The History of the Four Caliphs
Join us on a journey through the reigns of the 4 Rightly-Guided Caliphs of Islam, along with a team of incredibly gifted Muslim historians.
We at Turath Publishing are pleased to announce our first course based on one of our published works. Students will have the option to buy the course alone, or along with a copy of the book in question.
Join us we navigate Khudarī Bak’s ‘The History of the Four Caliphs’ with a team of highly-trained Muslim historians – each of them fully cognisant of the Islamic sensibilities that are at the bedrock of any Muslim historical inquiry.
Course Starts: 26th November 2023
Timings: Every Sunday, 6:30PM – 8:30 PM (UK Time)
Duration: 5 Week Course
Course Fee: £50 for the Course
Course Details
In an age where Muslims are struggling to anchor themselves spiritually, politically and societally, it is more important than ever before to look to our forerunners for guidance. There were 5 incredible men who carried the mantle of Islamic leadership after the demise of the Prophet ﷺ, each of them facing their own unique set of challenges, but also setting down guidance that Muslims would be able to take from in their own times of tribulation.
One of the most concise, but also historically thorough, books on this subject is ‘The History of the Four Caliphs’ by the late Ottoman scholar, Shaykh Khudarī Bak al-Bājūrī. This book’s unique features, according to Mufti Abdul Rahman Mangera is:
- 1. The straightforward and clear narrative it provides of the event of the Rightly-Guided Caliphate.
- 2. The delicate balance he strikes in navigating some of the more difficult events in that period, maintaining the sanctity of the Companions, but also remaining true to the details.
We at Turath Publishing are pleased to announce our first course based on one of our published works. Students will have the option to buy the course alone, or along with a copy of the book in question.
Join us we navigate Khudarī Bak’s ‘The History of the Four Caliphs’ with a team of highly-trained Muslim historians – each of them fully cognisant of the Islamic sensibilities that are at the bedrock of any Muslim historical inquiry.
Course Structure
The layout of the classes is:
Session 1: How should Muslims do history? – Dr Yakoob Ahmed and Asim Ayub
Session 2: The rule of Sayyidunā Abū Bakr – Asim Ayub
Session 3: The rule of Sayyidunā ʿUmar – Dr Osman Laṭiff
Session 4: The rule of Sayyidunā ʿUthmān – Dr Yakoob Aḥmad
Session 5: The rule of Sayyidunā ʿAlī and Imam Ḥasan – Dr Ovamir Anjum
Potential Bonus Session: Islam as a Political System – TBC
Instructors
Dr Yakoob Ahmed
Dr Yakoob Ahmed is an academic specialising in late Ottoman history. He is a PhD graduate of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and currently teaches Islamic history at Istanbul University. His research focuses on Muslim intellectual thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Islamic constitutionalism, identity, nationalism and collective memory construction.
Ovamir Anjum
Ovamir Anjum is a Pakistani-American academic. He is the Imam Khattab Chair of Islamic Studies at the Department of Philosophy, University of Toledo. He is the Editor-in-Chief at the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic studies and the founder of the Ummatics Institute.
Dr. Uthman Lateef
Dr. Uthman Lateef is Senior Researcher and Instructor at Sapience Institute. He has a BA in History, an MA in Crusader Studies, and has completed a PhD in the ‘Place of Fada’il al-Quds (Merits of Jerusalem) and Religious Poetry in the Muslim effort to recapture Jerusalem in the Crusades’. His book on the crusades, ‘The Cutting Edge of the Poet’s Sword: Muslim Poetic Responses to the Crusades’ was published by Brill in 2018. He has also written and continues to write academic articles and book chapters in the field of history.
Asim Ayub
Asim Ayub is a graduate of Darul Uloom Bury where he completed the traditional Alimiyyah program. He further went on to complete a BSc in Economics and MSc in Economic History from Brunel University and the LSE, followed by a PGCE from Brunel. He has studied further in specific Islamic sciences including Kalam, logic and Usool Hadith with various highly-qualified scholars. He is a resident instructor at the Karima Foundation.
