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Académie SHSHumanities & Social Sciences

وَقُل رَّبِّ زِدْنِي عِلْمًا

Islamic sciences and the humanities, in three languages.

Thirteen live online courses for adults: Maliki law, the Sīra, theology, philosophy, Ibn Khaldun… Pre-register and be the first to receive start dates and fees.

  • Live and online
  • For adults
  • English · Français · العربية
  • Certificate of attendance
3areas of study
13courses to choose from
3teaching languages
€0to pre-register
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Islamic SciencesBeginner → intermediate

Maliki Jurisprudence (Levels I and II)

الفقه المالكي (المستويان الأول والثاني)

Purification and prayer, then fasting, zakat and pilgrimage, according to the school of Imam Malik.

Matn al-Akhḍarī; al-Murshid al-Muʿīn (Ibn ʿĀshir)

Islamic SciencesAll levels

The Life of the Prophet (Sīra)

السيرة النبوية

The life of the Prophet ﷺ, from Mecca to Medina, and the lessons it holds today.

Sīrat Ibn Hishām; Fiqh as-Sīra (al-Būṭī)

Islamic SciencesBeginner

Islamic Theology (ʿAqīda): Foundations

مبادئ علم العقيدة

What Muslims believe about God and the prophets, explained step by step.

Umm al-Barāhīn (as-Sanūsī)

Islamic SciencesIntermediate

Qur’anic Sciences

علوم القرآن

Revelation, compilation, occasions of revelation and the major methods of exegesis.

Al-Itqān (as-Suyūṭī), simplified

Islamic SciencesIntermediate

Hadith and Its Terminology

الحديث ومصطلحه

Imam an-Nawawī’s Forty Hadith with commentary, and the basics of hadith criticism.

Al-Arbaʿūn (an-Nawawī); al-Bayqūniyya

Islamic SciencesAll levels

Tajwīd: Qur’anic Recitation

التجويد برواية ورش أو حفص

The rules of recitation, with live correction by the teacher.

Tuḥfat al-Aṭfāl; ad-Durar al-Lawāmiʿ (Ibn Barrī)

Islamic SciencesBeginner

Arabic for Islamic Studies

العربية لطلبة العلوم الشرعية

Core grammar to read the texts studied in the other courses.

Al-Ājurrūmiyya (Ibn Ājurrūm)

Theology and PhilosophyAll levels

Comparative Theology of the Monotheisms

مقارنة الأديان التوحيدية

God, revelation and prophecy in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Selected texts from the three traditions

Theology and PhilosophyIntermediate

Philosophy in the Islamic World

الفلسفة في الحضارة الإسلامية

From al-Fārābī to Averroes: reason in the Islamic world and its legacy in Europe.

Al-Fārābī, Avicenna, al-Ghazālī, Averroes (extracts)

Humanities and Social SciencesIntermediate

Ibn Khaldun and the Birth of Social Science

ابن خلدون ونشأة العلوم الاجتماعية

The Muqaddima, the first major treatise on human societies.

Al-Muqaddima (Ibn Khaldūn)

Humanities and Social SciencesAll levels

History and Civilisation of Islam

تاريخ الحضارة الإسلامية

From the early caliphates to al-Andalus and the Maghreb: fourteen centuries of history.

Historical sources and academic studies

Humanities and Social SciencesAll levels

Sociology of Religion

علم اجتماع الأديان

Durkheim, Weber and the place of religion in modern societies.

Durkheim, Weber and contemporary sociology

Humanities and Social SciencesAll levels

Religion and Society in France and Europe

الدين والمجتمع في فرنسا وأوروبا

Muslim presence, secularism (laïcité) and religious law in France and Europe.

The 1905 law, French association law, historians’ work

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A certificate of attendance issued by the Academy.