From Caliphs to Kings: The Fall and Rise of Islam

zobia · Jul 8th, 2009, 02:26 PM

so who is going to this seminar. i really really wana go, but i might be busy at work

a 4-day intensive course: enroll online

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From Caliphs to Kings: The Fall and Rise of Islam is a four-day intensive course that will cover the history of Islam from the perspective of political, social and juridical thought development. The course will provide an overview of the fourteen-hundred year of Islamic history, focusing on reasons for decline and the lessons that we must learn from the attempts at revival of the Ummah. Specifically, the course will cover the following key subject areas:

Era of Prophethood: Establishment of the Madani State
Caliphate of the Rightly Guided: Expansion of the Empire and the Seeds of Discord
After the Rightly Guided Caliphate: Withering of Shura and Rise of the Scholars
Rule of the Scholars: Development of Fiqh to the Closing of the Gates of Ijtihad
Revival and Revivalism: Ihyaa, Tajdid and Islaah
18th Century Reform Movements: Ibn Abd al-Wahhab, Shah Wali Allah and Utham dan Fodio
19th Century Struggles and Reform: Sayyid Ahmad, Al-Sanusi and Muhammad Al-Mahdi
East-West Rendezvous: Dealing with Decline, Backwardness and the Colonial Onslaught
20th Century Islamic Movements: Mawdudi, al-Banna and Sayyid Qutb
Islam Today: Charting the Way in the 21st Century

for more info: http://www.alfauz.org/