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ISC203 New Financial Transactions (Language of Instruction: Arabic)
Credits: 2(2,0,0) Prerequisites: None
The company, as a type of contract, arose a long time ago to meet the needs of the people. This
development of social life led to different kinds of companies and contracts, which can be
expressed as modern financial transactions, such as partnership company, limited partnership
company, joint venture company, joint stock company, limited liability company, mixed
economics company, public joint stock company, and insurance company. These are studied in
addition to the companies known in the Islamic jurisprudence in the past such as proprietorship
company, permission partnership company, all kinds of contract companies, and speculation
company. The course clarifies these modern financial transactions and the viewpoint of the Islamic
Shari’a on them.

ISC205 Family in Islam (Language of Instruction: Arabic)
Credits: 2 (2,0,0) Prerequisites: None
This course is designed to deal with the issues related to family building, responsibilities and
problems. Among the issues to be dealt with are: choice of future spouse, the marriage contract
and its requirements, rights of spouses, parents, children and relatives. The second part of the
course deals with Islamic solutions to marital problems, such as divorce, waiting period, alimony
and custody of children, giving the rulings of the religion on these matters.

LAW101 Principles of Law (Language of Instruction: Arabic)
Credits: 3 (3,0,0) Prerequisite: None
This course is a core component of the first year of the Bachelor of Laws program offered by PSU.
The course explores the theory of law and rights. It is designed to provide the students with the
following: the concept of law and the characteristics of legal rules, different types of law, resources
of legal rules, how law is interpreted and the agencies that apply the law. In addition, it considers
the definition, typologies, and sources of rights, who enjoys certain rights and how rights can be
implemented and forfeited.

LAW111 Sources of Obligations (Language of Instruction: Arabic)
Credits: 3 (3,0,0) Prerequisite: LAW101
The general theory of obligations is considered one of the important theories in law. Therefore,
this course is a prerequisite for LAW 223. It provides an inclusive overview of theory of obligation,
willful sources (contracts and unilateral act) and non-willful sources (tort and unjust enrichment).

LAW112 Law of Tort
Credits: 3 (3,0,0) Prerequisite: LAW101
This is an obligatory course. This course is designed to provide students with a general introduction
and critical understanding of Tort Law, providing general concepts and theories of the law of torts
from a common law and comparative civil law perspective. It differentiates between a civil and a
criminal wrong. It encompasses a representative range of several types of civil wrongs from a
common law perspective: negligence, defamation, nuisance, intentional torts, nervous shock,
misrepresentation, strict liability, occupier’s liability, and vicarious liability and compares them to
the analysis under comparative civil law.

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