Program vision:
Leadership and scientific excellence in Islamic economics at the local, regional and international levels
Program mission:
Preparing qualified students in Islamic economics who are distinguished scientifically and in research, according to distinguished academic accreditation standards, serving the local, regional and international community.
Program Objectives:
1. Forming the scientific talent of research students, and developing scientific research skills through rooting, analysis and innovation.
2. Contributing to finding specialized researchers in the Islamic economy who have the ability to keep abreast of economic developments, and emerging contemporary economic facts and issues.
3. Enriching the science of Islamic economics with distinguished scientific research and theses.
4. Preparing students and enhancing their high-level scientific capabilities in various theories and practices related to economic models, commercial applications, and others.
5. Developing students’ skills in understanding economics and its branches, strengthening their abilities in research and development, and reflecting on the most contemporary methodological problems and issues.
6. Improving the practical and behavioral capabilities of students, in order to communicate with society, and interact with the tributaries of life, values and balanced morals, at the level of work joints and correct human and material relations.
About the program
Study Duration
The period of study to obtain a doctorate degree in the Faculty of Politics and Economics is three years as a minimum, and ten years as a maximum.
The student studies in the first year no less than eight subjects, and the study is through research seminars in each course, and the research seminar depends on multiple references and is in accordance with the methodology and standards of scientific research.
In the second and third year, the student attends a general seminar for the subject of the scientific thesis that he will prepare and present for discussion
The general seminar is discussed by the scientific committee at the university and the title of the scientific dissertation is approved
The student works to complete his dissertation under the supervision of the supervisor who is decided by the university presidency based on the proposal of the college dean
The student completes his scientific thesis and presents it for discussion before the committee formed by the university presidency in a public session and completes the requirements for a doctoral degree
Courses studied in the first year, the student has the right to extend the study for a period not exceeding a second year
The scientific thesis is prepared by the student within a period of not less than one year and nine months and not more than four years
Study System
● The student studies nine courses, distributed as follows:
√ Seven compulsory courses.
√Two elective courses from among the courses offered by the faculty for doctoral students.
● The study is conducted through research seminars in each course, and the research seminar relies on multiple references and is in accordance with the scientific research methodology and standards.
● The study of each of the nine courses takes four credit hours for a minimum of four weeks, and it may be more than that according to the capabilities of each student, after which the student’s proficiency and knowledge test is held in the course he finished, then he starts in another course in the same way, and so on.
● The student is assigned two virtual courses that the faculty chooses from among the courses that the student studied at the undergraduate level. The student must divide each course from twelve to fourteen abbreviated lectures. The student presents each lecture in the form of a written summary of its topic in Word or PDF format, accompanied by a video recording of it in the student’s voice using the Power Point program, its duration is not less than ten minutes and not more than About twenty minutes.
● Courses studied in the first year, the student has the right to extend the study for a period not exceeding a second year.
The requirements for obtaining a doctoral degree are ninety credit hours according to the study plan approved by the University Council, and these requirements are distributed according to the following programs:
1- Research courses of thirty-six credit hours.
2- An academic thesis of thirty-six credit hours.
3- Practical training of eighteen credit hours.
Requirements for registering a topic for a PhD thesis
● The student must pass the prescribed courses with at least 70%.
● The student obtains a TOEFL certificate with a score of at least 450, or its equivalent, or obtains a corresponding certificate in the French language, with the exception of those who obtained a first university degree in one of the two languages, or in one of the two languages.
● The student submits a request to the university administration to register the thesis, accompanied by a proposed topic in one of the sub-specialized tracks.
● If the initial approval of the subject title is achieved, the Faculty Council shall specify a supervisor to guide the student and follow him up in preparing the plan.
● The research plan includes the importance of the topic and a critical presentation of the previous studies in it, and a specification of the research problem, then defining the study methodology and its main hypotheses or the questions that you want to answer, and the study’s division and its sources.
● The student presents his proposed plan in a scientific seminar. The plan discusses a topic and methodology.
● The student amends his plan based on the notes of the professors in the seminar if he is asked to amend it.
● The plan is presented after the seminar to the Faculty Council to take its decision regarding the registration of the subject.
Discussion and degree award
● The minimum thesis preparation period is one year and nine months, starting from the date of approval of the University Council to register the subject, and the maximum is four years that can be extended for a fifth exceptional year upon the recommendation of the supervisor and the approval of the Faculty Council, provided that the total period of the student’s enrollment in the degree does not exceed six years.
● The supervisor submits a semi-annual report that includes what has been accomplished, and what is required in the remaining period.
● After the student completes the thesis and the supervisor reviews it, the supervisor submits to the university administration a report stating its suitability for discussion, including an evaluation of the student’s performance during the thesis preparation period of 140 degrees, with a complete copy of the thesis signed by him, and a letter with the names of the discussion and judgment committee proposed by the professors of the specialization, for presentation to Faculty Council.
● It is required that at least fifteen days have elapsed prior to the student’s discussion from the date of approval of the discussion committee from the faculty.
● The period of validity of the committee formed to discuss the dissertation is six months. It may be renewed for a similar period based on a report from the supervisor and the approval of the Faculty Council.
● Each member of the committee writes a detailed scientific report on the validity of the dissertation for discussion, and evaluates the thesis out of 420 degrees, and the average of the three degrees is taken.
The student may not be discussed unless he obtains at least 70% of the supervisor’s evaluation of his performance and the committee members’ evaluation of the thesis in the individual reports.
● A collective report is presented after the discussion, signed by all committee members, in which it evaluates the thesis discussion out of 140 marks.
● In the event of approval, the decision of the Faculty Council is presented to the University Council to approve the registration, and the date of registration is calculated from the date of approval by the University Council.
The dissertation is approved after public discussion with one of the grades shown in the following table:
| Score percentage | points | Appreciation symbol | Appreciation | |
| Arabic | Einglish | |||
| 95 to 100% | 4 | A+ | A+ | First class honors |
| 90 to less than 95% | 7 , 3 | A | A | |
| 85 to less than 90% | 3 , 3 | B+ | B | Second honors |
| 80 to less than 85% | 3 | B | B | |
| 75 to less than 80% | 7 , 2 | C+ | C+ | – |
| 70 to less than 75% | 3 , 2 | C | C | |
After the faculty approves the student’s results, the doctorate degree is granted at a rate calculated from the average of the total grades of the courses and the thesis.
After obtaining the approval of the University Council to grant a doctorate degree to a student, he has the right to obtain insured certificates documented by the university stating that he obtained that degree, in order to present them to the various authorities.
Conditions for Success and Graduation
1) A student is considered successful in any of the program courses if he/she achieves a final grade of no less than 60%. He is also considered successful in the doctoral project if he obtains a score (granted to him by the judging committee) of no less than 70%.
After the student presents the results of his project before the committee, and discusses its technical content.
2) A student is not entitled to discuss his dissertation until he has published two scientific research papers in an accredited peer-reviewed journal
3) The student obtains a doctoral degree certificate after he has fulfilled all the scientific requirements for this degree
I. Compulsory Courses
Advanced Scientific Research Methodology
Course name: Advanced Scientific Research Methodology
Course code: DECO101
Credit hours: 4.00
This course aims to provide students with advanced skills in scientific research, its methods and methods, and to develop them in economic and administrative sciences, enabling them to benefit adequately and appropriately from them in solving academic and practical problems.
This course starts from assisting the researcher in choosing the title of the research to defining the research problem and developing hypotheses, passing by measuring variables and designing research in addition to sampling and its methods. This course also deals with research designs, whether they are exploratory, descriptive and experimental.
Advanced Topics in Islamic Economics
Course name: Advanced Topics in Islamic Economics
Course code: DIE102
Credit hours: 4.00
Economic activity from a macro perspective: aggregate supply and its determinants, aggregate demand and its elements, the classical theory of employment, the Keynesian theory of employment and the policies on which it is based, aggregate supply and aggregate demand in the light of Islamic economic doctrine: private consumer demand, private investment demand, government spending, sector External, the influence of the doctrine data in the macro analysis: determining the equilibrium level of income in a zero-interest zakat economy, balance in the real sector and in the monetary sector, overall balance, inflation, unemployment, economic policy and its tools in an Islamic economy.
Advanced Topics in Islamic Microeconomics
Course name: Advanced Topics in Islamic Microeconomics
Course code: DIE103
Credit hours: 4.00
Economic activity from a partial perspective, positivistic and Islamic equilibrium of the consumer, positivistic and Islamic production functions and producer equilibrium in the input market positivistically and Islamically, producer equilibrium in the output markets positivistically and Islamically, the structure of the Islamic market and the position on pricing, market forms: perfect competition, total monopoly, the jurisprudential position on monopoly, Monopolistic competition and oligopoly in the light of the provisions of the Islamic market, input markets and determining their prices under Sharia controls, the labor market and trade union demands: an analytical approach and a Sharia approach.
Welfare and Social Economy in Islam
Course name: Welfare and Social Economy in Islam
Course code: DIE104
Credit hours: 4.00
The concept of welfare economics, economic goals of society from an Islamic perspective, resource allocation in the market system, general equilibrium in consumption and production, efficiency conditions and examples, resource allocation in a managed economy, resource allocation in an Islamic economy, Islamic markets and rationalization of private testing, monopoly management, distribution system And its legal foundations in Islam, the economic functions of the state in Islam, legal policy and rationalization of public choice, public goods: their financing and management in an Islamic economy, security and social policies in Islam, social structure and criteria for differentiation from an Islamic perspective, sustainable development and environmental reckoning from an Islamic perspective.
Islam and Critical Theory
Course name: Islam and Critical Theory
Course code: DIE105
Credit hours: 4.00
Money, monetary rules and economic activity: the classical school, money and monetary policies: the Keynesian school and the monetary school, money and its functions in the Islamic economy, the rules of money in Islam, medicine on money in the Islamic economy, money supply and management in the Islamic economy, the Islamic monetary system and the position on money generation Credit, monetary policy and its tools in the Islamic economy, the position on changing the value of money, inflation and inflation theories in the light of the provisions of the Islamic economic doctrine, developments in the monetary arena: electronic money and digital money and attitudes towards them.
Theories of Islamic Economic Jurisprudence
Course name: Theories of Islamic Economic Jurisprudence
Course code: DIE106
Credit hours: 4.00
What is the jurisprudential theory and its elements, the jurisprudential theory and the economic theory, the jurisprudential theory and rule, the theory of succession, the theory of right and the theory of abuse in its use, the ownership theory, the contract theory, the distribution theory, the theory of value and pricing, the theory of emergency conditions, the theory of necessity, the theory of guarantee.
The Economics of Zakat
Course name: The Economics of Zakat
Course code: DIE107
Credit hours: 4.00
What is zakat and its hypothesis, and E. Zakat: an economic jurisprudential reading, sources of zakat, a jurisprudential and economic reading, the house of zakat money, zakat cashing, zakat within the framework of the distribution system, zakat within the framework of the financial system, zakat and its effects on aggregate demand: zakat and consumer demand, zakat and investment demand Zakat and public spending, Zakat and its effects on aggregate supply, Zakat and the level of employment and equilibrium output, Zakat and economic growth and other economic effects of Zakat, Zakat and social security.
II. Elective Courses
Theories of Economic Development From an Islamic Light
Course name: Theories of Economic Development From an Islamic Light
Course code: DIE201
Credit hours: 4.00
The nature of growth, the reality of development, and the analysis of underdevelopment: its characteristics, causes, theories of economic development from an Islamic perspective, economic development and the rulings of Islamic economic doctrine, mobilization of natural resources, mobilization of financial resources, mobilization of human resources, development and the system of Islamic values, actual economic surplus and potential surplus, financing development Economic: internal sources, external sources, human development and its indicators, planning and management of economic development, the role of economic integration of development, the environment and the requirements of sustainable development.
Contemporary International Economic Issues
Course name: Contemporary International Economic Issues
Course code: DIE152
Credit hours: 4.00
Economic integration at the level of the countries of the Islamic world, intra-trade between Islamic countries, financial liberalization and its effects, indebtedness problems, the international monetary system and exchange rates, the financial crisis and its effects on the economies of the Islamic world, globalization and its economic and social effects, money laundering, international economic relations, illegal immigration and legal security.
Advanced Topics in Islamic Public Finance
Course name: Advanced Topics in Islamic Public Finance
Course code: DIE203
Credit hours: 4.00
The financial system and its relationship to the economic philosophy of society, public expenditures in classical and Keynesian finance, public revenues: their nature and elements in a market economy, the role of the state in the Islamic society, public expenditures: their elements and development in the Islamic state, public revenues and their elements in the Islamic economy, legal policy and tax system, The state’s general budget (Bayt al-Mal): a historical introduction and a functional entry. Public goods: their management and financing. Public finance and the welfare economy.
Rules and Controls and their Jurisprudential Applications in Islamic Economics
Course name: Rules and Controls and their Jurisprudential Applications in Islamic Economics
Course code: DIE204
Credit hours: 4.00
What are jurisprudential rules, jurisprudential rules and fundamentalist rules, jurisprudential rules and jurisprudential theories, what are jurisprudential controls, rules and controls and the principle of causality in Islamic legislation, jurisprudential rules in public order and the Islamic economic system, jurisprudential rules in the jurisprudence of transactions: rules and controls in sales, rules and controls in rents Rules and controls in partnerships, controls and rules in speculation, rules and controls in compound contracts, rules and controls in financial engineering.
Islamic Banking Thought
Course name: Islamic Banking Thought
Course code: DIE205
Credit hours: 4.00
What is banking thought and its origins, relationship of banking thought to economic thought, postulates of traditional banking thought: absolute private ownership of money, commodification of money, usurious loan contract, position of Islamic banking thought on postulates of traditional thought, banking practices in Islamic economic history, emergence of Islamic banks and development of banking thought Islamic, banking thought and money supply: banking speculation, banking thought and money development: banking participation, banking leasing, financing banking sales, banking thought and liquidity management, banking thought and financial innovation.
Advanced Topics in Islamic Public Finance
Course name: Advanced Topics in Islamic Public Finance
Course code: DIE206
Credit hours: 4.00
The financial system and its relationship to the economic philosophy of society, public expenditures in classical and Keynesian finance, public revenues: their nature and elements in a market economy, the role of the state in the Islamic society, public expenditures: their elements and development in the Islamic state, public revenues and their elements in the Islamic economy, legal policy and tax system, The state’s general budget (Bayt al-Mal): a historical introduction and a functional entry. Public goods: their management and financing. Public finance and the welfare economy.
Degree: Ph. D. DegreeProgram code: PHD103PEStudy method: Distance LearningCredit hour: 90How long it takes: Full time: 3 years Part time: 6 years Limit time: 10 years