Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction to the module

    • A message from the Lecturer

    • Introduction to the module

    • Important information

    • Before we begin...
  • 2

    Section 1: A Time Before Time

    • Article: What’s the water under God’s throne?

    • 1. A time before time

    • Summary message

    • Seminar: What was before?

    • 2a. The beginnings of creation

    • 2b. The formation of the universe(s)

    • 2c. Things out there of interest: Universes and ETs

    • Seminar: The creation of the realms and what's out there

    • 3. Who's there? Thinking about Great Entity

    • Seminar: Who and What is 'God' and what 'must' we think?

    • Written assignment (1)
  • 3

    Section 2: Earth and Life

    • 4a. The physical constitution of Humans

    • 4b. How the human form emerged

    • 4c. Differentiating between the body and being - The beginnings of insaan

    • Seminar: Life, Humans, and Human evolution

    • 5a. Adam and human-ness

    • 5b. Human-ness, language and the intellect

    • Seminar: The intrinsic nature of humanness

    • 6a. Adam, cognition and the Mala'ikah

    • 6b. Iblis, Eve, the Sanctuary and the Expulsion

    • Seminar: What we learn from the story of the beginning and summary
  • 4

    Section 3: Humanity and Civilisation

    • 7. The sons of Adam: murder and migration

    • Seminar: Murder and Migration

    • 8a. Noah: the second epoch in human history

    • 8b. Noah and his people

    • Seminar: Noah and the Great Flood

    • Written assignment (2)

    • 9. The Holocene and Abraham in Ur: The Third Epoch

    • Seminar: Abraham and civilisation

    • 10. Abraham and the new lands

    • Seminar: Emigration, citizenship and settling down

    • 11. The religion of Abraham

    • Seminar: Abrahamic monotheism and the 'millah'
  • 5

    Section 4: To the Present Day

    • 12. The descendants of Isaac and the Jews

    • Seminar: The Children of Israel

    • Seminar: Christ and the Nazarenes

    • 13a. Ishmael and the Arabs

    • 13.b Muhammad and a new civilisation?

    • Seminar: The Great Nation

    • Starting at the fundamental basis

    • 14. Muhammad to today

    • 15. Summary and QA
  • 6

    Conclusion

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