Topic outline
- General
- Week 1: Pre-Islamic Arabian background: social and cultural life.
- Week 2: Pre-Islamic Arabian background:economic and religious life
- Week 3: Islamic Historiography, Note on the methodology.
- Week 4: The image of Prophet Muhammad in Qur’an.
- Week 5: Prophet Muhammad’s life before Prophetic Call.
- Week 6: First revelation. Prophetic Call. First muslims
- Week 7: Active opposition to Prophet Muhammad and his followers. Migration to Abyssinia. The Boycott of Hashim. Journey to at-Ta’if. the Night Journey
- Week 8: First Medinan converts. First convention of Aqabah. Second convention of Aqabah: Hijrah
- Week 9: Prophet Muhammad’s first activities in Medina (building mosque ,covenant with the Jews and men of Medina, brotherhood between Emigrants and the Helpers, the call to prayer…)
- Week 10: Relations with polytheists. Prophet Muhammad’s missions to foreign rulers
- Week 11: Relations with Jews and Christians. The Farewell Pilgrimage and his death. Prophet Muhammad’s personality.
- Week 12: Summary and conclusion: What have we learned?