Respect Graduate School (RGS) is an academic institution which specializes in Islamic Studies aiming at excellence in teaching, learning and scholarship. With genuine appreciation for and study of traditional Islamic disciplines, RGS applies interdisciplinary and creative approaches to equip students to respond to contemporary social and intellectual challenges in the global context. Fostering respect and dialogue with diverse communities, RGS also offers moral and spiritual service to all.
Respect Graduate School aspires to become a distinguished university where religious and human knowledge is investigated from within a perspective that centers the Sacred.
To endow students with broad and deep knowledge in Islamic Studies from both traditional and modern perspectives.
To prepare students to conduct research in Islamic studies and related fields by providing them with the necessary analytical, critical, methodological, and interpretive skills.
To provide the broader society with life-long learning opportunities and beneficial services.
Respect
The name “Respect” expresses our foundational commitments. Respect for people, ideas, and differences is central to our ethos. Respect begins with relationships among students, faculty, staff, the board, and the wider community. We endeavor to center decisions, plans and actions on our students to stimulate their intellectual growth, personal well-being, social responsibility, and positive social interactions.
Graduate Level Education
Respect Graduate School provides a graduate level of education in Islamic Studies. RGS expects its faculty and students to engage successfully in the rigors of graduate level study and research, to be knowledgeable about traditional positions as well as recent developments in the relevant subject areas, and to communicate their understandings effectively. As freedom of expression is essential in stimulating genuine thought, our school encourages the exchange and critique of ideas as fundamental to a graduate education. The aims of our graduate education include gaining broad and deep knowledge of the central fields of Islamic studies, demonstrating capabilities in research and further learning, and formulating positions and perspectives that withstand analysis and critical engagement.
Respect Graduate School is committed to maintaining an academic environment that fosters dialog, pluralism, mutual respect, appreciation of divergent views, and awareness of the importance of individual rights. To this end, the institution reasserts the importance of civility and the valuable contribution that diversity in race, ethnicity, religion, and culture brings to the community. Service to All We believe that beneficial knowledge bears fruit through its practice; and knowledge is actualized through service is elevated to the level of wisdom. Islamically understood, the best place to put knowledge into action is in service of local and global communities, in short, humanity, for the best among us are those who benefit society the most.
Service to All
We believe that beneficial knowledge bears fruit through its practice; and knowledge actualized through service is elevated to the level of wisdom. Islamically understood, the best place to put knowledge into action is in service of local and global communities, in short, humanity, for the best among us are those who benefit society the most.
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Where knowledge becomes wisdom.
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