School of Sharia - The University of Jordan -

Program Specifications

Master in Jurisprudence and Its Foundations / Program Overview

​An overview of the program and its main subjects:

The department offers a master's degree in Jurisprudence and its Foundations in order to remain fulfilling its function from the legal and social perspectives, as the department succeeded in fulfilling its function towards society and its graduates became active scholars working in facilities related to the specialization, such as fatwa, judiciary, education and leading prayers.​

Program vision:

Providing society with a generation qualified in terms of practical jurisprudence, promoting the development of the student's jurisprudential capacities, and providing the labor market with trained jurisprudential staff in the fields of leading prayers, preaching, fatwa, media, and education.

Program mission:

Qualifying students of jurisprudence and its foundations who are able to provide the community in the legal fields and guide it towards values and virtues.​

Program goals:

  1. Teaching Islamic Studies in a way that combines belonging to the roots and keeping pace to the era and is consistent with the higher objectives of Sharia.
  2. Seeking to improve educational performance in Islamic Studies.
  3. Calling to Islam by elucidating its principles, demonstrating its truths, and refuting the doubts directed against it.
  4. Serving the local, Arab and Islamic community by preparing qualified staff capable of carrying the noble message of Islam with honesty and sincerity.
  5. Connecting the Ummah's present with its heritage and Islamic civilization.
  6. Developing virtuous values and good morals by following the Islamic approach in thought, word and deed.
  7. Preparing a qualified Muslim capable of achieving reform, facing challenges and obstacles, and fulfilling the duty of calling to Allah Almighty.
  8. Qualifying a generation of teachers who are capable of understanding the higher objectives of Sharia and following authentic educational curricula and instilling them in the souls of students.
  9. Providing the Supreme Judge Department with qualified staff to work in the Sharia courts and the Sharia judiciary.
  10. Qualifying a generation of speakers and preachers capable of delivering the message of Islam, explaining its principles, clarifying its concepts and explaining its rulings.
  11. Preserving the Islamic identity of the nation and defending its culture.​