Online Islamic History Course The Stories That Shaped the Muslim World

Our online Islamic history course brings the Muslim world’s story to life through its key people, places, events and turning points. Children, teens and adults explore what happened, why it happened, and what we can learn from it — both the achievements and the challenges. Whatever your starting point, the course is designed to make the past clear, connected and memorable.

A mother and daughter in an online Islamic History course on Zoom with an Al-Azhar teacher showing key topics on screen

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WHO IT’S FOR

For the child who can read

Our Online Islamic History Course is designed for children from around age nine who have covered the Seerah and are ready to explore what followed in Islamic history. It’s also ideal for teenagers studying history at school who want to discover the part of Islamic history their syllabus may leave out, and adults who know the beginning and the present but very little in between.

A mother and daughter in an online Islamic History course on Zoom with an Al-Azhar teacher showing key topics on screen

The journey, step by step

Online Islamic History Course—5 Amazing & Essential Stages

This Online Islamic History Course is structured into five carefully designed stages, with each stage building naturally on the one before it. Students progress step by step through key events, remarkable figures, and important developments in Islamic history, gaining a deeper understanding of the Muslim world and the events that shaped its rich heritage.

01
الخلفاء الراشدون

The Rightly-Guided Caliphs

The first thirty years, the expansion, and the conflicts that shaped everything after.

02
الدولة الأموية

The Umayyads

Damascus, the reach from Spain to the Indus, and how an empire changed the community that built it.

03
العصر الذهبي العباسي

The Abbasids & the Golden Age

Baghdad, the House of Wisdom, and the scholars whose work Europe later translated.

04
العلماء

The Scholars

The four imams, the great muhaddithin, and how the sciences your child studies today were actually assembled.

05
الأندلس والعثمانيون

Al-Andalus & the Ottomans

Eight centuries in Spain, six under the Ottomans, and what the end of each meant.

06
العصر الحديث

The Modern Period

Colonisation, independence, migration, and how Muslim communities came to be established in Britain.

Every lesson is one-to-one. Your teacher connects each era to the next — so history becomes a story your child understands, not a list of dates to memorise.

WHAT’S INCLUDED

Everything your child needs to succeed

Affordable online Quran and Islamic courses for Non-Arabic learners.

New memorisation + revision

A proven two-part system so what they learn stays.

Flexible Quran class schedules for students

Memorised with Tajweed

Correct pronunciation built in from the very start.

Al-Azhar University graduate Quran teachers

Al-Azhar teachers

Qualified, Ijazah-holding, female or male.

Student progress tracking and regular classes reports

Monthly reports

See exactly how your child is progressing.

Flexible Quran class schedules for students

Flexible times

30, 45 or 60-minute lessons around school.

Free trial class at Arabic Classes Academy.

Free trial first

Start from £30/month — no payment to begin.

Frequently Asked Questions

What age is this suitable for?

Around nine and up. Younger children usually get more from the Seerah first, since it gives them the starting point everything else follows from.

Roughly a year at one lesson a week to cover all six periods. It can be shortened by focusing on a particular era.

Yes. Conflicts, mistakes and periods of decline are part of the account. A sanitised history is not history and children see through it quickly.

Often, yes — particularly the crusades, the Ottomans and the colonial period, which appear on UK syllabuses and are usually taught from one side only.

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