(3 credit hours) This course studies the virtue/obligation of calling to Allah, as well as the means, manners, and methods used to invite to the way of Allah based on the Qur’an and Sunnah. Particular attention is paid to dawah methodology in the West.

• PowerPoint Presentations at student library.
• Audio Lectures of the instructor at student library.
• Muhammad Abu Zahrah, Tarikh Al-Mathahib Al-Islamiyyiah
• Muhammad Yusuf Musa, Al-Fiqh Al-Islami
• Muhammad Adeeb Saleh, Masadir At-Tashrii` Al-Islami
• Muhammad Mustafa Shehatah, Al-Fiqh Al-Islami
• Ash-Sheikh As-Sayis, Nash`at Al-Fiqh Al-Ijtihadi and It’s Phases.
• Ali Hasabullah, Asul At-Tashrii` Al-Islami
• Abdul-Kareem Zeidan, AL-Madkhal li Drasat Ash-Shri`ah Al-Islamiyyah
• Umar Al-Ashqar, Tarikh Al-Fiqh Al-Islami
• Muhammad Anees, `Ubadah, Tarikh Al-Fiqh ` Al-Islami
• Ahmad Taha Rayyian, Tarikh At-Tashrii` Al-Islami
• Muhammad Sallam Madkur, Al-Fiqh Al-Islami
   

• Introducing and defining Fiqh and its relation to Sharī`ah and man-made law
• Fiqh in the Prophetic era
• Fiqh at the time of the Companions (may Allah be pleased with them)
• Guiding principles on how the Companions learnt legislations and acted accordingly
• Fiqh in the era of the Successors
• The era of compilation and Mujtahid Imāms
• Introduction to Fiqh schools of thought
• The four Mujtahid Imāms and their schools of thought
• The era of imitation and indolence
• The recording of Fiqh in the age imitation and indolence
• The causes of intellectual indolence and its effects
• Fiqh at present time