International Law Western and Islam Perspective

UK Centre for Legal Education

Siyar (Islamic International Law)

Manual on Teaching Islamic International Law (Siyar)

©2008 (UKCLE – 1st Draft Copy)
CONTENTS

COURSE AIMS & OBJECTIVES
COURSE SYLLABUS
LECTURES AND TUTORIALS
LITERATURE ON SYLLABUS
TUTORIAL ESSAYS
COURSE MATERIALS
COURSE ASSESSMENT
TEACHING ISLAMIC INTERNATIONAL LAW (SIYAR)
CONTEMPORARY CASES ON ISLAMIC INTERNATIONAL LAW
OVERVIEW OF ISLAMIC INTERNATIONAL LAW (SIYAR)
RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY

COURSE AIMS & OBJECTIVES

The major goal of the International Islamic law (Siyar) at undergraduate/postgraduate level is to introduce candidates to Islamic notion of international law that significantly differs of that modern international law. The Islamic International Law (Siyar) deals with body of rules that regulate relations between Islamic state and other non-Muslim states that are viewed as alien states by Islamic law. The major function of the Course, therefore, is to provide a sound understanding of how Siyar (Islamic International law) evolved and developed, and to critically examine the significance of this law in the hierarchy of branches of Islamic law and Islamic state practices.

The focus of the preliminary sections of the Course, entitled General Introduction to Islamic International Law and Basic Concepts of Islamic International Law, is an introduction to the concept and nature of the legal discipline in the hierarchy of Islamic legal subjects. This will require a study of the history, theory and sources of Islamic International Law and its modern form.

COURSE SYLLABUS

I. General Introduction to Islamic International Law (Siyar)

1. Historical Foundations of Islamic International Law
2. Fundamentals of Islamic International Law
3. Legal scholarship on Islamic International Law
4. Sources of Islamic International Law

II. Basic concepts of Islamic

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