THE RISE AND SPREAD OF ISLAM

Topics: The golden age; hadiths on moral actions; the Five Pillars of Islam; Al-Fatiha, Al-Biruni and the Deluge; the Battle of Tours; art of the Islamic world; faith and reason; and the Ordinance of ‘Umar. Assessment questions involve discussing the rise and spread of Islam, and how Muslim societies achieved cultural and intellectual diversity with the unity of Islamic belief and practice.