions.
The fourth part is a presentation of contemporary Islamic thinking related to modernity, violence, militantism and radical "political Islam".

This course is included in

Master of Arts in Theology and Religious Studies  
Master of Arts in de wereldgodsdiensten, de interreligieuze dialoog en de religiestudie  
Master of Science in Cultures and Development Studies  
Master of Arts in de wereldgodsdiensten, de interreligieuze dialoog en de religiestudie  
Study Abroad Programme in European Culture and Society (PECS)  

Activities

		B-KUL-A03C0a Christianity and Islam
	General information Study points: 4.00 Language: English Category: Lectures Duration: 26.0 hours  Periodicity: Taught this academic year in the second semester POC: POC Theology and Religious Studies Taught by El Kaisy-Friemuth Geb. El Maha Content Christianity in the Qur'an and the Islamitic Tradition. Traditional Islamic and Christian polemical literature and theological problems. Islam and the West; religion and state; religion and modernity; violence. Course Material The Holy Qur'an. Translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali. (Leicester, The Islamic Foundation. - Many other editions available). Recommended reading: H. KUNG, Christianity and World Religions. Paths of Dialogue with Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. Part I: Islam and Christianity, London, 1987, 1-132; Art. 'Isa; and Islam, in Encyclopedia of Islam IV, Leiden, J. Brill.

Evaluation

		B-KUL-A23C0a Evaluation : Christianity and Islam
	Evaluation description Examination type:     oral with written preparation When?: final examination during examination period Evaluation type:     Closed book Explanation Oral exam. Theoretical questions: one general question and two questions concerning details.