The First Kingdom: Rise and Fall of Bani Umayyah

Sat, 4 June 2016, 9AM to 7PM (2 days) | English

Malaysia

AlKauthar Institute

Sheikh Bilal Ismail

Fees: RM250

Following the Khulafah Rashideen, after the first Fitna, Muawiyah (ra) ascended as Caliph of the Muslims and on his passing, was succeeded by his son, Yazid I, thus the house of the Umayyad family, started the hereditary rule with 14 rulers which lasted till their eventual overthrown by the Abbasids. It was a time of conquest, civil strife and tribulation, classical administration and wealth.

The course aims to provide a deep insight to the life and times of the ummah under the Ummayad Caliphate and understand how our history was shaped under their rulership. The students attending this course will understand:

1. The rise of Umayyads and Islamic expansion
2. State and society under Umayyad Rule
3. Achievements of the Umayyads - Arts, Sciences and Islam
4. The incident of Karbala and the Sunni-Shia divide
5. Eventual decline and causes
6. The rise of the Abbasids
7. The rise of Islam in Spain
8. Lessons to be learnt

For more information and to register for the course, please go to: http://bit.ly/thefirstkingdom


Contact Details:

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Email: kuala.lumpur@alkauthar.org
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What's Provided?

1. FREE course notes complete with Quranic/Hadith references.
2. FREE MP3 audios of each tutor session available to download.
3. FREE refreshments provided during frequently held breaks throughout the course.
4. Question & Answer sessions held during the course. Sisters only Q&A may be arranged.
5. Students encouraged to enhance learning via case based studies. Online exams also held.


Tutor Profile:

Sheikh Bilal Ismail was born in Durban, South Africa. He is one of three siblings and comes from a religious traditional hanafi family. He memorized the Quran while studying at school and went on to complete high school in 1998. Sheikh Bilal then went on to do a diploma in Computer Science in 1999, as well as qualifying as a Microsoft certified systems engineer. He was accepted into the Islamic University of Madinah in 2001 where he completed his Diploma in Arabic followed by a BA in Islamic Law from the faculty of Shariah. After graduating, he returned to South Africa where he had been teaching Fiqh and Tafsir weekly classes in Durban since the summer of 2007 and says he is still a student of knowledge - and will always be!

Malaysia