Technically it refers to the body of Islamic law extracted from detailed Islamic sources ( which are studied in the principles of Islamic jurisprudence ) and the process of gaining knowledge of Islam through jurisprudence.

While there, he studied world culture, including Islam and the Middle East.

Many scholars and Muslim clerics have studied whether hip-hop and music in general is permissible ( Halal ) in Islam.

Ma Fuxiang also published many books, and wrote on Confucianism and Islam, having studied both the Quran and the Spring and Autumn Annals.

Despite his conversion to Islam, his works continued to be studied at the Jewish Baghdad Academy, a well-known academy, into the thirteenth century.

D ' Souza stated that he has studied radical Islam for several years and read the Qur ' an.

A " twin " Islamic Dawa Party was also founded in Lebanon by clerics who had studied in Najaf and supported Muhammad Baqr al-Sadr's vision of a resurgent Islam.

Peter the Venerable, also working in the twelfth century, studied Islam and made possible a Latin translation of the Qur ' an.

After his military service, Sultan Qaboos studied local government subjects in England and, after a world tour, returned home to Salalah where he studied Islam and the history of his country.

His life was studied extensively by the French scholar of Islam, Louis Massignon.

From the age of five he was enrolled in the al-Kutaab Islamic boarding schools ( a primary school not teaching children anything but how to recite and keep Quran by heart ) where he studied the Qur ' anic Sciences, Hadith ( the sayings of the Prophet of Islam and his Companions ), Fiqh ( Islamic Religious Philosophy ), and Seerah ( The detailed biography of the Prophet of Islam ), etc.

Al-Jāḥiẓ continued his studies, and over a span twenty-five years, he had acquired great knowledge about Arabic poetry, Arabic philology, history of the Arabs and Persians before Islam, and he studied the Qur ' an and the Hadiths.

Having studied Mantiq, those who wish to gain a deeper understanding of the philosophy of Islam will study Falsafa.

* In August Hicks went to Kabul, where he studied information collection and intelligence, as well as Islamic theology including the doctrines of jihad and martyrdom as understood through al-Qaeda's fundamentalist interpretation of Islam.

As a young man, Faruk had studied Sufism, and had thought of devoting his life to this mystical branch of Islam.

During his career, Smith not only studied, but practiced Vedanta ( studying under Swami Satprakashananda, founder of the St. Louis Vedanta Center ), Zen Buddhism ( studying under Goto Zuigan ), and Sufi Islam for more than ten years each.

Many leading Iranian theologians and politicians ( including Ayatollah Beheshti, Ayatollah Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari or Mohammad Khatami ) have spent time ( often years ) here, have encountered and studied Western sciences and philosophy and contributed to the Western understanding of Shia Islam.

Sadulayev also studied Islam under local Islamic theologians, and from 1996 began appearing regularly on Chechen television speaking about Islam.

From 1893 he studied Protestant theology at the Kaiser Wilhelm Universität of Straßburg.

He studied theology with Simplician, a presbyter of Rome.

He studied theology and canon law, and after acting as parish priest in his native diocese for twelve years was sent by the pope to Canada as a bishop's chaplain.

In 1223 ( or 1221 ) he became a member of the Dominican Order, against the wishes of his family, and studied theology at Bologna and elsewhere.

Linnaeus entered the Växjö Gymnasium in 1724, where he studied mainly Greek, Hebrew, theology and mathematics, a curriculum designed for boys preparing for the priesthood.

An Augustinian, he had studied theology in Paris under St. Thomas of Aquinas to become one of the most authoritative thinkers of his time, and tutor to French king Philip IV the Fair, ( 1268-29 November 1314 ).

He received the formal Christian education standard for his day: he studied grammar from age twelve to fourteen ( 390-392 ), rhetoric and humanities from fifteen to twenty ( 393-397 ) and finally theology and biblical studies ( 398-402 ).

Ultimately in 1518 he found his way to the University of Wittenberg, where he studied theology.

He studied at Munich, and at an early age joined the Canons Regular at Polling, where, shortly after his ordination in 1717, he taught theology and philosophy.

After visiting Latin School in Kamenz ( from 1737 onwards ) and the Fürstenschule St. Afra in Meissen ( from 1741 onwards ) he studied theology and medicine in Leipzig ( 1746 – 1748 ).

After The Shilos broke up, Parsons attended Harvard University, where he studied theology but departed after a single semester.

As a young priest he had studied little theology, but this was not considered unusual at the time.

There, he studied philosophy under Vitus Müller and theology under Jacob Heerbrand ( a student of Philipp Melanchthon at Wittenberg ), who also taught Michael Maestlin while he was a student, until he became Chancellor at Tübingen in 1590.

" Samuel Smiles stated that he was " the scion of a distinguished Béarnese family "; although it is probable that the poverty of his parents would have excluded him from a learned career if some of the leading Protestants of the district had not charged themselves with the expenses of his education, which was begun under M. Jean de la Placette, the minister of Nay, He studied at Puylaurens, the Academy of Saumur, and the Academy of Sedan, receiving the degree of doctor in theology, it is said, at the age of seventeen.

Tetzel was born in Pirna, Saxony, and studied theology and philosophy at the university of his native city.

Pike was born in Woodstock, Connecticut, and studied theology at Gordon College, graduating with a B. A.

Professor of chemistry and natural history, Edward Hitchcock also studied and wrote on natural theology.

Wherever he studied, he concentrated on medicine, theology, logic, physics, metaphysics and Aristotle's dialectic.

He studied theology and common law in Paris and was appointed a canon of Laon and later Archdeacon of Liège.

Presbyterianism was especially influenced by the French / Swiss theologian, John Calvin, who is credited with the development of Reformed theology and the work of John Knox, a Scotsman who studied with Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland and brought his teachings back to Scotland.

Lotario received his early education in Rome, studied theology in Paris, and ( possibly ) jurisprudence in Bologna.

There he considered becoming a priest, after having studied theology for four years in college.

It is Edwards ' most famous written work, and is widely studied by Christians and historians, providing a glimpse into the theology of the Great Awakening of c. 1730 – 1755.

In some contemporary contexts, a distinction is made between theology, which is seen as involving some level of commitment to the claims of the religious tradition being studied, and religious studies, which is not.

If contrasted with theology in this way, religious studies is normally seen as requiring the bracketing of the question of the truth of the religious traditions studied, and as involving the study of the historical or contemporary practices or ideas those traditions using intellectual tools and frameworks that are not themselves specifically tied to any religious tradition, and that are normally understood to be neutral or secular.