Islamic History and Civilizations Department

My name is Abdullah Maruf. I am an Assistant Profesor at Istanbul 29 Mayıs University in the International Faculty of Islamic and Religious Studies specializing in Islamic History and Civilization.
My job at the university is to teach Islamic History. My focus is to teach about our prophet from his time period to the modern era.
Actually, we will teach a wide variety of classes. For example, we teach the first and second levels of Islamic History.
We are taking an idea from Islamic history and trying to show how things from our prophets time still applies to the modern world. How do we do this?
In our prophet biography class, we are trying to help people understand a different image of our prophet. We are trying to show him as the image of true humanity. We are trying to fully understand the life of our prophet. We are trying to understand how he lived, how we acted, how he spoke, how he got angry, how he laughed, and how he grieved. Peace be upon him. We are trying to understand his life to the fullest from his birth to his death.
As we study him in our prophetic biography class, we get to read the beautiful stories about his life. These stories are wonderful in its presentation.
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Later, we move onto our Islamic History class. We begin with the time period of the prophet. Then, we move onto the time period of Ebubekir. Then, we study a 1400 year period that covers everything to our modern time including a study of the Ottoman Empire.
For a long time, we study the process and order of historical events. Then, we look at the detailed politcal, economic, and social structure of the time.
We are placing emphasis on understanding our findings from an objective perspective. We are trying to understand things from many different perspectives to understand the events in an accurate way. Y
We place important on providing our students with the best and most wonderful activities. Our students have access to our great library and this provides them with environment they need to learn and study our people’s history.
Our students study our prophetic book in the library in the approriate way.
Student write about their findings and opinions and compare them with other students through group activities. We organize speical activities for our students.
Why? We want to create an environment where we can train our students here Istanbul 29 Mayıs University.
With God’s permission, you will become a scholarly person. We believe that our training will help you do this to undertand everything you need to know.
Because of this, with God’s permision, I would love to meet you in person. It would make me very happy.
The goal of our department is for people to read and understand of our religion’s history until today through studying the death of the prophets and their events they lived. We'll be waiting for you at our holy college.
See you later, we hope that God will provide an opportunity for you to visit us.
We welcome you to Istanbul 29 Mayıs University in our International Islamic and Religious Studies Department