UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT & TECHNOLOGY

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES

Department of Islamic Thought & Civilization

Program : PhD ITC

Semester : Spring 2022
Course : Islamic Civilization and Cultures
Course Code : ITC 820
Credit Hours : 03
Duration : 15 Weeks
Resource Person : Humaira Ahmad
Contact Details : Phone: 04235212801-10

INTRODUCTION OF THE COURSE

The course is designed to cover two main, widely divergent modes of civilizations i.e. Classical and
Modern. The course will commence with a consideration of Classical Civilizations then we will explore
the ideas of Islamic and Western Civilizations. These ideas capture the dominance of a paradigm that has
done nothing less than re-define the very terms of knowledge and experience in contemporary world.

LEARNING OUTCOMES
 The course will familiarize participants with the broad contours of civilizations.
 By the end of this course participants will be able to appreciate the alternative paradigms.
 The course will enable the participants to carry out advanced research in more narrowly defined
areas of contemporary civilizations.

Teaching and Learning Methods

 Lectures
 Presentations and Discussions
 Question-answer Sessions
 Article Reviews
Method of Assessment
Article Review : 30%
Presentations : 5%
Class Participation : 5%
Mid Term : 20%
End Term Exam : 40%

Course Outline

First Week –
- Definition of Civilization
- Usage of Word Civilization – A Glance into the Historical Development of Word
o Civilization in Urdu and Arabic
- Difference between Culture and Civilization
- Characteristics of Civilization and culture
- Methodology for the Study of Civilization
- Western Theories of Civilization
o Western Perspective and Trends on Study of Civilizations and Culture
o Oswald Spengler, Arnold Toynbee, Pitrim Sorokin, Samuel P. Huntington

Second Week- The Study of Islamic Civilization: Western Pattern and Islamic Methodology
- Islamic and Western Worldview of Civilizations
- Muslim Perspective of Civilization
o Malek Bennabi
o Ibn-e-Khaldun

Third, Fourth and Fifth Week: Turmoil Epochs in the History of Islamic Civilization
- -. Martyrdom of Hazrat Usman Ghani,
- Fall of Baghdad
- Fall of Granada
- Ideological Challenge
- Modernity, Postmodernity and Islamic Civilization
- Islam and Secularism
- Islamic Feminism
- Postcolonial Discourse and Anthropological Aspects

Sixth Week - Education and Learning in Islamic Civilization

- Education and Learning in Medieval Ages
- Various Streamlines
- Firaang Mahall,
- Madrassa Nizamiya
- Imam Hatip Schools

Seventh Week - Muslim Civilization Contribution to Science – What Muslims gave to Science
Eighth Week - Themes in Islamic Art and Architecture

Ninth and Tenth Week – Geographical Cultural Zones of Islamic Civilization and their
Features (A Reading from Siraj Munir)
- Arabic Cultural Zone
- Iranian Cultural zone
- Sub-Continent Zone
- African
- European cultural zone
- Southeast Asian cultural zone

Eleventh and Twelfth Week –Unity and Variety in Islamic Civilization

Thirteenth- Fifteenth Week– Religious Reconstruction of Islamic Thought of Allama

Muhammad Iqbal

Fifteenth Week – Ideologues in Islamic Civilization