Islamic law is a legal system that regulates all situations that people will encounter in their daily lives. This course aims to introduce the students to the basic concepts, sources, issues, provisions and current problems of the most common personal law, family law, inheritance and criminal law in a way to obtain a legal notion. Another aim of this course is to theoretically examine the applicability of Islamic family and criminal law, which is different from other legal systems today, and to discuss the results in the current context.

In this course, all the processes of Islamic personal law and family law, starting with the establishment of betrothal and marriage contract, up to the problem of iddat and alimony after divorce, are examined. During this examination, modern debates are also examined in the light of the basic information provided by classical fiqh. Marriage and custody of the woman and the child, the woman's testimony, contemporary fatwas on the issue of religious difference being a barrier to marriage, the relationship between milk kinship and milk banking and being a barrier to marriage, the obligation of alimony, polygamy and the possibility of limiting it, some types of nikah such as mut'a, misyar and secret nikah, The reasons for divorce and the evaluation of divorce decisions through today's judiciary, iddat after divorce, the problem of discontinuity of alimony after divorce, and family mediation and arbitration practices in today's Muslim countries are included in the content of this course. The concepts and application of Islamic inheritance law are also covered in this course. In addition, the basic concepts of Islamic criminal law such as qisas, hadd and tazir, types and division of crimes, statute of limitations, situations where the punishment will be reduced and trial law are also examined.