SCHEDULE OF CLASSES |
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(Dates or headings in italics indicate assignments have not yet been finalized.) |
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| ISSUES | ||||
| T 1/14 | Introductions and intellectual agendas | |||
| Th 1/16 | ||||
| T 1/21 | Regulating sex | |||
| Th 1/23 | Gender and agency | |||
| (M 1/27 last day to drop a class with no record of grade) | ||||
| THE SOURCES OF LAW | ||||
| The Qur'an | ||||
T 1/28 |
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| Hadith | ||||
Th 1/30 |
Al-Bukhari's legal collection of hadith | |||
| The Theory of Sources | ||||
T 2/4 |
Al-Juwayni on law and language | |||
| Th 2/6 | Al-Juwayni on human reasoning | |||
| CLASSICAL LEGAL DISCOURSE | ||||
| A Classical Law Manual: Ibn Naqib's Reliance of the Traveller | ||||
| T 2/11 | Introduction | |||
| Th 2/13 | Purity | |||
| T 2/18 | Prayer | |||
| Th 2/20 | ||||
| T 2/25 | ||||
| Th 2/27 | ||||
| T 3/4 | Divorce | |||
| Th 3/6 | ||||
| T 3/11 | ||||
| Th 3/13 | MIDTERM ESSAY due in class. Discussion of midterm essays / finish Divorce Iranian Style |
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| SPRING BREAK | ||||
| LAW IN PRACTICE | ||||
| T 3/25 | Marriage | |||
| Th 3/27 | ||||
| (F 3/28 last day to drop a class and automatically receive a W) | ||||
| T 4/1 | ||||
| Th 4/3 | Sharia in North America | |||
| A CONTEMPORARY CRITIQUE | ||||
| Khaled Abou El Fadl | ||||
| T 4/8 | Authoritarian rulings | |||
| Th 4/10 | ||||
| T 4/15 | The Authority of Sources | |||
| Th 4/17 | The Reader's Assumptions | |||
| T 4/22 | ||||
| Th 4/24 | What to Do about Difficult Sources | |||
| CONCLUSIONS | ||||
| T 4/29 | ||||
| Th 5/1 | FINAL PAPER due in class / Concluding discussion of papers, ideas for final exams |
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| F 5/9 4:30-6:30 pm | FINAL EXAM in our usual classroom. After submitting your final exam, would you please take ten minutes to go online at eval.ou.edu and fill out the course evaluation? The deadline (for this class only) is Saturday May 10. Thank you. This will make a real contribution to my teaching and to my future students' learning! | |||