Graduate Teaching
The Centre for Islamic Law and Society plays a leading role in the provision of graduate education in relation to Islamic studies, both in the Melbourne Law School and in the Faculty of Arts.
Melbourne Law School
The Melbourne Law School offers a range of subjects on Islamic Legal Studies as part of the Melbourne Law Masters program.
Increased understanding and knowledge of the Islamic legal system is of growing importance in Australia and throughout the world. Melbourne Law School’s Islamic Legal Studies Program examines both the development of classical syari’ah and modern versions of Islamic law, with a particular focus on tensions between syari’ah and the modern secular nation state. The program focuses primarily on Islamic legal systems in the Middle East and South East Asia, with some flexibility to allow students to cover Islamic law in other regions, as well as a broad range of topics, from the origins of Islamic law to current global controversies over the role of syari’ah.
Members and associates of the Centre for Islamic Law and Society, together with international visiting scholars, are responsible for teaching all subjects for credit toward the Islamic legal studies programs.
Faculty of Arts (Asia Institute)
The Islamic studies program is taught at the Asia Institute in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. The program provides students with the opportunity to study the development of Islamic thought and Muslim society from a broad multidisciplinary perspective.
Click here for details on Islamic Studies graduate programs at the Asia Institute.