Department of Islamic Thought and Civilization

Aims & Objectives

1. To initiate critical dialogue on various aspects of Islamic civilization and its relevance to contemporary times.
2. To deliberate over the issues and challenges facing Muslim society in an attempt to redress them and build consensus on the way forward.
3. As Islamic civilization affirms Innovative Knowledge and Advancement, peace, harmony, universalism and futuristic orientation; the program also takes them to be its cornerstones. It strives to shape its curriculum and research endeavors in light of these cornerstones.
4. We aspire to develop new learning and teaching frameworks, methodologies, and hope that research conducted through it would positively shape and affect the identity and fabric of Muslim society.
5. We aim to highlight diverse facets of Islamic Civilization and dimensions of Islamic thought as reformed in the historical dimensions and alongside focus on the future as embedded in the present times.
6. Through education and learning we aim to promote intellectual capacity for understanding Islam as an ideology that is both current and historical.
7. We strive to design curriculum and programs as such that they contribute to other professional programs in the university and also to some extent meet the needs of those engaged in policy formulation, practice of management and implications of technology (Cross-disciplinary/interdisciplinary).
8. We are also mindful of all prior attempts, internal as well as external, to reconstruct, revise, redefine, reshape and renew what Islam means and how this meaning is practiced socially.
9. We also aim to study contemporary innovative re-interpretations of conservative Islam and create space for dialogue between sects and dogmas spanning the breadth of Islam itself.
10. We strive to design courses on research methodology that are strong and exhaustive, such that they provide full exposure to conceptual orientation, theoretical foundation, and practical skills.
11. The doctoral thesis should be a new contribution to advance the frontiers of knowledge. Research should be cutting-edge and critically conscious of past and contemporary perspectives.
12. There is insufficient intellectual service to Islam if there is no interaction with people who are thinking, teaching, and doing research from outside the folds of Islam or even dominant sects. We strive to be in critical dialogue with external dialogue, which will also inform our goal of harmony and peace studies.
13. ITC should be different from regular Islamic Studies programs offered in public sector universities. We aim to offer programs and facilities that are novel. Our state of art administrative and pedagogical approach will stand out and welcome faculty and students interested in research that is broad and innovative.
14. Some suggested research topics/fields: Muslim Civilization: Decline and Reform, Islam in the 21st Century, Globalization and Islam, The Modern Muslim Identity, Islam and the West, Islamic arts and culture, Islamic Law, Political Islam, Islam and Technology, Islamic Economics, Islam and Medicine, Islam and Fashion, Islam and Business & Islam and Science.