FAQs

Curriculum

Curriculum - Thematic Areas & Highlights

Topics and methods of instruction are adapted to the two different age groups, 9-11 & 12-17 year-olds.

Golden Age Of Islam:
  • Overview

  • The historic House of Wisdom Library’s features and impact

  • Key Scientists & Innovators

  • Muslim Women Scientists & Innovators

  • Cultural Exchanges through the Crusades

  • The radical Muslim Green Revolution: technology applied & plant varieties exchanged

  • Cultural Diversity in the Muslim World: Overview
Islam in America:
  • Islam’s Influence on the Founding Fathers
  • The earliest Muslims in the Americas
  • Early Converts to Islam & Muslim Movements
  • Waves of Immigration from the Muslim World
  • Post-9/11 realities and political awakenings

 

Key Muslim Empires/Caliphates:
  • Foundational Islam & the Rashidun Caliphate
  • The Abbasids & Umayyads
  • Islamic Spain
  • The Ottomans
  • Sub-Saharan Africa: Mali, Sudan, Ethiopia & more
  • The Mughals of South Asia

  • Southeast Asia
Art, Architecture, Ideas, and Design:
  • Islamic Philosophy & Art, Design and Architecture
  • Mosque Architecture: classic models and tawhid concretized
  • Iconic Muslim monuments
  • Muslim Mystics and the Arts
  • The Islamic Decorative Arts: Calligraphy, Geometric Patterns, Arabesque
  • Islamic Abstraction in the arts: classical models and continuing legacy
  • Muslim Modernism & Contemporary Artists in the Muslim Diaspora

  • Women Artists from the Muslim World and in the Muslim Diaspora
Countering Islamophobia:

This segment taught only to 12-17 years age group.

  • Orientalism and Edward Said
  • Identifying biases and patterns in media representation and narratives
  • Critical thinking and media analysis using Orientalism
  • Post-Colonial perspectives from the Muslim world

  • Positive Muslim Role Models in the Western world today