About MA in Islamic Studies:

The MA program in Islamic Studies is an interdisciplinary program with the goal of providing students with the background to expand their knowledge and understanding of classical and modern Islamic religious thought, context, and textual traditions. It highlights ethics as the overarching principle and figh as highly informed by the spirit of ethics. Framed in the paradigm of ethical pluralism, this program will be about text and context and will offer a shared space where social scientists and scholars in Islamic jurisprudence collaborate in an effort to examine maqasidic fiqh and new interpretations of the Islamic corpus