Effat University Islamic History and Civilization Questions

Instructions: Answer any 5 of the following questions and submit them to the Blackboard by the due date.

Note:

• Most questions are open ended so feel free to give your opinions or refer to the lectures/class discussions.
• The length of your answers are not important.

Questions:

• What do you understand by the term cannonization? Explain historically.
• Are religions and Civilisations phenomena? Why? What is the religious viewpoint about the relationship between the two?
• Analyze only two of the four Sunni Islamic legal schools by mentioning whether they are inclined to ray or hadith?
• Which of the three historical-critical approaches to study historical phenomena is most significant according to you and why?
• Explain the reasons of the decline of the Ottoman Empire.
• Discuss three theological schools in the light of their social and political circumstances.
• Is there a correlation between the development of Islamic theological thought and Islamic legal thought? If yes, explain.
• Explain briefly the main political factors that resulted into the emergence of Shi’ism.
• What are the reasons for diversity and different legal opinions?
• What are the contents of Islamic law?
• How many trends/approaches appeared in the early phase of the development of Islamic legal thought and what happened to them towards the end of the 9^th century?
• What are the phases of development of Islamic legal thought?
• Discuss the Umayyad Empire by referring to their social system and reasons for their decline.
• How does the history of Islamic legal thought represent history of Islamic civilisation in general?