Objectives

• To produce doctoral graduates who are highly competent, innovative, and inclusive in the field of Islamic studies and Muslim communities.
• To create creative, innovative, and relevant scholarly works that address needs at the national and global levels.
• To establish national and international academic collaborations that benefit the development of the study program.

Strategies

• Developing an internationally standardized curriculum by adopting several models from various leading universities worldwide
• Teaching instruction is delivered in English and Arabic.
• Integrating classical Islamic approaches with modern social sciences and humanities approaches.
• Collaborating with leading universities globally.
• Providing digital literacy education for students.
• Faculty members are required to publish in reputable journals twice a year.
• Faculty members are given incentives for journal articles that are published.
• Students are required to master research methodologies, master journal writing techniques, and directly collaborate with faculty members to write journal articles.
• Engaging and communicating intensively with the global academic network through various academic forums such as conferences and other meetings.
• Appointing a liaison officer at the Faculty who will specifically follow up on collaboration plans.
• Allocating funds and seeking alternative funding sources to finance collaboration programs with the world’s best universities. The funds obtained so far come from the British Council and the Ministry of Religious Affairs.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Have excellent knowledge of approaches and theories in Islamic Studies as well as key issues in the studies of Islam and Muslim societies
• Have an excellent, substantive and theoretical understanding of the dynamics of Muslim social movements, their theological debates, and their transformations from the classical to contemporary era
• Have an advanced understanding of various research methods in Islamic studies and social sciences and demonstrate an excellent command of specific research skills in the discipline, together with a proven ability to produce original and independent research
• Have an excellent theoretical understanding of Muslim societies, together with the proven ability to critically assess various theories and approaches deriving from Islamic studies, social sciences and humanities
• Apply their skills to conduct independent and original research about the construction of Islamic discourses and dynamics of Muslim societies.