RES 351G - The Qur’an Unveiled: Social Justice, Women, and Nature

This course concentrates on the major themes of the Qur’an in the contemporary context with focus on social justice, ecology, women and gender relations. Besides these major topics, the course also covers a variety of other topics such as the concept of God, creation, prophets and revelation, and issues of eschatology. Students will be exposed to some contemporary issues like Jihad, extremism, terrorism and Islam’s relations with other world religions and finally the Qur’an concept of interfaith dialogue. Course codes: B. Prereq: RES.Q*101.

Prerequisites & Notes
Course codes: B. Prereq: RES.Q*101. Term offering cycle: Spring. Typical yearly cycle: Even years.

Credits: 3