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ISC 101 ISLAMIC ETHICS
Credits: 2 (2,0,0) Prerequisite: None
This course examines the concept of ethics and its importance to human life. It also touches
upon related areas, such as, the origins of morals and ethics, types of human behavior and
their motives, human ethics and their purposes. Various categories and classifications of
ethical behavior, the degrees of ethics, the types and manifestations of vice are defined; and
how the Holy Quran and the Sunnah honor, purge and exalt the human soul are discussed.
Examples of ethical behavior such as, truthfulness, honesty, faithfulness, modesty, benevolence
and good conduct are extolled.

ISC 103 ISLAMIC ECONOMIC SYSTEM
Credits: 2 (2,0,0) Prerequisite: None
The course aims at expounding the Islamic economic system and how to implement it in daily
affairs. It touches upon Islamic economic system in relationship to Islamic Law in handling of
modern economic problems, as well as its views on property, ownership, inheritance, and
economic welfare. The course compares Islamic solutions to modern economic problems to
those of other secular economic systems. Issues such as production, distribution, consumption,
contracts, finance are also treated from an Islamic point of view.

ISC 105 HOLY QURAN SCIENCES
Credits: 2 (2,0,0) Prerequisite: None
This course introduces the Quranic sciences and what kinds should be studied so as to expose
students to the correct concept of the Holy Quran in order to apply it correctly as the accepted
science which is in conformity with reason, and those rejected ones that are not. The most
important requisites of the knowledge of the Quranic sciences is the awareness of its
interpretation, the perception of its miraculous aspects, knowing its flawless, ambiguity,
abrogation, abrogated, absolute, restricted, and other aspects of its eloquence. Without
studying the above subjects the study of the Holy Quran will be inadequate and the student will
be deprived of a lot of knowledge.

ISC 203 NEW FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS
Credits: 2(2,0,0) Prerequisite: 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.

ISC 205 FAMILY IN ISLAM
Credits: 2 (2,0,0)
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