Revelation as a Source of Knowledge

TOPICS OF ASSIGMENT

1.     The Creation of man; Comparative Analysis between the Qur’ān and the Evolutionist Theory of Darwinism[1]

2.     Equality between Men and Women; A Qur’ānic Perspective[2]

3.     Man as God’s Vicegerent on Earth (khalīfatullāh); the Purpose of the Creation of Man and His Cosmological Role according to the Qur’ān[3]

4.     Exploration of Nature[4] and Its Importance according to the Qur’ān[5]

5.     Infāq (expense), Ṣadaqah (charity)[6] and Ẓakāt as Qur’ānic Approach towards Just Distribution of Wealth[7]

6.     Death to Apostates Versus the Freedom of Religion; A Critical Analysis from Islamic Perspective[8]

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EXAMPLE OF WRITING FOONOTES

[1]Seyyed Hossien Nasr, Islam and the Plight of Modern Men, London: MacMillan, 1998, p. 46.

[2]Ibid, p. 51.

[3]Sayid Naquib al-Attas, Islam and Secularism, Kuala Lumpur: ABIM, 1978, p. 79; Abū Ja‘far al-Ṭabarī, Jāmi‘ al-Bayān ‘an Ta’wīl Āyy al-Qur’ān, Cairo: Dār al-Fikr, 1988, Vol. 3, p. 303.

[4]Al-Attas, Islam., p. 70.

[5]Ali Shari’ati, The Theory of Evolution; A Critical Analysis, Tehran: al-Mizan Publications, 2004, p. 3.

[6]al-Ṭabarī, Jāmi‘ al-Bayān., Vol. 7, p. 35.

[7]Nasr, Islam and the Plight., p. 67

[8]Ibid, p. 85; Shari’ati, The Theory of Evolution., p. 109; al-Attas, Islam., p. 55.