An Introduction to Islam and Islamic Philosophy – GI 26 167
7 January 2027 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm GMT
Tutor: Karim Esmail BA, MPhil, MPhil, PhD
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Religion has played a highly important part in the lives of human beings. Islam is one of the great religions of the world. This course considers begins with some of the foundations of Islam: pre-Islamic Arabia, Muhammad, the Qur’an, Sunna/Hadiths, its early expansion, and the division between Sunnis and Shias.
It then considers some of its ethical foundations and its main mystical element, Sufism. Finally, it begins to consider the development of philosophy during its (golden) medieval period.
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Karim Esmail
Dr. Karim Esmail was educated at London, Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard. He was awarded a British Academy Studentship and the Gregg Bury Prize at Cambridge. He was formerly, a Research Fellow at Oxford and Burney Student at Cambridge and a Visiting Fellow at Harvard and he lectures at both Cambridge and Oxford. Alongside international articles, he is the author of three volumes of an original philosophical work on the nature and existence of God. Classes with Karim consist of clearly structured lectures and an encouragement to ask questions and to make comments. Students are assisted in their understanding of the subject and in their critical engagement with it.
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