FEC Academy's Advance Curriculum

Following are notions we will incorporate into our textual Islamic Studies· 

MANNERS

o    Islamic Manners from Abu Fattah Abu Ghuddah

·        ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE

• Al-Fiqh al-Islami (Hanafi Fiqh) by Dr Akram Nadwi * Book to be purchased
  

(‘By Noon Prayer – The Rhythm of Islam’ by Fadwa el Guindi)

• Maqasid al-Shari’ah
  
• Basics – Salah, wudhu, etc

  SPIRITUALITY IN ISLAM

• Tasawwuf -  Sufism 
  
• Qadiriyyah, Chishtiyyah
•  Imam al-Ghazali (documentary)  
• The Tablighi Jama’at



  ISLAMIC HISTORY

• The Prophets
• Prophet Muhammad (Saw) – The Message (Film taught)
  
•  Constitution of Madinah
  
• The Khilafat-e-Rashida (the Rightly guided Caliphs – Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Ali R.A.)
  
• The Concept on Modern State – can we Islamise the State?
  
•  Umayyads
  
• Abbasids
  
• Ayyubids
• Mamluks
• Mughals
• Ottomans
• Road to Modern Islamic States
• Islam and Muslim – nonMuslim relations in History (Convivencia – Andulus/Spain)
• Colonialism and its effects on the Muslim World (Pakistan/India – Islam in Britain through migration)
•  Islam in Britain: Abdullah Quilliam / Fatimah Elizabeth Cates / migration

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 DENOMINATIONS IN ISLAM

·ISLAM IN THE MODERN WORLD

• Human Rights and Islam
• Belief and Unbelief / Evolution
• Judaism and Modernity
• Equality

ISLAMIC POETRY & SONG

•  Allamah Iqbal
• Bulleh Shah
• Shaykh Abdullah Quilliam

ISLAMIC ART


P4MC - PHILOSOPHY FOR MUSLIM CHILDREN
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·EXPERIENCE BASED EDUCATION, RESILIENCE & CHARACTER BUILDING 

• Experience / Tarbiyyah -
  

- Old People's home
- Prison
- Camping
- Fitness classes                    
- Look at different types of clubs but with less authority          
- Graveyard - understand the temporality of life and also experience the dua of graveyard in an actual graveyard.                            
- Teach Micro-Financing - soap making etc
- social justice
- Teaching Islamic History - All aspects of it (e.g. racism) and make it holistic.
- cooking -  'unity of knowledge', take a holistic approach for learning other subjects. .. write a recipe book, business, collaborative learning - internet (keeping in touch with knowledge)

– John Dewey, John Taylor Gatto 
- Having a circle (halaqah) based learning as opposed to lecturing.
- Assembly,  one class per week