Correspondence courses

Running Correspondence Courses

Salient features

• Language of the course is very easy to understand
• Living examples to illustrate the various concepts of Islamic law
• Difficult terminology is avoided
• Objections upon the various concepts are rebutted very logically

Date of admission:
Elementary correspondence course is offered in the month of November every year. The course is advertised in newspapers and on the university website as well.
Eligibility Criteria:
Any person who holds the graduation degree or above is eligible to take admission in this Course

Advanced Correspondence Course in Usul-al-fiqh shortly known as the Advanced Course has been running successfully since 2005. This course helps the participants to understand the sources of Islamic law, the rules of interpretation and the methodologies of early Muslim jurists to derive Shari’ah rules from the original sources of Islamic law viz. the Qur’an and the Sunnah and the relevance of these methodologies in the changing circumstances.
Major themes of this course are as follow:

• Introduction to the science of Usul al-Fiqh;
• Sources of Islamic law
• Al-Hukm al-Shar’i (al-Hukm al-Taklifi and al-Wad’i);
• Dalalat: Rules of interpretation in Islam;
• Theory of Ijtihad in Islam;
• Methods of Ijtihad;
• Codification of laws;
• Islamization of laws in Pakistan;
• Islamic legal maxims

 Duration of the course is one year. Every candidate has to write two assignments each month with the help of 24 booklets provided for each topic. Detailed table of units is as under.
Table of units

Salient features

• Language of the course is very easy to understand
• Modern pattern of teaching of Islamic Jurisprudence has been adopted
• New concepts like codification of Islamic law are also included in the course

Date of admission:
Elementary correspondence course is offered in month of June every year. The course is advertised in newspapers and on the university website as well.
Eligibility Criteria:
Any person who holds the graduation degree or above is eligible to take admission in this Course.

• Family is the basic unit of any Society.  A healthy Society can not be formed without organizing the family unit. This unit occupies a central position in Islamic law. Realizing the importance of this aspect of Islamic law, the academy has started working to launch a specialized correspondence course on family law of Islam. Ten units have gotten printed and remaining two units are under process. We hope that reading material will be ready soon and we will be able to launch this course after few months.
• The Department plans to launch a correspondence course in Islamic Finance. Various units of the said course have been submitted to the research and publication department to take necessary steps.

• Due to the increasing role of the information technology in the field of education, the department intends to extend its correspondence courses through online system. For this purpose negotiations are continued with International Institute of Quran learning to provide the facilities of online data handling.
• Running correspondence courses of the Academy have been proven to be very significant and got a great appreciation from the participants. However, it is generally felt that there is an increasing demand to offer these courses in English Language, so that, the people living  abroad or those who do not understand Urdu can equally be benefitted by these courses. To meet this demand the department will soon start work on this project.