The Abbasid Age
A trail through Baghdad's great centuries.Abyssinia
A trail through the neighbour kingdom.The Two Emigrations to Abyssinia
A short lesson on the first departure from Mecca: why they went to Abyssinia, who sheltered them, what happened there and how they returned, with the differing accounts of their return.Al-Jahiz and His Age
A trail through Basra's greatest man of letters.Mirrors for Princes
A trail through political adab.The Afghan Lands
A trail through Greater Khorasan.Death and the Hereafter
A trail through the last journey.The Prophet's Household
A trail through the Prophet's household.Alexandria
A trail through the Mediterranean bride.Alexandria
A trail through the Mediterranean's bride.Algeria
A trail through Algeria.Al-Andalus: Eight Centuries
A trail through eight Andalusi centuries.Cities of al-Andalus
A trail through Islamic Iberia's cities.Emirs of al-Andalus
A trail through the Umayyad state in Iberia.Minds of al-Andalus
A trail through al-Andalus's thinkers.The Ansar
A trail through the people of Medina.The Literary Treasury
A trail through the classics of adab.The Arabic Novel
A trail through a century of the novel.Arabia before Islam
A trail through the kingdoms of jahiliyya.Al-Nawawi's Forty
A trail through the most famous hadith text.Arms in the Heritage
A trail through arms as heritage.The Early Ascetics
A trail through the first ascetics.The Ten Promised Paradise
A trail through the ten promised paradise.The Astronomers
A trail through the watchers of the sky.Astronomy
A trail through Muslim astronomy.The Battle of Badr
A trail through the first great battle.The Baghdad Sufis
A trail through the Baghdad school.Banu Qurayza
A trail through the siege of Qurayza.The Barbary Corsairs
A trail through Ottoman Algiers.Travels of Ibn Battuta
A trail through the greatest traveller.The Bay'a
A trail through the compact of rule.Arts of the Book
A trail through the beauty of the word.The Great Shelf
A trail through ten books that changed the community.Botany
A trail through the herb physicians.The Buyid Age
A trail through the Daylamites who ruled Baghdad.Cairo's Architecture
A trail through the city of a thousand minarets.Cairo's Complexes
A trail through the city of al-Mu'izz.Masters of Calligraphy
A trail through the masters of the pen.Islam in China
A trail through Islam's far east.Egyptian Cinema
A trail through the Arab Hollywood.Indian Cinema
A trail through Bollywood's Muslim thread.Indonesian Cinema
A trail through the largest Muslim nation's cinema.Iranian Cinema
A trail through Persian cinema.Maghreb Cinema
A trail through Maghreb screens.Pakistani Cinema
A trail through Lollywood.Palestinian Cinema
A trail through the cinema of the cause.Saudi Cinema
A trail through the kingdom's new cinema.Syrian Cinema
A trail through Sham's screen.Turkish Cinema
A trail through Turkey's screen world.Cities of Islam
A trail through the capitals of the civilization.Coffee Culture
A trail through the Arab drink that conquered the world: Yemen, Istanbul, Cairo's and Paris's coffeehouses.The Conquest of al-Andalus
A trail through the crossing of 711.Beyond the Oxus
A trail through the Transoxiana conquests.The Conquest of the Maghreb
A trail through the conquest of Africa.The Conquest of Persia
A trail through the fall of the Sasanians.The Conquest of Sind
A trail through the first opening of India.The Conquest of Syria
A trail through Umar's conquests.The Great Conquests
A trail through battles that redrew the map.Sieges of Constantinople
A trail through eight centuries of sieges.Creed and the Heart
A trail through inner belief.Iman and Its Pillars
A trail through the creed.The Crusading Era
A trail through two centuries of crusade and counter-crusade.Darb Zubayda
A trail through the greatest pilgrim road.Da'wa and Delegations
A trail through the spread of the call.The Year of Delegations
A trail through the year of delegations.Delhi and India
A trail through Muslim India.Desert Castles
A trail through the Umayyad retreats.Dhimmi Communities
A trail through Muslim-dhimmi relations.Dua and Dhikr
A trail through the worship of heart and tongue.The Oldest Mosques
A trail through the oldest standing mosques.The First Revelations
A trail through the opening of revelation.East Africa
A trail through the Swahili coast.Islamic Education
A trail through the community's schools.The Conquest of Egypt
A trail through Islam's entry into Egypt.Early Fiqh of Egypt
A trail through Egypt's first jurists.Islam in Egypt
A trail through fourteen Egyptian centuries.The Two Eids
A trail through the community's two feasts.The Year of the Elephant
A trail through the year of the birth.Muslim Ethics
A trail through noble character.The Expeditions
A trail through the early expeditions.Islamic Philosophy
A trail through the philosophers.Al-Fatiha
A trail through the mother of the book.Fatimid Cairo
A trail through the Fatimid state; Jawhar enters Egypt and lays out Cairo, al-Mu'izz lodges in his palace there, then al-Azhar, al-Hakim and the Ayyubids.The Muslim's Seasons
A trail through the year's seasons.The First Fitna
A trail through the community's hardest years.The First Muslims
A trail through the earliest Muslims.The Four Imams
A trail through the great schools of law.Freedom in Islam
A trail through slavery and emancipation.From Opposition to Islam: Those Who Changed Sides
A trail through twelve places in the stories of those who opposed the call in Mecca and then entered Islam, from Umar to the Muslims of the conquest, and then the category of 'those whose hearts were to be reconciled'.The Geographers
A trail through the describers of the earth.The Ghurids and India
A trail through the house of Ghur.Science in the Golden Age
A trail through the minds that changed science: the House of Wisdom, Khwarizmi, Jabir, Razi, Ibn Sina, Biruni, and the astrolabe in hand.The Science of Arabic
A trail through the birth of grammar.The Fall of Granada
A trail through the last Andalusi state.The Grand Tour
The museum's grand tour for the new visitor.The Great Mosques
A trail through Islam's great mosques across twelve centuries.The Great Mosques
A trail through the garrison-town mosques.The Prophetic Hadith: From Hearing to the Collections
A trail through the hadith sciences in seven stations: what a hadith is, the isnad that conveys it, the six books, the science of methodology, the sira that preserves its context, the shama'il that preserve the Prophet's portrait, and selected texts from the Sahih — a doorway into the museum's Prophetic-word shelves.The Science of Hadith
A trail through the community's unique science.Hadramawt
A trail through the wadi of Hadramawt.The Rites of Hajj
A trail through the days of hajj.The Foster Mother
A trail through the Prophet's infancy.Al-Hallaj
A trail through the most famous executed mystic.The Two Sanctuaries
A trail through the holiest ground: the Haram, Kaaba, Zamzam, Hira's cave, then the Prophet's Mosque, Quba, Uhud and Baqi.Al-Hasan al-Basri
A trail through the shaykh of the Tabi'un.Hayy ibn Yaqzan
A trail through the first philosophical novel.The Hijaz
A trail through the cradle province.The New Muslims
A trail through those who embraced Islam.The Hijra Journey
A trail through the most famous journey.The Hijra Road
A trail along the journey that changed history.Hudaybiyya to Tabuk
A trail through the sira's last years.Hulagu and the Fall of Baghdad
A trail through the year the Abbasid era ended.Hunayn
A trail through the day of the ambush.The Ibadiyya
A trail through the third tradition.Ibn Arabi
A trail through the Greatest Shaykh.Ibn Khaldun
A trail through the founder of sociology.Ibn Taymiyya and His School
A trail through the Hanbali shaykh and his school.Ihya Ulum al-Din
A trail through the greatest ethics book.Imperial Mosques
A trail through the giant mosques.The Indian Ocean
A trail through Islam's southern sea.Muhammad Iqbal
A trail through the poet of the East.Cities of Iran
A trail through the cities of Persia.Cities of Iraq
A trail through the cities of the two rivers.The Land of Iraq
A trail through Iraq.Islam in Thirty Minutes
An introductory trail for those who have not known Islam before: the meanings of Islam, iman and ihsan, the five pillars and how they are performed, then who the Prophet is, how the message began and where the Hijri calendar starts.Islam in India
A trail through eight Indian centuries.Islam on Screen
A trail through the museum's Screening Room.Map of the Scholars
A trail through the geography of learning.Islamic Finance
A trail through riba-free banking.The Isma'ili Da'wa
A trail through the movement that built Cairo.Al-Isra' wal-Mi'raj
A trail through the greatest night.Mosques of Istanbul
A trail through the skyline of domes.Jabir and Alchemy
A trail through the father of chemistry.The Jazira and the North
A trail through the northern lands.Holy Jerusalem
A trail through the Holy City: al-Aqsa, the Dome of the Rock, the Night Journey, Umar's conquest and Saladin.Friday
A trail through the weekly festival.Juz Amma
A trail through the thirtieth juz.The Ka'ba
A trail through the Sacred House.Kano and the Hausa
A trail through the Nigerian savanna.Karbala: Story and Memory
A trail through the event that marked the umma.Khaybar
A trail through Khaybar.Khorasan
A trail through the land that bore the hadith masters.The Khwarazmian Empire
A trail through the last power before the Mongols.The Kufa School
A trail through the Kufa school.Languages of the Umma
A trail through the umma's tongues.Lepanto and Vienna
A trail through the empire's western edge.A Muslim Life Cycle
A trail through life-cycle rites: aqiqa, circumcision, marriage, funeral and burial.The Prophet's Life: From the Elephant to the Passing
A trail through the Prophet Muhammad's life in twelve stations: his birth in the Year of the Elephant, the revelation in the cave of Hira, the Aqaba pledges, the Hijra, the building of Medina, Badr, Uhud and the Trench, Hudaybiyya, the conquest of Mecca, the Farewell Pilgrimage, the Year of Delegations, and the passing — as the museum's pages tell them in order.Rites of the Lifetime
A trail through the whole lifecycle.Madinat al-Zahra
A trail through the greatest Andalusi city.The Islamic Maghreb
A trail through the Islamic West.Dynasties of the Maghreb
A trail through the Maghreb's dynasties.States of the Maghreb
A trail through the Maghreb states.The Awaited Mahdi
A trail through the awaited one.Malcolm X
A trail through the most famous Muslim American.The Mali Empire
A trail through Africa's greatest empire.Mamluk Cairo
A trail through the Mamluk sultanate.The Art of the Maqama
A trail through the unique Arabic genre.The Maragha Observatory
A trail through the greatest pre-modern observatory.Mathematics and the Stars
A trail through the people of number.Fuqaha of Mecca
A trail through the circle of the Haram.The Meccan Period: From the Cave to the Hijra
A chronological trail through the years of the call in Mecca, from the descent of the revelation in the cave of Hira to the Hijra, in twelve events ordered as they unfolded.Medicine in Islam
A trail through the community's medicine.Mosques of Medina
A trail through Medina's first mosques.The School of Medina
A trail through Medina as a school.Tabi'un Medina
A trail through Medina after the Prophet.Mehmed the Conqueror
A trail through the sultan who ended Rome.Modern Egypt
A trail through 19th-century Egypt.Mosques of the Modern Age
A trail through modern mosque architecture.Modern Reform
A trail through 19th-century revival.Modern Thought
A trail through the last two centuries' renewal.Monasteries of the Peninsula
A trail through the early monasteries.The Muslim Mongol Khanates
A trail through the Mongols who embraced Islam.The Mongol Shock
A trail through the catastrophe and its transformation: Baghdad's fall, Ayn Jalut, the khanates' conversion.Cities of Morocco
A trail through the far Maghreb.Anatomy of a Mosque
A trail through the parts of God's house.Mothers of the Believers
A trail through the Prophet's household.The Mu'allaqat
A trail through the golden odes.Mu'amalat
A trail through the fiqh of daily life.Mu'awiya and His State
A trail through the first king.Mughal India
A trail through the Mughal empire.The Hadith Scholars
A trail through the bearers of the Sunna.Al-Mukhtar al-Thaqafi
A trail through Karbala's avenger.Treasures of the Museum
A trail through ten museum treasures: the Salting Mihrab, the Kiswa, the Kutubiyya minbar, the Ardabil carpet, astrolabes and Qur'an folios.Story of the Mushaf
A trail through the codex between two covers.Muslims in the West
A trail through Islam in the Americas and Europe.Muslim Charity
A trail through the giving organizations.Muslim Education Today
A trail through the community's new universities.Muslim Media
A trail through screen and press.Mu'tah
A trail through the first clash with Byzantium.The Muwatta
A trail through the first hadith-fiqh compilation.Mystics and Gnosis
A trail through the path of the heart.The Eastern Mystics
A trail through the eastern ascetics.Najran
A trail through the south of the peninsula.Muslim Navigators
A trail through the seafarers.Cities of the Nile
A trail through Egypt's cities.The Nizariyya
A trail through the Isma'ilis of the mountain.Naguib Mahfouz
A trail through the Arab world's only Nobel laureate.Ottoman Cities
A trail through the imperial cities.Ottoman Lands
A trail through six Ottoman centuries.The Grand Viziers
A trail through the men of state.The Ages of Islam
A trail through fourteen centuries.Islam in Iran
A trail through Muslim Iran: conquest, Buyids, Seljuks, the Safavid turn, Isfahan and the shrines.Poets of Persian
A trail through classical Persian verse.Poets of the Umma
A trail through poetry and Islam.A Muslim's Day
A trail through the ordinary day of worship.The Prophet's Campaigns
A trail through the sira's campaigns.The Prophet's Mosque
A trail through the second mosque.Prophets in the Qur'an
A trail through the Qur'anic prophets.The Prophets' Story
A trail through the prophetic chain from Adam to the seal Muhammad.The Qadiriyya
A trail through the first great order.Qajar Iran
A trail through the Qajar century.The Qibla
A trail through the holiest direction.The Way of the Qur'an
A trail through the Qur'an's life: revelation, memorization, recitation, exegesis and sciences.Al-Qushayri and the Risala
A trail through the man who codified Sufism.The Month of Ramadan
A trail through the holy month.The Rashidun Era
A trail through thirty formative years: Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Ali — consensus, conquests, codex and strife.Rayy, Hamadan and Qom
A trail through Iran's heartland cities.The Falling Cities
A trail through the receding frontier.Fuqaha of the Garrison Towns
A trail through first-century regional fiqh.Sacred Relics
A trail through relics tied to the Prophet.The Ridda Wars
A trail through the first crisis.Palaces of Power
A trail through the architecture of authority.Rumi and Konya
A trail through Mawlana.Safavid Iran
A trail through the state that reshaped Iran.Sahih al-Bukhari
A trail through the most authentic book.Sahih Muslim
A trail through Sahih Muslim.Prayers of the Sunna
A trail through prayers beyond the five.Sarajevo and Bosnia
A trail through the Muslim heart of the Balkans.The Documentaries
A trail through war and peace documentaries.Epics on Screen
A trail through sira and heroism on screen.The Second Fitna
A trail through Ibn al-Zubayr's war.The Seekers
A trail through those who sought and found.Marches of the Sira
A trail through the roads of the battles.Writers of the Sira
A trail through the sira writers.The Seljuk Age
A trail through the Seljuk century.Sharia and Fiqh
A trail through the legal system.Shrines and Sanctuaries
A trail through the visited sanctuaries.Islamic Sicily
A trail through Sicily: the conquest from Ifriqiya, Palermo as the king's seat, and what al-Idrisi and Ibn Jubayr wrote of the island.The Silk Road
A trail along the Muslim Silk Road: Samarkand, Bukhara, Shiraz, and its travellers Ibn Battuta and Zheng He.Books of the Sira
A trail through the sira's written tradition.The Six Books
A trail through the great hadith compilations.The Souqs
A trail through the great markets.The Sufi Path
A trail through the inner path: zuhd, ihsan, dhikr, sama, Rumi's Konya and the urs seasons.Books of Sufism
A trail through the library of the path.Suleiman the Magnificent
A trail through the greatest sultan.The Four Sunan
A trail through the remaining four books.Sources of the Sunna
A trail through the library of the Sunna.Surah al-Adiyat
A trail through the charging mares.Surah al-Anfal
A trail through the Badr sura.Surah al-Balad
A trail through the sura of the city.Surah al-Baqara
A trail through the longest sura.Surah al-Buruj
A trail through the sura of the ditch.Surah al-Fajr
A trail through the dawn sura.Surah al-Fath
A trail through the victory sura.Surah al-Hashr
A trail through the sura of exile.Surah al-Hujurat
A trail through the ethics sura.Surah al-Insan
A trail through the sura of time.Surah al-Kahf
A trail through the Friday sura.Surah al-Layl
A trail through the sura of contrasts.Surah al-Mulk
A trail through Tabarak.Surah an-Naba'
A trail through the sura of the Great News.Surah al-Nur
A trail through the light sura.Surah al-Qamar
A trail through the moon-splitting sura.Surah al-Qasas
A trail through the great story sura.Surah al-Rahman
A trail through the bride of the Qur'an.Surah at-Tariq
A trail through the piercing star.Surah at-Tin
A trail through the double oath.Surah al-Waqi'a
A trail through the sura of the Event.Surah Ya-Sin
A trail through the heart of the Qur'an.Surah Yusuf
A trail through the best of stories.Surah az-Zalzala
A trail through the earthquake sura.The Tabi'un Generation
A trail through the generation after the Companions.Masters of Tafsir
A trail through the great exegetes.Purity
A trail through ritual purity.The Sufi Orders
A trail through the organized orders.Textiles and Dress
A trail through Islamic textiles.Cities of the Tigris
A trail through Iraq's river cities.The Translation Movement
A trail through the great translation movement.Turks in Islam
A trail through the Turkic dynasties.The Twelve Imams
A trail through the imamate line.The Battle of Uhud
A trail through the day of Uhud.Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz
A trail through the ascetic caliph.Builders of the Umayyads
A trail through the Umayyad builders.Poets of the Umayyad Court
A trail through the age of the Naqa'id.The Unseen World
A trail through the unseen.Usul al-Fiqh
A trail through legal theory.Islam of the North
A trail through Volga Bulgaria and Tatarstan.The Age of al-Walid
A trail through the Umayyads' proudest age.Islam in West Africa
A trail through the Sahel of gold and learning: Ghana, Mali, Mansa Musa and Timbuktu.The Women Around the Prophet: Twelve Lives
A trail through the lives of twelve women from the Prophet's circle — from the steadfast in Mecca to the emigrants, the fighters and the Mothers of the Believers — known by what has been transmitted of them.Women in Islam
A trail through women who changed history.Women in Power
A trail through women who ruled and endowed.Novels of the World
A trail through novels from Muslim worlds.A Year of Worship
A trail through the Muslim's year of worship: the five prayers, Friday, Ramadan, the two eids, hajj and umrah.The Year of Sorrow
A trail through the hardest year.Happy Arabia
A trail through Yemen.Wonders of Yemen
A trail through the architecture of Arabia Felix.Zakat and Waqf
A trail through Islamic social finance.The Zaydiyya
A trail through the activist Shi'a.Zengids and Ayyubids
A trail through the counter-crusade.Al-Andalus: eight centuries from Cordoba to Granada
A CHW3M pathway on al-Andalus: Umayyad Cordoba, its mosque and library, Ziryab and Ibn Rushd, the coexistence and tension of three faiths, then Granada, the Alhambra and the end of the emirate in 1492.Abbasid Baghdad and the Silk Roads
A CHW3M pathway on Baghdad in its golden century and the network of routes that linked it to Samarqand, Bukhara and China: the city, the House of Wisdom and the translation movement, al-Khwarizmi and Ibn Sina, and the trade that carried paper, learning and people.The Crusades from the Muslim side (1099–1291)
A CHW3M pathway telling the two crusading centuries as Muslim historians wrote them: the fall of Jerusalem in 1099, Zangi and Nur al-Din, Salah al-Din, Hattin and the entry into Jerusalem in 1187, the Ayyubids and the Mamluks to the end of the crusader states.The Mongols and after: the fall of Baghdad, Ayn Jalut and Timur
A CHW3M pathway on the century that changed the Muslim world: the Mongol invasions, the fall of Baghdad in 1258, the Mamluk stand at Ayn Jalut, the Ilkhans' conversion, Ibn Khaldun reading the collapse of states, and Timur's Samarqand.The rise of Islam: from Mecca to Damascus (610–750)
A CHW3M pathway following the rise of a new community in Arabia and its transformation within a century into a state stretching from al-Andalus to Central Asia: the setting, the revelation, the Hijra, the Constitution of Medina, the first battles, the Rashidun caliphate and Umayyad Damascus.The five pillars in daily life
An HRF3O pathway on the five pillars as they are lived day by day: the shahada, wudu and prayer, zakat, fasting in Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr, the Hajj and Eid al-Adha, and the calendar that orders the year.Islamic art and architecture: calligraphy, pattern and the mosque
An HRT3M pathway on how a religion expresses itself in culture: the Arabic script and Islamic calligraphy, the arabesque and interlacing stars, the parts of a mosque, buildings from Jerusalem, Cordoba, Granada and Istanbul, and an ornamented scientific instrument.The life of the Prophet Muhammad: a figure who shaped a religion
An HRT3M pathway following the life of the Prophet Muhammad from Mecca to the farewell: the city of his birth, Khadija, the revelation, the boycott, the Hijra, the first mosque, the treaty, the Farewell Pilgrimage, and how his words were preserved in hadith.The Qur'an as a text: from revelation to the mushaf to memorisation
An HRT3M pathway on the Qur'an as a sacred text: how it was revealed, how it was gathered into one mushaf under Uthman, how it is memorised and recited with tajwid, how it is explained in commentary, and what the isnad has to do with transmitting texts.The Ottomans and the gunpowder empires (1450–1650)
A CHY4U pathway on three Muslim empires that ruled from the Balkans to Bengal between 1450 and 1650: the conquest of Constantinople, Mehmed II and Suleiman, Istanbul and its mosques, the Safavids and the Mughals, and what gunpowder, administration and art the three shared.Four Muslim cities before 1500: Baghdad, Cordoba, Cairo and Timbuktu
A Grade 4 lesson on four cities of societies before 1500: how people lived there, who governed, how they learned and traded, and what is like our life today and what is different.The Hajj: one journey that links communities across the world
A Grade 6 lesson on the Hajj as a global network: what pilgrims do in Mecca, where they have come from for centuries, and how a Muslim community in Canada today is linked to the world through this journey.