SCHEDULE OF CLASSES |
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(Dates or headings in italics indicate assignments have not yet been finalized.) |
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| M 8/24 | Introduction to the class | |||
| ISSUES | ||||
| W 8/26 | ||||
| M 8/31 | Regulating sex | |||
| W 9/2 | ||||
| (F 9/4 last day to drop a class with no record of grade) | ||||
| M 9/7 | LABOR DAY - no class | |||
| THE SOURCES OF LAW | ||||
| The Qur'an | ||||
| W 9/9 | ||||
| M 9/14 | NO CLASS (instructor at conference) - work on Tentative Thesis Statement | |||
| W 9/16 | NO CLASS (instructor at conference) - but Tentative Thesis Statement due any time today - submit on D2L, under this course, in the Dropbox. |
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| Hadith | ||||
| M 9/21 | al-Bukhari's legal collection of hadith: women at the mosque |
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| W 9/23 | al-Bukhari's hadith on menstruation | |||
| CLASSICAL LEGAL DISCOURSE | ||||
| A Classical Law Manual: Ibn Naqib's Reliance of the Traveller | ||||
| M 9/28 | Introduction | |||
| W 9/30 | Purity | |||
| (F 10/2 last day to drop a class and automatically receive a W) | ||||
| M 10/5 | Prayer | |||
| W 10/7 | ||||
| M 10/12 | Trade |
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| W 10/14 | ||||
| M 10/19 | ||||
| W 10/21 | Divorce | |||
| M 10/26 | Justice | |||
| W 10/28 | MIDTERM ESSAY due in class |
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| LAW IN PRACTICE | ||||
| Marriage and Divorce Law in Modern Courts | ||||
| M 11/2 | The Use of Marriage Laws in Courts | |||
| W 11/4 | Divorce Cases from Iran and Morocco | |||
| M 11/9 | Shari`a and "Real Life" | |||
| W 11/11 | ||||
| A CONTEMPORARY CRITIQUE: KHALED ABOU EL FADL | ||||
| M 11/16 | Authoritarian rulings | |||
| W 11/18 | What Authority Should Mean | |||
| M 11/23 | The Authority of Sources | |||
| THANKSGIVING BREAK | ||||
| M 11/30 | The Reader's Assumptions | |||
| W 12/2 |
Critique of Authoritatian Rulings |
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| M 12/7 | What to Do about Difficult Sources | |||
| W 12/9 | Concluding discussion FINAL PAPER DUE Analysis of the class |
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| T 12/15 4:30-6:30 pm |
FINAL EXAM | |||