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Contemporary quirks of hyperbole

Course Description: This course examines extremist ideologies and provides scientific responses to them.

Credits: 1

Prerequisites: AGDH453

Objectives of the course :

1- Identifying the most prominent contemporary suspicions from extremist currents concerning the fundamentals of creed, and how to respond to them.
2- Recognizing the implications of these suspicions, such as bloodshed and disruption of social order.
3. Inferring errors in reasoning and comprehension of religious texts by extremist and radical currents.
4. Understanding the concept of terrorism, its contemporary examples, and Islam's stance on it.
5. Understanding the concept of freedom and its related rulings.
6. Knowing the scientific answers to historical facts and religious rulings concerning contemporary extremist doubts.

Course outputs :

Knowledge and understanding:
1. To recognize the doubts of extremism in the issues of Imamate, excommunication, and jihad, and their answers in light of the creed of Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jama'ah.
2- To know the terms: guardian, allegiance, terrorism, and freedom.
To describe the manifestations of extremism among groups of violence in takfir, jihad, and Imamate.
Skills:
1. To identify scientific errors in the reasoning of extremist ideologies.
2. To realize the implications of the suspicions of extremist currents.
3. To deduce the correct methodology for refuting extremism through historical events and fatwas.
Values, autonomy and responsibility:
1- The student can fully understand others objectively.
2. To have the ability to dialogue and communicate with them in order to understand what others have, then critically study what others have.

Additional information:

Course Topics:
An Introduction to the Concepts of Doubt and Extremism and Their General Causes.
Dispelling Doubts Regarding Imamate and Caliphate.
Review of historical examples of doubts about the Imamate and how they were addressed.
Uncovering suspicions related to declaring Muslim individuals, groups, and countries as infidels.
Review of samples of facts and fatwas related to takfir and their critique.
Exposing the suspicions of violent groups regarding legitimate jihad and its controls.
A review of exemplary cases and fatwas related to the controls of jihad.
The concept of terrorism, its history, and the Kingdom's stance on it.
The concept of freedom and its relationship to creed.
Clarifying Misconceptions Related to the Concept of Freedom and Its Controls.

Last updated: 2026-06-03