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[Dr. Jaan Islam د. جان اسلام @jaanislam]

The reading list for my Security and Foreign Policy in the Muslim World course with @AlQasasOrg
- I recommended reading as part of structured learning

1. Barry Buzan, Ole Waever and Jaap de Wilde, Security: A New Framework for Analysis, p. 21-48

2. Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations

3. John Mearsheimer, "Bound to fail: The rise and fall of the liberal international order"

4. Darryl Li, “A Jihadism Anti-Primer” Middle East Report, no. 276 (2015): 12-17

5. Daniel Lake, "Technology, Qualitative Superiority, and the Overstretched American Military”

6. Jonathan Brown, Justice and Islamic Law Mazalim Courts and Legal Reform

7. Jaan Islam, Islam and the State in Ibn Taymiyya, Ch. 3 & 5 (Al-Hisba fi al-Islam & other works of Ibn Taymiyya)

8. Handout on Siyasa Shari’yya (Short Summary) from “‘Political jurisprudence’ in HTS, IS and Al-Qaeda texts: competing visions of Islamic government”

9. Abul A’la Maududi, “Jihad in Islam” (1947), Ch. 7.

10. Rashid Al Ghannoushi, "What is New about Al-Qaradawi’s Fiqh of Jihad?"; Sherman Jackson, "The Appeal of Yusuf al-Qaradawi's Interpretation of Jihad”

11. Reza Pankhurst, The Inevitable Caliphate, Introduction, Conclusion

12. Mona El-Ghobashy, "The Metamorphosis of the Egyptian Muslim Brothers"

13. Amitav Acharya, “After Liberal Hegemony: The Advent of a Multiplex World Order”

14. S. Y. Ibrahimi, "Unipolar politics and global peace: a structural explanation of the globalizing jihad"

15. Marta Furlan, Salafi-Jihadist Governance, Selections

16. A. Ahmad, T. Bandula-Irwin & M. Ibrahim, "Who governs? State versus jihadist political order in Somalia"

17. “Justice for Agadez” Documentary (English subtitles available for this part)

18. Jaan Islam, “Divergent Statecrafts: Between Islamic Governance and Modern State Power” Ummatics

19. Jaan Islam, "Reform and Resurgence: The Transformation of Islamic Movements in the 21st Century"

20. Fatma Abushanab, A Muslim Realist: Strategies, Methods and Approaches from Türkiye's Experience, Ch. 1.

21. Hakan Fidan, “The Century of Türkiye: A New Foreign Policy Vision for Building the Türkiye Axis”

[Dr. Jaan Islam د. جان اسلام @jaanislam]

📢 New Course Announcement!
How should Muslims think about security, power, and foreign policy in a world of crisis?

I’m excited to be teaching a new 8-week course with @AlQasasOrg on Security and Foreign Policy in the Muslim World.

This course offers a framework for foreign policy, statecraft, war, peace, foreign aid & soft power grounded in Islamic sciences & political realities.
We will discuss:
• Siyasa (statecraft) and political jurisprudence (siyasa shar’iyya)
• IR: Realism, Liberalism, Constructivism, and Securitization Theory
• Colonialism, the post-Cold War order, & failure of the War on Terror, (Afghanistan, Iraq, Gaza, Syria) including the role of revivalist movements
• Foundations for an Islamic foreign policy grounded in tradition and material reality

For more info & registration🔗: https://t.co/CNJy4mkn61

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Most Muslims live in a modern world we were never taught to understand.

Secularism, liberalism, nationalism, capitalism — where did they come from? How have they shaped us?

This course gives an Islamic look at modernity’s ideas through Quran & Sunnah.

https://t.co/aJEdMy4i5k

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Who defines the world order — and how do Muslims fit into it?

Introduction to International Relations: A Critical Perspective gives a university-level deep dive into Realism, Liberalism, Constructivism, and Post-colonialism — all through an ummah-centric lens.

Learn how power, justice, and legitimacy are framed today — and how Islam can reshape the global conversation.

🗓 Starts Nov 16 | Al Qasas Institute
🔗 https://t.co/WuW8x733bH

#CriticalIR #GlobalPolitics #PostcolonialStudies #AlQasas

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What does Islamic Realism look like in a multipolar world?

This seminar revives a forgotten tradition: Sunni political realism - how Muslim scholars from al Māwardī to Ibn Khaldūn wrestled with power, justice, and legitimacy under colonialism and modernity.

Move beyond slogans. Rediscover the ethical and intellectual foundations of governance in Islam.

🗓 Starts Nov 15 | Al Qasas Institute
🔗 https://t.co/2Vr9wBQ3rW

#MuslimPoliticalThought #IslamicRealism #CivilisationalWorld #AlQasas

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Final hours to register!

Tomorrow we begin a powerful 8‑week journey: Sacred Power & Imperial Ambition – The Making of the Ottoman Empire.

📜 From the chaos of the Interregnum to Mehmed II’s breathtaking conquest of Constantinople…
👑 From Selim I’s decisive defeat of the Mamluks and revival of the Caliphate…
⚖️ To Suleiman al‑Kanuni’s golden age of law, culture, and scholarship that still shapes the Ummah today…

✨ Taught live by Dr. Yakoob Ahmed (@YakoobAhmed0) Muslim Ottoman historian who has lectured in masajid around the world and appeared on leading Islamic history podcasts. He brings our history back to us through our own lens, with clarity and passion.

🗓️ Starts TOMORROW – Saturday, July 26 at 10AM EST
⚠️ Seats are almost gone—don’t miss your chance to learn our story from one of our own.

👉 https://t.co/pAmDAa5t10

#OttomanHistory #IslamicHistory #MuslimHeritage #Ummah #OttomanEmpire #MehmedII #SelimI #Suleiman #IslamicStudies #MuslimScholars #LearnHistory #OnlineLearning #Ottoman

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What drove a young sultan to do what no one before him could?

At just 21 years old, Mehmed II led the conquest of Constantinople—fulfilling a prophecy Muslims cherished for centuries.

📖 Learn this story from Dr. Yakoob Ahmed—a Muslim Ottoman historian who has taught in masajid worldwide and appeared on leading Islamic history podcasts. He brings a perspective rooted in our own tradition.

🗓️ Starts THIS Saturday – July 26, 10AM EST
⚠️ Spots are limited—don’t miss your chance.

👉 https://t.co/pAmDAa5t10

#OttomanHistory #IslamicHistory #Ummah #MehmedII #Constantinople #OttomanEmpire #MuslimHeritage #IslamicStudies #LearnHistory #OnlineLearning #Ottoman

[Dr. Jaan Islam د. جان اسلام @jaanislam]

Link to register for the course:

https://t.co/zNRNP38oLV

[Dr. Jaan Islam د. جان اسلام @jaanislam]

The last few days to sign up for my course, Islamic Political Thought with @AlQasasOrg institute!
(July 20th-Sept. 7, Sundays 10AM EST, classes are recorded)

📚 Below is a detailed reading list of both English and (bonus) Arabic readings we will cover:

English readings:
1. Ibn Khaldūn, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History (London: Routledge and Regan Paul, 1958). (Selections, p. 385-88)
2. Reza Pankhurst, The inevitable caliphate?: a history of the struggle for global Islamic union, 1924 to the present (Oxford University Press: 2013), Introduction, p. 191-216
3. Mona Hassan, Longing for the Lost Caliphate (Duke UP 2016), p. 20-65, 98-141
4. Ovamir Anjum, Politics, Law and Community in Islamic Thought (CUP 2012), p. 93-136
5. Abul A'la Maududi, Islamic Law and Constitution (selections)
6. Maududi, First Principles of Islamic Economics (selections)
7. Ibn Taymiyya, “Ordering Good and Forbidding Evil” (Routledge, 2022)
8. Al-Māwardī, The Ordinances of Government (translated).
9. Wael Hallaq, The Impossible State, selections
10. Jaan Islam, "Divergent Statecrafts: Between Islamic Governance and Modern State Power" Ummatics
11. Jaan Islam, “Divine Sovereignty in Jihadi-Salafist Thought: An Intellectual Genealogy” (PhD Dissertation, University of Edinburgh, 2023), p. 68-72, 155-172, 190-200

Arabic readings:
1. Ahādīth/Āthār on Q4:60-5, 5:44
2. Tafsīr al-Qurtubī on Q2:30,
3. Tafsīr Ibn Kathīr/Tabarī on: Q4:60-5, 5:44, 12:40, 18:26
4. Imām Ahmad b. Hanbal, Usūl al-Sunnah
5. Abū al-Ma'ālī Al-Juwaynī, Ghiyāth al-Umam fi Iltiyāth al- Ẓulam (Alexandria: Dār al-Daʿwa li-l-Ṭabʿ wa-l-Nashr wa-l-Tawzīʿ, n.d.)
6. Abū Ḥāmid Al-Ghazālī, al-Mustaṣfā min ʿIlm al-Uṣūl. (Damascus: al-Risāla al-ʿĀlamiyya, 2012) (on the 5 maqāsid al-sharī'a)
7. Abū al-Ḥasan Al-Māwardī, al-Aḥkām al-Sulṭāniyyah wa-l-Wilāyāt al- Dīniyya (al-Manṣūrah: Dār al-Wafāʾ, 1989)
8. Qādī Abū Yūsuf, Kitāb al-Kharāj, on labour and capital
9. Sehzâde Korkût, Da'wat al-Nafs al-Tāliha (selections), on taxation
10. Mustafa Sabri Efendi, Mawqif al-'Aql (selections), on democracy

[Dr. Jaan Islam د. جان اسلام @jaanislam]

🎉 Course Announcement: Islamic Political Thought

I am thrilled to announce my final course with @AlQasasOrg on the history of Islamic political thought.

This course offers an eight-week introduction to Islamic political thought in classical and postcolonial periods, covering a rich curriculum of original sources and provocative studies.

This course includes the following subjects:

1. Sharī'a and Caliphate/Imamate in revealed and early sources
2. Political jurisprudence (fiqh al-siyāsah) developed in the four schools of law - including in 'Abbasid, Mamluk, and Ottoman periods
3. The development of Dar al-Islām and Dār al-Kufr
4. Colonialism: state power & capitalism versus Islamic government
5. Theories of Islamic unity post-1924 in Islamic jurisprudence and theology

*This course includes a bonus, classical Arabic study group (1 hour/week) where primary sources from each week are read and interpreted.

[Dr. Jaan Islam د. جان اسلام @jaanislam]

I will be teaching an 8-week course with @AlQasasOrg on Islamic history, covering the period from the Umayyads to the Crusades (661-1193 CE).

We will use a critical historical approach that utilizes primary Islamic sources and critically assesses orientalist works, providing an intellectual edifice for students to understand early Islamic history.

Subjects covered during this period include:

• The Umayyad and ‘Abbāsid Dynastic Bureaucracies and Feudal economies
• ‘Abdullāh b. al-Zubayr, ‘Umar b. ‘Abd al-‘Azīz, and rebellions among the Prophet’s family
• Disintegration of the Umayyad & ‘Abbāsid caliphates due to corruption, incompetence and internal strife
• Rise of the Seljuks and Salāh al-Dīn, their strategies against the Crusaders and Fatimids
• ‘Ulama as power brokers, rebels, and supporters of the state apparatus

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Dive into the complexities of global politics with Introduction to International Relations, an online course taught by Dr. Behar Sadriu, Assistant Professor at UCL and a leading expert in international politics. From understanding global security to unpacking the narratives shaping foreign policies, this course equips you with critical insights and tools to navigate today's interconnected world. With Dr. Sadriu's extensive expertise- featured in leading journals and influential policy reports- you'll gain knowledge rooted in real-world impact.

Enroll now: https://t.co/oFqZ35DzrX

#islamictradition #islam #islamicstudies #politics #internationalrelations #onlinelearning #globalpolitics #islamic #islamicpolitics #islamichistory #selfdevelopment

[Yakoob Ahmed 🍉 @YakoobAhmed0]

Two new course for anyone interested. @AlQasasOrg Please share if you know anyone who is.
1 - The life of Abdulhamid II
2 - Introduction to International Relations: A Critical Perspective

1) https://t.co/YwOYC0kYCV
2)https://t.co/AXXONXPlFH

[Yakoob Ahmed 🍉 @YakoobAhmed0]

A new course is starting soon for anyone who wants to learn about the history of Zionism.

https://t.co/oiX3PhYGNd

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Register now:
https://t.co/SXJI3V05Eg

[Dr. Jaan Islam د. جان اسلام @jaanislam]

Curious about how the caliphs reacted to economic woes and natural disasters? How they shaped the future of Islamic history? Join me for an 8-week, in-depth exploration of the conquests, Islamic governance, and the preservation of the Qur'an. #IslamicHistory #Caliphs

[Dr. Jaan Islam د. جان اسلام @jaanislam]

The reading list for my Rightly Guided Caliphs course at @AlQasasOrg - I highly recommend it as an intro to the field

1. Ibn Khaldūn, The Muqaddimah, on Islamic historiography, p. 15-24, 55-56

2. Muhammad b. Jarīr al-Tabarī, The History of al-Tabari Vols. 10-17 (selections), Spanning from Caliph Abū Bakr to al-Hasan b. 'Alī

3. Jalāl ad-Dīn as-Suyūtī, The History of the Khalifahs: who took the right way (Trans. Abdassamad Clarke) (London: Ta-Ha Publishers, 1995).

4. Walter Kaegi, Heraclius: Emperor of Byzantium, p. 236-247

5. William Rosen, Justinian’s Flea and Catastrophe (selected pages), on Health & Natural Disasters

6. Adam Sabra "Prices are in God's Hands", in The Theory and Practice of Price Control in the Medieval Islamic World, on Islamic economic policies

7. Ammar Khatib and Nazir Khan, "The ʿUthmānic Codex: Understanding how the Qur’an was Preserved", https://t.co/hji9iPDZfb

8. Wilfred Madelung, Succession after the Prophet, p. 141-181 (critical reading)

[Yakoob Ahmed 🍉 @YakoobAhmed0]

We have a new course opening up for anyone interested. This one on the Rightly Guided Caliphs (Khulafah Rashidun) will be taught by Dr Jaan Islam @jaanislam. Please spread the word.

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Taught by Dr. Jaan Islam, @jaanislam, this course will delve into history beyond the spectacular personalities of the Rightly Guided Caliphs, taking students across a complex landscape of military struggle, economic policies, natural disasters, and most importantly, the strong leadership that would define the next millennium of global history.

More information and registration at: https://t.co/CmwjBOxyaq