About the Programme

Islamic Fiqh is an essential discipline of traditional Islamic sciences which requires an analysis of normative positions in the diverse range of emerging issues from a global perspective in this rapidly changing world. It is challenging and overpasses the lines of enquiry which question concepts never explored before or ever thought possible. The continuous change of social and political circumstances, discoveries and the scientific, technological and digital revolution over the last decades has produced unprecedented challenges that require Islamic fiqh perspective on these modern and contemporary issues. The range of queries are diverse and vary between worship, medicine, dietary laws, and family law, necessitating knowledge of both classical and contemporary Fiqh, a specific set of skills in responding to legal queries and expertise in this discipline.

Muslim scholars attempted to address many areas of Islamic Fiqh and its application on the contemporary cases and the other areas of humanities and social sciences. Dealing with these challenges requires preparing the expert Muftīs and Muslim scholars who have the background knowledge and the skillset to work closely with academics and subject experts, allowing them to embrace both good leadership qualities and aptitude to deliver the Islamic response through a multidisciplinary approach.

However, this area of expertise has grown both horizontally and vertically to the degree that our current application of Fiqh to the contemporary challenging issues is, unfortunately, still in its early stages. The horizontal growth requires us to go back to the sources of our substantive law, jurisprudence and ethics and remove the differences and essential shariʿ principles that provide the guidance and framework to provide Islamic responses for technical questions. Thereby, Muslim scholars need to acquire some expertise in broader areas of theology, ʿilm al-kalām, tafsīr, ḥadīth and tārīkh. The new sciences have now diversified beyond just medicine, and into many other specialities, making it intersect with sciences such as politics, law, business transactions, financial contracts, medical science, philosophy of science, epistemology, metaphysics, anthropology, global public health and other areas of humanities and social sciences.

This programme is an online two-year specialisation programme (Without Master Degree) and three years specialisation programme (With Master Degree), exclusively designed for Sharia graduates from different traditional Islamic Madaris. The programme seeks to empower the Sharia scholars by developing advanced research skills, critical thinking, and an ability to grasp complex cases generically through intense mashq fatawa and case studies. Additionally, Takhassus Fil Fiqh programme provides a comprehensive understanding of usul al-fiqh (Legal Theories), Qawa’id al-Fiqh (Legal Maxims) and their application to the contemporary legal cases, based on the traditional Hanafi Madhab. It allows the opportunity for students to specialise further in specific areas of their interest upon completing the course.