Comparative Religion

2 Credit Hours

Course Outline and Objectives:

This course attempts to define religion both Islamically and from a general scholastic standpoint.   It discusses the Islamic stand on reading about other religions and the proper Islamic attitude in such a study.  It familiarizes students with historic as well as modern developments of various religious traditions and the practices of their adherents around the world.  Furthermore, it examines some specific religions and their belief systems and the Islamic response to claims of those religions as to why it is necessary to make da’wah to people of these religions.